We forget that all famous thinkers and philosophers of the past were at some point living. Imagine what it would be like if you could watch the TH-cam videos of Socrates or Plato. Thanks to the miracle of TH-cam we can listen to Leo as he develops his ideas rather than have our children read his writings.
After I got cancer this year I had to take a hard look at fear. And I've found when my mind is showing me fearful things I embrace them with love and enthusiasm and it melts away. So, even though I was in a lot of pain I was still conscious and enjoying the moment. Had to use everything I've learned about mediation and spirituality. And all the meditation I did over the years helped so much. So, thanks Leo for giving a good base to get through this and actually use it to grow.
Research Dr. Bob Melamede, listen to many of his lectures and learn about the endocannabinoid system while you're at it... Here's one of his papers: harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-2-21 Un-related, but it's about some cancers that he works with: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054289/
U should tray cbd oil to treat cancer , eat only vegan food and drink alkaline water. Keep ur body ph alkaline because cancer can't grow in alkaline environment. Study dr.cbie
A warlord invades a Japanese village and everyone in the town either flees or is slaughtered/enslaved. The warlord walks up to the village's only Zen temple and the only person left in the temple is an enlightened monk. "Surrender to me or I will cut your head off!" says the warlord to the monk. The monk smiles and seems unfazed. The warlord is angry. He yells, "You fool! Don't you see that I can run you through with this sword without even blinking an eye!" The monk responds, "Don't you see that I can be run through by your sword without blinking an eye." The warlord is shocked and amazed and drops his sword and kneels to the monk.
@@nerad1994 not sure dude. I found it a while ago on some website that was a collection of zen poems and stories.... I tried to find it again but couldn't. This story stuck in my head.
Supreme King the power in his response is that if you have nothing to lose you have nothing to fear, and if you have nothing to fear you have everything to love and attain Vs if you’re always flinching or clinging to something you’ll always be under the control of something else other than you, an executioner, financial loss, whatever, In a similar way, bullies stop picking on you when they see that you don’t care and stop reacting to their remarks, and in being in that grounded state of mind, when you do decide to fight back you can do so fearlessly and be grounded enough to know when enough is enough so that you don’t overdo it So, with all this, nothing really owns you, you’re a free agent of god’s will, you have no worries, you have no cognitive dissonance, you have no indecisiveness, just pure will and power that was given to you by giving up your will and your power, the monk has power over the warlord because he owns the warlord in the sense that the monk identifies himself as the warlord, but the warlord himself doesn’t identify with the monk so therefore he is triggered and worries and gets defensive if the monk goes against “his will” To get a better understanding listen to Alan Watt’s lecture “Do You Do It Or Does It Do You” Towards the latter half before he starts talking about compassion he gets really deep into our ideas of power and control are People who can’t balance themselves this way lack “power” you fail to recognize from the story above Some people watch only a few of Leo’s episodes all the way through, (not that you are one of these people idk) and still have many questions about what his long term listeners and other videos of his mean, that’s because they haven’t watched enough or better yet contemplated enough to understand what can’t be understood, Leo wasn’t kidding when he said the more you watch his stuff and contemplate the more you’ll see the bigger picture of things pop out and questions you’ve had before will answer themselves Leo has an episode called Recontextualization, you can pair it with a 30 min video recording called “Sudden Enlightenment” by Alan Watt’s from his lecture named “The Joker” I found that listening to those two vids a few times over really helped me to understand the nature of how the same knowledge or “sayings” can change over time just by contemplating about it in your daily life and experience, so much that you start to see “deeper layers of understanding” or “deeper stages of thinking” as Leo and Alan Watts have put it And by contemplation we mean contrasting all questions and objections you have about a topic with your present moment direct experience Hope this helps, don’t take it the wrong way,
Leo, you are wonderful. I'm impressed by your ability to say interesting things for more than two hours without breaks or editing, without losing the train of though. It shows a disciplined mind. Well done.
Leo is becoming more and more succinct and eloquent, I love to watch him grow and mature before our very eyes. A True Sage, so lucky to have stumbled upon his teachings a few years ago. Life-changing. Everything he teaches can lead you towards a path of transcendence, so keep watching, keep practicing, do the homework, be the student, you will not be disappointed.
I was rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender now that I am a lot older, and in one of the episodes a sage is sitting in a swamp. He claims that he is enlightened, and that all things are connected. He says, "Fear is an illusion, and so is death." The show actually has a lot of tidbits that Leo has spoken of, which I find incredible. Maybe that is part of the reason I liked the show so much as a child and didn't even realize it! Is it possible that we all have a subconscious pull towards the Truth, but we are so enshrouded by the illusion of fear and death that most of us never see it?
That show started my enlightenment journey as a Christian who did not believe in meditating, l watched the show with my kids and now we laugh about it now l am on this path of enlightenment thanks to Aang🥰
I realized so much more of what that movie meant the second time I watched it, this year, I meant like come on.....the tree of life guys 🙄 that just went right over our heads.
Leo, how do you know so much stuff? all your videos are very thought out and articulate. I usually watch one or two of your videos every week, they are so in depth. I've never met such a genuine teacher as you. This world needs the spiritual healing you are offering.
Its been ages since Leo covered a self-actualization topic and this is the most important since fear stops cellular growth and profuces cancer. Thank you very much!
Politics has everything to do with it. This is a political topic all Leo covers is politics. All his videos interconnects maybe ask why does Leo’s videos exists on politics when other videos help me deeply why am I resisting certain aspects of the same connected content. You can not deny the political social reality you exists in that’s why it’s related to self actualization and even non duality.
El Axel Everything, understanding politics will make you aware of the collective reality you live in. Ofc if ur still in Spiral Dynamics stage orange this concept will be hard to grasp. Self actualization doesn’t stop at the self, it expands the idea of self to a broader perspective and your area of concern increases which is why it’s very important to be aware of conscious politics if one plans to live in or change the world.
Fear is an aspect of god, an energy there to move us from one place to another both external and internal. Have faith that fear is your greatest teacher, face it, feel it and transcend beyond it
@h4ck573r you fuckin moron how early child can create a feelings , it just either feels it or escapes from it.. Low concious fool watch full video before throwing your random Garbage(that's What you have in your head)
@@petzzz5900 He is not wrong about ourselves creating our own feelings, he just does not understand that children have a low capacity for self-awareness, but you getting angry and critisising him for this just shows that you have some emotional intelligence to develop as well.
Fear is there to maintain whatever you identify with… Key insight: what you are is defined by your fears, and what you fear define what you identify as If you identify with loving your family, that is your identity, If you identify with your career as a successful business guy or a great artist, that’s your identity Fear are wrapped up around this identity, If you identify with your possession and you identify, Fear is relative to whatever you identify with, could be fear of losing hair. Whatever you fear You are going to be battling with throughout your life. Skeptic identity is being afraid of either being wrong or deluded Question your own skepticism. Why do you trust skepticism, why do you trust something that is driven by fear. Afraid of believing the wrong thing… scientists, we’re rational we don’t want to believe falsehood your fear of being deluded ends up making you deluded. What you fear is losing all your attachments, that is what you call death ultimately. What is it that you Fear …a total loss of self..fear boils down to a total loss of self.. Fear is protecting you from losing your self Psychological death, fear of the loss of their self image. All fear is imaginary… including the fear of death.. there is no substance to fear…. Become conscious of how all fear is imaginary, change your attitude towards work, relationship All fear is falsehood… all fear is lack of consciousness.. The trick is that society conditions us that fear is inevitable and that fear is totally normal and that There is nothing we can do about it. Because society is not interested in truth. It turns out that one of the remarkable thing about Truth with a capital T is that it transcends all fear… because it transcends survival deep connection between fear and falsehood, between fear and illusion. When you are afraid you are trapped inside of an illusion, but the illusion feels so real that you don’t know that it’s an illusion and therefore that just heightens your fear even more and then you start to believe that the fear is real. And then it becomes this sort of self fulfilling prophecy where something that isn’t real seems like it’s the most real thing that there is, that’s the trick that the mind plays on you. Society is built around Survival, Society is built upon using your fears against you to help you to survive How do society sells you stuff, by pushing your fear button Turn on the tv and listen to the commercials, how do business sells you things, by going right for your Fear, pushing your fears button Key insight: Fear is resistance to a future experience
It can help to face the fear directly. I used to have performance anxiety to play the piano in front of others but it has diminished after practice playing in front of others.
I used to have performance anxiety doing spirit communication for other people but what helped me was to keep practicing doing it. It does go away with the confidence you achieve.
"Fear is resistance to a future experience." Wow. When you take that future experience, accept it, embrace it, and want it, you will be unconditionally happy.
Probably this is exactly what i needed to watch today.. i have just been through a situation where i learned just how much my attachement to my religion has been.. truly.. making me miserable and making me afraid of things i shouodn't be afraid of, i realised just how much i was giving my power away that way I recently had lots of epiphanies that i am still integrating, can't wait to watch part 2
I have been your fan for a really long time now Leo but this video...it's literally invaluable. Basically every video you post has chock full of value but this one... man. I can't thank you enough for posting this. I have been crippled by my fear of confrontation and physical conflict basically my whole life. So with these videos I'm finally gonna be able to find the right way to deal with them!!' Thank you thank you thank you!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. It gave me new perspectives on my personal struggles. I was aware of your ego however, that destructed me several times. I realized no matter how enlightened one is, the ego always finds a way to show itself. That too became part of your teaching.
