I am so so so so glad to hear people involved in "Western Medicine" talk about this topic that isn't woo-woo. For a long time we have known about the mind body connection, but has been chalked up as not valid or even worse, pseudoscience. If doctors can start to understand even better how the mind, perception, emotional suppression, etc. actually CAUSE physical illness, then I think we will have turned a corner. Thank you for posting this. 🙂

I don’t think one can really find the value of life’s experience without “seeing the screen.” The value of our “being” isn’t diminished by the things we might call failures in life. I feel like my life’s experiences aren’t happening to me, but FOR me. They broaden my soul if I can ingest them and allow myself to grow through them. The connection with something bigger than this life is everything.

I know every step of the process that you spoke about. I've never heard anyone talk about this before now there's book. I have gone through every step with more in between I know it. Yes I am now present and aware. Had a trainwreck of a life form childhood to about 9months ago. I ACED the ACES test, Bad CPTSD. I lived in my head not knowing what to do, constantly pushing off that, emotional terror. I became so sick of it crushing me. Now, I at the time I decided to not find another pain clinic & I went cold Turkey after 13yrs of opioids,(I have 9 herniated discs in my neck and mid & low back) marriage falling apart mental illness. I could go on, Anyway I just stopped fighting it off and let it tear me apart. I was ruminating always panic attacks anxiety attacks went through this thick blankness but then I was inside myself my streaming consciousness, it was like watching a blur with gut ripping emotions. Real terror. I'll shorten it up. I was emotionally immature. I'm not anymore. When you said walking into a room & you can feel and read everyone at once but you know the emotions & who they apply to. Its Freaky! I appreciate everything so much more than I thought I could. I'm content. 9months no panic attacks my fiery missed placed rage, is gone. CPTSD is gone I'm not kidding. Please do more on this internal rewiring of self topic.

Thank you for this talk. 🙏 My teacher Ram Dass used to say, "when grief (or other negative emotions) show up, serve them tea." ❤️

I am so grateful I found you guys. I was so tired of all the slow meditation practices, been listenening for 3 days and feel an immense difference in my experience. Thanks for sharing this with the world.

I love the Emerson quote 😊 'Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins'

Zdogg you make me think of Patch Adams. You care about the human being and not just as a medical entity . I love that movie. He said the worst disease is indifference . Keep doing what you do!

As a hardworking engineer and also a young and previously healthy person dealing with over a year of debilitating Long Covid, my mental health and emotional health is shot. Thanks for covering this. There are some great tips here.

Thanks for this episode. I'm halfway through Angelo's book and really enjoying it.

Thank you Zdogg and Angelo. Your videos have massively helped me. I am definitely "stuck" and I recognize the pattern (and that one thing I am uncomfortable looking at). However, your videos have given me the peace, courage and the reminder that all of this is just part of the process. Like life being a building and in order to get to X story, I must go through this one. I have also learned to see my anxiety as my inner child crying for attention and help. Limiting myself to only saying "I see you, I hear you, I welcome you, I love you" but then finding a distraction so I don't have to look at it, is the equivalent, in my head, having a child in front of me who is crying and clearly feels neglected, telling her those words and then ignoring her again. So I'm sitting with it. I'm giving myself full permission to feel and whatever arises... and allow it to take the stage. I cannot thank you enough. Please continue making these. I love you both!

Oh. My. God. The mention of the emotion rising after a layer has been taken away. I meditated the other day and stayed there for quite a while, it felt deep, real, serene. I was in a state I rarely (or ever) had been in. Everything felt clear. And at some point I had to get up and back to "reality". I got up and got to doing my chores and I became... a fucken monster. I was angry, pissed, confused, fiery, abrasive... I could not understand how I got to the blissful state I was in to this. I never meditated after that and now... I finally understand what happened. Someone else understands. I wasnt alone. And this was normal.

Imagine Angelo on the Joe Rogan Experience. Let's make it happen.

Yesss glad to see Angello back on the show. Absolutely love these, nothing more important and you and Angello are both so direct. You ask reslly great questions and I think inadvertently tap into a lot of pain points of those on the path. Thank you immeasureably Dr Z.

All these episodes are just awesome, ive recently started this journey. Just wanted to share my appreciation for your videos angelo, the format that zdog and you have done these conversations, are, to me, just great.

I appreciate this because one thing I often focus on the form too much without accepting Presence by itself. Thanks to You.

This conversation was amazing! The thought storm talk left me with my jaw open. Now, when my mind feels distracted which I often notice it during my meditation sessions first, but I am starting to pick up when it happens during other parts of the day too, I know there's something deeper going on. I also will sometimes feel a tension in my chest or stomach. I don't always find out exactly why but I know that those moments mean that there's often something underlying coming up to the surface. I just let it come up as it needs to. I hope this made sense because I'm terrible at putting words to this.

