Stages of the Unfolding of Awakening

"Like all phases, the mind starts to unwind and that's what it's doing, it is just simply unwinding its fears, its deep seated sense of not being whole, not, being - whatever the mind wants to hold. If you have a really strong sense of defense and protection - and that's a loving place - because you simply couldn't, you were too sensitive to open up or to live in the world without these defenses and protections."
"That will be flushed up. You'll get to see these conditionings. Or maybe you're a perfectionist and the mind thinks everything is going to be very perfectly in place. That will fall into ashes as well. There's usually a period of what I just call 'unwinding", and in this unwinding, the mind is objecting, you get to see these conditionings."