How fear works “Tell me who you are and ill tell you what you fear Tell me what you fear and ill tell you who you are.” Fear is not a psychological problem or a human problem Why does fear occur? At the existential dimension. People barely teach fear because they don't understand it, we don't put importance on it where you would think to find understanding of fear like science, scientists are full of fear they usually don't know how it works so why learn from them about it. Fear might contradict current culture and science. Fear dominates your entire life -peter Ralston You’re fish in water a human in fear swimming in fear every day of your life this is deeper than an emotional problem-constant fear. And you don't even know it. The majority of your emotional system is outside your awareness its controlling you. Fear is a survival mechanism it's the thing that keeps you alive, it's not only that. All emotions are elaborate and sneaky or subtle. Fear is there to help you maintain whatever you identify with--maintain whatever you think you are. Survival is not just physical it is conceptual-social-cultural emotions are important facts don't exist in reality all that exists is emotion. You can kill your self image by not avoiding fear. You cannot have an accurate perception of reality or do proper science if you are in fear. What you are is defined by your fears and what you fear defines what you identify as. Identities like being a human of a physical creature or real Identity is like the sun it has various layers to it the layers become denser and denser when we say your identity is the edges of the sun and the inside you cant be another way like being its easier to detach from your car then your family then to being a man or a woman it's hard to detach from being a human then a gender. You make yourself up to be this way out of thin air this is what your identity is as a human being you fear losing all of your attachments this is what you call death. total ego death or loss of self. All fear boils down to the fear of death. Psychological death or death of the self image. Suicide bombers don't fear death they fear being a bad Muslim this is how powerful identity is. Identity is relative it's hard to change it calcified Fear is constructed from the mind and is never objective or found out there then its projected outwards. ALL FEAR IS IMAGINARY try validating this, the fear of death is imaginary. Become conscious of this it will change your view on so many things relationships, war, and politics. Everyone is scared shitless and all fear is falsehood and a lack of consciousness if you were totally conscious you would not fear anything you cannot even imagine a life without fear. There is no objectively dangerous situation even if you run into a bear it only depends on what you identify with Truth transcends fear because it transcends survival this is the way to realize Truth. Fear is an illusion. If you think the fear is real, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy society doesn't care about truth it cares about survival. It uses fear against you for survival. Your controlled through fear. Even high quality stage green fears are imaginary there's levels of delusion. Low level is being afraid of homosexuality or other religions higher fears are global warming or environment going bad these aren't completely irrational but there is a problem with the fear itself, Under the materialist paradigm where they think death is real fear seems legitimate or when you run out of money or when you meet a wild animal. There is nothing scientific or rational to fear. Radical terrorists don't want to disobey their god so this surpasses the fear of death so they suicide bomb in the name of truth. Which in reality is just another religion that became hideous. The real god allows this freedom you made up your whole life out of thin air, it's just a story you invented. You must misperceive reality in order to experience fear. If you know what death is you wouldn't fear it keep your mind open its possible all fear and death is just a misperception of reality and maybe death is an illusion. Maybe it's not true that no one can know what death is. Bring up a fear and feel it. Your not going to contemplate fear while a bear is charging you it's designed to keep you alive. Survival takes precedence over truth. Its a reaction without knowing why or what it is. Notice the times you are in fear and instead of reaction unconscious you can pause, feel it consciously and mindfully and ask what is it where is it why is it here what's its function and purpose. You only have fear when your in a bind. If you want to transcend it you have to change how you react to it start to feel it before you react to it it's counter intuitive. Every cell in your body will try to react to it. Real power is standing calmly and consciously in response to grave danger don't put yourself in grave danger most of your fears are relatively minor start with small stuff. Fear is resistance to a future experience the strength to experience everything (the strength to be okay with your daughter down an alleyway sucking dick for cocaine) Understanding this will transcend fear. You don't want to experience what you fear you refuse to experience without resistance. Consciousness doesn't have to do with god it has to do with this. Be able to cut off your hand experience everything without fear. You become conscious that you realize no harm was actually done and that pain never existed, you have to stop identifying as a physical body. The only way you can do it is totally align with truth. Use your imaginative mind to come up with radical fears that are with you that you don't even know this takes lots of consciousness and work fear is directly attached to survival. Brute survival trumps everything, Attachment creates fear. The solution is to surrender yourself to the very thing you are afraid of. Your beliefs logic and ideals are survival at work fear is the base/foundation of the pyramid and it gets less important as it goes up your logic does not touch your fears. Fear of being poisoned (Donald Trumps fear) the Russians are the masters of poisoning this tells you that he fears being crossed WRITE DOWN ALL YOUR FEARS (not going to give them here but that would be another fear for it to be public) Most common macro fears below Macro fears below There's thousands of these kinds of micro fears you will notice more and more. Become aware when you fear, notice micro fears and how it shapes your behavior and affects your thinking not just in your actions but feel them more rather than just reacting fear is not held just in the mind but tension in your body you have a lifetime of fear in your body. Fear happens in humans collectively Life is a love simulator another way to say that is to say life is to learn not to fear fear and love are inverse to say life is a love simulator is that life will present fear over and over again and life is trying to teach you to transcend it life grows your love the fear is an illusion this requires consciousness don't deny or avoid the fear confront it head on facing it so deeply that you won't react the same way when it happens again. It will probably take a long time to realize fear is an illusion. Confront your learned helplessness confront your mental behaviors obsessive habitual negativity boils down to fear. Confront the worst of it feel it. You will get relief and this will help you. Face your own greatness fear is a poor survival strategy sometimes it's healthy and effective but human life is more complicated than bears in the woods fear is a self fulfilling prophecy Fear of being authentic Fear of facing yourself being your best self. Face fear of death - You cannot manipulate your way out of death YOU WILL FACE The more you run from it the more you feel stuck in the fear There are real dangers in the world when it comes to relative fear and its healthy for physical survival this is a good short term survival strategy but never a long term. Fear is status quo fear is not for great change a great society has to be built on love Homework Observe your micro fears at the end of each day you will write down your micro and macro fears for the next 7 days contemplate the following question: How are these micro fears realized to my identity? How is my mind projecting these out onto the world? How am I creating these micro fears? How are your thoughts shaped by your fears? How are your actions shaped? What am I unwilling to experience? Coming in part 2 Top 10 ways to overcome fear What is the most important quality you need to succeed in life? Common q and as
Most common macro fears The fear of not being good enough The fear of failure The fear of being broke The fear of competition The fear of being alone The fear of being left The fear of aging youth and attractiveness The fear of health problems The fear of never having sex (insells) The fear of being embarrassed The fear of waste The fear of opinion The fear of looking stupid The fear of being evil The fear of criticism Fear of wrong decision Fear of being wrong Fear of disappointing close ones Fear of being seen naked Fear of giving in to cravings Fear of losing your faith or religion Fear of hell fear of sin Fear of losing freedom Fear of wage slave Fear of losing ($) Micro fears more importantly subtle fears over 100 a day without being aware which dominate day to day life on a minute basis that disguise all your habits and life notice to fear you need an image in your mind Fear of running out of toilet paper Fear of getting caught in a lie Fear of offending someone (coworkers) Fear of being late Fear of saying the wrong thing Fear of an email Fear of not being liked Fear of a text message Fear of running out of something Fear of jerking off and getting caught Fear of looking into each others eyes Fear of something on your face Fear of losing car keys Fear of getting a cold Fear of talking to your boss Fear of having sex and getting pregnant Fear of your breath smelling Fear of cleaning taxing or renting Confronting something Telling your truth Skipping the gym Going to the doctor Stuck in your teeth Fear of the store closing Fear of truth Fear of honest opinions Fear of mistakes Fear of not doing something Fear of forgetting(what you need) Fear that you'll never find your life purpose Fear of judgment Fear of starting something new Fear of calling someone Fear of checking bank account Fear of missing a big opportunity Fear of missing a day in meditation Fear of being yelled at Fear of pain Creative anxiety Fear of facing yourself Afraid of being bold and decisive Fear of your business failing fear of difference race Fear of getting cheated on Fear of being fat There's thousands of these kinds of micro fears you will notice more and more as you raise your consciousness.
it was challenging to watch in a good way. i realised a ton about a lot of stuff that's fucked up or is close to that state in my life. a lot of work on that is gonna be done. big big thank you, Leo.
Since your awakening experience, i knew things get interesting. If an intellect like you awakens the way of conscioussness acting through this intelligence can be a huge benefit for truthseekers. This video (as many others of you) is the proof. Very good Leo! So happy, about you. And this ishue is for me a personal huge roadblock. Thankyou friend.
Fell asleep because I was tired. Dreamt about this video, but that Leo spoke from lots of different angles in his apartment, walking around spitting wisdom whilst doing the dishes and stuff. And he had a wife.
@@AsktheSpirits I be wondering that too if my brain picked it up subconsciously... I fell asleep twice today trying to finish the video start to finish, prolly bce I had night mode on in a dark room xD
this doesn't get any better than this... wow.. then again I've had this thoughts on multiple occasion while listening to this youtube channel throughout the years.
Hey Leo, I regularly watch your videos but at one point I felt like, they make me feel down. All this reflection seems to be the core of becoming a more successful being but it can pull you down very much. I feel it right now. Nevertheless, I am very thankful for your effort to put out these videos because it seems to me that this is one right way to educate the masses and that is what we want right? You are a good man! Thank you really much.
Lamis Ali - aren’t some religions a way of controlling people indirectly by using fear? You identify yourself as muslim and you fear eating pork just because of the punishment.
Leo, my wife and I lived through your example of becoming homeless on the street, going through the withdrawal from our material life, and both of us went through times of near-suicide. Our transition to homeless was very sudden, a consequence of my nefarious career choice in Mexico, and we literally started over with just our clothes that we were wearing. It's been almost exactly one year now, but the fear of that happening again is effecting us in so many aspects of our life. I am imagining that happening again right now, and I am definitely feeling fear just reliving these memories now. We're not homeless anymore, and we did get ourselves out on our own before once, and we both talk about how it was actually a very helpful experience but extremely terrible to endure. Now that she is diagnosed with cancer and started her first cycle of chemo, and she is unable to help with income much anymore, we are both feeling this fear more and more. I'm glad you made this video, this is something that I now know we need to work on. Very good video. Very deep.
Sorry to hear that. Yeah, survival can be very challenging at times. Extremely harrowing times can cause trauma, wounding, and PTSD which then requires lots of inner work to unwire. Spiritual practice helps takes the edge off.
@@ActualizedOrg Socrates in Plato's "Apology" is very much inline with your definition of fearless, in my opinion. Just a side note I felt like sharing. It's available for free online. Maybe add a link to your blog for people to see, its pretty short, and I feel like it's highly relevant to this topic and would be helpful to your audience.
@@Antonio-hk4bz Sorry to hear that.I hope you will overcome that fear with Leo's help and if you don't mind I also suggest you an amazing book that could revolutionize your vision and help you with your survival fears :"The School for Gods" Stefano Elio D'Anna
That's powerfull:"Your inability to tolerate experience is the thing that make you weak".Thank you, Leo. I ' m so gratefull that you are part of my life. I love you!
Leo, it's difficult to reply to a 2hr+ video, and I honestly have not reached the 10minutes mark, but there are already a few things I would like to say even though I don't know if you will cover this "part" of the topic of fear in this or the second part. First I want to say yes, a simple argument can't make you overcome your fear. It's the same with love or every other strong emotions. When you are in love with a person, and 4 others warn you about that person you love, this doesn't make your love being less in the slightest. The conscious mind can't override the emotional part of your brain. But I digress. I wanted to state 2 things for now. 1. I had fear of my landlord for a reason that would be too long to describe here, and no intelligent argument from others helped. What helped was a casual sight I had. A dog taking a shit within a property of a stranger. As I saw this, the fear I had till this moment was suddenly gone. Why? Because I than knew, I'm free to leave the place I'm currently living and never have to deal with this landlord again. I suddenly knew it, felt it.. Although much of the arguments were exactly that: why not just leaving? Second thing is: I hope you will talk about unexpected fear. I mean fear like an illness. The fear which get normali treated with anti depressions. (I don't know how to call this, translated from my language it would be general fear or something.) basically you feel a certain way, which is not normal, and you are fearful of being deathly ill, which makes the physical Symptoms even worse. So, yea, have a great day leo!
