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“9. Presence. Presence is an overused word that is accompanied by a lack of understanding. Presence is the experience of the present moment, the experience of this very moment in time, but is before me, when I am experiencing parentheses even as I read this line parentheses. Breathing is an extremely important part of being present you are present, you cannot simultaneously worry about the unknown future or being anxious about your mistakes. Presence is now, this moment, this breath, this current experience.
The benefits of practicing presence arise out of untangling yourself from the stories in your head. We don't experience the things that happen to us, we experience what we tell ourselves about what happened to us. Shut up often these stories are filled with your imagination, padded with drama to make it a better story to tell.
HOW DOES THIS SERVE YOU IN RETURNING TO WHOLENESS?
In Western culture we have only been learning about presence in the last few decades, yet learning to be present in the moment is important. To be present now in this moment will support you in detaching from how you have seen yourself, as you allow your new way of being to be fully expressed.”
― Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration
The benefits of practicing presence arise out of untangling yourself from the stories in your head. We don't experience the things that happen to us, we experience what we tell ourselves about what happened to us. Shut up often these stories are filled with your imagination, padded with drama to make it a better story to tell.
HOW DOES THIS SERVE YOU IN RETURNING TO WHOLENESS?
In Western culture we have only been learning about presence in the last few decades, yet learning to be present in the moment is important. To be present now in this moment will support you in detaching from how you have seen yourself, as you allow your new way of being to be fully expressed.”
― Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration
“Take note that Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration approaches the healing process from this foundational belief: There lives within you an innocence, and remembering your innocence is key to doing the work. In choosing to heal from the effects of the shadow you are already declaring yourself worthy of being free from your own recorded emotional history. How does this history get recorded? It is recorded as an imprint in your consciousness, subconscious, and as trauma in the cells of your body. This work is deep and complicated because as it hides in you, it takes the appearance of normal human qualities. But you were not born to suffer. All suffering and struggling have to be questioned. Without questioning it, it remains our reality.”
― Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration
― Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration
“6. Blessing
Let's take this word out of the realm of religion and instead begin to use this word as an action that we take to add love, hope, and renewed possibility to a given situation. Consciously blessing something changes the way we engage with it. For example, if you are someone who doesn't like taking medication, but your body requires that you do, if you bless the medication, your body receives it differently and interacts with it in a way that leads you to greater health experience. A deeper resource for how your body responds to your thinking is It's the Thought That Counts by David R. Hamilton. If you are struggling with an individual, blessing them instead of condemning or judging them will alter how you see them.
To bless something or someone is a way of raising your sight as you anticipate a life-affirming outcome. You cannot condemn someone while blessing them. When we condemn, we close down, but when we bless, we open up. Blessing someone or a situation changes the dynamics of what is before you.
HOW DOES THIS SERVE YOU IN RETURNING TO WHOLENESS?
To bless yourself, others, and your shadow is to change the energy around them.
Your shadow will reveal itself more easily when blessed.”
― Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration
Let's take this word out of the realm of religion and instead begin to use this word as an action that we take to add love, hope, and renewed possibility to a given situation. Consciously blessing something changes the way we engage with it. For example, if you are someone who doesn't like taking medication, but your body requires that you do, if you bless the medication, your body receives it differently and interacts with it in a way that leads you to greater health experience. A deeper resource for how your body responds to your thinking is It's the Thought That Counts by David R. Hamilton. If you are struggling with an individual, blessing them instead of condemning or judging them will alter how you see them.
To bless something or someone is a way of raising your sight as you anticipate a life-affirming outcome. You cannot condemn someone while blessing them. When we condemn, we close down, but when we bless, we open up. Blessing someone or a situation changes the dynamics of what is before you.
HOW DOES THIS SERVE YOU IN RETURNING TO WHOLENESS?
To bless yourself, others, and your shadow is to change the energy around them.
Your shadow will reveal itself more easily when blessed.”
― Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration
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