How to Stop Fearing That Everything Will Fall Apart Without You | Healthy Control

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekHealth, rest, and lifestyleHealthAnxiety, stress, and inner calmAnxietyHealthy control

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Where the desire to control everything comes from
• 05:50A healthy understanding of control
• 07:45Everyday control and consideration for others
• 09:53Control for others' benefit or for your own sake
• 13:09Healthy and unhealthy control
• 15:23What energy drives your control?
• 16:42When care becomes manipulation and control
• 22:44Why we are afraid to give someone a choice
• 28:47How to work with control
• 29:02Freedom vs. control: where is the boundary?
• 32:25What genuine, healthy control means
• 34:34Strictly controlling a partner and denying their freedom
• 39:57Why a controlling person thinks about themselves
• 44:38A person's central transformation

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• 06:29

  If I see someone exercising control, I look at why that particular energy arises in them. I may be able to explain it, choose not to explain it, or say something firmly and sharply.

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• 15:36

  Sometimes, when someone asks you to turn off the light, you need to do it because another person asked, not because you must save the world's energy.

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• 20:18

  The existence of cause and effect, the world's karma, heredity, and the limits of the physical body already constitute a lack of freedom.

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• 22:12

  In other situations, you need to say, “No, I am going to see these people. They are people I like.”

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• 30:26

  Some people talk about exercising control over others without touching their freedom or influencing them.

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• 33:56

  Your mood might change, or it may be better not to drive that day, to stay home, avoid talking to a particular client, or say certain things to them.

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• 36:30

  This is a profound truth everyone needs to see, recognize, and accept within themselves: that person on the other side perceives everyone this way.

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• 39:53

  Or is it spending time for themselves because they need it?

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• 41:39

  I cannot even influence it without changing entire worlds within myself.

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• 44:22

  But we know very well that if someone is deeply stuck in something and unwilling to examine it, it simply will not happen.

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