For me, this is one of the top 3 best insights i never listened. With work it will change my life for the best. One more time. thanks and congratulations. From Spain
ahhh thank you so much! This is EXACTLY what I needed. Ive only realized this in the last few weeks...and Ive been trying to figure out how to deal with it..now what? Now that I understand fear is all invasive ...that without it Id have love and be able to consciously create instantly...now how do i overcome it? : D Its such a relief to find this video and hear someone speak on it who understands it, I hope you realize how impactful that is
40 minutes in and I’m so incredibly glad that I found this video and your channel! You are brilliant. And I, I am very scared. And I’m tired of being scared all the time. This is a very needed first step in my journey. I’ve made it my goal in 2021 to create a more healthy relationship to fear. And of course I’m scared of failing to reach that goal. Why wouldn’t I be. And if I do manage to reach it I fear having to keep up that level of success 😂
Loved this-- micro fears are such a wake up call. The quote at the beginning was a perfect dig into the talk around identity & so profound. I am kinda good at noticing my feelings & tension in my body but sometimes I get completely lost in a crazy thought or day dream lol before hand. I have intermittent tiny bits of mindfulness and thought/ day dreaming all day.
I wouldn't say education, I would say a curtain from falling off the bike that is your persona. Your persona is what keeps the bike going otherwise you would fall down. It doesn't mean the road you're going down is the right path and fear is helping you, it's just that all you can think about is going forward. - Me
Leo, as I am listening to you I am grappling with panic attacks. It's complicated but I want to Thank you for your incredible mind. You help me and I wanted to say Thank You.
I also recommend Hope and Help for Your Nerves by Claire Weekes. Perhaps it was recommended to you already? It's very good in terms of mind-over-matter against different manifestations of nervous illness. I like reading it for a bit and then watching this 2-part Fear video every time my anxiety starts getting to me.
Hi Andy, Thank you for this. I will definitely look at it. I appreciate your kindness. I'll do anything to help myself. I hope you keep well. High regards, Verna@@Andy-gg4xw
Hi Leo. I've been watching you for years now and I wanted to tell you how I was impressed to find other young people interested and open about spirituality and with such an impressive depth. Your videos definitely helped me, rock solid, during my focus on self development, especially these past two years. You were there at a crucial time, when I was praying hard for enlightenment, during a hard phase. You deserve these encouragement and well deserved returned karma. Keep going. Much love. Peace.
I used to do a variation of this back when I started, it's a good meditation but in the end "Do Nothing" or "Awareness Watching Awareness" is the best. What I specifically did is imagine myself being tortured and suffering the worst emotional and physiological pain possible. Seeing my loved ones die in front of me, tortured, then this happening to me, seen myself isolated and rejected socially etc... This is an hard meditation that I don't use nowadays but I sincerely believe that it needs to be done at least once.
a good insight id like to input is that you cannot have an ego death or be in the state of no ego and have fear at the same time. Like Leo said fear is a mechanism of keeping what you identify with and since death of the ego is realisation of no identity, the two cannot coexist. So i highly encourage if you are to fully understand what is being said here, that you aim for an ego death, psychedelics are very helpful for your initial separation of the ego mind, after that it is actually not very difficult to induce, i recently had an ego death just through meditation.
@kenan mass no to really gain true understanding of what fear is and where it comes from you need to experience the fearless the state of no ego, thats really what it means to be in a state of fearlessness is to be in state of no ego, fear literally cannot exist without the ego, because without ego the is "nobody" to feel fearful. it goes deep.
This is the most advanced episode Leo. I learned in a ISTA workshop that the shame of our sexuality and the repression of our feelings is something cultural that comes from the monotheist religions. Now you extend the shame to fear that is much larger realm than sexual and emotional healing. thanks Leo you are the most advanced and intelligent creature I know. I love you so much Leo, you are my best friend even you don"t know me.
My first micro fears were not being able to recognize what my micro fears were when attempting to do this homework, and not remembering what all of the homework assignments were. This ties into my identity of being a good student in college, but also the fear of failure in this work because I'm supposed to be a good and productive person. My attempt to cope with this fear was Thoughts, Unwillingness, Micro, Macro. TUMM. This way I don't forget. Meanwhile, I can also surrender to the experience of not being good at doing all of the homework, this way the same fear does not boil up next time I might forget to do my homework.
Typically our emotions are trained to HOLD US WHERE WE ARE . -- NOT Bring us WHERE WE WANT TO GO! So important to learn to navigate these to bring us where we want to go!
Who is glad Leo is back on good old fashion self-help??? I agree that enlightenment is a the ultimate pursuit, but for most of us that are far from that, wrapped away on mundane day-to-day life, this type of topics are way more valuable. have been away from the channel for a while, hope this topics start coming up and not just come to the channel to scroll down for the good stuff.
Boredom is simply the mind wanting more stimulation and excitement than what’s present. It’s saying, “what’s here right now isn’t good enough”. If you bring enough consciousness and awareness to so-called boring and mundane tasks, and witness them with a beginner’s mind (see them as if for the first time) they’re no longer boring! Because this is life unfolding before your very eyes!
What's interesting is that psychopaths (people who lack emotions) have two things that they experience; Adrenaline, boredom. I think it's then confirmed how boredom is not an emotion but rather a lack of stimulation. I think what Desmond tried to say is that the lack of courage may be causing you to hesitate to take action and do something mentally stimulating, but I don't think it was worded precisely. Psychopaths have zero ability to feel, therefore, you can call them pretty courageous. They have no fear, frankly, and yet they tend to be bored quite often. Boredom is indeed interesting.
Leo, thank you. It actually brings me tears of joy to have listened to this and even more so that you have posted part two for public access as well. I can’t wait till next week to begin that (post assignments). Simply amazing and life changing stuff here. The work you are doing is just profound. I don’t usually post things and I’m sure you have heard this millions of times, but I thought whatever, just share your thoughts. You’ve presented actual solutions, thank you so much.
Introduction to the Series (00:00) Advanced Understanding of Fear (00:43) Misconceptions and Societal Understanding (02:19) Fear as a Universal Problem (03:57) Complexity of Fear Beyond Basic Psychology (05:03) Identity and Fear (07:30) Cultural and Social Influences (13:14) Self-Image and Survival (22:16) The Root of All Fears: Identity and Existential Threat (33:10) ⭐ Understanding and Managing Fear Through Mindfulness (56:02) Fear as Resistance to Future Experience (01:05:24) The Radical Solution to Fear (01:12:54) ⭐ Exercise: Identifying Your Fears (01:24:34)
17:25 "What you are is defined by your fears, and what you fear defines what you identify as. It's sort of a vicious circle, it goes both ways." That's not _both_ ways, that's the _same_ way twice: fears -> you. The other way would be "and what you identify as defines what you fear." But it is made clear in the further clarification.
What if you started personal development and mindfulness from the motivation of fear? In my case it has seemed to mobilise my fears the more I try be mindful
You my friend are really helping me cope with life. I'm 23 and watched all your videos of the last 4 years. When I needed you, you came to me. From skeptic atheist to rational mistic! That was the journey I needed to witness. Thanks a lot Leo for being and becoming the best teacher in the world! Please keep uploading every week for free. Wealth will come your way anyhow.
Notes: What you are is defined by your fears and what you fear defines what you identify as. All fear is imaginary (including the fear of death). When you are afraid you're trapped inside of an illusion but the illusion feels so real that you don't know that it's illusion and therefore it's just hightens your fear even more and you start to believe that the fear is real and it becomes this sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where something that isn't real actually seems like it's the most real thing that there is. That's the trick that the mind plays on you. You're gonna create a sort of gap, a little breathing room between the fear and your reaction and you're gonna have to start feel the fear before you react to it and that's a very counter-intuitive move. Fear is resistance to a future experience. Surrender yourself to the thing that you are afraid of experiencing in the future. You become so conscious that you realize that there's no pain there in the first place. You become so conscious that you realize that when your hand is cut off that no harm was actually done to you. Common real active fears that run a lot of people's lives (macro fears): • the fear of not being good enough • the fear of failure at your career • the fear of going broke or your business collapsing • the fear of competition in your business • the fear of your spouse leaving you (or your girlfriend and boyfriend breaking up with you) • the fear of being alone (like not having anyone there with you at the end of your life, dying all alone) • the fear of aging and loosing you youth and losing your attractiveness • the fear of health problems • the fear of never having sex • the fear of being embarrassed in public • the fear of wasting money • the fear of looking stupid • the fear of other people's opinion of you and their judgment of you • the fear of other people's thinking that you're a bad or evil person • the fear of criticism • the fear of making the wrong decision • the fear of being wrong • the fear of disappointing your spouse, children or family • the fear of loosing you faith or your religion • the fear of sin and fear of going to hell • the fear of being seen naked • the fear of loosing your freedom, fear or being stuck in wage slavery forever • the fear of gaining weight • the fear of giving in to your cravings Micro fears (they dominate your life): • the fear that you've run out of toilet paper • the fear of getting caught in a lie • the fear of offending some co-worker by saying something • being afraid of being late to work • the fear of saying the wrong thing • the fear of reading email • the fear of client not liking the work that you submit to him • the fear of checking your phone • the fear that the grocery store will run out of whatever item you want to go buy • the fear some restaurant you're gonna go to gonna have a long line on Friday night and you have to wait for an hour to get your food • the fear your parents will catch you jerking off • the fear of looking someone in the eyes • the fear of that pimple that you've got on your face • the fear of loosing your car keys • the fear you might have caught a cold • the fear of talking to your boss • the fear your breath smells • the fear that you have something stuck in your teeth • the fear of being pregnant after sex • the fear of the store closing before you get there • the fear of cleaning your garage • the fear of doing your taxes • the fear of overpaying your rent • the fear of confronting a person • the fear of telling your parents the truth about something • the fear of giving your honest opinion • the fear of skipping a gym • the fear of going to the doctor • the fear of making a mistake at work • the fear that this meeting that you're going won't turn out well • the fear you forgot something • the fear that someone hasn't texted you back • the fear that you'll never find your life purpose • the fear you'll have to work overtime this week when you don't want to • the fear that someone is judging you • the fear that your co-worker is talking and plotting against you behind your back • the fear your company might fire you • the fear you'll incur some credit card fee • the fear over starting a new project • the fear of calling someone on the phone • the fear of checking your bank account • the fear you missed a great opportunity • the fear you'll break a good habit • the fear of someone yelling on you • creative anxiety Action steps from the episode: 1. Start to notice micro fears. 2. Start to observe how fear shapes your behavior. 3. Start to observe how fear affects your thinking. 4. Start to feel micro fears rather just reacting from them. Fear isn't just help in the mind. Fear is held as tension in your body. Life is a love simulator = Life is about learning how not to fear. How is fear overcome you might wonder. Ultimately through consciousness. Not by necessarily avoiding the fear but by realizing that the fear is an illusion. Confront your fear by surrendering (stop resisting). Fear is the opposite of relaxation. Home work: • Create list of micro fears • How are these micro fears related to my identity? • How your thoughts are shaped by fear? • Create list of macro fears • What am I unwilling to experience?
