Let's talk about feelings and where we get our feelings from and what we do. If you've ever been offense movies, perhaps you like to watch those kinds of movies that make you cry, or that make you feel afraid, or that thrillers maybe they make you feel anxious or wound up or excitable. They make you feel sad. They make you feel happy. They make you feel all sorts of feelings. What's really interesting to me about going to the movies is that when we go to the movies, we know that the movies are going to bring these feelings for us.

Sometimes even in the movies, we feel angry, we feel devastated about something that's happened and we feel angry for the characters. But we're not really afraid to feel those feelings when we go to the movies. In fact, we know that the movies will make us feel emotional and we choose to go anywhere. What's fascinating about that is that if you and I were watching a movie right now, and we were in the middle of something that was devastating, and we were just having a little cry, my husband was turned around to me when I'm crying in the movies and so rude. So rude. But anyway, let's say that forum is coming out, it's time to trim and the tears are starting to fall.

We're not concerned about the sad feeling. In our normal lives, we so want to avoid being sad. We so want to avoid being angry with someone to avoid feeling rejected or devastated or put upon in any way. But in the movies, we go to get those emotions. We would be boring if there wasn't emotional content coming with it. What makes it different from our real life?

Well, the first thing is, we know that it's not us. We are awake to something in a movie that we're not aware of, in our own lives, and that is that this is a creative And imagine area, if you will, that's been created specifically to generate these emotions inside of us. We haven't seen that many years doing the same thing. It's many, many isn't Imaginarium. That's making all these things that and creating these emotions inside of ourselves. When we go to movies, if somebody ledges us in the middle of a crime scene and said, Come, let's go get popcorn, we'll leave and go and get popcorn.

And before you know it, we're chatting about something else. Maybe that feeling of sadness in our body. Well, chemicals that are sitting around in our body take a little while to mop up, they're not gonna go instantaneously, just because we're not thinking about something anymore. But it won't take very long when being distracted, those chemicals starting off themselves, our thinking goes elsewhere. And we're no longer in the crime scene of the museum. got interesting.

Feelings come and go. The only difference is that we are not awake to the fact that we are creating a movie in our mind. The experience of our feeling is so seamlessly generated in our brain to make us feel like the feeling is being generated by the experience that we have an outside in, that we're not aware of that is our thinking in that moment that is creating the feeling for us. If we could realize that our thinking is generating some movie or feeling and experience for us in the moment, we could treat it in the same way that we treat a movie. We wouldn't be afraid of our feelings, but we also would not have to act on them. We wouldn't have to make them go away.

We wouldn't do anything about them. We would simply experience them in the way that we experience a feeling in a movie. And we'd be like, yeah, it will pass and awkward go and carry on with our lives. So we have an opportunity to start to see where feelings come from and Given that feelings are generated in that own mind to notice that we are creating a movie, and we're an amazing separate use and special effects department and we've got brilliant directors and our screenwriters are well, they're really good. And our editors have absolutely seamless. And this is the move that we're creating for ourselves.

If we could wake up to that truth and start to see the way that we generate an experience through our thinking and our own mind, we would be free of it in the way that we are free of the emotional content in the movies. We still steal it. It still exists but we are not concerned and we do not have to act on it.