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Insecurity issues with near and dear ones || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2020)
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Insecurity
Relationship
Desire
Expectations
Value
Freedom
Possessiveness
Attachment
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that one does not need to overcome insecurity itself, but rather what causes the insecurity. If you are insecure with your dear ones, it suggests the relationship is not very solid and there is something to worry about. He questions why one would be insecure with a person who is near, dear, and intimate, pointing to the foundation of the relationship as the source of the issue. The speaker suggests that insecurity arises because the relationship is founded on certain conditions, demands, and expectations. Insecurity is present only when there is a desire to clutch something and hold it tightly. Since desire is self-centered, one must ask if they are relating with the other for personal pleasure, gain, or happiness. If so, the relationship lacks substance, and one must question what it is they are trying to secure. Acharya Prashant challenges the mental model that because a relationship is valuable, one feels insecure and threatened. He argues that if something is truly valuable, it has strength and cannot be vulnerable. Conversely, if a relationship is fragile and vulnerable to influences, conditions, and mood swings, it lacks real value. The presence of fear, possessiveness, greed, expectation, or jealousy in a relationship indicates a lack of health, not its worth. This means one is using the other as an object to consume and satisfy personal desires. To resolve this, one must bring real value to the relationship by relating in a free, open, and healthy way, not for personal benefit or because of societal constructs like blood or name. The more freedom and health there is in a relationship, the less insecurity there will be. He advises questioning the very basis of the relationship, which will lead to the reduction of insecurity.