Core of my lens:
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” In other words, I believe essentially that humans, despite the distortions and barriers that can develop, are essentially good, and not only “good” but intelligent. There is something in all of us that wants to grow and develop in the unique way that is just right for us. Our work together would be around
Core method:
I have witnessed in myself and others for over 20 years now, that when you find a source of support, either from another trusted person, another power, grace or yourself, that helps you to allow yourself to be exactly where you are, to help remind you to have true contact and direct experience with whatever it is that is going on for you (anger, love, envy, joy, fear, hatred, shame) that things move. One sure fire way to keep whatever it is in your experience that feels intolerable or shameful in place it to avoid or reject it. Once you can start to practice directly feeling into what is happening for you, not what you Think is happening (even though I’m sure you are brilliant) forward movement begins to happen. Someone shared with me the metaphor of a boat being stranded on some rocks in a river that’s lost its water. Being close with our experience and not judging it starts to fill the rain clouds that eventually start to provide the river with water again. Flowery language I admit but there doesn’t seem to be a way around it. It’s physics, the mechanics of how to assist inner change and eventual outer change.
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