4 Practices That Can Change Your Life in 7 Days: From Reflection to Inner Freedom

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekAGAnna GurinaAwareness, observation, and perceptionFreedomInner freedomTruth

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00How do these practices work?
• 01:33Practice 1: “How did I treat other people?”
• 02:31The effect of practice 1
• 04:24Practice 2: “Truly seeing”
• 08:25The effect of practice 2
• 09:18Practice 3: “Returning to the purpose”
• 11:47The effect of practice 3
• 12:20Practice 4: “True freedom”
• 16:56What the four practices bring when combined

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• 04:44

  Whenever you meet someone—your husband or wife, children, parents, siblings, relatives, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, employees, direct reports, managers, or business partners—try to truly perceive them.

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• 05:11

  Do I understand this person as a spiritual being, their mind and body, their overall makeup, their spiritual system, their soul and spirit?

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• 06:30

  “How can you say I do not know my own children?” But what a joy it is to tell yourself, “If I do not know my children, does that mean I can spend the next ten, twenty, thirty, or forty years continually getting to know this person?”

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• 06:44

  As I get to know them, our relationship will expand.

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• 06:48

  “And because I am developing and they are developing, it will all keep developing and transforming together. We will always discover something new, instead of putting a person in a little box, assigning them certain colors, and saying, ‘That is who they are.’”

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• 08:01

  On one hand, if you do this without manipulation, it is a practice that lets you develop spiritually.

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• 08:16

  We need to understand the patterns through which people manipulate us, and how we should behave in society.

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• 13:16

  You might engage with it every five or ten minutes, as part of your routine or a habit. Or you might give it five minutes a day, or five minutes every other day.

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• 13:45

  Or you feel sexual desire for them, attraction between a man and a woman.

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• 15:38

  Because if you are truly perceiving life—in what is called a real meditative state of living, constant observation—you are continually aware of impulses.

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