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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 621019" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>I use the concept of acceptance (radical acceptance, as MWM would say) when I start to feel the fear whirl up inside me like a gyre...then I say...Oh yeah, this is an unavoidable, unchangeable thing...it doesn't warrant this agitation, and the agitation won't help or change it, it will only tire me out. That seems to help. And the power of fear....when it sweeps up in me I try to hold it close, name it...it is a buddhist practice. Hold the fear, even picture yourself holding it in your hands near your heart, and talk to it by name...hello fear, I see you. I will take good care of you today for as long as you want to stay. Then let it stay till it goes...sort of surprisingly, it actually goes in 15 or 20 minutes if you just let it (and most other emotions) take their course...it is the engaging in battle with them t hat keeps them consuming us...a metaphor for difficult child's!</p><p>Profound thoughts over morning coffee <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 621019, member: 17269"] I use the concept of acceptance (radical acceptance, as MWM would say) when I start to feel the fear whirl up inside me like a gyre...then I say...Oh yeah, this is an unavoidable, unchangeable thing...it doesn't warrant this agitation, and the agitation won't help or change it, it will only tire me out. That seems to help. And the power of fear....when it sweeps up in me I try to hold it close, name it...it is a buddhist practice. Hold the fear, even picture yourself holding it in your hands near your heart, and talk to it by name...hello fear, I see you. I will take good care of you today for as long as you want to stay. Then let it stay till it goes...sort of surprisingly, it actually goes in 15 or 20 minutes if you just let it (and most other emotions) take their course...it is the engaging in battle with them t hat keeps them consuming us...a metaphor for difficult child's! Profound thoughts over morning coffee ;) [/QUOTE]
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