You can definitely add me to the list of those who have benefited immeasurably from the book and this video series. Thank you Angelo and ZDogg.

Love this Awakening series! It's been life changing. Thank you so much!

Transcript, links to Angelo's book, channel, and website, and more shows on Awakening: zdoggmd.com/awakening-emotion/ Topics: 00:00 Intro 02:26 Consciousness as a movie screen vs. the story of our lives displayed on the screen 09:24 Why the sense of separation returning can make things feel worse after an experience of expansive presence 14:58 Awakening and repressed emotion, the shedding of inauthenticity 20:18 How and when to investigate the source of emotions 22:38 Untangling thought from emotion, dealing with habitual fixations, thought storms 27:55 Resistance to emotion vs. surrender and acceptance 33:00 The effect of meditation retreat on emotion 35:48 The standing wave of thought identification and the pandemic of emotional repression 42:03 Zubin’s post retreat experience of thought and emotion 44:40 The effect since our first shows on awakening, the way out of suffering 48:14 Wrapping up

1 minute in and I’m sold on the energy you’re putting into this effort

I think the why is partly because we evolved to be walking threat detectors - thousands of years ago to look out for tigers behind bushes. Those who were fearful and cautious about walking past the bush had a higher chance of survival than those who were not afraid and ignored the threat. So we have these amygdalas in our heads that evolved long ago that are hyper alert to threat even when there are no tigers now. And we can learn to soothe ourselves and that’s where emotional honesty comes in, facing that we feel anxiety and allowing self compassion.

Thank you, just thank you for talking about this topic on your Channel. No words, just pure gratitude 🙏🏻

Thanks for covering these topics. You are spot on, it's very hard getting access to these topics.

Angelo and Dr Z … I think this is your best video yet. Keep up the good work. 👍

There is a little more enjoyable then allowing yourself to cry, sobs and all. And you will often be surprised that the sobs turn to whole body laughter as you find yourself flipping from one to the other and back again.

This is beyond brilliant, Angelo’s description of the upwelling of repressed emotion being ok. I’ve never surfed but images come to me of riding the waves til you are riding the power, the joy and freedom come from the release. The process is the healing. In gratitude, I love you both. You are God sent for healing. No surprise you serve in a healing vocation even though restricted by the system hahaha 😂 Blessings to you both🙏🧘🏻xx

I love when you post videos . It’s comforting .😁🇨🇦

ZDogg. Never heard of you before 2 weeks ago, 3 weeks for my amazing friend Angel o .... This being said, I've watch probably 30 clips and videos of Angel o, and I just need to say this, young man, you are the man for this job, job being interviewing someone like Angel o. Don't need the book, but you where so convincing i just had to order it. 😂 I know and can see as well as feel, that you recognize the privileges of being in is presence. You make a great duo and I have no doubt that the right personne will resonate to your questions and his answer. Wish I could have had access to this 40 years ago, but it is what it is, and now the search is over, has been for a long long time, yet, the simple joy to hear you both is dear to my heart. You are both loved more than you'll ever imagine. 💙 keep it coming Z. Love from Quebec

I can feel your story in my heart Zdogg. Almost like its myself. The tightness of chest, the fear, the anxiety. When ever I except it with love and soft intentions it seems to go away quick. The trick is to be ok with it of ot never does..you nailed it though! ❤

A really really good discussion. I have been looking at all the dumb ways I casually lie to myself constantly. Not huge egregious lies, just inauthenticity. It’s really eye opening. I have actually been tracing back through memory at my first inauthentic moments. It’s really fascinating. So glad u two r back together and looking forward to the other interviews

LOVE LOVE LOVE these waking up videos. I used to watch this channel occasionally but I'm glued to these episodes and have so much more appreciation for the channel now. You really are pretty amazing Z Dog ♥️🙏

PS Journalling is invaluable in connecting to Authentic Self and stripping away personality self. 🙏

I could watch 1 million interviews with you and Angelo, fantastic stuff thank you so much, more please lol

This is so helpful. These episodes with you and Angelo are priceless. Combined with his book they are all the pointings we need to awaken to reality. Your sense of humor is icing on the cake.

This is your best video to date! I just wish there was a wider interest for the topic. Please keep these videos coming! Please Please Please!

