Defense Mechanisms // MindScience 008

Aaron, thank you so much for showing us these perspectives. Amazing explanation ❤

What about being rightly angry and disgusted when those close to you such as parents betray your trust by having such little regard for you and what you have to say by grossly disrespecting, invalidating, and violating your boundaries and then having the audacity to make false promises to change to manipulate you to shut you up without any intention to change while continuing to violate those boundaries even WHILE you are communicating the severity of violating your boundaries and feelings and their consequences? I don't think feeling those "negative" emotions are "being a victim" nor universally "error/incorrect". Quite the opposite, those feelings are correctly alerting me about the true ugliness of those low quality behaviors and character of these ppl and to be careful in the future so that I can pull my energy back not feel sorry for them and empower myself by not accepting such disrespectful violations and not putting myself in a similar position in the future for their abuses and lack of empathy.

Aaron you are truly a gift to us. I share your videos everyday. ❤

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very much am enjoying binging through your older content. You seem to well read in many philosophical works, especially Law of One. I was wondering if you have heard of The Christ Letters. It is said to be a channeling of Jesus over many years starting around 2000. Wondering if youve read it and what you think of it.

Aaron, thank you for fighting through any resistance and battles you've ever had, so that you could become the teacher that you are and then to place yourself in the online community with your teachings. THIS video, among all the others; I watch over and over and over and over and over and over... because I am so blown away to hear what I either always knew, or needed to hear and absorb. I prayed for an answer this am about some resistance I'm having about something and I asked what it is, for it to please be shown to me... and this video popped up. And you say that resistance isn't an EXTENSION of your trauma, it IS your trauma... I am pretty much on the floor over that. I knew it was something from trauma, like trauma was the shadow of it, I had no understanding it was WHOLEY the trauma. But that truth just shook me to the core. I NEEDED to hear that today - so much! I needed the perspective and the ability to know where to place this resistance... "defence mechanisms give you what they seek to defence against". I wrote it on a piece of large paper and hung it on the wall.
I'm literally outside of my body right now - because I prayed for the answer and you provided it in such a way that it just took my breath out of me. I will NEVER forget this. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
"You will always know when the mind has taken over because it will always be accompanied with suffering..." If that's all I ever know about trauma, it's all I ever needed to know... Thank you, Aaron.

Your great thanks for help.

lots of cause but not much solution

As always, I very much appreciate you and all yo do for all of us. I realize I'm late to the party with this video and you might have touched on this over the years but I thought I'd just put it out there: what is the difference btwn defense mechanism and coping mechanism? TY again.L&L

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thank you

Intelligent and so hilarious. Love your presence

This video has single handedly aided me in forgiving myself. Thank you for being you and sharing this amazing content.

God I love it 😍

I suppose another way of saying things is that if you accept the metaphysical position of hard determinism then we are in a very real sense just bodies in motion and not that different from a table or a chair. You could say that if there were some demon that knew precisely where every atom was at a given point in time in the universe they could calculate exactly where we would be and even what we would think in the future. In short, even this comment and your reaction to it will already be predetermined. In other words, I was always going to write it and you were always going to have the reaction you have because of the long chain of cause and effect that got us to this moment.

You are amazing!

I am experiencing something really amazing to me right now! ✨ Firstly, thank you sincerely, Aaron for the devotion and for following your passion, sharing your experience in these videos. I am watching and rewatching your content for a while now, and firstly I was searching for particular topics and questions that (I thought) bothered me. Then, gradually, as I assimilated more and more from what you were talking about, I can't even remember at what point I stopped intentionally brousing through the videos and just started to watch consistently, or intuitively choosing the ones that appealed to me. This I can say is first moment now, that I really feel how genuine attraction works - when I stopped searching, the answers started coming. Or I started actually hearing them. In this video, and in the one before, I learned just the things that I needed in a way that I have never expexted. Obviously I could have never articulated what I needed to know in a way that it would appear in a search. I couldn't have known from the title that I will hear those exact words, that I just felt so liberating. The message just had to come to me, when I stopped "taking action"... So obvious, and I soo thought I knew all this, until this very moment, that I felt how it really works. In a split second I think I might have felt what surrendering really means. And I hope I will continue the jurney on this new path I feel I shifted to today. 🙏 Many blessings! ✨

I love you so much for this 💞

Please, if the true self cannot be broken, and healing is always available, who is the 'you' that is injured by trauma? Is it the ego? The shadow? when we talk about fragmentation, is it also the ego that is fragmented?

