The Power of Openness

...Right? Be aware of that.

So when you're doing it,

when you're not conscious about it,

what you're doing is you're grasping it.

Your deep insides are saying,
"I hate this."

Very quietly, but "I hate."

But if you're conscious of it,
in that moment,

you look at a famous person,

you look at them from a place
of openness.

You have to look at the image,

because the image is where you're storing
that information and emotion.

You look, but you're trying to look
from a different place

You're reprogramming it
you're restructuring it.

You are healing the relationship.

So if you look with that openness
to that same image,

At some point that image will
have different meaning for you.

It will not carry the same meaning.

If you look at it in your own body,

if you look at it in your health,
probably the same thing

You know, wherever the cells are in
your body

producing a kind of disease,
like a cancerous cell,

if you look at that, if you're being
aware of that in your body

aware of yourself, the whole aspect of
yourself,

it will begin to give different
information to the rest of your body.

And therefore, that information
helps begin to restructure

your biological conditions.

It is what we believe, how to understand it's going to happen to the body.

Reproduction of cells, like cancerous
cells, the same principle.

That's how the cancerous cell knows how
to reproduce the cancerous cell.

It will do wonderful thing if it
forgets one day.

And it's producing some new cell.

Probably that's what happens
if the deep pattern of identity

it shifts something inside you

It shifts what it brings in the body.

So the principle here is

the power of openness and awareness
is able to change things

in our body, able to change the way
we identify ourselves,

it's able to change the way we relate
to the world,

it's able to change everything.

That's why it's called vision, it's able to
cut those things.

So that's a bit of explanation.

Any questions?

I'm happy to see that many European
people are staying up really late.

They are participating with us.

So any questions?

Do you think that in openness, there's a
possibility to maintain curiosity?

Curiosity? Yeah, and there is some degree
of curiosity in ourselves.

And there's also curiosity on some
survival level, you know

I'm curious to know what I need, and
so on.

Curiosity has a lot of playfulness,

and you cannot have playfulness

if you're not open to it.

What we use, what we say,
we are serious.

That's what happens in a relationship,
when people are very serious

in a relationship, that is the beginning
of divorce.

[laughs]

They are curious about each other? Yes.
Too curious about each other.

They are not that curious, they are very
open to each other,

that doesn't mean
loyalty and things like that.

There's some sort of sense of openness

and that brings a lot of playfulness.

I was in a place in a country
where people are usually serious,

and I was making a little joke, saying,

"How are you going to be a little more
playful here?"

So how are you going to be a little
more playful? Of course,

first thing, you kind of have to go
inside yourself, wherever this

seriousness is stuck. You have to go
to that place inside and loosen that up.

You have to feel some confidence.

I think that confidence is clearly a key
to be playful.

So if you're confident that you can be a
bit more playful, if you're playful you

can have humor, and you can have
curiosity in a good way.

If whatever you're curious about is
not showing up, you're curious

why it's not showing up!

Rather than feeling pain that it's not
showing up.

You're open to every direction.

So yes, I don't think openness prevents
anything.

Openness makes life richer not poorer.

Openness is the source of knowledge, more
than the knowledge we conceptually know.

There was a study in Netherlands about these

executive people making big
decisions about a big company.

The research was based on, did they make a
better decision when they're taught alot?

Or did they make a better decision when
they didn't think much?

The conclusion was, they made a much
better decision when

they didn't think much.