Side, brilliant arguments, profound insight. This is actually the information ice been seeking for awhile. The elusive and intricate nature of fear has been difficult to tackle and go deeper to the source and then take the corrective action in self and others. I'm texting while I'm listening, so still going through it...
I like this clip of Samurai Jack where he battles a bunch of ghosts in the desert th-cam.com/video/TXeXO-mqVsE/w-d-xo.html Eventually he realizes they're impossible to beat (kind of like every single anxious thought we have every day). The moment he stops fighting them and embraces them, they dissolve. Pretty powerful
FEAR OF CHANGE thanks to leo i realized something that had been bothering me .. fears of fears , fear of being wrong and emotionally unbalanced etc.. (anxiety induced type of questions) and i came to realize that CHANGE is what i was fearing the most , the fear of inconsistency... idk why but this instantly killed my anxiety problems i was having for weeks and moths ... recommend you also embrace the fear of change and let go to it ... you will find yourself more still in mood and thought . hope it helped
Hey Leo! I was curious about why you choose to approach communicating Truth in a bit of an almost insulting and condescending manner/energy. It sometimes feels like your target audience is the all American dad, when the things you’re truly communicating very likely be too much of a step for them.
I agree with this. Every time he plays the role of the other side - meaning anyone who may challenge or disagree with him, his voice changes in to this bratty mocking type garbage. Also, I am an engineer, scientist and researcher and my greatest fear is not religion. Anyone who claims to be enlightened but is so narrow minded to any other truth is about as enlighten as my middle finger. I could degrade so much of his BS and I don’t need science to do it.
I introduced a colleague of mine to some key Videos produced by Leo, particularly this one. As a "Mother Apart" due to a bitter Mother in Law, Abusive Husband, and travesty of "justice", I didnt expect any great immediate "light bulb moments", in her. Leo, I have to say (again) that your work here is absolutely incredible. I hope you realise the scale of the impact your insight can give to those people capable of understanding. Life Changing. For me, your definition and analysis of "Fear" protecting the layers of "Sun" like essence of Identity, and Ego and so on was a massive light bulb moment for me. Bloody hell; im still fizzing. For her, the same definition, made her realise that the travesty that left a MOTHER, childless, literally shattered her Identity as a MOTHER. This naturally resulted in complete turmoil, and emotional fragility whilst her Ego was desperately trying to defend the very identity the legal system decided to make redundant. 2.5 years Leo of Identifying as a Mother, but no ability to actually Mother!. This one video, has underpinned the stability and recovery process, and given a very clear course of action for her. That is to Adapt her Identity, as a Mother, to a Mother by proxy. This will allow reconstruction of her Identity, No longer vulnerable, no longer pining to actually mother, no longer suffering the pain of "what the f*ck happened", no longer fearful of being "destroyed again" when tackling the matter in the legal system. The New Identity, will be improved, bullet proof and very much aware of the role of her Ego and how to make it work for her. Clearly with a shattered identity, the Ego, is a bit of a free agent. Id be grateful for any comments, you might care to make, as id love to know your opinion what might drive a Mother in Law to seek this type of action? and perhaps is there a defensive measure one could employ to combat the type of control and manipulation the strange woman commands. Currently digging in to the University of Leo. (Toxic People) I say again; Thank you. Moments of tearful joy and many golden nuggets of wisdom. You're something else.......
Zac Made Media yeah me too but leo chose another path when he has the opportunity to become a lot more popular with his channel and teachings. Maybe when he publishes his book we might see him on JRE, but I doubt it plus I don't think Leo has the money to afford going there. (He's some guest pay to appear on the podcast)
Shoes and Cars guess so would be cool though , I’m sure he could pay for it lol ; he’s one person I think joe would find it difficult to argue against too, I’m curious
Leo, I have had one hell of a mystical experience when it comes to fear. For years I have been fearing microwave radiation coming to us in the form of WIFI. This fear was based on research done and many experts claiming that its harmful specially for children. When 5G was announced, I couldn’t believe we would have antennas so close to our homes without anyone trying to prevent this. Some tried, , but the plan still continued to be rolled out. One day as I drove to my children’s School, I saw that the 2 previous installed lightning poles were changed into new ones, ones that support 5G with cones that hides the sight of the antennas. I was shocked specially because a week before I wrote to the School and expressed my concerns. I did not take a picture because of course I did not own a smartphone 🙂. The following day, while driving with my hubby to show him, the newly installed poles were gone and the old ones were back in place!!! No signs of digging, nothing. What had happened? Had I created those poles? Maybe some holographic nature here at play? After that experience, I have attempted to research the true reality of nature mostly through Quantum Mechanics and stumbled upon the famous Double Slit experiment which shows that it takes an observer to create anything solid really.....incredible I have no more fear now, they can put any antenna right next to my home now. I will not perceive it as harmful since I believe it’s holographic and not really there, have experienced this myself.
"Fear is there to help you to maintain whatever you identify with."
This was genius.
Sexy female night elf sex... fuck me... he's absolutely right.
@@rasmus7400 And I'd love get fucked by a horse.
This is so true! Our emotions generally hold us to WHERE WE ARE - NOT where we want to go!
@@MikkeMan Been there done that
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This man has no competition!! Pure genius.
Pinny Ostreicher literallllly . I have not seen anyone like him in my entire life .
Mahad Sheikh Nice to see someone else agreeing to that statement.
But still some haters(fool's) making reaction video and criticizing leo.
He reminds me of Sadhguru! Their ideas are very very close..
We forget that all famous thinkers and philosophers of the past were at some point living. Imagine what it would be like if you could watch the TH-cam videos of Socrates or Plato. Thanks to the miracle of TH-cam we can listen to Leo as he develops his ideas rather than have our children read his writings.
How to overcome FEAR
1) Dont avoid it
2) Allow/Welcome it
3) Love it
Only LOVE can overcome FEAR
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very insightful ❤️❤️❤️
rocky johnson what ab fear of society 🤧
love = understanding
I feel lucky to learn about this at 18 years of age
Sme
@@manifestationinrealtime same :)
You lucky bastards!
You are indeed know thy self !
you are, be sure of that
After I got cancer this year I had to take a hard look at fear. And I've found when my mind is showing me fearful things I embrace them with love and enthusiasm and it melts away.
So, even though I was in a lot of pain I was still conscious and enjoying the moment. Had to use everything I've learned about mediation and spirituality. And all the meditation I did over the years helped so much.
So, thanks Leo for giving a good base to get through this and actually use it to grow.
Same experience.
Research Dr. Bob Melamede, listen to many of his lectures and learn about the endocannabinoid system while you're at it...
Here's one of his papers:
harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-2-21
Un-related, but it's about some cancers that he works with:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054289/
Exercise and eat right, check out fasting it can really help against some kinds of cancer
Wow this is inspiring
U should tray cbd oil to treat cancer , eat only vegan food and drink alkaline water. Keep ur body ph alkaline because cancer can't grow in alkaline environment. Study dr.cbie
A warlord invades a Japanese village and everyone in the town either flees or is slaughtered/enslaved.
The warlord walks up to the village's only Zen temple and the only person left in the temple is an enlightened monk.
"Surrender to me or I will cut your head off!" says the warlord to the monk.
The monk smiles and seems unfazed.
The warlord is angry. He yells, "You fool! Don't you see that I can run you through with this sword without even blinking an eye!"
The monk responds, "Don't you see that I can be run through by your sword without blinking an eye."
The warlord is shocked and amazed and drops his sword and kneels to the monk.
What is that passage from? That's profound
@@nerad1994 not sure dude. I found it a while ago on some website that was a collection of zen poems and stories.... I tried to find it again but couldn't. This story stuck in my head.
Leo has said that before already
wtf i don't understand !!
Supreme King the power in his response is that if you have nothing to lose you have nothing to fear, and if you have nothing to fear you have everything to love and attain
Vs if you’re always flinching or clinging to something you’ll always be under the control of something else other than you, an executioner, financial loss, whatever,
In a similar way, bullies stop picking on you when they see that you don’t care and stop reacting to their remarks, and in being in that grounded state of mind, when you do decide to fight back you can do so fearlessly and be grounded enough to know when enough is enough so that you don’t overdo it
So, with all this, nothing really owns you, you’re a free agent of god’s will, you have no worries, you have no cognitive dissonance, you have no indecisiveness, just pure will and power that was given to you by giving up your will and your power, the monk has power over the warlord because he owns the warlord in the sense that the monk identifies himself as the warlord, but the warlord himself doesn’t identify with the monk so therefore he is triggered and worries and gets defensive if the monk goes against “his will”
To get a better understanding listen to Alan Watt’s lecture “Do You Do It Or Does It Do You”
Towards the latter half before he starts talking about compassion he gets really deep into our ideas of power and control are
People who can’t balance themselves this way lack “power” you fail to recognize from the story above
Some people watch only a few of Leo’s episodes all the way through, (not that you are one of these people idk) and still have many questions about what his long term listeners and other videos of his mean, that’s because they haven’t watched enough or better yet contemplated enough to understand what can’t be understood, Leo wasn’t kidding when he said the more you watch his stuff and contemplate the more you’ll see the bigger picture of things pop out and questions you’ve had before will answer themselves
Leo has an episode called Recontextualization, you can pair it with a 30 min video recording called “Sudden Enlightenment” by Alan Watt’s from his lecture named “The Joker”
I found that listening to those two vids a few times over really helped me to understand the nature of how the same knowledge or “sayings” can change over time just by contemplating about it in your daily life and experience, so much that you start to see “deeper layers of understanding” or “deeper stages of thinking” as Leo and Alan Watts have put it
And by contemplation we mean contrasting all questions and objections you have about a topic with your present moment direct experience
Hope this helps, don’t take it the wrong way,
a dose of 5-LeO-DMT a day keeps the Ego away
Clever girl
Tell me who you are and I will not tell you what you fear... but I will give you 5MeoDMT, that should tell you. ^_^
without the ego, you wouldn't even know what a keyboard was to type this.
