The Stages says the longest journey we will take is not anywhere "out there" but to our child within.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="line-height: 17.94px; margin-bottom: 6px;"> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #141823; font-family: verdana, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2V0m_tw16V3pZI4r6kxX6eflcK6I2BScDceLnYABOBMdqn-qC8VIcMm-pPDQejrBlh_WESx19BVuiD-CbVK1RDki0jiKzZUw9XbYkfiZ68Xi8Gqjk_hYbN4_vjPd5F53C7VmVGNISECi/s1600/inner-child+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2V0m_tw16V3pZI4r6kxX6eflcK6I2BScDceLnYABOBMdqn-qC8VIcMm-pPDQejrBlh_WESx19BVuiD-CbVK1RDki0jiKzZUw9XbYkfiZ68Xi8Gqjk_hYbN4_vjPd5F53C7VmVGNISECi/s320/inner-child+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The Stages says the longest journey we will take is not anywhere "out there" but to our child within.<br /><br /><br />And this journey is the journey from the HEAD to the HEART. The thinking mind to the feeling intuitive voice.<br /><br /><br />This is our journey.<br /><br /><br />The mind is a genius creation. Our logic is powerful. But the intuitive voice of powerful self-worth is stronger than logic. And this intuitive voice, the voice that comes from within is something that can be felt in the heart and attempted to be described by the mind.<br /><br /><br />All art, music, poetry and sacred words are nudges from the heart as articulated by the mind - and not the other way around. So what does the journey from the head to the heart feel like?<br /><br /><br />Our intuitive voice FEELS like meditating on being connected to all that is, it's a sense of bliss, a sense of peace, a sense of contentment and appreciation that words cannot describe.<br /><br /><br />It doesn't feel like the doubtful, questioning mind. It feels like an open, expansive heart. And our goal could be to surrender the back and forth mind chatter and spend some time checking in with our heart. As We have been participating in this meditation lately, it is as if our heart is in contact and that we are finally paying attention - CONSCIOUSLY - to it.<br /><br /><br />It feels that when I tap into the voice of the intuition, We know the answer to almost any question we are asking about our lives. It feels like a wise and knowing child within that will never abandon us or put us down. It truly feels like this is the centre of The child within us. And what we've noticed as we do this meditation is that for the majority of our life and even still, our minds has been running circles around it - using thoughts and judgments and justifications for why it is wrong. And we've been slowly opening up to this new perspective, but it's been a long road with a lot of confusion.<br /><br /><br />It is as if we've been shown that tapping into this - this is the key to our continued living in tune with ourself. That is to say - the promise of the greater truth, Joy, abundance and challenges overcome. And it feels as if this part of ourself is connected to the Greater Source of our child within. So when we are paying attention to our child within, it is literally the Source speaking to us.<br /><br /><br />So, We must ask myself what would we rather listen to, The Child Within or our own mind?<br /><br /><br />Well, We can tell you that our own minds have almost killed us with drug and alcohol addiction. And even though our minds are intelligent and clever, the wisdom that emanates from our Child Within is cosmic in nature. That is to say, it's beyond the rational part of our mind. It's tapped into a much Larger Perspective.<br /><br /><br />So our journey from this day forward is to make daily conscious contact with our child within and see where it leads us. We await with positive expectation!<br /><br /><br />We all have this ability. How can we quiet our mind and tap into the feeling and wisdom of our Child Within today?<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #141823; font-family: verdana, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Related articles</span></div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/05/nobody-else-knows-your-reason-for-being.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/341645460_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/05/nobody-else-knows-your-reason-for-being.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nobody else knows your reason for being. 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The Stages says the longest journey we will take is not anywhere "out there" but to our child within.

The Stages says the longest journey we will take is not anywhere "out there" but to our child within. And this journey is the ...

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Our child within is what we are born with.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwS25fISJiUs8z0f_Q1_a__gxAnolyjJ0YJzWxI0QbXq3jC_Kci3qb0-HOEY2FkdmR-QqoxlJAOcCWyiqlGnSCoWgujEwzmkwITsle_HrydhhuJqty211CwszwZ6ZdiMM8HfkHu-UEw4Na/s1600/inner-child+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwS25fISJiUs8z0f_Q1_a__gxAnolyjJ0YJzWxI0QbXq3jC_Kci3qb0-HOEY2FkdmR-QqoxlJAOcCWyiqlGnSCoWgujEwzmkwITsle_HrydhhuJqty211CwszwZ6ZdiMM8HfkHu-UEw4Na/s320/inner-child+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <i style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">Our child within is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The stages journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of our child back into our hearts.</i></div>

Our child within is what we are born with.

Our child within is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The stages journey is the unlearning of fear and the accept...