Some really great stuff in this. I love the idea of applying the *"That's a thought, what's the next thought?"* inquiry to a thought storm, running alongside it instead of fighting it or getting swept up in it. And *sitting with a single, heavy thought and giving it as much attention as it wants* (which immediately shows how ephemeral it is, how much it's just an instant of momentum in the mind trying to push or pull towards other thoughts but dissolves when given all that space and stillness) can also be incredible. Lately the topic of *"Not 'meditating' undesirable emotions away"* has felt very relevant, how often times a practice can be almost subverted or 'corrupted' by an aversive tone underlying it. And yet the opposite is so impactful too, how even the most mundane, dull moment, sensation, or experience can feel completely different when given absolute permission to be and do as it pleases. An orientation of allowing, or "giving" the uncomfortable experience whatever it needs or wants rather than pushing it away, and looking for what "we" want instead. Sometimes it feels like the entire body could be on fire, or like ants are crawling through every vein - and with the flip of a switch, it's like it is glowing and radiating energy calmly. Fascinating.

thank you for having these conversations. inspiring yet practical.

This was really interesting to listen to as someone who has ADHD and struggles with emotional dysregulation and also the part about the comparison of the story of our lives displayed on a screen. That's often how I describe to people what ADHD feels like to me. It's as though I'm watching scenes from a movie play in my mind but I am not always the subject and the scenes can change so quickly that it's distracting and makes it hard to focus on other things that have more importance. Or conversely, I'll get focused on ONE particular thing and then it's difficult to think of anything else.

I love the consciousness content Z!!! The story and the screen analogy is perfect! I've started watching Dr. DiLullo's channel for more of this. Thanks for having him on the show.

This was SO GOOD! I get the frustration, mind identification, thought storms and just ALL THIS! Thank you 🎉❤ Thank you 🎉❤ Angelos book is OUTSTANDING too. He knows his shit!

Initial reaction was tingling & excitement with the screen analogy. I don’t know, I just don’t know so much! Is what I’m left with after watching! Maybe overwhelmed? & possibly not ready to do the work

Such a necessary topic for everyone at anytime. Thanks

Thank you for encompassing this important topic for conversation required for successful Health 3.0 to occur. We got this Z Dogg!

Bring that oneness and realization into the equation of interaction building a wholistic insight as we truly become moment after moment. Beautiful.

Awesome talk!

Dr. Angelo. You connect on the heart level. God bless you my brother ❤

Thank you 🙏🏻 it is so cool to hear things discussed that i experience and feel ❤

This is so helpful conversation . Thank you for the explanation .

SUPER useful conversation....I think there is so much confusion about this particular topic...really cool to have this nitty gritty break down and see what other folks experience/handle relative to it.

Thank you so much for both sharing on this fascinating subject. Although I've already heard and read about this, I'm sooo pleased this clarifies on a deeper level each time. DZdogg's input and questions are imensly clarifying. Looking forward to you next ones. 🙏😉👍

I bought the book and have started it. I have issues CPTSD (complex PTSD- many instances of PTSD compounded upon each other with some stemming from childhood). I want to see how this can help me on top of the EMDR I do weekly! 🙏🏼

Thank you both ❤❤

So grateful to see this content 🙏

Thank you so f-ing much!!!

Great stuff here. Nice one guys! ❤

Thanks for doing this video its been so helpful to me

Thank You so much

I find it's difficult to show vulnerability to people. Cancer and now broken arm has people asking " How are you?". I find myself either saying " how are you?"" Instead of answering the question or I say I'm fine eventhough I feel broken.

Thanks!

Love you both so much ❤

Meditation and especially an effortless technique like resting in awareness or choiceless awareness. Of course a solid base in a object attending technique facilitates effortless techniques. Personally I combine it with Advaita Vedanta as a philosophical underpinning.

Thank you

Hey Doc Z I don’t know if you would be interested but I believe you would be a perfect choice to go on Rogans podcast . I don’t always agree with you but you’re a reasoned voice in a world of crap about Covid

Anticipation is necessary because it can change the outcomes and can prepare you.

OMG I am laying in bed feeling so depressed for this exact reason. I had my first shift, but I can't rest there. Now that I am aware, life is so empty. I don't know where to go from here.

Thank you for this interesting, practical and inspiring talk 🙏 You said that there are not many people who talk about awakening in a non-woowoo or new agy way... eckhart tolle is someone I feel who has been talking about awakening and awareness in a quite pragmatic and non woowoo way for decades now... Another thing I wish you could discuss: what exactly do you mean by awakening (ongoing awakening process vs 'the moment when I awakened') and how it is different from enlightenment or self realisation or god realisation (or perhaps it's the same?)...if you have already, could you point me to that video then?... If it's all the same, what is your understanding why in some traditions, especially in India, people put emphasis on the importance of a spiritual teacher or guru and when I listen to you and Angelo...the awakening process sounds so 'easy'. thanks 🙏

I am one of those said people -- 5 YEAR KCFD FF/PM -- MUCH DEATH AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED -- WOKE UP AT 27 -- I NOW FOLLOW MY DREAMS AND QUIT MY CAREER AND NOW AM IN MY DREAM COLLEGE AND I PURSUE MUSIC FULL TIME TO HELP OTHERS THROUGH THEIR SUFFERING VIA THE MAGNIFICENT WORLD OF AUDIO -- MUCH LOVE 🖤🖤 -- BLOWSKIE / ICON COLLECTIVE / KCMO “I Asked For Death, Now I’m Awake.”

