And with the early dawn moving right along. I couldn't buy an eyeful of sleep. And in the aching night under satellites I was not received. Built with stolen parts, a telephone in my heart. Someone get me a priest. To put my mind to bed this ringing in my head. Is this a cure or is this a disease.

"Before our minds create the world, the world creates our minds so we have to go back to who we were before the world created our mind...addiction, depression, psychosis, anxiety...these all begin as compensations...When your heart is open and the love is flowing, you really can get hurt...that open heartedness, THAT LOVE IS OUR ESSENCE and if that love is our essence why don't we realize it?...It's because it hurts so much when it's not reciprocated. It hurts so much when it's not understood. It hurts so much when it's wounded and so we develop these skins, we shut down...Addictions, like many other behaviors, are all about escaping from the pain, but if we realize that love is really our very essence, there's nothing to run away from. WHERE'S THERE TO RUN?...IF YOU REALLY GET IT...There are no bad experiences. There are only experiences whose meaning you haven't defined, you haven't had the guidance to understand, you haven't had the support to integrate into your life...YOUR INTENTION HAS TO BE THE TRUTH, whatever the truth is."-Gabor Mate

"The universe is not going to save you from your own mind because it is not ignorant to the truth of who you are. It sees you as what you are which is an extension of itself. so you are no more a god and no less a god than it is and if it recognizes the god aspect of you, why would it intervene?...Because our thought patterns work like genetics, they are passed from one generation to the next until we realize that we can deactivate them...Suffering is not inevitable. Contrast is inevitable." Teal Swan

Meeting your unmet needs begins with honing in on the reality of our own needs, accepting this and also discovering the root need of other needs. Teal offers an exercise in how to discover these core needs and understanding in how to meet our unmet needs.

In this episode of Ask Teal, Teal Swan talks about How to Create a Safe Relationship and gives relationship advice about relationship troubles. We are often distrusting, not committed and fearing of troubles in our relationships. This video will show you how to create a safe relationship.

As living organisms, we are designed to move in the direction of pleasure and to move away from pain. Our entire nervous system is highly attuned to pain stimulus and pleasure stimulus. Most of us love to feel happy and we will do anything to avoid feeling unhappy, but what about the small percentage of people who can’t feel happy? It is easy to think that happiness is always a good thing. But the truth is, the subconscious mind does not always agree. In this episode, Teal explains that when we cannot feel happy no matter how hard we try and we feel as if happiness is false and only negative emotions are real, what is really happening is that we have learned to FEAR happiness.

"You have to feel the deep down fear that everything's your fault. This is the insecurity that you can't face. Anything out of facing this insecurity is avoidance...If you are a cynic, you're going to have to accept a very vulnerable truth about yourself and that truth about yourself is deeply hidden under all the ways you act towards different people...What you really need is kindness." Teal Swan

Turbulence – Humanity – Compassion“The 36th Gift doesn’t freeze. It doesn’t close down. It stays open. Wow. Do you know what that entails? Someone or something completely threatens to overwhelm us, and we stay open. Our heart may recoil for a few moments, but we breathe deeply into our chest, anchor ourself in the belly, and look the experience right in the eye.” – Richard Rudd, 64 Ways

Constriction – Acceptance – Universal Love“Allowing is very powerful, because it begins with the physical. Whatever we’re experiencing in life – however hard – bring our awareness to our physicality, to the sensations and discomfort in our body. Never mind about our feelings or our thoughts. They’ll come later. We begin with the physical. We just allow our body to feel what it feels.” – Richard Rudd,

It creates emptiness..."Higher states are not the goal. Integration of higher state is the goal. And that demands that we be in the body, in the world, even as we explore what's beyond the world." Richard Rudd