I’ve seen this time and time again with myself and others. I know people who cheat on their wives with prostitutes and then go way overboard with strict religious diets and rituals to “balance things out” within themselves and others.
With constant releasing i’m also beginning to see the many ways that i’m bullshitting myself. It’s rough but it’s gotta be done.
Releasing all of this is hard work but it’s so worth it. Thanks for the excellent write up as usual.
Yes, we’ve discussed it elsewhere, but most people end up tuning out the feelings they don’t want to face so regularly that they end up with layers and layers of repression to unwind.
I think this will vary from person to person. For me, the uncovering of the feelings and the discovery of why/when they first arise go hand in hand. Experiment and see though -- if you can’t or don’t need to go deeper, don’t feel compelled to have to. Our goal is just becoming conscious of what we’ve been avoiding
Hi I’m not AC but if I may chime in. No you don’t have to do any self reflection. In my experience, the work of acknowledging the feelings and releasing them will reveal to you the reasons why they are there with no effort at all from you part.
Another way to look at it is that understanding yourself is a side effect of releasing trapped feelings, which is the reverse of conventional wisdom which is to understand in order to release.
The conventional way doesn’t work in my experience.
I’ve seen this time and time again with myself and others. I know people who cheat on their wives with prostitutes and then go way overboard with strict religious diets and rituals to “balance things out” within themselves and others.
With constant releasing i’m also beginning to see the many ways that i’m bullshitting myself. It’s rough but it’s gotta be done.
Releasing all of this is hard work but it’s so worth it. Thanks for the excellent write up as usual.
Yes, we’ve discussed it elsewhere, but most people end up tuning out the feelings they don’t want to face so regularly that they end up with layers and layers of repression to unwind.
Hard work, but you’re right, it is worth it.
So do you just have to acknowledge these feelings without going deeper to see why you developed them?
I think this will vary from person to person. For me, the uncovering of the feelings and the discovery of why/when they first arise go hand in hand. Experiment and see though -- if you can’t or don’t need to go deeper, don’t feel compelled to have to. Our goal is just becoming conscious of what we’ve been avoiding
Hi I’m not AC but if I may chime in. No you don’t have to do any self reflection. In my experience, the work of acknowledging the feelings and releasing them will reveal to you the reasons why they are there with no effort at all from you part.
Another way to look at it is that understanding yourself is a side effect of releasing trapped feelings, which is the reverse of conventional wisdom which is to understand in order to release.
The conventional way doesn’t work in my experience.
Thank you for your perspective.
How do you coax the truth out of your own self?