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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 671515" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>So, this is Wednesday. This began, the insistent, emotionally overwhelming part, began on Sunday.</p><p></p><p>The answer was: Work as a sacred thing in and of itself. The phrase attending this phase: <em>When chopping onions, just chop onions.</em></p><p></p><p>Just keeping a chronological record for anyone else coming through it.</p><p></p><p>I cannot stress strongly enough that it was work viewed for its own value that brought me through this.</p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Or because you would kill yourself, if you truly saw yourself as they taught you you were. There is a conflict there, maybe, and so we don't look in the mirror, at all. Abandonment recovery too is, as Eckhart Tolle suggests, a matter of certainty in the power of your own Presence. How did he say that.... This is not a direct quote, but it goes something like this:</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Though the pain body seems overwhelming, seems all encompassing, I assure you that nothing can stand before the fact of your Presence.</em></p><p></p><p>Something to that effect.</p><p></p><p>If anyone would like the direct quote, please say so. I have it here in my quote box, but I don't want to stop and look for it, now.</p><p></p><p>But I will, if one of us would find it helpful.</p><p></p><p>That is the thing that was taken from us: Belief in the power of our own Presence. However we have been hurt, in whatever phase of life, whether as children or as soldiers or as adult women or men trapped in abusive relationships, this is a piece of recovering equilibrium. Recovering our belief in the power of our own Presence to withstand who they taught us we were, so we can welcome and cherish the shamed Child within at deeper and deeper levels. Again, think about the myriad levels and effects of racism; of shunning; of prejudice. Think of extremism in any of its forms. Think about ridicule and how it is used, and how hurtful and shaming a thing it is, and how without ethical structure are those who use it routinely.</p><p></p><p>Think <u>Animal Farm,</u> or <u>Lord of the Flies.</u></p><p></p><p>That is how we grew up.</p><p></p><p>Those terrible lies, and we believed them, because we knew nothing else.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 671515, member: 17461"] So, this is Wednesday. This began, the insistent, emotionally overwhelming part, began on Sunday. The answer was: Work as a sacred thing in and of itself. The phrase attending this phase: [I]When chopping onions, just chop onions.[/I] Just keeping a chronological record for anyone else coming through it. I cannot stress strongly enough that it was work viewed for its own value that brought me through this. *** Or because you would kill yourself, if you truly saw yourself as they taught you you were. There is a conflict there, maybe, and so we don't look in the mirror, at all. Abandonment recovery too is, as Eckhart Tolle suggests, a matter of certainty in the power of your own Presence. How did he say that.... This is not a direct quote, but it goes something like this: [I] Though the pain body seems overwhelming, seems all encompassing, I assure you that nothing can stand before the fact of your Presence.[/I] Something to that effect. If anyone would like the direct quote, please say so. I have it here in my quote box, but I don't want to stop and look for it, now. But I will, if one of us would find it helpful. That is the thing that was taken from us: Belief in the power of our own Presence. However we have been hurt, in whatever phase of life, whether as children or as soldiers or as adult women or men trapped in abusive relationships, this is a piece of recovering equilibrium. Recovering our belief in the power of our own Presence to withstand who they taught us we were, so we can welcome and cherish the shamed Child within at deeper and deeper levels. Again, think about the myriad levels and effects of racism; of shunning; of prejudice. Think of extremism in any of its forms. Think about ridicule and how it is used, and how hurtful and shaming a thing it is, and how without ethical structure are those who use it routinely. Think [U]Animal Farm,[/U] or [U]Lord of the Flies.[/U] That is how we grew up. Those terrible lies, and we believed them, because we knew nothing else. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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