Greg Shotwell LMAO
Well said lol.
Leo, you are wonderful. I'm impressed by your ability to say interesting things for more than two hours without breaks or editing, without losing the train of though. It shows a disciplined mind. Well done.
"What you fear defines what you identify as"... Slowly dropping the ego, one day at a time. Key insight... Thanks Leo!
Leo, your constant growth is mind-boggling. Enjoy the fruits of your dedication.
One hundred percent.True
Leo is becoming more and more succinct and eloquent, I love to watch him grow and mature before our very eyes. A True Sage, so lucky to have stumbled upon his teachings a few years ago. Life-changing. Everything he teaches can lead you towards a path of transcendence, so keep watching, keep practicing, do the homework, be the student, you will not be disappointed.
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I was rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender now that I am a lot older, and in one of the episodes a sage is sitting in a swamp. He claims that he is enlightened, and that all things are connected. He says, "Fear is an illusion, and so is death."
The show actually has a lot of tidbits that Leo has spoken of, which I find incredible. Maybe that is part of the reason I liked the show so much as a child and didn't even realize it!
Is it possible that we all have a subconscious pull towards the Truth, but we are so enshrouded by the illusion of fear and death that most of us never see it?
It's hilarious that avatar was a Nickelodeon TV show as well. There was tons of Eastern mysticism sprinkled all over that show
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That show started my enlightenment journey as a Christian who did not believe in meditating, l watched the show with my kids and now we laugh about it now l am on this path of enlightenment thanks to Aang🥰
Yes absolutly I rewatching that series over and over!
I realized so much more of what that movie meant the second time I watched it, this year, I meant like come on.....the tree of life guys 🙄 that just went right over our heads.
*Your biggest FEAR, contains your largest growth.*
@@user-gq6dg7ee6d Hahaha😁
Fear creates productivity.
what is your BIGGEST FEAR?
And then there was X stop being a victim
"numbnuts"
Leo, how do you know so much stuff? all your videos are very thought out and articulate. I usually watch one or two of your videos every week, they are so in depth. I've never met such a genuine teacher as you. This world needs the spiritual healing you are offering.
Its been ages since Leo covered a self-actualization topic and this is the most important since fear stops cellular growth and profuces cancer. Thank you very much!
One of the casuals huh? All of the videos are Self-Actualization topics.
@@user-gq6dg7ee6d what has politics and religion has to do with improving your mental health and skills?
Politics has everything to do with it. This is a political topic all Leo covers is politics. All his videos interconnects maybe ask why does Leo’s videos exists on politics when other videos help me deeply why am I resisting certain aspects of the same connected content. You can not deny the political social reality you exists in that’s why it’s related to self actualization and even non duality.
El Axel Everything, understanding politics will make you aware of the collective reality you live in. Ofc if ur still in Spiral Dynamics stage orange this concept will be hard to grasp. Self actualization doesn’t stop at the self, it expands the idea of self to a broader perspective and your area of concern increases which is why it’s very important to be aware of conscious politics if one plans to live in or change the world.
El Axel You said religion, what video do you think he was preaching religion?
Fear is an aspect of god, an energy there to move us from one place to another both external and internal. Have faith that fear is your greatest teacher, face it, feel it and transcend beyond it
Parents and Teachers don't Teach Fear But they create Fear
College professors these days gets students, they relieve fear but the institution still installs fear.
@h4ck573r you fuckin moron how early child can create a feelings , it just either feels it or escapes from it..
Low concious fool watch full video before throwing your random Garbage(that's What you have in your head)
Parents are afraid.
@@petzzz5900 He is not wrong about ourselves creating our own feelings, he just does not understand that children have a low capacity for self-awareness, but you getting angry and critisising him for this just shows that you have some emotional intelligence to develop as well.
Fear is there to maintain whatever you identify with…
Key insight: what you are is defined by your fears, and what you fear define what you identify as
If you identify with loving your family, that is your identity,
If you identify with your career as a successful business guy or a great artist, that’s your identity
Fear are wrapped up around this identity,
If you identify with your possession and you identify,
Fear is relative to whatever you identify with, could be fear of losing hair. Whatever you fear
You are going to be battling with throughout your life.
Skeptic identity is being afraid of either being wrong or deluded
Question your own skepticism. Why do you trust skepticism, why do you trust something that is
driven by fear. Afraid of believing the wrong thing…
scientists, we’re rational we don’t want to believe falsehood
your fear of being deluded ends up making you deluded.
What you fear is losing all your attachments, that is what you call death ultimately.
What is it that you Fear …a total loss of self..fear boils down to a total loss of self..
Fear is protecting you from losing your self
Psychological death, fear of the loss of their self image.
All fear is imaginary… including the fear of death.. there is no substance to fear….
Become conscious of how all fear is imaginary, change your attitude towards work, relationship
All fear is falsehood… all fear is lack of consciousness..
The trick is that society conditions us that fear is inevitable and that fear is totally normal and that
There is nothing we can do about it. Because society is not interested in truth.
It turns out that one of the remarkable thing about Truth with a capital T is that
it transcends all fear… because it transcends survival
deep connection between fear and falsehood, between fear and illusion. When you are afraid
you are trapped inside of an illusion, but the illusion feels so real that you don’t know that it’s an
illusion and therefore that just heightens your fear even more and then you start to believe that
the fear is real. And then it becomes this sort of self fulfilling prophecy where something that isn’t
real seems like it’s the most real thing that there is, that’s the trick that the mind plays on you.
Society is built around Survival, Society is built upon using your fears against you to help you to survive
How do society sells you stuff, by pushing your fear button
Turn on the tv and listen to the commercials, how do business sells you things, by going right for your
Fear, pushing your fears button
Key insight: Fear is resistance to a future experience
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I am dealing with Performance Anxiety, this was exactly what i needed. Thanks mate!
It can help to face the fear directly. I used to have performance anxiety to play the piano in front of others but it has diminished after practice playing in front of others.
I used to have performance anxiety doing spirit communication for other people but what helped me was to keep practicing doing it. It does go away with the confidence you achieve.
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@@AsktheSpirits lieing to people about spirits would definitely cause anxiety, mostly because you are fake and fear being discovered.....mostly
@@FocusMrbjarke yup mine is with playing the piano!
"The cave you fear to enter, holds the treasure you seek."
Or there could be a bear in that cave.
The World Inside Allah inside!
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@@DirtMankee lol!
"Fear is resistance to a future experience." Wow. When you take that future experience, accept it, embrace it, and want it, you will be unconditionally happy.
Probably this is exactly what i needed to watch today.. i have just been through a situation where i learned just how much my attachement to my religion has been.. truly.. making me miserable and making me afraid of things i shouodn't be afraid of, i realised just how much i was giving my power away that way
I recently had lots of epiphanies that i am still integrating, can't wait to watch part 2
I have been your fan for a really long time now Leo but this video...it's literally invaluable. Basically every video you post has chock full of value but this one... man. I can't thank you enough for posting this. I have been crippled by my fear of confrontation and physical conflict basically my whole life. So with these videos I'm finally gonna be able to find the right way to deal with them!!' Thank you thank you thank you!
Can we chat? I have the same problems bro
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. It gave me new perspectives on my personal struggles. I was aware of your ego however, that destructed me several times. I realized no matter how enlightened one is, the ego always finds a way to show itself. That too became part of your teaching.
How fear works
“Tell me who you are and ill tell you what you fear
Tell me what you fear and ill tell you who you are.”
Fear is not a psychological problem or a human problem Why does fear occur? At the existential dimension.
People barely teach fear because they don't understand it, we don't put importance on it where you would think to find understanding of fear like science, scientists are full of fear they usually don't know how it works so why learn from them about it. Fear might contradict current culture and science.
Fear dominates your entire life -peter Ralston
You’re fish in water a human in fear swimming in fear every day of your life this is deeper than an emotional problem-constant fear. And you don't even know it. The majority of your emotional system is outside your awareness its controlling you.
Fear is a survival mechanism it's the thing that keeps you alive, it's not only that. All emotions are elaborate and sneaky or subtle.
Fear is there to help you maintain whatever you identify with--maintain whatever you think you are.
Survival is not just physical it is conceptual-social-cultural emotions are important facts don't exist in reality all that exists is emotion. You can kill your self image by not avoiding fear.
You cannot have an accurate perception of reality or do proper science if you are in fear.
What you are is defined by your fears and what you fear defines what you identify as.
Identities like being a human of a physical creature or real
Identity is like the sun it has various layers to it the layers become denser and denser when we say your identity is the edges of the sun and the inside you cant be another way like being its easier to detach from your car then your family then to being a man or a woman it's hard to detach from being a human then a gender. You make yourself up to be this way out of thin air this is what your identity is as a human being you fear losing all of your attachments this is what you call death. total ego death or loss of self. All fear boils down to the fear of death. Psychological death or death of the self image.
Suicide bombers don't fear death they fear being a bad Muslim this is how powerful identity is. Identity is relative it's hard to change it calcified
Fear is constructed from the mind and is never objective or found out there then its projected outwards.
ALL FEAR IS IMAGINARY
try validating this, the fear of death is imaginary. Become conscious of this it will change your view on so many things relationships, war, and politics.
Everyone is scared shitless and all fear is falsehood and a lack of consciousness if you were totally conscious you would not fear anything you cannot even imagine a life without fear. There is no objectively dangerous situation even if you run into a bear it only depends on what you identify with Truth transcends fear because it transcends survival this is the way to realize Truth. Fear is an illusion. If you think the fear is real, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy society doesn't care about truth it cares about survival. It uses fear against you for survival. Your controlled through fear. Even high quality stage green fears are imaginary there's levels of delusion. Low level is being afraid of homosexuality or other religions higher fears are global warming or environment going bad these aren't completely irrational but there is a problem with the fear itself,
Under the materialist paradigm where they think death is real fear seems legitimate or when you run out of money or when you meet a wild animal. There is nothing scientific or rational to fear. Radical terrorists don't want to disobey their god so this surpasses the fear of death so they suicide bomb in the name of truth. Which in reality is just another religion that became hideous. The real god allows this freedom you made up your whole life out of thin air, it's just a story you invented. You must misperceive reality in order to experience fear. If you know what death is you wouldn't fear it keep your mind open its possible all fear and death is just a misperception of reality and maybe death is an illusion. Maybe it's not true that no one can know what death is. Bring up a fear and feel it. Your not going to contemplate fear while a bear is charging you it's designed to keep you alive. Survival takes precedence over truth. Its a reaction without knowing why or what it is. Notice the times you are in fear and instead of reaction unconscious you can pause, feel it consciously and mindfully and ask what is it where is it why is it here what's its function and purpose. You only have fear when your in a bind. If you want to transcend it you have to change how you react to it start to feel it before you react to it it's counter intuitive. Every cell in your body will try to react to it. Real power is standing calmly and consciously in response to grave danger don't put yourself in grave danger most of your fears are relatively minor start with small stuff.