This explains CRT thanks.

Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information Aaron. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺😀

You've literally changed my life. When you taught me that suffering is optional and based on perspective, it just blew me away. I re-watch your mind science vids once in a while so I don't forget! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart ❤

Thank you for this video🙏. You have a real talent for bringing these ideas to your viewers in a easily digestible way. Appreciate your channel and sharing of wisdom.

Chew chew chew…. :-)))) so funny

Lol the chip example 😂 Chew. Chew. Chew

I love the way you explain things in a way that shows there’s no shame in our faults - I lost my Christian beliefs a few years ago & am healing from the religious dogma - it’s amazing how much the idea of being a born sinner - basically that we are born bad and must pray for God to forgive us - also the idea that God will send us to hell for eternity if we are bad - it’s just amazing how much these ideas affect us as adults. Self love has been a journey for me but recently I’ve noticed I’m no longer beating myself up over every little thing - and this is life changing. Anyways - thank you for everything 🙏🏻

I freeze and don't know sometimes

I have heard fight or flight or freeze

So good Aaron....so good. ❤️

Was the Ego the False God in the Garden?

I love this one! I was searching for your insights on defensiveness! Thank you Aaron!

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." My aha moment. ty

This is my favorite so far. Its so true and to see it all play out is amazing. But even knowing it doesn't make it easy at first to not keep giving into it. But knowing it is the first step to freedom. Awesome stuff! Thank you!

Thank you so much

''..my value is Eternal and can Never be victimized... And when I can finally see that, what I Am, needs No defending, I Am FREE....'' Oh my... These last words are soooooo powerful!! If only this could be felt deep inside of everyone! It would bring tremendous healing and boost every positive aspect of Life and collective Awareness! Love and Light to everyone! Bless you, Aaron! I am so grateful.. ❤️🙏

Hi Aaron, im struggling to understand and would be so happy if you could explain, if you get rid of suffering and you finally feel there is nothing to defend anymore, you no longer have the need to defend your self against criticism, other people, and so on. Is there any point in even engage with people that criticize then? What i mean is, when you don't have the need to defend anymore, should you just ignore all those criticizers and move on? or should you answer them in their critique?

Your light is bright and you speak truth with moral authority. I felt for the first time like I was a passenger in my body. It is unbelievable. I put my attention to anything, and this totally cool, carbon-based form just instantly manifests my will. It is amazing! I feel like I’m meditating with my eyes wide open. Utter tranquility. The last line is my newest favorite: “When I finally see that what I Am needs no defending, I Am free.” You just solved one of my greatest paradoxes that has tormented me: Why did Jesus not defend himself? Know I know by direct experience. Thank you for this gift ✝️💝🕉

This is so incredible and is explained in such an extraodinarily insightful and loving way. I love that you connected multiple different spiritual concepts together to create a holistic worldview. Thankyou

How about sexual abuse of childeren? I would say they are victimized? There trauma is not just a thought.. just a memory.. i do agree to some point though..and i do agree there is healing.. but i think its a bit more complex than this.. How about stored (trauma) energy?

sounds like this is just teaching to not take responsibility for your actions and minimizing abuse...

Hahaha “ I put the chips in my mouth”... “chew”.....”chew” ....”chew” 😂😂

Brilliant video mate well done

Amazing 🤩

"Defense mechanisms offer what they would defend." Sounds like a feedback loop to me. And, it's the primary modus operandi used to control populations on Earth; that is, Problem, Reaction, Solution. A problem is made to cause a reaction that will produce a desire for a solution that the source that made the problem just so happens to have all ready to go.

Defense mechanisms are how we protect illusions. The truth needs no defense.

So funny!!! So wise, funny and informative, Triple threat 😆🌈💚🤩

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Dude 👏