By offering unconditional love to all thoughts, feelings, and actions, in the forms shown in the 5 step pyramid above, you nurture and rebuild your sense of self. Relate to your child self by recalling distant memories and imagining your present day self appearing to offer compassionate support during adverse situations where it was needed but lacking. Repeating such visualizations of loving support many times is the process of re-parenting your child self.
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The more identity is attached to what is familiar, the harder it is to experience today and tomorrow without being under the influence of the past. By simply observing thoughts, feelings, and actions, you can begin to appreciate how the large majority are arising in relation to past, not present, experience. Who are you, if not the storyline that orients you to your world. What would it be like to step beyond it? What becomes possible?
Relating to whatever is being experienced as a precious gift is life-enhancing. Remembering this can be challenging. Practicing it daily helps to ingrain it.
The human mind creates our life "experiences" by linking processes of thought, feeling, and action in different parts of the brain. Mindfulness practices and self-reflection can help us recognize how we create and maintain the illusions of personal "realities" or story lines, and open avenues of transformation.
Judging, calculating, mechanistic mind works well when performing tasks.
Playful, intuitive, dreaming mind is needed when we step into the unfamiliar. Value the advantages of each, and learn to shift operating systems as needed. |
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