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Approval Seeking - Recovering from the Ultimate Human Addiction
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Scott explores approval seeking in all its forms, including how it has infused his life from addiction to recovery to teaching. The very act of holding back, or repressing, emotion is synonymous with the seeking of something outside ourselves, often approval. These two things cannot be separated because they are the same mechanism. Scott makes the case that both in inquiry and in life, if we look with the right skills within our own somatic awareness, we may find approval seeking less like an addictive behavior that we should focus on stopping, and more like an unconscious operating system connected directly to emotional repression that we make conscious to end the suffering. You may never look at approval seeking the same after this episode. In the last segment, Scott invites you into a direct taste of being you without the constraints of needing others to approve of you - and all the freedom, joy, enthusiasm and love that naturally comes with that realization. To get started on this path take our free repression test: https://nrfs.co/znnj. Join our first online retreat in May 2024: https://nrfs.co/fc2g
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