We are the only beings in the world who can observe ourselves, reflect, and change our experience.

Animals can’t do that. They just react to their instincts based on past conditioning. There’s no self-observation — only reaction.

As intelligent as some species may be, they are still bound by their reactions and instincts. A killer whale might find a clever way to hunt a seal, but it’s still just responding to its instinct to hunt.

Although we humans have the ability to be different, most of the time we’re doing the same thing: finding clever ways to follow our instincts.

Of course, we have much more elaborate conditioning than any animal on earth, making our lives a lot more interesting and diverse.

Until we start observing our instincts, reactions, and impulses, it’s quite hard to evolve from this animalistic existence — no matter how elaborate and diverse it may be.

This doesn’t mean we should stop doing what we need to do to live. It’s unlikely that you can stop eating and sleeping just because you want to.

It means observing our instincts without necessarily reacting to them. It means observing where our behaviors come from, and where our will comes from. Why do we behave the way we do? Do we want to keep doing this?

This means that instead of simply reacting, we first notice where it comes from. Little by little, you start to distinguish one impulse from another. For example, there’s the instinct to eat because you need fuel for your body, eating because you feel happy, eating out of habit even when not hungry, eating from a hoarding impulse, etc. Within the same behavior, different impulses are hidden.

This applies to every single behavior in your life, including the ones you want to change or cultivate.

Evolving beyond an animalistic existence means starting to observe and distinguish different impulses, and then focusing on what you truly want. Only then can you become fully human and uncover your true will.

That’s what we start to do in our training course:
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