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“Be clear with tools and forms of action. Look for a fast result, change, forward motion quickly. That way we know it’s possible. Real time unpleasantry changed into a tool”
“Therapists traditionally only listen and friends give unsolicited advice while you actually want the opposite, friends who listen and therapists who actually give advice”
“There must be a connection between providers and patients. It can’t be disconnected like is traditionally done in our time.”
“Activate your life force, find yourself when you are lost.”
“Your physical body, relationship with others, relationship with self….diet, exercise and sleep. Increases how we feel by 85%, when our bodies are well we are well emotionally.”
“When we get depressed we start to pull away from others around us. We don’t really end any relationship necessarily but we disengage in many or all relationships, enough to lose touch with community. It actually supports us to do a lot of little things like eating a meal with another person, no matter who, even if you have nothing in common.”
“Activate your unconscious. Start by getting in touch with yourself. If you don’t know where to start, get in touch with your life force. Journal as a way to mirror the inner relationship with the life force. If you are lost, don’t try to figure it out, connect to your life force instead in order to learn the rest.”
Part X
“The judgmental and antisocial part of you that wants to block evolution and potential. The villain, the voice of impossibly. Adversity is an opportunity to face Part X.”
Three General Truths About Human Life:
“Pain, uncertainty and constant work are all requirements”
“Without the ‘villain’ there is no negativity and therefore no growth. The process is what makes you happy.”
“Humans must create something new in the face of adversity in order to be happy. Finding the balance in the process of overcoming the adversity is the most blissful state.”
“Have the insight into where your Part X comes from, what was your life story and the story of life that your teachers and caregivers brought to you. Understand the dramas, see how you fit in to your story of faith”
“The driving force is your vulnerability. If we aren’t vulnerable we can’t live in a place where we know and understand Part X, connect through others, overcome adversity, grow, feel happy, repeat…. starting to get this?”
“Failure and weakness connects us to the rest of the world. Telling them that we all have that weakness, that Part X, that human component.”
String Of Pearls
“Once we have the tools, we keep going. I am the one to put the next pearl on the string. Know that life is this string of pearls. All actions have the same value. Look at yourself in terms of the habits that put forth action, to put the next pearl on the string. Just doing what you have to do that day.”
“True confidence is the person who will work the cycles. Connect, get vulnerable hope to make a positive impact, sometimes it doesn’t work out well, other times it does. Every pearl has a flaw (turd) and it can be big or small. The reverse is also true, you can make a pearl as large as you want around any turd (you overcome adversity, grow and find happiness) with purpose.”
“Unhealthy self esteem is often connected to SHADOW. We see ourselves as the part of us that we are the most ashamed of.”
EXERCISE:
“Start by closing your eyes, and visualising when in your life you felt the most rejected, ashamed of, the part you like the least. Ask the Shadow what it needs in order to feel improvement. Embracing the Shadow is the main way to overcome the Shadow’s judgement and use the Shadow to get ‘okay’ with your true self in order to connect with others. Pay the Shadow respect and attention in order to avoid imbalance. I don’t need anything else, Im happy the way I am.”
The Realm of Illusion
“Looking for a perfect experience? It doesn’t exist, but is an image only in your own mind. No movement, no depth, fantasizing over the perfect world will somehow achieve the exception of the three rules. It doesn’t. All lives require three general truths, life contains pain, uncertainty and constant work.”
The Maze
“The maze is a product of Part X. Always involves other people, Part X wants fairness. spinning thinking about something that was unfair on the part of someone else.”
Active Love: EXERCISE
“Visualise being surrounded by love, close your eyes and visualise taking in all the love you can and place it into your heart, visualise the person you are upset with and send all the love you can to this person. Feel your love enter the other person, become one, see yourself in them. Place a ring of flowers at their feet.”
“To understand your maze is to become a deeper and closer connection to others. Notice what your self preservation tools are that you use to avoid confronting the maze, leaving the maze and finding deeper connections with others.”
“Shadows can change as your life changes. Your Shadow evolves as your own insecurities (Part X) judged. Connecting with Self is a way to practice seeing Shadow quickly so you can quickly stop, and get out of the maze.”
Radical Exceptance:
“Every event has something you can learn from it, as a reflex, squeeze the juice out. Find something positive, what am I going to do about it now. We are not allowed to judge, we must make meaning out of the toughest parts of life, all events have value - get in the zone of tremendous possibility.”
“Get above the clouds, break through to see the sun. Encourage thoughts that support this place of being, encourage positive thoughts about yourself. Part X wants you to have the negative thoughts, and keeps you from seeing the sun. Being grateful parts the clouds, something up there positive even if you can’t see it right now.”
EXERCISE:
This helps connect you to self. (Keeps you from Part X)
“Grateful flow is the process of creating the things you are most grateful for. Small things are even better. Go slow and feel the gratefulness. Spend time mentally listing the gratefulness and feel the feel of the gratitude and sit in the place right before the next grateful thought to find the general flow, stay there as long as possible.”
Loss Processing
“Loss processing documents parts of yourself so that you can see the forces of recovery because it demolishes everything you think you need that falls away during grief.”
EXERCISE
Get the POTENCY OF NON ATTACHMENT:
“I can pursue something but I am willing to live without it. Im willing to lose.
“Pick out something that you have become too attached to, and you believe something terrible will happen if I let go of it. Imagine you are grasping it, feel the fear around letting go of it, then let go of it and feel the slow gentle fall downward. Say to yourself that you are willing to lose everything. Visualise yourself falling into the sun, body dissolves and you are a sunbeam shinning out with an infinite number of other sun beams radiating out, in the sun world you can only give, can’t grasp or take. The goal is not to become unattached to anything, but that no one thing can take you from your sense of wholeness, oneness.”
“Your pain sets you free. The pain doesn’t go away. The ideal belief in rebirth or reincarnation provides relief in the mind and keeps a human being alive. Expectance of the inability to know what happens in life and after death is key to happiness. The prospect of death is never eliminated.”
“What are you most afraid of loosing. How can you practice letting it go?”
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