Hello,
This is Guy Thinley,
And I'm glad to be with you and to introduce you to the newest material that's entitled Breaking the Circle of Addiction.
What if you knew for a certainty that picking up a pleasure in some way to console yourself in a moment of crisis or any other problem is exactly the same as picking up the pain born of that action?
Would you do it?
Because that's what we're going to look at in this series of five sessions.
We're going to examine something so deep and profound,
And I believe important to our spiritual life,
Not to mention our practical physical one,
That if you will work with me over these five sessions,
I promise you,
When we are done,
You will have a new understanding about yourself and about all self-destructive,
Compulsory behavior that will be so clear that you will release yourself from all of the things that were formerly tying you down.
So let's get started.
I remember years ago there was a song that I loved.
The lyric basically said,
I believe I can fly.
I believe I can touch the sky.
I'd sing it for you,
But you'd turn this off if I did.
But the point of that lovely song was that when a person begins to see new possibilities,
There is a part of them that sees that possibility,
And the reason that we're so drawn to it is because we recognize it is a power or actually a part of ourselves that we're intended to at least explore,
If not claim for our own.
That's what the material in this series of talks is going to help you do.
It's going to introduce you to another part of yourself that just waits for you to realize an authority that already belongs to you,
But that we're just not able to actualize yet.
So that in these talks,
We will look at a new kind of understanding that just needs to be developed and that we don't have to worry,
Believe me,
You do not have to be concerned while listening.
Just try to see and feel as deeply as you can what we're talking about.
Because just like,
Let's say,
Someone watches a master violinist,
A pianist,
Someone who's an expert in some sport,
And that person maybe never considered trying that,
But they're drawn to it.
They want to embody that principle because a part of them knows that it will develop them.
We're going to look at principles that we can embody and eventually prove to ourselves if we will work with them.
And that's the task,
To remember that every true idea we hear has a corresponding part in our true self,
And it is our willingness to embrace that true principle that brings about the power of that truth that eventually releases us from everything that now compromises us.
So let's get started.
I'll see you in a few moments.
I hope you'll join me for the second part of this series,
Which is called Awakening the Need for a New Will.
