What are the implications of this perspective?

Key messages in this episode

• If we understand the way something works, then it has implications for how we apply this understanding in our lives
• What we’ve been sharing can be challenging because it is not an application. It doesn’t tell you what to do
• This is a reductive understanding - an undoing. Stop doing things that get in the way of the natural system

The territory for this session:

• What we’ve been sharing through these sessions has been a description of what is behind our experience. It is either true or not. The true test is your own experience
• We are pointing to a fact that our experience is being created from the inside out and not the outside-in
• We are not saying that there aren’t external circumstances
• Most people live in a mixed paradigm – so do we much of the time
• People who struggle in life tend to live outside-in. Feeling a victim of circumstances and other people
• However outside-in doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. If it did, we would be affected by circumstances in the same way and so would other people. Both positively and negatively:
  • When you get something new – how long does the feeling last?
  • Does the mind ever stay in one state? Does one thought ever stay in the mind? No – our state of mind and thinking naturally ebb and flow
• Self-inquiry is key – reflecting and exploring:
  • The nature of your own mind. How it works and how to creates our experience 
  • ‘I’ is the tenth most common word we use after ‘the’, ‘be’, ‘to’, ‘of’, ‘and’ etc. And yet we never really explore what we mean by ‘I’
• Despite the increased focus on mental health during the last few years the outcomes for people are not improving. Maybe we’ve been looking in the wrong direction?