Teal Swan

This Ask Teal episode involves a relationship dynamic of suppression that leads to resentment and irresponsibility.  Are these issues that you struggle with and is everyone around you the bad guy? You may be unknowingly placing the care of your best interests in other people’s hands.  Teal Swan explains that it’s time to become aware of these dynamics.

Have you ever heard someone tell you that they love you even though “X” is wrong with you, or that they love you even though you had "X" tendency?  Do you think about others in this way and consider it Unconditional Love?  Teal Swan explains that this common way of loving, is the opposite of unconditional love. 

 Sometimes we may see it as a duty to keep our friends in check.  This arises especially when our friends have power.  When power is involved and we fear power, we may feel the need to play devils advocate.  This episode explains how we may be in a negative power dynamic ourselves and seeking to take our friend down, rather than assisting them to become aware. 

One way to ruin a relationship is by harboring the belief that Love Doesn’t Exist.  Love doesn’t exist?  What if I told you that the belief that 'love doesn’t exist' is a coping strategy and a way to protect yourself.  Perhaps you weren’t truly seen as a child, or you had to develop a personality that wasn’t truly yours in order to protect yourself from scrutinizing parents.  Teal Swan not only dives into this paradigm but how to fix it.

 Teal Swan teaches about the root of the problems you are facing in your life.  Most of the time, the root of those problems is your relationship to your parents/adult caregivers as a child.  In this episode, she throws a curveball by teaching that once you are grown up, your Parents are not the source of your problems anymore, the parents that you have internalized however are.  In our childhoods we develop a plethora of coping strategies to deal with perceived threats from our circumstances, parents or upbringing.  A genius coping strategy is to create internalized parents that give us back control and keep us safe.  But this strategy prevent us from getting what we really want in life once we are grown up. 

The biggest barrier to Awareness is our unwillingness to see and accept a truth that causes us to feel pain or that would imply we need to make a change that is painful to make. Denial is a coping mechanism when dealing with a reality that you cannot change and this is often learned in childhood, as we are often unable to change our childhood situations.  Teal Swan explains that now that we can change, we are often left with this coping mechanism when seeing something is painful or when seeing something implies change. 

 In this episode, Teal Swan challenges your mind.  Objective truth is difficult to grasp because inherently all of us view life from a subjective truth or reality.  Objective truth can be seen as the culmination of all individual and subjective truths and perspectives. 

 Is it wrong to desire?  Can you heal yourself out of a desire through meditation, personal work or Shadow Work?  We often have desires within ourselves that we feel are wrong to have or that will cause us pain.  Perhaps the question is not whether the desire is good or bad but WHY we have it.  Following this line of thinking, Teal Swan explains how you can find your true desire and begin to meet this need directly instead of through unconscious manipulation.

Excellence is inherent within every human being.  We have traits that make unique things easy for us to do and we all have innate gifts that ensure we will be excellent at something.  However, often this excellence is squelched by those who cannot see it within us, or who have different desires and therefore ideas of what excellence is.  In this episode, Teal Swan helps us understand where and why we may have lost touch with our own excellence and how to find it again.

 In this 'graduate understanding of Karma' video, Teal explains how we have had a flawed understanding of Karma for a long long time. Teal Swan explains that Karma is essentially the observation of the law of attraction. Teal Swan explains how karma pertains to re-incarnation and past lives.