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Dean Sluyter on Fearing Less
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Dean Sluyter on Fearing Less

In This Interview, Dean Sluyter and I Discuss… His book, Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction Right View and how it relates to having less fear in your life How right view is always liberating Asking, “does it help?” “One mustn’t assume burdens that God doesn’t lay upon us. The state of worry is not itself meritorious.” CS Lewis The problem with trying to control your mind Transcendental Meditation Hanging out in tasklessness The open space of awareness How thought doesn’t have to go away in order to meditate Relax your grip, and relax back into yourself It doesn’t grip you, it has no power to do that. You grip it. What it means to relax at the moment of contact Relax into it, stop the resistance of it Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional suffering = pain x resistance Dean Sluyter Links Homepage Meditation Youtube Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Show Notes

In This Interview, Dean Sluyter and I Discuss…

  • His book, Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction
  • Right View and how it relates to having less fear in your life
  • How right view is always liberating
  • Asking, “does it help?”
  • “One mustn’t assume burdens that God doesn’t lay upon us. The state of worry is not itself meritorious.” CS Lewis
  • The problem with trying to control your mind
  • Transcendental Meditation
  • Hanging out in tasklessness
  • The open space of awareness
  • How thought doesn’t have to go away in order to meditate
  • Relax your grip, and relax back into yourself
  • It doesn’t grip you, it has no power to do that. You grip it.
  • What it means to relax at the moment of contact
  • Relax into it, stop the resistance of it
  • Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
  • suffering = pain x resistance


Dean Sluyter Links

Homepage

Meditation

Youtube

Twitter


See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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