Good morning.
Afternoon,
Good evening.
So,
Um.
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As George Orbeck says with unfailing kindness,
Life is forever throwing up the next teacher.
And what does she mean?
But it's not just about this sitting here.
That is the next red light.
The next traffic jam.
The next Mookie Kitchen.
Next lot of washing up that somebody's left for you.
Whether you do it or don't do it is.
.
.
Not really the point.
That comment that someone makes.
That you don't like.
Criticism from the boss.
That twinge in the tummy again,
Oh what's that?
So off we go on a spin.
Doesn't mean to say we don't get it checked out,
Of course.
Can we do it without the spin?
The anxiety.
Is I think that the The reason it's so common,
Probably the most common Emotion is that all it takes is one belief thought.
And is always future-oriented.
So off we go.
On the anxious ride.
So I'm not talking about setting up an IDE here.
OK,
I'm not going to be upset today.
That's not the way forward.
What we do is,
I'm going to watch myself,
I'm going to observe myself,
I'm going to experience what's actually here,
But I am going to refuse.
The narrative.
I'm going to refuse to follow it all.
And when I do,
I'll just get off and come back to what's actually happening.
Coming back to the actuality of the moment.
Going back to the breath.
Going back to the sound of the traffic or the birds.
Using the mantra can help just to calm the system.
We start to see the mechanism,
We start to see that,
How we're forever going into spin,
Just spinning and spinning and spinning,
Going to that thought bar.
You just turn away from the bar and walk out there.
Walk out of the pub.
Okay.
So just settling.
And towards your experience.
Is feeling the breath.
Where are you now?
Just checking you're not tense.
Just take your attention to the hearing.
And you notice you're in a spin.
Turn back to the hearing,
Just drop the thoughts.
So the hearing is not troubled.
It's not anxious.
Five senses.
And not troubled.
It's when we lose ourself in the sixth sense,
The think in.
You can take the attention back to the body if you wish,
The breath.
The hands,
What's happening?
Not much really.
As the attention.
Just be the hearing or the feeling,
The sensing.
Okay.
That brings us to the end.
The stretch.
Thank you guys.
See you tomorrow.
