If you,
You know,
Get interested in your child self and even ask for memories to come up,
You know,
Write about your childhood,
I'm big on that,
You will open the door to get more perceptions from that child.
Those perceptions will be solid gold.
The more you open your arms to your child,
The more the child feels it,
Feels safe enough to really talk to you.
Right?
You see,
If you do this enough,
And this is where psychology meets with spiritual journey,
If you really do this a lot,
What happens is the voices in your head get quieter,
Your mind gets more peaceful,
You get more silent.
The more you love your child self,
The more silent your head will become.
See,
It's where psychology and spirituality meet.
And the more you have these experiences where you feel physically what your child felt like,
Like often you guys lately have been talking to me about hopelessness.
When you feel hopeless,
That is how the child felt.
And it's ego,
And it's kind of unfixable.
What you can do is just be compassionate for yourself and watch it.
Because if you watch it with love,
This hopelessness,
What will happen is you will start getting signs of spring.
You will start getting the new understanding gradually,
Gradually coming in.
If you can go like,
Okay,
This hopelessness,
Not buying into it fully,
But going like,
Okay,
This is hopelessness,
This is child material coming up.
It's not very pleasant,
But you can watch it without dying.
You just go through it and you get signs of spring and a bigger understanding.
Premasuddha went through periods of many periods of hopelessness to come to this understanding.
And it was the hopelessness and learned helplessness clearing.
You know,
I don't expect you guys to get this overnight.
It's like gradually as you hear it,
What will happen is you will start coming into like a comprehension of what I'm talking about.
And it will make your life easier.
Even a little will make your life easier.
And you'll be a little more oriented towards this,
Allowing this healing of your child self.
Any spiritual master is just like what they were like at three in a grownup form.
You know,
Just being kind of,
Yeah,
Be their personality at three.
Like,
You know,
Yeah,
It's like a three-year-old in adult form.
And that person has fought all the battles to find out that it's safe,
That you could live,
And you can even pay your taxes.
You can end up being supported somehow,
Even as a three-year-old.
That's kind of how it is.
That's kind of what happens.
If you take care of your child self,
I'll tell you,
You will have less trouble with money.
You will get more physical support,
Because it's your true nature's in there.
This is,
You know,
It's why Amma says,
You know,
Meditation can even help you financially.
Because if you bring in your more of your true nature,
It's like you get supported by the Creator.
And the other thing is,
You cannot judge your own progress.
All across the board,
I feel people still underestimate their progress.
Yeah,
So remember that.
You can't judge your own progress.
And sometimes when we're having a really tough time,
We feel like we're going backwards.
You're never going backwards.
You're always making forward motion.
It's just deeper levels.
Just like Amma says,
You know,
When you sweep the floor,
Looks clean,
But it's not till you start mopping it that you see the dirt that you're carrying.