Episode 11 : Show Notes

* We have a (global-ish) audience! Who can ask us questions:)

* Question 1, from "M" in Jersey.

* Bryce's artwork affected by his dominant self-pres instinct: more careful and reserved than the social and sexual four.

* A fiery painting, thought potentially insensitive to a gallery's patrons.

* Making a living as an artist, while remaining authentic.

* Bryce's envy for other artists who express more boldly.

* Victoria's short story about a wife, husband, and fish - a sexual four example of a "darker" artistry.

* Question 2, from "K" in Boulder: comparison, baby.

* Fours being acutely aware of themselves, which creates a feeling of difference, and... uniqueness. And then: comparing!

* Fours over identifying with the shadow, what's different, what's missing, and at the core: feeling separate from Source.

* Self-pres fours comparing and feeling (generally) different, social fours feeling inferior, sexual fours feeling superior.

* Bryce rarely allows himself to feel superiority (that is largely embedded inside his repressed sexual instinct) - but, as part of his path, he's allowing it more and more.

* Whereas Bryce (as a sp4) has been largely unaware of his envy throughout his life, Victoria (as a sx4) has been very aware.

* Victoria feeling "pressure" (in realtime) to say something that will be of value, and the painfulness of this.

* Victoria's competition with and anger toward others, and her practice of turning inward, into the emotional pain and the body experience. And lowering her super-high self-expectations.

* Victoria's (realtime) questioning of the value of what she's saying, and Bryce's perspective on the good of her in-the-moment-practice.

* Another in-the-moment-catch by Victoria, of dramatization.

* Bryce's comparing-self dissipating somewhat, in the context of the client-work B&V are doing together.

* Question 3, from "L" in Boulder: a relationship question.

* Uranio Paes speaks to relationships between two people sharing the same dominant instinct: more comfortable. And relationships with those who have different dominant instincts: more challenging "growth" relationships.

* Final question, from "P" in Scotland.

* Victoria speaks to "sensitivity" as a four, taking things personally.

* What is it to "take something personally"?

* Feeling judged by others, feeling wrong, feeling patronized.

* Victoria notices her sensitivity, in a moment of self-observation, and stops it in its tracks, resting back in herself.

* Breaking out of old patterns, a new emerging way of being.

* Bryce tackles "moodiness", which is all emotional, melancholic - and his practice of NOT getting inside the mood, but instead: lifting his chest, opening his eyes and looking around, letting go of "intense fascination with the mood I'm in", and stepping into service.

* The blessing of this human life.

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