When we are able to "hold" our experience as well as allow
ourselves to "be held" by something larger than our personal
self, we learn to trust ourselves and the workability of our lives,
even in the midst of uncertainty. We become better able to
respond to the challenges life will inevitably provide and trust
deepens in the basic wisdom that underlies even our most trying
experiences... Over time, as we illuminate and befriend our
experience at deeper levels, we invite its meaning and intelligence
to disclose itself... symbolically and metaphorically and begin
to realize that even during times of intense struggle and suffering,
we are contained within something immense and ultimately
trustable...
ourselves to "be held" by something larger than our personal
self, we learn to trust ourselves and the workability of our lives,
even in the midst of uncertainty. We become better able to
respond to the challenges life will inevitably provide and trust
deepens in the basic wisdom that underlies even our most trying
experiences... Over time, as we illuminate and befriend our
experience at deeper levels, we invite its meaning and intelligence
to disclose itself... symbolically and metaphorically and begin
to realize that even during times of intense struggle and suffering,
we are contained within something immense and ultimately
trustable...
We are always, already being held by something infinite and vast -
the contemplative and meditative traditions provide a portal
into this larger, already existing dimension of experience...
the contemplative and meditative traditions provide a portal
into this larger, already existing dimension of experience...
from - A Healing Space:
Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times
Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times
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How really wonderful to read these words as I am moving through a couple of experiences of synchronisity - first of Brene' Brown's own name being spoken on TV while I read her name last night, then another bloggers spoke of my post today being of COPD and his that he's already written to be posted soon on the same disease. The universe seems to be hugging me today. Thanks so much for your part in it here!
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