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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 749484" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">OK. I think our thoughts about the past are just made up stories. And I think more than not we used these made up stories to beat ourselves up in ways that are judging and invalidating. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"> What I aspire to do is to focus on the present. This moment. And doing so with a specific aim, to feel connected to that place in myself that feels whole, and good and centered. The past is gone. The future is hypothetical. The now is all I have. </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">It is from this place that I have loved my son. My aim now is to find for myself, self-acceptance, even bliss. I am really making this a mission. In my faith (which is the oy faith) I am in a meditation group online, I am studying (and doing) art. I am working towards a daily prayer practice. I am walking 80 minutes a day (OK most days. OK. I just started back up again yesterday.) </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">I don't think the mind, that is, thinking, has much to offer us. I think we have to walk outside the boundaries of thinking. It is a radical shift. We leave the envelope of this suffering and step outside of it. I think this is what Tanya has done. She has just stepped outside of the envelope and found her life in everything. We do not have to be defined (or define ourselves) by the suffering of our children, or even by our own suffering. It can be there. But we choose to be something else and to live from that. This is doable. But it takes commitment.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 749484, member: 18958"] [LEFT][FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)]OK. I think our thoughts about the past are just made up stories. And I think more than not we used these made up stories to beat ourselves up in ways that are judging and invalidating. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)] What I aspire to do is to focus on the present. This moment. And doing so with a specific aim, to feel connected to that place in myself that feels whole, and good and centered. The past is gone. The future is hypothetical. The now is all I have. It is from this place that I have loved my son. My aim now is to find for myself, self-acceptance, even bliss. I am really making this a mission. In my faith (which is the oy faith) I am in a meditation group online, I am studying (and doing) art. I am working towards a daily prayer practice. I am walking 80 minutes a day (OK most days. OK. I just started back up again yesterday.) I don't think the mind, that is, thinking, has much to offer us. I think we have to walk outside the boundaries of thinking. It is a radical shift. We leave the envelope of this suffering and step outside of it. I think this is what Tanya has done. She has just stepped outside of the envelope and found her life in everything. We do not have to be defined (or define ourselves) by the suffering of our children, or even by our own suffering. It can be there. But we choose to be something else and to live from that. This is doable. But it takes commitment.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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