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An Introduction To 14 Days Of Change
In the Introductory lesson we'll explore:
How change is already, always the case (but it's very easy to miss!)
Why our traditional ways of change fall short and how insight--as you'll learn in this course--is different
A bit about your teacher and her experience with lasting change
How to best go through the 14 days for the greatest insights
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Day 1: What We've Learned Is All Wrong
Deep, lasting change happens when we see things in a brand new way. When we see things in a new way, lasting change is the natural consequence.
If your past change attempts haven’t worked, it’s not your fault. You weren’t using the right tools. Seeing things in a brand new way is the right tool.
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Day 2: Where's The Problem?
Consider that you are sitting in the middle of absolute perfect wholeness and mental health, right now and always.
And when you don’t feel that, it’s only because you’re thinking, and paying attention to your thought-created experience rather than the essence of who-you-are.
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Day 3: Subtraction, Not Addition
If you are peaceful, happy, wise, and habit-free by default, and you already have and already are everything you’re searching for, adding more on top of that won’t make sense.
You need subtraction, not addition.
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Day 4: Everything Is Already Changing
We’ve been led to believe that our thoughts and feelings are ours to manage and control.
But what if thoughts and feelings change completely on their own, all the time?
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Day 5: Simple Mechanics
Your brain craves what it craves and demands what it demands by habit, not because you crave or want those things, but because your brain is an efficient machine doing what it thinks it needs to do to keep you safe and alive.
This would mean that you don’t have habits or habitual thoughts, cravings, or insecurities. Only the machine in your head does.
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Day 6: Me, Me, Me
Not only are they not you, me, yours, or mine, they aren’t even about us. What if thought and feeling
aren’t personal at all?
Can you sense the enormous freedom in this?
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Day 7: Thank You
Suffering is feedback, showing us that we’re attached to ideas and thoughts that appear true, but aren’t. For
example, when you believe you’re not good enough or life should be other than how it is, you suffer. That suffering is alerting you to your identification with a fleeting, false idea.
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Day 8: It's Not You Or Yours
Resilience isn’t just for kids. It’s not age-dependent and it’s not something we outgrow. It’s simply something we begin to think ourselves away from.
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Day 9: Perfection In Disguise
Our habits are our best attempt--from what we see in any given moment--to return home and feel “like ourselves” again. We feel discomfort and we try to distract from the discomfort to feel closer to home.
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Day 10: The Space Between
What is there beyond your psychological experience? Beyond your thoughts and feelings?
Who or what is aware of your experience? If you are able to observe and comment on the output of your brain and the seamless flow of experience moving through you, there must be something bigger than, or beyond that experience, right?
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Day 11: Being Lived
It can look like we’re responsible for making things happen. Life looks like our responsibility. Our outcomes,
including our own peace of mind, happiness, and anything we want to change, appear to be up to us to figure out.
But what if change is not up to us?
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Day 12: Time Is A Thought
Without a past and future conversation, there’s just Now. Anything that’s happening here and now is so incredibly fleeting. It is also incredibly impermanent and not inherently problematic. It’s only when our mind places it on a timeline and tells a meaningful, personal story about it, that it appears as a problem we need to fix.
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Day 13: It's Inevitable
So much effort goes into trying to avoid feeling something, but why?
Really...if all thoughts and feelings come and go on their own, and they aren’t personal, and they can’t hurt us, why do we try so hard to outrun them?
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Day 14: Hakuna Matata
What if there were no stable, serious, solid problems, only thought that tells us things should be different than they are?
From a moment-to-moment view, we’re just feeling life now, and life now, and life now. There is no cohesive story that pulls it all together into “my problem”.
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14 Days Of Change: Conclusion
I really hope that the past two weeks have allowed you to see yourself, your thoughts and feelings, and your habits and anxieties in a new way.
As you consider the things you’ve been looking toward in the past two weeks, your vision widens. What once felt rigid and tight and limiting tends to soften and look more fluid.