Because all these people are actively healing themselves, actively doing one thing or another to turn that lens inward , do some self-examination, either through therapy, through journaling, through meditation, whatever it is, whatever is the thing that works for them well.And I get really inspired by that.
they're yelling they slam the door in your face they do all these things where like boys tend to be a little more inward in that or they become sort of the like all the way down the other spectrum of sort of more explosive sothere's less talking about feelings and things like that so they're either you know sometimes like beating up their brother and sister or they're just
And you're kind of reenacting or reliving the situation. inward experience versus an outside perspective-- even though it's all your own awareness-- happens in both cases.
But for you to completely perceive it, you have to transcend the boundary between inner and outer, to travel inward as well as outward, to find and finish it in your mind.And the gigglers, the camera clickers, and the squawking loudspeakers are all, in their exasperating reality,
Or you might start getting physical symptoms, or anxiety, or depression, because you're giving too much. Inwardly , you say, oh, my God, I'm not going to be able to handle this.
And even for strings, I mean, we were experimenting for a long time. Inwardly , if the passion is not there, it doesn't come.
When you park your car, you don't abandon it in the garage, you're coming back for it. So, you can choose when to focus inward on what you think or outward on what you can learn. Of course, sometimes your car ain't where you left it.
And so after I wrote those books about big things and then the COVID pandemic started to hit, lockdowns, and so on and it felt like life would became very inward looking and small, I thought, oh, why don't I kind of explore that side of engineering instead? And I basically started making a list of all the things that I thought were elements or components of a piece of engineering.
Because, he says, I'm not a Westerner. and inward peace. And when he died of a brain tumor suddenly, the entire camp was stunned.
So not coming to myself every day and always having the lens turned outward, never turning it inward and just kind of taking a break on responding to outside things, it turned out that, even though I was doing a bad job of it with just sitting with myself and just being quiet, I wasn't there then when that little knowing would bubble up.
So again, we have evidence on this. So when we reframe inward , treating ourselves with kindness rather than contempt, when we express outward, that is write about it, talk about it,
There's the crashing and then the drawing inward . And that drawing inward is what actually gives the crashing part its energy, and its motion, and its speed, and its power. And you can't have a wave that just crashes and crashes and crashes.
That would be one microstep that can become one of your resources. And when we add inward everything changes.
let it let it express it your shoulders might slump chest might cave in a little bit your hands maybe your and fists and bringing attention inward and bringing some kindness inward you'll find that it's as the neuroscientists
So it's not just outward. It's outward and inward . And for her, the point of doing that was that our culture privileges judgment and analysis over listening and receiving.
is the self turned inward .
Once we turn inward -- and there's a process I take people through in the book to really align-- then yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
It's about an inward journey.
But people looking inward are going, oh, my god, they're a mess.
to turn our attention inward rather than outward they tell stories about the bodies and Minds that we wished that we
analytical mind just Inward and using it to to to to realize what the Crux of
So turning inward is not a survival process.
Now I pull inward .
It was always inward -- angry at myself and angry at the world.
It's very inward -looking. When the Chinese invented gunpowder, they used it to create fireworks.
He decided to turn inward after this, weirdly.
And we'll go inward .
Mark Psalms inwardly as a subjective state of mind and you know there you have there you have the mind. These are
Then we go inwards , more subtle.
And as they spiral inwards , they should be losing energy by emitting gravitational waves.
kind of inwardly , emotionally process what is happening around them.
They're sort of inwardly focused.
Forward folds turn you inwards so that you can find the introspection that you need to synthesize.
you know turn inwards because there's nothing going on outside we started pen and I having the same conversations after about three or four weeks we
So you as material falls inward , 'cause everything's rotating,, as it falls inward , it'll spin up, and then it'll form a disk.
secure is it more about looking inward and and and changing
It allowed us to go inward .
So the compassion has to flow inward as well as outward.
So we need to focus on going inward a little bit more often and cleaning and organizing and detoxing inside, which is where we really live,
especially for Asian-American communities to look inward and only protect themselves can't necessarily happen anymore.
The second step is to turn inward , is essentially to give up on the outside world ever filling you up.
Can you maybe turn that inward a bit and talk about how leaders of folks here in the room, folks that are watching who are in positions
you to be able to go inward and I don't want you to feel like other people are looking at you because I'm going to have
You can't roll your eyeballs inward and scan yourself.
You cannot use these to turn inward .
And let your awareness drift inward .
It's jut a lot of looking inward , asking yourself, who are you, this type of thing.
And to me this turning inward , the dance itself of the dervishes is about getting into a deep conversation with yourself.
For me it was an inward journey.
But this is like an inward -- Exactly.