Fear is resistance to a future experience
the strength to experience everything (the strength to be okay with your daughter down an alleyway sucking dick for cocaine)
Understanding this will transcend fear. You don't want to experience what you fear you refuse to experience without resistance. Consciousness doesn't have to do with god it has to do with this. Be able to cut off your hand experience everything without fear. You become conscious that you realize no harm was actually done and that pain never existed, you have to stop identifying as a physical body.
The only way you can do it is totally align with truth. Use your imaginative mind to come up with radical fears that are with you that you don't even know this takes lots of consciousness and work fear is directly attached to survival. Brute survival trumps everything,
Attachment creates fear. The solution is to surrender yourself to the very thing you are afraid of.
Your beliefs logic and ideals are survival at work fear is the base/foundation of the pyramid and it gets less important as it goes up your logic does not touch your fears.
Fear of being poisoned (Donald Trumps fear) the Russians are the masters of poisoning this tells you that he fears being crossed
WRITE DOWN ALL YOUR FEARS (not going to give them here but that would be another fear for it to be public)
Most common macro fears below
Macro fears below
There's thousands of these kinds of micro fears you will notice more and more.
Become aware when you fear, notice micro fears and how it shapes your behavior and affects your thinking not just in your actions but feel them more rather than just reacting fear is not held just in the mind but tension in your body you have a lifetime of fear in your body. Fear happens in humans collectively
Life is a love simulator another way to say that is to say life is to learn not to fear fear and love are inverse to say life is a love simulator is that life will present fear over and over again and life is trying to teach you to transcend it life grows your love the fear is an illusion this requires consciousness don't deny or avoid the fear confront it head on facing it so deeply that you won't react the same way when it happens again. It will probably take a long time to realize fear is an illusion. Confront your learned helplessness confront your mental behaviors obsessive habitual negativity boils down to fear. Confront the worst of it feel it. You will get relief and this will help you. Face your own greatness fear is a poor survival strategy sometimes it's healthy and effective but human life is more complicated than bears in the woods fear is a self fulfilling prophecy
Fear of being authentic
Fear of facing yourself
being your best self.
Face fear of death
- You cannot manipulate your way out of death YOU WILL FACE
The more you run from it the more you feel stuck in the fear
There are real dangers in the world when it comes to relative fear and its healthy for physical survival this is a good short term survival strategy but never a long term. Fear is status quo fear is not for great change a great society has to be built on love
Homework
Observe your micro fears at the end of each day you will write down your micro and macro fears for the next 7 days contemplate the following question:
How are these micro fears realized to my identity?
How is my mind projecting these out onto the world?
How am I creating these micro fears?
How are your thoughts shaped by your fears?
How are your actions shaped?
What am I unwilling to experience?
Coming in part 2
Top 10 ways to overcome fear
What is the most important quality you need to succeed in life?
Common q and as
Most common macro fears
The fear of not being good enough
The fear of failure
The fear of being broke
The fear of competition
The fear of being alone
The fear of being left
The fear of aging youth and attractiveness
The fear of health problems
The fear of never having sex (insells)
The fear of being embarrassed
The fear of waste
The fear of opinion
The fear of looking stupid
The fear of being evil
The fear of criticism
Fear of wrong decision
Fear of being wrong
Fear of disappointing close ones
Fear of being seen naked
Fear of giving in to cravings
Fear of losing your faith or religion
Fear of hell fear of sin
Fear of losing freedom
Fear of wage slave
Fear of losing ($)
Micro fears more importantly subtle fears over 100 a day without being aware which dominate day to day life on a minute basis that disguise all your habits and life notice to fear you need an image in your mind
Fear of running out of toilet paper
Fear of getting caught in a lie
Fear of offending someone (coworkers)
Fear of being late
Fear of saying the wrong thing
Fear of an email
Fear of not being liked
Fear of a text message
Fear of running out of something
Fear of jerking off and getting caught
Fear of looking into each others eyes
Fear of something on your face
Fear of losing car keys
Fear of getting a cold
Fear of talking to your boss
Fear of having sex and getting pregnant
Fear of your breath smelling
Fear of cleaning
taxing or renting
Confronting something
Telling your truth
Skipping the gym
Going to the doctor
Stuck in your teeth
Fear of the store closing
Fear of truth
Fear of honest opinions
Fear of mistakes
Fear of not doing something
Fear of forgetting(what you need)
Fear that you'll never find your life purpose
Fear of judgment
Fear of starting something new
Fear of calling someone
Fear of checking bank account
Fear of missing a big opportunity
Fear of missing a day in meditation
Fear of being yelled at
Fear of pain
Creative anxiety
Fear of facing yourself
Afraid of being bold and decisive
Fear of your business failing
fear of difference race
Fear of getting cheated on
Fear of being fat
There's thousands of these kinds of micro fears you will notice more and more as you raise your consciousness.
Great
Thank you so much for your time !
Thanks to write this down, hope you will do that for the second part, :)
thanks for this
it was challenging to watch in a good way. i realised a ton about a lot of stuff that's fucked up or is close to that state in my life. a lot of work on that is gonna be done. big big thank you, Leo.
Really enjoyed this episode, Think its one of your best, maybe your most usefull. Thank you
Revisiting this a year later and now experiencing THE REAL VALUE of the message in this video! God bless you, Leo! ❤
Since your awakening experience, i knew things get interesting. If an intellect like you awakens the way of conscioussness acting through this intelligence can be a huge benefit for truthseekers. This video (as many others of you) is the proof. Very good Leo! So happy, about you. And this ishue is for me a personal huge roadblock. Thankyou friend.
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thanks for putting out this awakening information for free and for everybody to watch. this helps me in a great level.
Fell asleep because I was tired. Dreamt about this video, but that Leo spoke from lots of different angles in his apartment, walking around spitting wisdom whilst doing the dishes and stuff. And he had a wife.
SAME, except I saw that me and him shared a wife, she was nice and we had a dog and a cat.
@@user-gq6dg7ee6d Hahha, shiit.
Seloha life. I fell asleep listening to the first 5 min. I hope I heard it subconsciously.. lol... Have to try to watch again!!🤦🏼♀️
@@AsktheSpirits I be wondering that too if my brain picked it up subconsciously... I fell asleep twice today trying to finish the video start to finish, prolly bce I had night mode on in a dark room xD
Yasuo Joestar ohh snap. I had night mode on too. I still haven’t finished it yet . I’m trying again now and turning off night mode. 🤦♀️
Grateful for you...to think someone I never met has had such a strong hand in my personal growth journey is mind blowing!!! Thank you man 🙏🏾💯
those vidoes help me in my battle with social anixety A LOT
am truly grateful you much love from tunisia
Trigger the anxious feeling. Don't resist it, watch it. Repeat
He literally proposes all these unique point of views to look at all these situations, i love this channel
this doesn't get any better than this... wow.. then again I've had this thoughts on multiple occasion while listening to this youtube channel throughout the years.
I watched this on the way to a job interview and it was very helpful. Looking forward to part 2.
Hey Leo, I regularly watch your videos but at one point I felt like, they make me feel down. All this reflection seems to be the core of becoming a more successful being but it can pull you down very much. I feel it right now.
Nevertheless, I am very thankful for your effort to put out these videos because it seems to me that this is one right way to educate the masses and that is what we want right?
You are a good man! Thank you really much.
SAME!!! I cried many times too
Leo, I love you man! You have a beautiful name! And your purpose is pure! Wish you all the best!
I am a Muslim and I find your episodes pulling me toward my religion more and more ..
Happy to hear your knowledge and wisedom
Ya its crazy im ex Muslim its crazy
Lamis Ali - aren’t some religions a way of controlling people indirectly by using fear? You identify yourself as muslim and you fear eating pork just because of the punishment.
At the root of Fear lies falsehood, psychosis, the very fragmentation of consciousness. We all partake of it, whether we're aware of it or not.
Exactly! Society really exacerbates these feelings of fear! And we need to do the work to overcome them!
Leo you’re a legend. Thank you for all the invaluable content you put out for us. 🙏
Living legend
Leo, my wife and I lived through your example of becoming homeless on the street, going through the withdrawal from our material life, and both of us went through times of near-suicide. Our transition to homeless was very sudden, a consequence of my nefarious career choice in Mexico, and we literally started over with just our clothes that we were wearing. It's been almost exactly one year now, but the fear of that happening again is effecting us in so many aspects of our life. I am imagining that happening again right now, and I am definitely feeling fear just reliving these memories now. We're not homeless anymore, and we did get ourselves out on our own before once, and we both talk about how it was actually a very helpful experience but extremely terrible to endure. Now that she is diagnosed with cancer and started her first cycle of chemo, and she is unable to help with income much anymore, we are both feeling this fear more and more. I'm glad you made this video, this is something that I now know we need to work on. Very good video. Very deep.
Sorry to hear that. Yeah, survival can be very challenging at times. Extremely harrowing times can cause trauma, wounding, and PTSD which then requires lots of inner work to unwire.
Spiritual practice helps takes the edge off.
@@ActualizedOrg Agreed.
@@ActualizedOrg Socrates in Plato's "Apology" is very much inline with your definition of fearless, in my opinion. Just a side note I felt like sharing. It's available for free online. Maybe add a link to your blog for people to see, its pretty short, and I feel like it's highly relevant to this topic and would be helpful to your audience.
@@Antonio-hk4bz Sorry to hear that.I hope you will overcome that fear with Leo's help and if you don't mind I also suggest you an amazing book that could revolutionize your vision and help you with your survival fears :"The School for Gods" Stefano Elio D'Anna
suica ana maria Thanks. I’ll look into it.
Thank you Leo! Would be amazing to get your episodes up on Spotify as a podcast :)
Yes please I agree. Much needed expansion
That's powerfull:"Your inability to tolerate experience is the thing that make you weak".Thank you, Leo. I ' m so gratefull that you are part of my life. I love you!