Thanks so much! 🙏

Good stuff chaps.

You guys are great ❤️♥️👍❗️

Love it. How many of these waves are due to natural biochemical development, i.e. sexual hormones over the course of the ENTIRE life process. (Youth, puberty, menopause / andropause...as far as I have experienced.) It's sad when people blame themselves (or thoughts) when in fact(?) it's mainly due to maturation.

It ain't Woo when it's True!🔥

I started listning to this an hour ago, KZfaq says it was uploaded 5min ago lol

I tend to think consciousness is non local. It comes from outside of ourselves (higher self, guides, etc). Our brain processes the thoughts but the thoughts don't eminate from the brain.

KZfaq not showing video uploaded, strange

This is like Eckhart Tolle’s thoughts about living in the moment. Am I right?

Loved your trigger warning...no BS.

Mind body work is really on precipice. Dr John Sarno was ahead of his time. Now Nicole sachs & her podcast is carrying sarno's msg on, The Cure for chronic pain. Dr Dan Ratner. Alam Gordon, Dr Howard Schubiner, etc etc.

I had a recent situation happen last week that triggered a trauma from childhood. I just cried about it. Cried the next day about it. Felt depressed over it until it faded by the 4th day. I cry maybe once a year, If that. I knew almost immediately what it was. Definitely from a past traumatic feeling that was very strong. So it did pass and i found that I need to healing with it. I don't judge myself for it. Its ok that I have that wound. I know that I can find healing for this. Is this what you mean by not suppressing emotions?

Merci!

When one meditate for real one start to understand and see when a speaker also is doing his or her inner work. And the pointers start showing up everywhere. Reading The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind this week and is amazing to see that all teachings in some or other way points to the same truth, of course for me Zen masters are more clear language wise, cause in a sense is beyond language, emcompass it but is beyond it.

How to get past suffering when you lost a loved one?

Thanks 😊 Dr Z

some people dont like to be snapped into reality like that lol. Some people want to just watch the movie and as soon as you tell them the science behind what they are watching or the technicals of how the screen works......theyd rather just go back to watching the movie. As the movie itself is there to BREAK their reality and breaking their reality is why they are in the theatre in the first place.

Hey I follow you about covid for a long time and i truly love the way you present things and appriciate the way you think and speak. This video is such an eyeopener that I would love to translate parts of it to hebrew (I'm from Israel) and put it on my social media page. Is it possible to do so? Keep on exploring and bringing you're whole self outthere. Thank you. Eyal.

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Advaita!

People see what they want to see and if they don't see it they see it anyway

I don’t follow this entirely and I am seriously trying. Which I realize is counter to the state of ND. I still see ND as a belief, not an objective reality. It seems to prize some evidence or other evidence. Why is my hand outstretched not a perfectly accurate and empirical proof of distance and separation? It’s almost as if the belief prizes no separation so that is what is seen in a deep state of meditation. Not that in fact we aren’t separate.

Is this the same as “enlightenment”? Are your attachments let go of? I’m thinking in terms of Buddhism, becoming an Arahant, and Nibbana.

All I can say so far (at 8:54 in the paused video) is that if someone interrupts my immersion in a movie I paid to see at a theater with nonsense like "look at the screen itself and forget the movie," they're going directly into my shit list. I don't get what he wants us to do. I'm sure he thinks it's obvious, but I'm not following--sorry. I know I'm a physical object made up of many highly complex parts, with the most intricate by far being my brain. I know it has electrical impulses firing around its neurons. I know I'm breathing to provide it oxygen through the blood flow from the lungs. I know I need corrective lenses to focus on what I'm typing. But I doubt any of this relates to what he means. At a stream-of-consciousness level, how can I perceive who I am if I try to ignore the story of my life?

Hundy ; o )

Be careful when saying "I promise" about things that are outside your own realm, such as other people's emotional experiences.

I have never suffered more than January 2022

Screen doesn't stay unchanged, it has to change in order to be a screen. Not the best analogy.

IF i’m an atheist, I might become annoyed by hearing certain words like God, spiritual, divinity .

Look how cute you are!

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