Dear All,
This Tuesday the moderator chose the Imagining:
"Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved in return. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted."
On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose a card from the Voice of Knowledge deck;
"Everything I believe about myself is just a story.
In my story, everything is about me, and it has to be that way because I am the center of my perception. The story is told from my point of view."
peace and love,
7 comments:
Oh wow, Healingroom:
"Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved in return. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted."
Too damn right! This is exactly what I need to manifest in my life right now. Thank you.
The story one is more a real thing to some people. I mean we are told stories of our lives from our parents and things we have done and stuff and we just kind of make our lives sometimes on this stuff.
Now about the first one. That would be great even though I am happily married and stuff. Its just more that even if he fell out of love with me it would be ok.
Life is weird and these are great posts.
Tanya and Tweetey,
We had this subject before about loving without fear of being loved in return....I think because it is such a challenge...and that is such a good idea.
I CAN imagine it. And it feels very peaceful.
Yes I agree. It sounds peaceful. Thanks for sharing though.
It's amazing how much a habit it is to see myself through others, and through their perceptions of me. It takes solid practice to change that and just Be.
Yes, I remember this card and sentiment coming up before in your class.
It's interesting you know...many practices give us things we don't always know at the time we are gaining. I've been an artist and writer all my life...and used to perform in improv.
Unbeknownst to me...for at the least the first ten years I practiced art and had shows or was making my way around trying to get shows...an artist and performer experiences alot of rejection.
There is a saying ( I believe it ewas Nietzsche) "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger". And it is so true. Here we are raised thinking rejection is awful...and yes it does hurt...but when we learn to let it wash off us...and keep our passion and enthusuasm strong...it can turn out to make us learn not to care about acceptance. it's critical for someone in the business of using their imagination to not care about acceptance or rejection...the nature of making art and performing demands a quality of confidence...and confidence comes from practice and experience.
I think these lessons would be very good as something introduced to teenagers you know...when rejection and acceptance is so hard for us to understand. Oh god, makes me glad I'm not a teenager!
Hopefully the class will be able to see some inner growth in themselves if they rtemember with compassion what it felt like to be a child and have these fears...we deserve credit as adults to overcome these childhood challenges and make it so we can teach young people these important concepts!
Thankyou for your thoughtful post, Candy.
I could've used this practice in Art school, for sure.
I took criticism much too personally.
It seems that I am just now feeling confident in my woek (20 years after art school)
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