What You've Been Looking For

This week we decided to finish the series with a freestyle episode - no topic planned, just talking and seeing where it goes.

We cover anger, fear, identity, attachment, emotions, letting go, spirituality vs religion, parenting, and more…

With all that we reckon there’ll be something for everyone!

As often happens in these conversations, we quickly identify that procrastination isn’t a true ‘thing’ that can be defined or identified. It’s a mind-made label given to an activity that the self-narrative ‘thinks’ should happen in THIS time frame and which is happening in a different time frame.

The tension arises when ‘we’ do battle with life, believing it should go our way and not life’s way.

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, the world is confused and reeling with the horror of what was seen on our screens.

In this episode, we intend to bring the conversation to a deeper level, to the love and connection that we are, and from which we act with greater humanity, from wholeness, and therefore in the direction of real inclusion - not just removing the symptoms of racism from a fundamentally racist system.

Lonely in isolation because of coronavirus? Talk of a loneliness epidemic? 

What’s true about an experience of loneliness, and what’s illusory and transient?

The mind will attach to an idea of loneliness, turn it into an imagined constant, and start on a quest trying to solve the suffering through other people or work or the pub.

But most of those ‘solutions’ have disappeared in the current situation, so now what?

Whether we’re comparing ‘up’ to others who look like they’ve got it sorted, ‘down’ to others who don’t and feeling guilty that we have it better, or comparing ‘nowhere’ into an imagined future self or job or situation - the moment we identify with any of that, we’re lost.

At these times of change, businesses are going out of business, people are losing jobs or waiting at home wondering if they’ll have a job or company to go back to.

It can look scary and impossible and inevitably feelings of insecurity will appear within all that.

What we invite here in this conversation is the possibility to see more than we have been trained to first jump to.

What we point to in this episode is that, for all these years, we’ve been trying to reverse-engineer a natural process, a natural capacity within each of us. The mind has grabbed hold of an experience it likes the look of, it’s attempted to fix it in place as ‘wanted’ and deny the ‘unwanted’ and then it’s set about gathering strategies and tactics to ‘do’ positivity. All in pursuit of that nice feeling it remembers - and which deep down we know is available, we’ve just been told to look

Welcome back to Series two! 

We’ve kicked off this season - of course - with the topic of the moment - coronavirus and isolation, as we share our various experiences of the last 4 or 5 weeks. 

We begin with our experiences of the early weeks where we all had experiences of turmoil, confusion, frustration and grumpiness. Being dropped in at the deep end of a whole new experience of life that was confronting our various tightly-held beliefs was inevitably gonna feel like that.

To close off this season we’re going straight to the heart of the matter, exploring and questioning this thing we’ve taken as a fixed, objective reality all our lives. That is, until something starts to draw us towards a different conversation. One which puts chinks in the armour of what’s really going on.

Enlightenment - What is it? How do you know you’re enlightened? How do you get there? And when do you stop?

We explore all these questions and more in this episode, connecting into our own experiences and how we see it, as well as what we’ve heard from others say in this arena.

We ultimately see that calling off the search is a natural conclusion of searching - but how do we get to that point?

Have a listen and see what resonates for you.