Mind Blind

“You know, the voice in your head? It’s not just a voice, it’s a movie you feel, a nightmare, you act out in reality. It’s time to wake up." Subscribe: https://MindBlind.show
“It may seem like it worries, hates, judges, loves, wonders, complains, resists, rushes, disrespects, respects.”
“But it doesn’t do any of that any more than a record or a movie playing does any of that.”(These are sneak preview excerpts, listen to the podcast to hear everything.)
“Sometimes it looks like intelligence and other times it looks like stupidity, but it’s neither…”

“It seems to control things, people and events, but is itself out of control often. What is it? The voice in your head is…”

“Here’s my story about the battle with the voice in the head. A lot of people can relate to …a nagging, negative voice in the head."
"It was excruciating, actually. At some point I remember just collapsing in the kitchen, bawling, crying. And just moments earlier, I was just chopping vegetables, everything was fine.”

“I kind of wondered, wow, what was that? How can I be fine one minute and then in this intense suffering the next? And it went on for weeks. I recognized that this voice was just going on and on and I didn’t know what to do about it. Even worse, knowing that this is going on, not being able to stop it, and wanting so much to.”

“And then it was so bad that for three days I was in this excruciating pain. And I remember just laying on the floor again, and the thought came to me, I think. I think I’m dead.”
“I had a few experiences like that before I actually discovered the love and joy within that we all have.”
“I was going from a really bad feeling into this amazing love, joy, peace. And very dramatically, very fast, you couldn’t miss it, you know?”
“And I didn’t understand how or why that was going on until I was in this intense suffering for weeks because I was denied the love I thought I had to have.”
“I thought my love came from somebody else outside of me, and that was jerked out from underneath me. And I was left alone, me and my thoughts.”
“One of the things I tried to do was this thing called positive thinking, right?”
“Where you’re feeling bad, but you’re trying to force a good thought on, you know? And it was brutal. It was excruciating because it didn’t work. And I’d be trying to just tell myself good things, you know?”
“Meanwhile, I’d be going, but it’s not true. It’s not real. What are you crazy? Then I would say things like, well, but apparently everybody else does that, right? That’s the thing to do. Positive thinking, right? What’s wrong with me? How come I can’t do this?!”

“The more I tried to force a good thought on a bad feeling, the worse I felt.”

“In the middle of that, I just couldn’t take anymore. I had the thought of suicide.”
“But because my dad had died by suicide, and I promised him it would not be for nothing, the immediate answer was, no. That can’t happen. But I can’t take it anymore. I can’t take this pain anymore.”
Suddenly… “I was feeling this love, this joy, this peace.”
“Ah, ‘that can’t be’ the mind said. That can’t be. Because, you know, you’ve been abandoned, you’ve been, you know, dropped, you’ve been dumped.”
“But, but wait a second. This felt good. No matter what mind said, this felt good.”
“In that old recording, I was describing how I had fallen in love with love itself. The rest is history.”
P. S ~ Have you ever felt disconnected from someone you love? What to do about it is coming up next…”

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“Ever found yourself talking to yourself? Repeating your past to yourself, as if it’s destined to be your future? Or perhaps you’ve driven across the city and didn’t recall the trip?” Subscribe: https://MindBlind.show
“It’s not because you weren’t there or it didn’t happen. These are just a few examples of dreaming in the waking state. Like the movie Groundhog Day, sleepwalking through reality keeps us trapped in the same stories, feelings and behaviors–despite our good intentions, self help help books and spiritual efforts…”

(These are sneak preview excerpts, listen to the podcast to hear everything.)

“We poison our air, rivers and soil. We’ve created weapons capable of destroying all of us in a moment. How can we be so intelligent and yet so stupid? The truth is…”

“Our relationships aren’t with real people, but with the characters in our minds. Everyone you know has a different version of you in their mind. That’s who they interact with. And it’s why they all treat you differently, because they see you differently in their minds. Illusion is when…”

“We’ve fallen asleep in the waking state and are acting on the dream in reality. You know, the tragedy is that our reality is the same. It’s the dreams that differ. It’s. It’s the conflicting stories in our minds that divide us. Dreaming the mind feels bad, driving behaviors that harm each other and the planet. But when the dreaming stops and the unreal stories fall away…”

