Matt's Audio Letter of the Week

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s FBL, or Feel Better Letter. This is Matt.

Hope you’re all having a great December.

Today, I want to share a quote from the book The Map of Consciousness Explained by David Hawkins. The quote reads: “Love brings up its opposites.”

I want to spend a little time unpacking that with you, because it’s an important thing to understand.

For those of you who have gone through TBC or been a part of the community, you’re familiar with the scale of consciousness — the levels of energy and the different ways we talk about them. Recovery isn’t about solving the problems you think you have; it’s about elevating your state to the place where you perceive those problems in an entirely different way. And you do that through the transcendence of the lower emotional fields.

What’s interesting is that when you set the intention to heal — to become more loving, to rise into higher states of consciousness — everything that blocks that intention must surface.

When you’re in the higher levels of consciousness, you experience more love. In fact, the highest form of love available to us is unconditional love, which is rare for most people to fully experience. But the moment you set the intention to be unconditionally loving… every pocket of resentment, anger, fear, guilt, shame, pride, and desire that you’ve stored in your emotional system has to come up to be acknowledged and released.

That’s what the quote means: love brings up its opposites.

When you decide to become a more loving person — to truly live from the field of love — you will naturally experience the surfacing of lower states. Situations will arise that trigger these emotions, bringing them into awareness so they can be confronted and transcended.

This is why setting the intention not to feel fear is almost a guaranteed setup for failure. When you focus on not experiencing a symptom, you actually keep your attention fixated on it. You’re constantly monitoring it, worrying about it coming back, and that intention inevitably keeps you stuck.

But when you set the intention to rise into a state where those symptoms either don’t occur, or occur with a totally different perception, the journey requires you to release what’s blocking that state. All the emotional material you’ve accumulated from the past needs to come up so it can be let go.

So “love brings up its opposites” means that becoming more loving is really about releasing everything that prevents you from being loving — because love, and the higher states associated with it, are actually your natural state.

I often say recovery is about returning to the essence of who you really are.

And that process is messy. It’s uncomfortable. It’s not about fixing a small part of yourself you don’t like — it’s about becoming someone completely different.

I just wanted to share that today. I found the quote powerful, and spent some time reflecting on it, and felt inspired to pass it along. I hope it helps you understand your journey a bit more clearly, and helps you recognize that what you’re experiencing is normal.

Wishing you all a wonderful week. If you know someone who would benefit from this message, please share it with them. And if you’re looking for support on this journey, feel free to fill out an application — I’d love to explore that with you.

Talk to you all soon.