跟讀練習: Life Gets Easier When You Stop Taking It So Seriously - 通過影片學習英語口語

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I've got to stop taking life so seriously.
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I know every time I'm feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, fearful, whatever it is,
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I'm too identified with myself.
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I'm taking everything too seriously.
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Life, this whole play that we're living in, because that's really what it is.
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It's just this temporary play that we're all part of.
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And when we get so identified with it, we lose touch with truth.
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The truth of who we are, the actual nature of our reality, all of it.
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And it all comes back to just being aware and conscious of ourselves.
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Really It all starts within ourselves That's where you regulate yourself
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That's where you become aware of thoughts the emotions the beliefs that once gripped you and
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You identified so closely with that dictated your internal state of being
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it all starts with awareness the quality of our lives begins with the quality of our consciousness
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and as I said if I speak for my own experience anytime I've been anything but at peace
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I am usually just overly identified and attached to something
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that isn't me and when I say me I don't mean the labels
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and the concepts that have made up my identity it's the I am before
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that identity it's just the awareness the conscious awareness
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that each of us is at our core
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and you don't have to go anywhere to experience it it's
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already here it's already within you you just have to slow down you just have to breathe
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and regulate a lot of people ask me well how do
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you regulate your nervous system how do you start you start by no longer reacting to the dysregulated patterns
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that are controlling you it's easier said than done I understand
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that but I give an analogy once in another video
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and your nervous system think of it like the wheel of fortune you know how you have
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that big wheel and if you want it to spin really fast, at first it's still and if you spin it, you've got to grip it and you rip it down
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and spinning and then you tap it and then it keeps it spinning really fast.
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That's like our nervous system.
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When we're dysregulated, it's like that wheel spinning really fast.
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How do you get that wheel to slow down?
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You can try and interfere with it by trying to force it to stop,
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but I don't know, maybe you'd hurt your finger if you did that, But if you just stopped and observed the wheel spinning,
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or just watched it, without trying to interfere with it, eventually it slows down on its own.
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Same is true with us.
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When we become slow down, whatever we're doing, and become aware of ourselves,
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you come back into balance within yourself.
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Maybe not immediately.
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I think we're so used to things needing to happen right away.
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And if they don't, then it doesn't seem worth our time
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because we've trained our minds to just need the instant hit of dopamine to,
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you know, not be able to hold our focus on something for more than 10 seconds.
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And again, I know what it's like.
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I know what it's like to be on social media apps and scroll from real to real.
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I see the impacts on myself, But I've realized the way out of it is exactly what I'm saying.
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It's to slow down and to just stop and be aware.
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Be aware of the discomfort of trying to be aware.
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Noticing your mind's chaos and your emotions and the urges, everything.
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Because when you can stop and become aware of those things, that's like you watching the wheel rather than tapping the wheel to make it go faster,
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continue spinning as long as we react to our thoughts
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and emotions and the patterns and the story we're just going to strengthen
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that story we're going to strengthen those patterns we're going to
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strengthen the dysregulation it it seems like it works in the
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moment it seems like reacting to those fear-based patterns is is a good thing because it soothes you in the moment but
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just because an addict chooses to do drugs again
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or whatever it is because they're going through a withdrawal doesn't mean
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that it's the best thing for them in the long run it's just soothing them It's coping.
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Same is true with us in many ways.
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When we are identified and attached to these things that we think are us but aren't actually,
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that's when we react.
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That's when we take life very seriously.
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And you don't have to.
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it's a it is it is a fight-or-flight response you know i get it you know a lot of times
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when i say this people like oh well i need to make money
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and stuff i get it yeah money's important i'm not denying
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that but when we put the external world before our own connection to truth
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we lose ourselves
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that is where you start to have a drop in your inner well-being your overall quality of life
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because as I said the quality of our lives begins with what's going on in here
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and in here not necessarily what you have outside of you it's definitely part of it
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but once you have your basic needs covered everything else after
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that is your mind and your emotions telling you
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that you need more I don't know what it's like I know it's like to buy nice things
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or have things that you want to buy and you know they're they're great
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for a bit but it goes away the the feeling goes away doesn't last forever
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That's why they say money can't buy happiness.
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It buys comfort.
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It can buy you time.
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Which is important.
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Time is life.
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It's the currency of life.
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Time.
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You only have a finite amount of it.
