Emotional Weight, 10000x and The 3rd Patriarch
December 7, 2025
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{Body}
Invisible weight
Physical weight gain is obvious—you can see it and feel it. But there's another form of excess weight most people carry without recognizing it: emotional accumulation that drags down the energy body.
Your energy body functions like an invisible circulatory system, distributing specific frequencies of light to each of your cells for proper functioning. And just as blood vessels and lymphatic channels can become congested, these energetic pathways clog and overflow when overloaded.
When you see someone with rounded, collapsed shoulders—perhaps that's you—you're witnessing someone carrying a very real, though entirely non-physical, weight pressing down on them.
The good news? The energy body can "lose weight" through processes remarkably similar to physical weight loss: detoxification, fasting, and exercise.
Learn more below.
{Mind}
Mind on 10,000x speed
If you've ever watched a YouTube video or listened to a podcast on 2x speed, you understand how much more presence is required to catch everything that's being said.
As you speed up further, this becomes even more pronounced. On 3x speed, you can no longer do tasks like driving or cooking. At 4x speed, you need captions.
And at 10x speed? Almost nothing can be made out—perhaps a word here or there.
But what if you sped that content to 10,000x speed? I've never done it before, but have no doubt it would be so fast and high-pitched as to not even make a sound. At that rate, you probably wouldn't even know anything was being played, let alone recognize the subject being spoken about.
Here’s the point:
Research shows there's a gap of about 1/10,000th of a second between when something happens and when your brain begins processing it. During these infinitesimally small gaps, countless mental formations arise and pass away—perceptual events so rapid and subtle that conscious awareness can't register them individually.
By the time you finish reading this sentence, tens of thousands of these mental formations will have arisen and dissolved.
What exactly are these formations "saying"? And are they shaping your experience, despite you not being consciously aware of them?
This is the subconscious mind—the vast stream of mental activity happening in the background of everyday life, so fast as to not exist. And yet, these formations run your life; they are the assumptions you have about how things work, assumptions which impact every single one of your behaviors.
Let me say it more plainly: you are being controlled by a silent program happening internally, a program which is effectively just a regurgitation of other people's assumptions and your own conditioning.
Learning to meditate, then, is about slowing down enough to catch these rapid-fire formations as they arise. Once you can see them, you can question them. And once you can question them, you can change them.
Practice with me below.
{Soul}
Can you see? You are handcuffed to your own self-proclaimed needs, weighted down by their constant demands to tweak the way things naturally appear.
For those who are free from this attachment or resistance, nothing is staining or confining. Experiences are seen to bubble up, stay for some time, and then fall away. They’re understood to be completely neutral, neither personal nor impersonal.
So we allow things to come. And allow things to go. And allow ourselves to be taken care of in the way that we are taken care of. It really needn’t be more difficult than that.
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