Leo, it's difficult to reply to a 2hr+ video, and I honestly have not reached the 10minutes mark, but there are already a few things I would like to say even though I don't know if you will cover this "part" of the topic of fear in this or the second part.
First I want to say yes, a simple argument can't make you overcome your fear. It's the same with love or every other strong emotions. When you are in love with a person, and 4 others warn you about that person you love, this doesn't make your love being less in the slightest.
The conscious mind can't override the emotional part of your brain. But I digress. I wanted to state 2 things for now.
1. I had fear of my landlord for a reason that would be too long to describe here, and no intelligent argument from others helped. What helped was a casual sight I had. A dog taking a shit within a property of a stranger. As I saw this, the fear I had till this moment was suddenly gone. Why? Because I than knew, I'm free to leave the place I'm currently living and never have to deal with this landlord again. I suddenly knew it, felt it.. Although much of the arguments were exactly that: why not just leaving?
Second thing is: I hope you will talk about unexpected fear. I mean fear like an illness. The fear which get normali treated with anti depressions. (I don't know how to call this, translated from my language it would be general fear or something.) basically you feel a certain way, which is not normal, and you are fearful of being deathly ill, which makes the physical Symptoms even worse.
So, yea, have a great day leo!
"Attachment creates Fear" really good quote Leo.
Leo I’ve been waiting for a video on how to be more creative for years. I think that would be a topic that will help many
For me, this is one of the top 3 best insights i never listened. With work it will change my life for the best. One more time.
thanks and congratulations.
From Spain
ahhh thank you so much! This is EXACTLY what I needed. Ive only realized this in the last few weeks...and Ive been trying to figure out how to deal with it..now what? Now that I understand fear is all invasive ...that without it Id have love and be able to consciously create instantly...now how do i overcome it? : D Its such a relief to find this video and hear someone speak on it who understands it, I hope you realize how impactful that is
"Please heal all my fear-based thoughts", is a good affirmation to start the process, the shift...
40 minutes in and I’m so incredibly glad that I found this video and your channel! You are brilliant. And I, I am very scared. And I’m tired of being scared all the time. This is a very needed first step in my journey. I’ve made it my goal in 2021 to create a more healthy relationship to fear. And of course I’m scared of failing to reach that goal. Why wouldn’t I be. And if I do manage to reach it I fear having to keep up that level of success 😂
Loved this-- micro fears are such a wake up call. The quote at the beginning was a perfect dig into the talk around identity & so profound. I am kinda good at noticing my feelings & tension in my body but sometimes I get completely lost in a crazy thought or day dream lol before hand. I have intermittent tiny bits of mindfulness and thought/ day dreaming all day.
*Fears are educated to us, and can, if we wish, be educated out* - Karl Augustus Menninger
Thanks LEO, can’t wait for Part 2!
I wouldn't say education, I would say a curtain from falling off the bike that is your persona. Your persona is what keeps the bike going otherwise you would fall down. It doesn't mean the road you're going down is the right path and fear is helping you, it's just that all you can think about is going forward. - Me
Leo, as I am listening to you I am grappling with panic attacks. It's complicated but I want to Thank you for your incredible mind. You help me and I wanted to say Thank You.
Take it easy :)
I also recommend Hope and Help for Your Nerves by Claire Weekes. Perhaps it was recommended to you already?
It's very good in terms of mind-over-matter against different manifestations of nervous illness.
I like reading it for a bit and then watching this 2-part Fear video every time my anxiety starts getting to me.
@@ActualizedOrgWould you ever focus on the topic of Regret in the future, sir Leo?
Hi Andy, Thank you for this. I will definitely look at it. I appreciate your kindness. I'll do anything to help myself. I hope you keep well. High regards, Verna@@Andy-gg4xw
@@ActualizedOrg I am so honoured to get a reply from you. I store you in my library...under Leo my man hahaha...you are incredible indeed!
2 hours. Watch a movie or watch this Leo's video? You bet
Hi Leo. I've been watching you for years now and I wanted to tell you how I was impressed to find other young people interested and open about spirituality and with such an impressive depth. Your videos definitely helped me, rock solid, during my focus on self development, especially these past two years. You were there at a crucial time, when I was praying hard for enlightenment, during a hard phase. You deserve these encouragement and well deserved returned karma. Keep going. Much love. Peace.
Such an important topic. I recommend the death bed meditation. Contemplating your own death can help you overcome many fears.
WIll try that out, thanks for the info!
If you want to die in less than 5 min, smoke Bufo Alvarius
Well technicaly you can only do this only few times,rarely you're on the death bed.That's pretty advanced stuff.
I used to do a variation of this back when I started, it's a good meditation but in the end "Do Nothing" or "Awareness Watching Awareness" is the best.
What I specifically did is imagine myself being tortured and suffering the worst emotional and physiological pain possible.
Seeing my loved ones die in front of me, tortured, then this happening to me, seen myself isolated and rejected socially etc...
This is an hard meditation that I don't use nowadays but I sincerely believe that it needs to be done at least once.
One of, if not the most important video for all of us to watch and contemplate. Thank you Leo 🙏
"You fear a total loss of self" - Leo 'this is advanced stuff' Gura
It's so true! We get so caught up in the fear that we completely lose who we authentically are!
"Danger is relative to how you define yourself" Love that
Thanks leo for your priceless knowledge 😘
Love you❤️❤️
You are great..
I have never seen someone giving wisdom free of cost. Particularly when they are the only master in the subject.
a good insight id like to input is that you cannot have an ego death or be in the state of no ego and have fear at the same time. Like Leo said fear is a mechanism of keeping what you identify with and since death of the ego is realisation of no identity, the two cannot coexist. So i highly encourage if you are to fully understand what is being said here, that you aim for an ego death, psychedelics are very helpful for your initial separation of the ego mind, after that it is actually not very difficult to induce, i recently had an ego death just through meditation.
@kenan mass no to really gain true understanding of what fear is and where it comes from you need to experience the fearless the state of no ego, thats really what it means to be in a state of fearlessness is to be in state of no ego, fear literally cannot exist without the ego, because without ego the is "nobody" to feel fearful. it goes deep.
This is the most advanced episode Leo.
I learned in a ISTA workshop that the shame of our sexuality and the repression of our feelings is something cultural that comes from the monotheist religions.
Now you extend the shame to fear that is much larger realm than sexual and emotional healing.
thanks Leo you are the most advanced and intelligent creature I know.
I love you so much Leo, you are my best friend even you don"t know me.
Leo, thank you for all the information, profound insights and wisdom. You really onspired me to start my own Journey on TH-cam!
I would have started watching your vids but unfortunately I only speak English :(
Nach vaibs I subbed!! Sending good vibes on your journey💚
@@aliswick5370 don't worry man, thank you! 👌
@@AsktheSpirits Goodvibes for u!❣️
Spectacular, I wonder how you get such a great and long video like this together. Just spectacular! Thank you
My first micro fears were not being able to recognize what my micro fears were when attempting to do this homework, and not remembering what all of the homework assignments were. This ties into my identity of being a good student in college, but also the fear of failure in this work because I'm supposed to be a good and productive person.
My attempt to cope with this fear was Thoughts, Unwillingness, Micro, Macro. TUMM. This way I don't forget. Meanwhile, I can also surrender to the experience of not being good at doing all of the homework, this way the same fear does not boil up next time I might forget to do my homework.
This is incredibly guiding on the path towards an enlightened consciousness.
Typically our emotions are trained to HOLD US WHERE WE ARE . -- NOT Bring us WHERE WE WANT TO GO!
So important to learn to navigate these to bring us where we want to go!
I just embraced those fear yesterday. Thanks Leo
It's truly amazing how young yet how wise this man is.
Who is glad Leo is back on good old fashion self-help??? I agree that enlightenment is a the ultimate pursuit, but for most of us that are far from that, wrapped away on mundane day-to-day life, this type of topics are way more valuable. have been away from the channel for a while, hope this topics start coming up and not just come to the channel to scroll down for the good stuff.
Hey Leo, this is off topic, but, would you consider making a seperate video on boredom?
Meh... sounds kinda boring, if you ask me.
Boredom is simply the mind wanting more stimulation and excitement than what’s present. It’s saying, “what’s here right now isn’t good enough”.
If you bring enough consciousness and awareness to so-called boring and mundane tasks, and witness them with a beginner’s mind (see them as if for the first time) they’re no longer boring! Because this is life unfolding before your very eyes!
What's interesting is that psychopaths (people who lack emotions) have two things that they experience;
Adrenaline, boredom.
I think it's then confirmed how boredom is not an emotion but rather a lack of stimulation. I think what Desmond tried to say is that the lack of courage may be causing you to hesitate to take action and do something mentally stimulating, but I don't think it was worded precisely. Psychopaths have zero ability to feel, therefore, you can call them pretty courageous. They have no fear, frankly, and yet they tend to be bored quite often. Boredom is indeed interesting.
He covered that .. years ago and still i didnt watch it
@@Alex-vf8uv i dont see any reason why one would be bored
This tells alot , have a charecter have a struggle
Leo, thank you. It actually brings me tears of joy to have listened to this and even more so that you have posted part two for public access as well. I can’t wait till next week to begin that (post assignments). Simply amazing and life changing stuff here. The work you are doing is just profound. I don’t usually post things and I’m sure you have heard this millions of times, but I thought whatever, just share your thoughts. You’ve presented actual solutions, thank you so much.
This is damn deeeeeeeep stuff, man. Thanks. My biggest fear of all my fears is to have any kind of fear.
While I was watching this Video, I had the fear I was becoming too addicted to Self Actualized Work, while living this Mindfulness Life! Thanks Leo!
Ait, but can we talk about how Leo talks this 2 hours through without taking a break or editing.
Okay this is what I need the most in my life right now. SET ME FREE
I love when LEO laugh :D :D It's like : huh huh xD
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I laugh every time Leo laughs 😂 His laugh is so contagious!
I've been looking for this kind of video few days ago,and what a suprise it's here.Sometimes at night i have very complex and hard to figure fears.
😂😂😂 I almost spat out my food I laughed so hard “If you identify with being a human-meat-bag then yeah, bears are dangerous.”
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99% of people have never told themselves that they identifiy with their body.
Introduction to the Series (00:00)
Advanced Understanding of Fear (00:43)
Misconceptions and Societal Understanding (02:19)
Fear as a Universal Problem (03:57)
Complexity of Fear Beyond Basic Psychology (05:03)
Identity and Fear (07:30)
Cultural and Social Influences (13:14)
Self-Image and Survival (22:16)
The Root of All Fears: Identity and Existential Threat (33:10) ⭐
Understanding and Managing Fear Through Mindfulness (56:02)
Fear as Resistance to Future Experience (01:05:24)
The Radical Solution to Fear (01:12:54) ⭐
Exercise: Identifying Your Fears (01:24:34)
Great point on how people view fact over feelings. Our feelings are a fundamental part of who we are
17:25 "What you are is defined by your fears, and what you fear defines what you identify as. It's sort of a vicious circle, it goes both ways."
