VideoPersonal developmentSep 5, 202629:13
Why You Feel at Ease in One Place and Uneasy in Another | How a Space Affects Your State
Alexander Volchek
Why do you feel calm and at ease in one place, while another suddenly brings anxiety, tension, or heaviness? How can you tell whether the space is really affecting you or the cause lies elsewhere?
Main subjects
Alexander VolchekThe energy of a placeAnxiety, stress, and inner calmNew YorkThe human spiritual systemAnxiety
The main question
Why do you feel calm and at ease in one place, while another suddenly brings anxiety, tension, or heaviness?
What you can take away
- In this video, I explore what can affect a person's state: their own spiritual and psychophysical system, past experience, events, other people, expectations, and the space itself.
- After watching, you will be able to look more broadly at why your state changes and understand what to pay attention to when a new place unexpectedly brings anxiety, discomfort, or, conversely, a feeling of ease.
Main threads of the conversation
- 00:00Factors that shape our state
- 04:28How a space can affect a person
- 09:32How to perceive a space as it truly is
- 13:13Why the same event affects different people differently
- 20:58Why a place brings up certain states in us
- 22:01How to interact consciously with the energy of a place
Claims made here
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- 00:56
Someone calls and interrupts me, and I say that the person who just interrupted me affected my state, without considering anything else.
Alexander Volchekcomparison
- 01:48
If an ant appears here, I will probably have no reaction at all.
Alexander Volchekcause
- 04:28
It did not appear in the space of New York—it had always been there and still is. The anxiety appeared in me.
Alexander Volchek
- 05:21
Does the fact that suffering is not necessary mean you do not need to work with it?
Alexander Volchek
- 05:21
When anxiety arises in you, it means your perception has narrowed.
Alexander Volchekcausedefinition
- 05:21
You might consider whether this state arose simply because I was there alone with my wife.
Alexander Volchek
- 07:03
Clearly, external influences could have overlapped, and you might say, "It's because of New York, not the business."
Alexander Volchekcausecomparison
- 11:33
To find and pick up a dog around here, you usually have to drive, because getting between properties is fairly difficult.
Alexander Volchekprinciplerecommendationcause
- 17:40
It would be one thing if I were not, but here I was choosing the hotels.
Alexander Volchekcause
- 17:40
Tell me tomorrow that I need to go somewhere for a week, stay in a particular place, sleep at an angle like this in a tent, and eat almost nothing.
Alexander Volchek
What to pay attention to
- Factors that shape our state
- How a space can affect a person
What to watch next
- Why You Keep Doing What You Want to Give Up | What Really Controls You
- Managing Stress Without Succumbing: How to Turn an Enemy into an Ally
Who this is for
- For readers interested in: Anxiety, stress, and inner calm, Health, rest, and lifestyle, Awareness, observation, and perception
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People
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- Wifediscussed
- Mom / mothermentioned
- Olya (meditation channel participant)mentioned
Places
5- New Yorkcentral subject
- Hawaiimentioned
- Los Angelesmentioned
- United Statesmentioned
- San Franciscomentioned
Concepts
8The author's terms
4- The energy of a placecentral subject
- The human spiritual systemcentral subject
- Cause and effectdiscussed
- Dark energymentioned
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