 Hi, good name 840 here. So I'm watching season four of Banshee Amazing show just compulsive viewing. You'll love it or hate it Anyway, notice in TV shows or movies Whenever you get a shot of someone walking Right, they're walking out the door to their car. They're walking from their car to the door They're walking around the corner that about 90% of the time they run into someone unexpectedly right You don't see a lot of Tracking shots in movies and TV shows where a person walks out the door Down the street to their car gets in their car and then drives away without incident, right? When nothing happens, there's no drama So just thinking about this fact of of TVs and movies. It's just very much like ourselves like I was talking to Holly earlier like is there any reason for Well, this self-examination isn't best to just get on with life and I think yeah, that works if your life is working right if if You're not suffering, you know unnecessary physical pain and aggravation If you have love in your life if you're not Engaging in any repetitive compulsive behaviors that you don't want to engage in then look your life's working And there's probably no need for extra Self-reflection, but if you don't have love in your life if your life is not progressing as you would like if you have all sorts of you know physical maladies If you find yourself compulsively engaging in behavior that you'd rather not engage in Then it seems like you're a character in a TV show or a movie Where every time you you walk down a hallway and you turn the corner you run into Something unexpected, but when you haven't come to terms with yourself where you haven't achieved congruence between what you're saying what you're thinking and and What's being conveyed by you by your body language or your emotional state? It'll be just like a character in a TV show or a movie where you're just constantly running into the unexpected So only with us in real life if we haven't done this in a work if we haven't taken possession of our own soul We're going to be constantly running into unexpected parts of ourselves If we're not living in reality Then we're going to have a lot of very unpleasant surprises. So just as in this Banshee TV show the Sheriff he gets in the car and then suddenly unexpectedly finds the former sheriff in the back Well, that happens to us we get into the car But as we get into the car and we turn on the radio and we hear a particular song We'll get triggered. We'll get flooded by emotions from some unresolved issue in the past Or we turn the corner at work We run into someone with whom we have really negative feelings But we're just trying to keep those feelings suppressed But in the surprise of running into someone unexpectedly our true feelings reveal themselves So there's no doubt between you and the other person what your true emotional state is with regard to to that person and So if we haven't taken possession of our own soul, we're going to be just constantly bombarded by unexpected parts of ourselves just like characters in a TV show or in a movie Right, you don't see anyone walking down the street and getting into their car in a movie without any event there always has to be drama and Tension which is great when you're watching a TV show or a movie, but it sucks in real life You don't want to have to every time you walk down the street so to speak or you turn the corner at work or You put on the radio or you're watching TV or you're engaging in business Or you're a church or your synagogue and then like unexpected parts of yourselves unresolved parts of yourself You know start Smashing yourself in the face. I think I face myself in prayer pretty much literally saw every morning to God and repentance I can't afford psychotherapy, but yeah prayer Okay, so yeah, it's all a matter of what works right if that works but Even God Says God is not enough I think that's the lesson in the book of Genesis that God tells Adam it's not good for man to be alone So part of what God was saying there even I God am not enough like even prayer God religion is not enough That's not always going to be sufficient to take ownership of your soul So if your experience of life is that you're constantly bumping into unexpected parts of yourself you're being constantly Unpleasantly surprised by who you are If you're having frequently getting triggered by other people by life if you find yourself compulsively engaging in behaviors thought patterns that you Didn't expect of yourself and that you're unable to to stop if you're suffering all these physical elements such as back pain headaches indigestion etc for which there's no objective cause then then perhaps there's time for introspection fasting prayer and arms help to heal I'm sure they do help to heal my question is are they sufficient? So I think God is pretty clear in Genesis that even he God is not enough even he God religion prayer Arms is not enough. We need more than God. We need more than religion. We need each other and we need to take ownership of our own souls and you know our own varied subjective states and Unless our lives working like if our lives working then I don't think there's any need to engage in greater Reflection, but if our lives not working if we're constantly interacting bumping into unwanted parts of ourselves Then yeah, then it's time to do some soul work to take ownership of our soul by coming to terms with who we are both consciously and unconsciously and opening up that dialogue between the unconscious part of ourself which wants to compensate for and correct You know our one-sided conscious attitudes