That's not _both_ ways, that's the _same_ way twice: fears -> you. The other way would be "and what you identify as defines what you fear." But it is made clear in the further clarification.
What if you started personal development and mindfulness from the motivation of fear? In my case it has seemed to mobilise my fears the more I try be mindful
You my friend are really helping me cope with life. I'm 23 and watched all your videos of the last 4 years. When I needed you, you came to me. From skeptic atheist to rational mistic! That was the journey I needed to witness. Thanks a lot Leo for being and becoming the best teacher in the world! Please keep uploading every week for free. Wealth will come your way anyhow.
Notes:
What you are is defined by your fears and what you fear defines what you identify as.
All fear is imaginary (including the fear of death).
When you are afraid you're trapped inside of an illusion but the illusion feels so real that you don't know that it's illusion and therefore it's just hightens your fear even more and you start to believe that the fear is real and it becomes this sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where something that isn't real actually seems like it's the most real thing that there is. That's the trick that the mind plays on you.
You're gonna create a sort of gap, a little breathing room between the fear and your reaction and you're gonna have to start feel the fear before you react to it and that's a very counter-intuitive move.
Fear is resistance to a future experience.
Surrender yourself to the thing that you are afraid of experiencing in the future.
You become so conscious that you realize that there's no pain there in the first place. You become so conscious that you realize that when your hand is cut off that no harm was actually done to you.
Common real active fears that run a lot of people's lives (macro fears):
• the fear of not being good enough
• the fear of failure at your career
• the fear of going broke or your business collapsing
• the fear of competition in your business
• the fear of your spouse leaving you (or your girlfriend and boyfriend breaking up with you)
• the fear of being alone (like not having anyone there with you at the end of your life, dying all alone)
• the fear of aging and loosing you youth and losing your attractiveness
• the fear of health problems
• the fear of never having sex
• the fear of being embarrassed in public
• the fear of wasting money
• the fear of looking stupid
• the fear of other people's opinion of you and their judgment of you
• the fear of other people's thinking that you're a bad or evil person
• the fear of criticism
• the fear of making the wrong decision
• the fear of being wrong
• the fear of disappointing your spouse, children or family
• the fear of loosing you faith or your religion
• the fear of sin and fear of going to hell
• the fear of being seen naked
• the fear of loosing your freedom, fear or being stuck in wage slavery forever
• the fear of gaining weight
• the fear of giving in to your cravings
Micro fears (they dominate your life):
• the fear that you've run out of toilet paper
• the fear of getting caught in a lie
• the fear of offending some co-worker by saying something
• being afraid of being late to work
• the fear of saying the wrong thing
• the fear of reading email
• the fear of client not liking the work that you submit to him
• the fear of checking your phone
• the fear that the grocery store will run out of whatever item you want to go buy
• the fear some restaurant you're gonna go to gonna have a long line on Friday night and you have to wait for an hour to get your food
• the fear your parents will catch you jerking off
• the fear of looking someone in the eyes
• the fear of that pimple that you've got on your face
• the fear of loosing your car keys
• the fear you might have caught a cold
• the fear of talking to your boss
• the fear your breath smells
• the fear that you have something stuck in your teeth
• the fear of being pregnant after sex
• the fear of the store closing before you get there
• the fear of cleaning your garage
• the fear of doing your taxes
• the fear of overpaying your rent
• the fear of confronting a person
• the fear of telling your parents the truth about something
• the fear of giving your honest opinion
• the fear of skipping a gym
• the fear of going to the doctor
• the fear of making a mistake at work
• the fear that this meeting that you're going won't turn out well
• the fear you forgot something
• the fear that someone hasn't texted you back
• the fear that you'll never find your life purpose
• the fear you'll have to work overtime this week when you don't want to
• the fear that someone is judging you
• the fear that your co-worker is talking and plotting against you behind your back
• the fear your company might fire you
• the fear you'll incur some credit card fee
• the fear over starting a new project
• the fear of calling someone on the phone
• the fear of checking your bank account
• the fear you missed a great opportunity
• the fear you'll break a good habit
• the fear of someone yelling on you
• creative anxiety
Action steps from the episode:
1. Start to notice micro fears.
2. Start to observe how fear shapes your behavior.
3. Start to observe how fear affects your thinking.
4. Start to feel micro fears rather just reacting from them.
Fear isn't just help in the mind. Fear is held as tension in your body.
Life is a love simulator = Life is about learning how not to fear.
How is fear overcome you might wonder. Ultimately through consciousness. Not by necessarily avoiding the fear but by realizing that the fear is an illusion.
Confront your fear by surrendering (stop resisting).
Fear is the opposite of relaxation.
Home work:
• Create list of micro fears
• How are these micro fears related to my identity?
• How your thoughts are shaped by fear?
• Create list of macro fears
• What am I unwilling to experience?
Too late! Someone already posted notes before you, no Leo heart for you!
@@insiderperson18279 let it go bro
Side, brilliant arguments, profound insight. This is actually the information ice been seeking for awhile. The elusive and intricate nature of fear has been difficult to tackle and go deeper to the source and then take the corrective action in self and others. I'm texting while I'm listening, so still going through it...
I like this clip of Samurai Jack where he battles a bunch of ghosts in the desert th-cam.com/video/TXeXO-mqVsE/w-d-xo.html
Eventually he realizes they're impossible to beat (kind of like every single anxious thought we have every day). The moment he stops fighting them and embraces them, they dissolve. Pretty powerful
FEAR OF CHANGE
thanks to leo i realized something that had been bothering me .. fears of fears , fear of being wrong and emotionally unbalanced etc.. (anxiety induced type of questions) and i came to realize that CHANGE is what i was fearing the most , the fear of inconsistency... idk why but this instantly killed my anxiety problems i was having for weeks and moths ... recommend you also embrace the fear of change and let go to it ... you will find yourself more still in mood and thought . hope it helped
Hey Leo! I was curious about why you choose to approach communicating Truth in a bit of an almost insulting and condescending manner/energy. It sometimes feels like your target audience is the all American dad, when the things you’re truly communicating very likely be too much of a step for them.
I agree with this. Every time he plays the role of the other side - meaning anyone who may challenge or disagree with him, his voice changes in to this bratty mocking type garbage. Also, I am an engineer, scientist and researcher and my greatest fear is not religion. Anyone who claims to be enlightened but is so narrow minded to any other truth is about as enlighten as my middle finger. I could degrade so much of his BS and I don’t need science to do it.
I feel Leo did a good job here of listing the kind of typical small fears a person like me might have throughout the average day/week/month/year.
man miss your old psychedelic trips
I introduced a colleague of mine to some key Videos produced by Leo, particularly this one.
As a "Mother Apart" due to a bitter Mother in Law, Abusive Husband, and travesty of "justice", I didnt expect any great immediate "light bulb moments", in her.
Leo, I have to say (again) that your work here is absolutely incredible.
I hope you realise the scale of the impact your insight can give to those people capable of understanding. Life Changing.
For me, your definition and analysis of "Fear" protecting the layers of "Sun" like essence of Identity, and Ego and so on was a massive light bulb moment for me. Bloody hell; im still fizzing.
For her, the same definition, made her realise that the travesty that left a MOTHER, childless, literally shattered her Identity as a MOTHER. This naturally resulted in complete turmoil, and emotional fragility whilst her Ego was desperately trying to defend the very identity the legal system decided to make redundant. 2.5 years Leo of Identifying as a Mother, but no ability to actually Mother!.
This one video, has underpinned the stability and recovery process, and given a very clear course of action for her. That is to Adapt her Identity, as a Mother, to a Mother by proxy. This will allow reconstruction of her Identity, No longer vulnerable, no longer pining to actually mother, no longer suffering the pain of "what the f*ck happened", no longer fearful of being "destroyed again" when tackling the matter in the legal system.
The New Identity, will be improved, bullet proof and very much aware of the role of her Ego and how to make it work for her. Clearly with a shattered identity, the Ego, is a bit of a free agent.
Id be grateful for any comments, you might care to make, as id love to know your opinion what might drive a Mother in Law to seek this type of action? and perhaps is there a defensive measure one could employ to combat the type of control and manipulation the strange woman commands. Currently digging in to the University of Leo. (Toxic People)
I say again; Thank you. Moments of tearful joy and many golden nuggets of wisdom.
You're something else.......
I would love Leo on the Joe Rogan show ....would leave everyone speechless ...dudes way ahead of his time
Zac Made Media yeah me too but leo chose another path when he has the opportunity to become a lot more popular with his channel and teachings. Maybe when he publishes his book we might see him on JRE, but I doubt it plus I don't think Leo has the money to afford going there. (He's some guest pay to appear on the podcast)
Shoes and Cars guess so would be cool though , I’m sure he could pay for it lol ; he’s one person I think joe would find it difficult to argue against too, I’m curious
Zac Made Media they'd do DMT
Thank you . Exactly what I been feeling my whole life.
Leo, I have had one hell of a mystical experience when it comes to fear. For years I have been fearing microwave radiation coming to us in the form of WIFI. This fear was based on research done and many experts claiming that its harmful specially for children. When 5G was announced, I couldn’t believe we would have antennas so close to our homes without anyone trying to prevent this. Some tried, , but the plan still continued to be rolled out. One day as I drove to my children’s School, I saw that the 2 previous installed lightning poles were changed into new ones, ones that support 5G with cones that hides the sight of the antennas. I was shocked specially because a week before I wrote to the School and expressed my concerns. I did not take a picture because of course I did not own a smartphone 🙂. The following day, while driving with my hubby to show him, the newly installed poles were gone and the old ones were back in place!!! No signs of digging, nothing. What had happened? Had I created those poles? Maybe some holographic nature here at play? After that experience, I have attempted to research the true reality of nature mostly through Quantum Mechanics and stumbled upon the famous Double Slit experiment which shows that it takes an observer to create anything solid really.....incredible I have no more fear now, they can put any antenna right next to my home now. I will not perceive it as harmful since I believe it’s holographic and not really there, have experienced this myself.
Isn't"Life" interesting? Crazy? I have had things like this happen.
Leo brother I am very lucky to have you in my life.you are so original and truthful.i salute you brother with my heart🙏
LOVE YOU Bro... Needed it...
Let's see how it goes.
Had to pause bc of how many insights he was giving into my psyche. You relay these complex things very easily.