The Happiness Podcast 62 - The First Steps to Waking Up
Sep 18, 2020
A guide to noticing hidden negative feelings that keep you stuck. Short lessons on how gloom, guilt, tension and self-hate live inside you. Reflections on why reality itself is neutral and unhappiness comes from reaction. Gentle prompts to observe feelings without identifying with them.
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Begin By Noticing Hidden Negative Feelings
- Get in touch with negative feelings before you can change them.
- Anthony de Mello urges awareness of hidden gloom, guilt, hurt, nervousness and depression as the necessary first step.
Unhappiness Comes From Your Reaction Not Reality
- The negative feeling lives in you, not in external reality or events.
- De Mello emphasizes that no person or event has the power to make you unhappy; the reaction inside you creates the disturbance.
Stop Trying To Fix People To Feel Better
- Stop trying to change external people or situations to fix your internal feelings.
- De Mello tells listeners they don't have to change reality or bosses; the feeling is inside and must be addressed there.