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We were not born to live our parents’ life.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_9CX5OlKNfMrYf_HE5Ig_HkNBBH1KSetq0djZviaJlroeRdm1pj6aIYZtWqBlEgNdQonSrj32rC4Jlx7nUGtv0ZRMRvu8bSQuv65-CJbf-u-7qM7DHnrZ6aAAXBn_i8GDqe8Xt5R43CD/s1600/1-1-The+Ten+Stages234-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_9CX5OlKNfMrYf_HE5Ig_HkNBBH1KSetq0djZviaJlroeRdm1pj6aIYZtWqBlEgNdQonSrj32rC4Jlx7nUGtv0ZRMRvu8bSQuv65-CJbf-u-7qM7DHnrZ6aAAXBn_i8GDqe8Xt5R43CD/s200/1-1-The+Ten+Stages234-007.jpg" width="129" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">We were not born to live our parents’ life. We were not born to live a life of someone else. You were not born to live the life of your tribe, or community, or faith, or creed or nationality. Out beyond all those identifies of FORM is YOUR CHILD WITHIN. And that child is a UNIQUE creation that was born to give a UNIQUE gift of the intuitive voice to you.</span></div>

We were not born to live our parents’ life.

We were not born to live our parents’ life. We were not born to live a life of someone else. You were not born to live the life of your t...

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Don’t die with your child within still locked inside you.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4iM5_AR_JGy5cgjJzVsHgI2ySOmpx2Wg4yGGaxW28qX4NuBCrp1yANm_gmw_ZuXXp2uVp4oFxn0MHBGwFc5xLI9IABYAnMvP4pKYE2Fqii17a0JCMV1idIHl-Y_1g26fx89ATGuWIE2c/s1600/secrets.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4iM5_AR_JGy5cgjJzVsHgI2ySOmpx2Wg4yGGaxW28qX4NuBCrp1yANm_gmw_ZuXXp2uVp4oFxn0MHBGwFc5xLI9IABYAnMvP4pKYE2Fqii17a0JCMV1idIHl-Y_1g26fx89ATGuWIE2c/s320/secrets.png" width="320" /></a></div> <i style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">Don’t die with your child within still locked inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your mind. Listen to that inner voice, and don’t get to the end of your life and say, ‘What if my whole life has been wrong? Make your contact TODAY,NOW.</i></div>

Don’t die with your child within still locked inside you.

Don’t die with your child within still locked inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your mind. Lis...

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When you are willing and eager, the child within joins in.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSS-ps5BT0h3ZTN-sRsMNDcfejwfR15s6TxvD7Zy_KM_Oi140mq9YLUXXbEB9VGCvofKaK6PWhuVIl8iZp2GSchMUCP-23Lhaaj3-j2PeRorv2yLFyGu8KDLZiOqSaHYyYMm0m6upViTs/s1600/1-hope.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSS-ps5BT0h3ZTN-sRsMNDcfejwfR15s6TxvD7Zy_KM_Oi140mq9YLUXXbEB9VGCvofKaK6PWhuVIl8iZp2GSchMUCP-23Lhaaj3-j2PeRorv2yLFyGu8KDLZiOqSaHYyYMm0m6upViTs/s200/1-hope.jpg" width="190" /></a></div> <em style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">When you are willing and eager, the child within joins in.</em></div>

When you are willing and eager, the child within joins in.

When you are willing and eager, the child within joins in.

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So, with our identification with our distinct child within

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPma9tm-599Ipstw5tp_lnYZZvukOGFvWTMbm1ioHY0O3U9yE9OWUIUEWLjdpt0BZZjuvTP0bk_GfnU8AcGQCXNIhEXZEAuxDXVldQ_acjgixStUjD6IiubS4-k-hRzcKv1m77RKrpnvrx/s1600/1-zen234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPma9tm-599Ipstw5tp_lnYZZvukOGFvWTMbm1ioHY0O3U9yE9OWUIUEWLjdpt0BZZjuvTP0bk_GfnU8AcGQCXNIhEXZEAuxDXVldQ_acjgixStUjD6IiubS4-k-hRzcKv1m77RKrpnvrx/s200/1-zen234.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">So, with our identification with our distinct child within we can accept what happens in the outside world without it needing to define who we are. And in doing so, we start to cultivate a POWERFUL perspective that will allow us to transcend our circumstances and truly give our boundless freedom in the compassionate embrace of liberation to our fellow students..</span></div>

So, with our identification with our distinct child within

So, with our identification with our distinct child within we can accept what happens in the outside world without it needing to define w...

