Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 (2019-04-03)
Tara Brach
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Is There a Necessary Valve of Happiness?
The way the narrow valve works is when we're stressed, there's a message that something's wrong and then the message is you have to do something. We from being dominated by our olympic brain and harrowing this kind of narrow, more fixated attention to much more as humans evolve. So with the emergence of the pre frontal cortex, the development of it a much more flexible valve. It can take perspective and we can be mindful, and we we have compassion, and there's a larger sense of belonging.
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