What you acknowledge you get

The Barry Long Podcast

Keywords: spiritual life, emotions, truth, senses, love, gratitude, life, thinking, presence, anger, unhappiness, god, death, intelligence, past, aim, blockage, innocence, resentment, fight
Outline:
0:06 The power of acknowledgment in life. In relationships familiarity sets in when we stop acknowledging each other. Acknowledge the good in your life to attract more positivity, rather than dwelling on negative thoughts – what you acknowledge you get.
4:40 Embracing life's goodness and overcoming negativity. The importance of gratitude in life. God is only good and man-made negative emotions are a result of wrong choices and attitudes.
11:08 The dangers of excessive thinking and the importance of "looking" in life. Barry sings about the "place of the sinking heart." The importance of letting go of selfishness and wants to reach God. The past in us and its consequences. The importance of intelligence.
19:07 The importance of straight thinking and seeing the fact in life. Intelligence becomes consciousness through sensory experience, but thinking about past spoils it. Emotions cloud intelligence, causing circular thinking and delusion. The importance of seeing the fact and truth, rather than relying on emotional interpretations.
26:53 Emotions at work. On greed and unhappiness.
32:57 Spiritual growth and health. The aim of the spiritual life is to reduce selfishness and emotional thinking by revealing the truth inside oneself through gradual dissolution of old patterns. Spiritual life as a flow of psychic energy, blocked by unhappiness and emotion.
40:45 The impact of human ignorance on children. The impact of past experiences on the present and the difficulty of removing them. The need for a long process of self-cleansing and personal growth. Humans are born with a burden of ignorance created by their own minds and emotions, rather than a pure psyche. On ignorance and evil in society.
47:51 Letting go of anger and resentment. Giving up anger, resentment, and jealousy to find true love. Frustration – the inability to control others and get your way. Psychic possessions by resentment and anger in one's life.
55:24 Emotions and thoughts in spiritual life. The importance of being present in one's senses to avoid suffering, rather than getting caught up in emotions and thoughts. Acknowledging emotions can lead to disaster, as it perpetuates their existence, and instead, one should stop giving in to them and stay present in their senses. The importance of accepting situations as they are, rather than fighting or worrying.
Excerpts:
What you acknowledge you get – once in a relationship you stop acknowledging I would say every moment, every hour that you are together, once you stop acknowledging each other, this living death sets in, you start to become familiar. And the beauty and wonder that you had when your two bodies first came together gradually diminishes with the familiarity and the thinking that you know each other so that you can just acknowledge your work, acknowledge your problems, acknowledge your emotions...
Acknowledge the good in your life, and there's plenty of it – I don't care what's happened to you. If you stood in front of me, I would show you what was good in your life. And I would show you that you are not being worthy to life, honorable to life, because you're still depressed about your own selfish considerations. You are acknowledging the unhappiness in you. And therefore you draw more of the same to you. But when you acknowledge the goodness in your life, which is in everybody's life, this moment, then that goodness, somehow or other, and we can't say how returns to you...

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