“And the only way that happens is by not being aware of thinking. When we’re not aware of the mind and thinking, we are mistaking it for reality. And that’s dreaming. Dreaming causes delusion, and awakening cures it.”
“When awake, we’re intelligent. When dreaming, we’re deluded. How do we fall asleep while awake and become so deluded?…”

“Some people have lost their minds, which is why they became very happy, like the spiritual teachers Ekhart Tolle and Byron Katie. I just wish we’d all lose our minds. It reminds me of …”

“You see, what really matters is knowing the difference between the imaginary mind and the reality. Children know the difference between imagination and reality. They call it play. They don’t use the mind to imagine things that are not fun.”
“As a child, I knew something was wrong with adults. They didn’t make sense and so I didn’t want to become one of them. Alas, I failed. I became one of them…”

“Realizing you’re dreaming is the beginning of waking up. When I first noticed this, it was shocking. One moment I was …”

“It wasn’t the last time I unconsciously suffered, but it was the first time I became aware of unconscious suffering. It was a turning point. Falling asleep and waking up repeatedly is…”

“Ignorance of dreaming isn’t bliss, it’s blindness. People go in and out of dreaming all day, unaware of it, realizing this is the beginning of the end of unconscious dreaming. The awakening process can feel like hell, but it’s the dreaming that hurts, not the waking.”

“So as the saying goes, if you’re going through hell, don’t stop. Because an awake human is a peaceful human.”
“When I was a child, I used to sleepwalk. One night, I wandered to the edge of a lake. Someone followed to keep me safe. When I asked why they …”a sleepwalker. But sleepwalking is what’s dangerous. Humanity is sleepwalking towards the edge.”
“Human brilliance has brought us to the pinnacle of success and to the brink of extinction. The solution isn’t about fighting with or trying to control the mind. Instead, it lies in…”
“…by discovering how the mind works, we gain the ability to master it and wake up beyond it. People are beginning to awaken from both personal and collective dreaming. It’s time to accelerate this awakening.”
… it’s time to reclaim reality, to stop dreaming and suffering our dreams, and to start living.”

“PS ~ You know that voice in your head? It’s not just a voice. That’s up next.”

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"Hello, I'm Cindy Teevens, and I've got a story for you. It's called Mind Blind, a new podcast series about the human experience, condition, and quest for meaning and happiness in a world where nothing is as it seems. Because... were you born to suffer, grow old, and just die? Is that all there is to life? Or do you somehow sense there has to be more?"

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(These are sneak preview excerpts, listen to the podcast to hear everything.)

"Science has made epic advancements in the outer world and with microscopic life, but we still don't know ourselves. We still don't know what causes the human condition. We don't know why we don't truly hear and understand each other. We feel threatened by our loved ones. We fear being alone, yet we feel alone with our loved ones."

"Our mental and emotional growth has stagnated, while our capacity for creating destructive weaponry has advanced at an alarming pace..."

"...is there maybe something big and obvious we're missing?

People everywhere feel frustrated, stuck in the same recurring patterns, despite all their efforts with self help or spiritual work. And somehow they know something else is possible.

Why are some of us having beautiful, peaceful, and even blissful experiences instead of suffering the mind? Could everyone experience that joy? And finally, is there anything that you can actually do to help change humanity's collision course with itself?"

"Find out with me in mind blind as we explore how our own brilliance has brought us to the brink of extinction and the edge of enlightenment."

PS - What is it about our brilliance that blinds us? That's up next..."

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People feel frustrated, stuck in the same recurring patterns, despite all their efforts with self help or spiritual work. Subscribe: https://MindBlind.show

Mind Blind explores the human experience, the cause of the human condition, and the quest for meaning and happiness in a fleeting, increasingly dangerous world to unveil why, because...

"We are at the brink of extinction—and the edge of enlightenment." ~ Cindy Teevens

This show isn’t just a podcast; it's a groundbreaking experience which will change your perspective and life, just by listening.

Mind Blind isn’t just a podcast—it’s also a community. Share your thoughts, answer our polls, or leave a message about what is important to you. Your input could even be featured in a future episode! How can we see what we are missing?

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Music intro/outro: by Serge Guérin

Art: Rania Kandil

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