Attended another Thom talk @thomknoles in Williamsburg about the topic around suffering .... we all know stress is killer. What a lot of us don't know is that these stresses in the physiology bring lack of clarity. Lack of clarity in what's coming, what's in front of us, and in what is now the past. This lack of clarity makes us behave in repetitious and irrelevant behavior. Behaviors that don't serve the need of the time such as fear, hate etc.. •Suffering is a cultural norm for westerners but for humans it's something that should be foreign. Here we have been conditioned to think that suffering is the key to creating masterpiece art and that we should gravitate towards suffering to tap into creativity. Coming home from a "hard day" , we try to one-up each other over who has had the "worst day". We want suffering trophies 🏆 and to hear things like "I cannot believe how you handle everything. Life is so hard for you." We do it to the extent that we have become hypochondriacs. I have elder relatives who can't participate in life because of their many created diseases. "Oh I can't come to the picnic because of this that and the other".... I have friends so triggered by alcohol they can't use hand sanitizer. The amount of handicaps we hold onto is astounding. We have enough illnesses to go around and this does not serve the need of the time. •These behaviors make us miss life that's right in front of us. And because we're stuck (in suffering)we also can't accurately foresee what's ahead or what is now past. And in actuality creativity branches from the 2% of our brain power. There's potential for much more if we eliminate stress. There's also the potential to bounce back from stressful situations at a more rapid speed. Because we are capable of adaptivity. I've noticed that in myself, after an argument I forget why I was mad shortly after. (Then I have to remind myself in order to remember appropriate boundaries). •If you're not a meditator, you could have so much stress inside the body that even if you ate the most organic nectar it could digest as poison. The digestive system operates amazingly without stress. #nomoresuffering #forefrontonthewaragainstignorance (at Williamsburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/BUxy774AJiL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=