Rosa Lewis

And when there's a sense of death, ah, death is okay.

It can sort of get this like metaphorical momentum behind it where it's like, oh, I can let go.

The sort of smaller things that can seem a bigger deal.

It's almost like a little mini ego death of just like, oh, well, I said something silly.

Nevermind.

You sort of like let that bit of your ego kind of die.

Does that make sense?

It's sort of like,

The bad coming in doesn't seem as bad if it's just a sort of mini or quite major sort of ego death that's occurring.

Yeah, yeah, that's that.

Yeah, there's got to be a reason to do it, right, is one thing.

Yeah, I just think it's kind of like letting that happen, letting beauty, joy,

just all the lovely, beautiful stuff flow.

And that's going to be different for everyone, like what that is, what makes them feel that about life.

And I think spending some time really being with that in yourself and remembering moments and feeling the heart-opening qualities of it and being inspired by it, just enjoying it.

And...

I guess this one came up from working with people a lot.

There's such an easy self-punishing mode that people go into, either full of self-critique or maybe turning practice into another thing that you have to do.

Discipline obviously can be an important part, but it can tip over into this more just self-punishing and

sort of practical, I have to go through the steps and I have to do this and I have to, and I've just found that the more people's heart is online, the more like open-heartedness and passion and joy that is flowing, the easier the path becomes and the more naturally it sort of stems from this place of love rather than sort of punishment, I guess.