Changes

*(Apprehensions of survival)

*(Apprehensions of survival)

   

   

MICHAEL:  There definitely is a kind of [[anxiety]] at times that [[grows]] up in a living being such as yourself, just in being hyper-[[aware]] you are alive and susceptible to so many [[things]] to stay alive.  Yet right in the midst of these, shall we say, [[apprehensions]] of what it takes to ''survive'', you can have an equal [[realization]] of the positive completeness of your whole [[being]].  You [[exist]].  You’re happening.  And that is enough.  (Michael laughs)  [[Compared]] to the [[anxiety]], it’s more than enough.  And so you [[glow]] for a while, until, as you note, the day-to-day [[things]] make themselves known and once again there arises a [[feeling]] of [[anxiety]] to meet them.  

MICHAEL:  There definitely is a kind of [[anxiety]] at times that [[grows]] up in a living being such as yourself, just in being hyper-[[aware]] you are alive and susceptible to so many [[things]] to stay alive.  Yet right in the midst of these, shall we say, apprehensions of what it takes to ''survive'', you can have an equal [[realization]] of the positive completeness of your whole [[being]].  You [[exist]].  You’re happening.  And that is enough.  (Michael laughs)  [[Compared]] to the [[anxiety]], it’s more than enough.  And so you [[glow]] for a while, until, as you note, the day-to-day [[things]] make themselves known and once again there arises a [[feeling]] of [[anxiety]] to meet them.  

   

   

Here is where [[wisdom]] from long [[experience]] can lead you to [[trust]] this [[feeling]] is only--if [[profoundly]]--your [[animal]] nature’s [[instinctual]] way of revving you up to meet the [[challenge]].  Your [[heart]] starts pounding and you [[feel]] yourself coming [[awake]], anxious and alert, like a little [[animal]] inside you is pricking up its ears to scan for a threat.  To feel this as a positive [[thing]], to [[trust]] this--and trust yourself--that even this fearfully [[anticipating]] part of you is trying to help you [[survive]] and succeed; this does take [[wisdom]] and [[understanding]] as well as [[determination]].  All those who have succeeded in [[intense]] [[competition]] have learned how to [[trust]] and use this upwelling surge of [[anxious]] [[energy]].

Here is where [[wisdom]] from long [[experience]] can lead you to [[trust]] this [[feeling]] is only--if [[profoundly]]--your [[animal]] nature’s [[instinctual]] way of revving you up to meet the [[challenge]].  Your [[heart]] starts pounding and you [[feel]] yourself coming [[awake]], anxious and alert, like a little [[animal]] inside you is pricking up its ears to scan for a threat.  To feel this as a positive [[thing]], to [[trust]] this--and trust yourself--that even this fearfully [[anticipating]] part of you is trying to help you [[survive]] and succeed; this does take [[wisdom]] and [[understanding]] as well as [[determination]].  All those who have succeeded in [[intense]] [[competition]] have learned how to [[trust]] and use this upwelling surge of [[anxious]] [[energy]].

   

   

MICHAEL:  Be in my [[peace]].

MICHAEL:  Be in my [[peace]].

===='''''[[Growth]]'''''====

===='''''[[Growth]]'''''====

(Stages of personal civilization)  

(Stages of personal civilization)