You know,
The cost of centuries and centuries of female oppression means that we're totally negating the emotional side of the human experience.
Basically,
We use emotions to manipulate,
You know.
It's like advertising.
They'll study emotional responses to learn how to manipulate people.
Or we try to manipulate ourselves.
We'll go even parenting.
It's like it's not just about like loving your children.
It's like how do you get your children to act in a certain way.
Like it is just so pervasive through the Western mind that we we actually have trouble seeing it.
And it's shocking when you realize that we do not honor our true emotional self,
Our innocent emotional self.
And just as we don't honor Mother Nature,
The two things are totally connected.
We exploit Mother Nature.
We,
You know,
Negate and exploit emotionally.
So this is where,
You know,
There's a rise of a feminine energy going on.
It's like people are realizing how distorted we've become.
You know,
Where,
You know,
Mental illness is almost the norm.
You know,
I grew up in the sunny 60s,
Late 50s,
60s.
You know,
Life was balanced and it was way sunnier,
Way happier.
Just the normal,
The normal.
And this,
You know,
This movement into this rise of this unhappiness is to wake us up.
Because,
You know,
The soul communicates through pain,
Through causing us pain.
It will do that till you learn how to listen.
And as you learn how to listen,
Then your pain goes way down bodily and emotionally.
And you become very peaceful.
But really what I'm saying here is,
I feel we need kind of permission to get to know our emotional selves,
To honor our emotional selves.
I mean,
Part of the reason people get so stuck on the spiritual journey and,
You know,
Circle around in the same old complexes and never tap into their true natures,
Is we're fighting our emotional self.
We don't know how to go with it,
Flow with it,
Embrace it.
And you know what happens if you have children and,
You know,
If you don't have a kind of loving,
Embracing attitude of your children,
Your children,
They'll be difficult.
It's like a loving,
Embracing attitude calms children,
And they basically act their best that way.
But if we're too tense with them,
And we're judging,
And they're telling them what to do,
Right,
Left,
And center,
Then there's battles.
They'll just be battles.
So the same thing goes on inside.
You know,
If we're not giving ourselves a little bit of space and unconditional love,
We'll be battling ourselves.
So this is,
You know,
My hope is,
My intention,
It's not a hope.
Premasutra's intention is that just listening gives you just a little more inner space,
Just a little more permission to just be yourself.
And,
You know,
There's nothing wrong with you.
It's our whole culture is off balance.
So,
You know,
When we suffer,
We think it's just us,
But no,
It's our culture.
We've lost common sense.
We've lost,
You know,
We don't honor Mother Nature.
We don't honor our hearts.
I mean,
You know,
We're gonna be in pain.
Okay,
So,
You know,
It's like a revolution.
Let's start a revolution and learn to do things differently.
Okay,
Bless your heart.
