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Ep. 137 – The Nature of Struggle

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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How to Work With Restlessness

There are different mental states, the mental analogues to pain in the body. Restlessness is an abstraction for more specific experiences. It's unpleasant because it's unpleasant. We start struggling with it. As we struggle, we get more restless. The restlessness gets more intense. We resist it even more and we're bound in the cycle. If you investigate carefully rather than react or pull back or resist the experience, then it's possible to transmute that energy of restlessness and the struggle with it into real understanding.

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