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You can have all the money in the world, but if you're on your deathbed, it doesn't really matter.
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So, how do you make the most out of your time?
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Out of this moment right now?
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What I've realized, it's by going deeper into the moment,
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by being present, by observing, by being aware of ourselves, and by being regulated.
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Because having a regulated nervous system and being aware within ourselves is priceless.
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To me, I think it's priceless.
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That is where you find the wellspring of wisdom and truth and peace all within yourself.
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You don't have to go anywhere to get it.
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You don't have to read another book or listen to another podcast.
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I can't really explain it, but when you practice this stillness,
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you realize that it holds everything.
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There's nothing that money could buy that could give you this or replace this because
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You're connecting with the truth of who you are.
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And nothing in this external world could give you that.
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I think, anyways.
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Now, maybe my experience of life will show me otherwise in the future, but up until this point, that's what I realized.
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Peace is within.
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And awareness is always right here.
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Therefore, you always have access to peace.
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It doesn't mean you're going to be happy necessarily or that the pain that you experience will just vanish.
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I think it's part of the human experience that we have those emotions.
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The happiness, the joy, the sadness, the anger, the frustration, all of it.
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It's all part of being human.
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But again, when we take ourselves so seriously and life so seriously,
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and we identify with this dream that we're all in right now, that's where it becomes very difficult.
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And it doesn't mean that you necessarily have to renounce your participation in this dream, as I call it, in the worldly play.
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No, it's are you able to be in the world but not of it?
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Are you able to participate, take on your duties as a parent,
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a sibling, a friend, a spouse, whatever your career is?
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But realize, as Alan Watts said, that it's play.
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We get to be humans for this short period of time, this blip in time.
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And quite often we miss out on the truth that that is the gift in being here.
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I think it was Neil Tyson DeGrasse
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that said something about how the likelihood of you being born is
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so astronomically small that really that's why it is the gift.
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and yet we go through life
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always losing sight of that and not only losing sight of that but losing sight of our connection to something greater, really.
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Again, we go through life so identified with our conditioned mind and it convinces us that we need more.
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we need to chase
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we constantly need to be striving
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because if we aren't we're not going to have enough
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but it's not until you loosen your grip on life that you realize that things have a way of working out
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without you needing to try and force them to work out and again that's where that's where the real power is.
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Power isn't in forcing.
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Think about boxing, for example, or sprinters.
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I don't know if you know much about either of those sports
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but i used to be a sprinter and the people
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that could sprint the fastest weren't the ones who were clenching their muscles the hardest they're the ones
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that could relax that could
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if you look at like a slow motion video of world-class sprinters their faces are so relaxed when they're sprinting,
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yet they have this tremendous power that they can exert into the ground and spring them forward.
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Boxers, boxers don't try to hit hard, they're relaxed and that gives them their speed.
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The harder we try, the more resistance we create,
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the more friction we create.
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But when we're so dysregulated and living from this fight-or-flight response within ourselves, we feel like we have to try,
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we have to strive, we have to force things.
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It's like taking the long way around.
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It's like swimming upstream when you could go with the flow.
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The conscious mind
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understands how to go with the flow
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and let go of the need to force to be connected to truly be connected to God or life the universe
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number of terms for the same thing really I think but if you can connect with that, a person could learn to connect with that,
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they'd realize that that is the real, that's where the real fulfillment in life comes from.
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There's nothing that could fill that space within your own soul except for that, connecting with it.
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It's like trying to plug the wrong outlet into a light socket, it doesn't fit.
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You're not going to get that electrical current you're not going to get
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that connection a lot of times we try to fill a void
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or fill a piece within ourselves with material wealth material possessions people relationships when it could only be filled
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on a spiritual level, I think.
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And it all starts with awareness.
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It all starts with stillness.
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As Rumi said, the quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Like I said, you don't have to go anywhere.
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It's always right here, right now.
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And when you can touch base with that, When you can have that as the foundation for your existence, the way you live your life,
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interesting things start to happen.
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You start to feel different in everyday life, but you start to attract different.
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As you change this, the external changes.
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because it's an extension of you.
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Your external reality is an extension of your mind and your state of consciousness.
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So, you could have two people walking into the same room and have two completely different experiences.
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So, it starts with you.
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The quality of your life begins with the quality of your consciousness.
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Don't take life so seriously.
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I hope this video helps and I'll see you in the next one.

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