Most Replayed Moment: 6 Daily Habits That Expose Your Fake Values - Deepak Chopra

So in your life, if someone dies, god forbid, do you suffer? You grieve, which is a natural process, and it has a life cycle. You don't hold on to it. In fact, you embrace it. You embrace the the anytime you'd recoil or deny, resistance creates even more stress. So what we call stress is resistance to existence in the moment. Okay? If you don't resist experience in the moment, you know, it's passing by. So something really bad happens at work. I get a really bad you know, my boss tells me I'm fired. The mindset required to avoid suffering in that case is to take the news. It's not a mindset. It's a It's a step in awareness. The awareness of the mind is not the mind. Who is it that or what is it that knows a thought? That is what you need to shift to. Okay. Once you shift from the experience to the awareness in which the experience is happening, you're independent of it. And that's what actually those eight limbs of yoga are about. It's a process. A shift in identity. We started with that. A shift in identity from your assumed self to your fundamental self, which is infinite, which is without cause, which is not subject to birth and death, which is spaceless, timeless, incomprehensible, infinite, irreducible, and fundamental. It feels almost like I'm stepping out of myself and looking at myself. Correct. Looking at the projection of yourself. The projection of myself. Yeah. We're making sense. You're looking at the projection of yourself. Which is very hard to do. At your avatar. And it's very hard to do because we're we are we are increasingly becoming avatars, especially with things like social media. Yeah. Yeah. We've been we're being reinforced. Like, you know, I have, 2,000,000 followers or a million followers or 500,000 followers that's following my avatar. So we don't know who we are. You confused yourself with the avatar. And the battle is all between avatars wanting importance. How do how does one resign from that battle and take back my peace? Actually, the opposite of that is creativity. The creativity is the opposite of determinism. If you don't want to be a biological robot or an algorithm, which is what we are now, we are algo biological algorithms, biological robots. And that's, by the way, part of our evolution. It's not something all animals. But the animals have an advantage. They live in the present moment. But you and I have an imagination that can see into the future, that can even look at death, you know, as the culmination of this life experience. We regret the past. We anticipate the future. We're never in the present when this the only place we are right now is the present. There's no way to escape it, but in our imagination, we escape it. So the worst use of imagination is stress. The best use of imagination is creativity. …