Hello my friends welcome back to daily breath. I'm De Park Chopra.

Our new series is called Total Meditation. Being human we are divided between what we want to do and what we think we can get away with. We are constantly negotiating with

our desires, following some and suppressing others. The issue as I see it is spontaneity.

Here are a few things to ponder about spontaneity. Society's default position is always distrust spontaneous behavior and pass laws and rules against it.

Self-discipline and impulse control are considered desirable marks of a mature adult.

Experiments implied that we already have a predisposition to impulse control.

reward goes to the child always who... control. We reward self-control even as parents.

Many of life's greatest gifts involve spontaneity.

Falling in love is spontaneous,

appreciating beauty is spontaneous.

Composing music is spontaneous, making art, peak experiences, aha moments.

These are all examples of spontaneity. We police our impulses out of fear, out of shame, out of guilt, out of embarrassment.

These are powerful survival mechanisms in the human psyche, but they hold us back as well.

So everyone strikes a balance between everything is permitted and everything is forbidden.

Many examples of this, nude beach goers, hot dog eating contests on and on and on and on

in society.

Things that are permitted, things that are forbidden, things that are

embarrassing, things that are allowable, etc. Everybody is rushing to conform.

The solution to inner conflict, however, is when we allow spontaneity to be spontaneous

rather than restricted. It is only possible from the level of

total consciousness. You cannot resolve inner conflict at the level of

awareness dictated by the divided self or the ego.

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