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We are the child within beings having a human experience. And this is our truth.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcfXxbgK_DE_ppWGBUxl245sihg9Bc2_bgt0CTzN9iKmIKlfoFOH6EbUYFNzCr6xI0wgOXRl5QJm1B60jFzAO6m1GQWPRFz3HKvFlBM-gAsimSiU0O_dNB5jug5qmyv1sNeXYspoSQeSuu/s1600/memories.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcfXxbgK_DE_ppWGBUxl245sihg9Bc2_bgt0CTzN9iKmIKlfoFOH6EbUYFNzCr6xI0wgOXRl5QJm1B60jFzAO6m1GQWPRFz3HKvFlBM-gAsimSiU0O_dNB5jug5qmyv1sNeXYspoSQeSuu/s1600/memories.jpeg" /></a></div> <div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We are the child within beings having a human experience. And this is our truth.<br /><br /><br />One thing we've found in the personal growth world is that many of us tend to focus so much on the spiritual side of things that we forget to be HUMAN.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We think that personal growth, spiritual work and walking on The Path are not really about being more spiritual. We think they are about being more in touch with our perfect self The Child Within.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We used to think it was about being more spiritual, but that's not what we are thinking and feeling today. Because, at the end of the day, what does being more spiritual REALLY mean? To me, it means simply to be more recovered. It doesn't mean to be more right, or more in charge or more anything other than more recovered.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And when we are more in touch, towards ourselves AND others, then the direct result of this is to become more child like. When we respect ourselves and have compassion towards ourselves, we have more Loving-Kindness and compassion for others.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This makes us more the child within. This takes away the separation and allows us to step into Oneness where we focus on and celebrate what unites us and our mutual recovery, but not condemn what makes us different.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />So, instead of trying to measure ourselves against some spiritual standard of achievement of how we SHOULD BE and beating ourselves up for what and who we AREN'T, We truly believe it's about being more child like and, as a result, being more HUMAN. After all, why would spiritual beings choose to exist in human form other than to experience the joy, ecstasy and total amazingness of giving, receiving and BEING RECOVERED?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This means honoring our emotions. Learning from them. Not making them wrong.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Not making ourselves wrong for always needing to learn. Not making ourselves wrong for not always getting it right. Not making ourselves wrong for our mistakes. Not making ourselves wrong for having our dark side and fear - NO.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />RATHER, it is about accepting, loving and knowing that all these things are what make us human. And when we LOVE, ACCEPT and EMBRACE these, we raise our vibration (that is to say, feel better) and that new vibration emanates OUTWARD into the world and people can FEEL IT, instead of needing to PROVE anything.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />To us, this is what the spiritual journey is all about - becoming our child within.</span></span></div>

We are the child within beings having a human experience. And this is our truth.

We are the child within beings having a human experience. And this is our truth. One thing we've found in the personal growth world...

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Think of your Recovery and your Intuition as guidance from your child within and you'll begin to see how everything is in perfect order

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio2-g63Tq7jeWgRino9KCWI9csvLn30Ajwf-wIWy1Iu9F7jS2ixIG14xYnXHU15440C8-IiOVdNq-ZAHpSI-cqhF9-PAA8bV0Q1Db8ndQakL2cSK2KdrXrcLcJ4z6E5tIRASnKOawXIrl7/s1600/contact.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio2-g63Tq7jeWgRino9KCWI9csvLn30Ajwf-wIWy1Iu9F7jS2ixIG14xYnXHU15440C8-IiOVdNq-ZAHpSI-cqhF9-PAA8bV0Q1Db8ndQakL2cSK2KdrXrcLcJ4z6E5tIRASnKOawXIrl7/s200/contact.png" width="200" /></a></div> <i style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">From your limited point of view the comings and goings of Life can seem chaotic, confusing and unfair. But if the ant could see the street from the bird's eye view she would see the order of things. Think of your Recovery and your Intuition as guidance from your child within and you'll begin to see how everything is in perfect order</i><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-think-its-great-that-stages-offer.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/338528497_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-think-its-great-that-stages-offer.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We think it's great that THE STAGES offer alternative activities for people coming off the isolation of trauma</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-of-ourselves.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339080354_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-of-ourselves.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Truth of ourselves</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-child-within-thats-is-interior.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340768502_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-child-within-thats-is-interior.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The CHILD WITHIN thats is an interior voice accessing the exterior and is the only true voice of the child.The authentic intuition voice that lovingly guides your life.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-drop-our-self-centred.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197483_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-drop-our-self-centred.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">When we drop our self-centred motivations and allow all things to come toward us to carry out practice, that is realisation.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; 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Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-we-have-find-child-within-ourselves.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340330572_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-we-have-find-child-within-ourselves.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">When we have find the child within ourselves</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

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The reason why the program has become a taught study course is that it is painful thing to wake up

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRyqUawEftYbF5ym35HjuHpplmZ5NHAHnI3hDtWPR9DGIBkie6uEl5rW90hq3tehebYIk11PE_ypYd5E6RMzH0U8JpTBCcgBl9MQhsbvtSGWYcHX6qnTU6W0kkCeciUtjhP11iRwIW7hce/s1600/black+solutions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRyqUawEftYbF5ym35HjuHpplmZ5NHAHnI3hDtWPR9DGIBkie6uEl5rW90hq3tehebYIk11PE_ypYd5E6RMzH0U8JpTBCcgBl9MQhsbvtSGWYcHX6qnTU6W0kkCeciUtjhP11iRwIW7hce/s320/black+solutions.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The reason why the program has become a taught study course is that it is painful thing to wake up — and make contact with your child within. It breaks rules. It angers the norm. It enrages parents. It puts a target on your back. And it hurts. It hurts like hell. It hurts to reconnect to open the locked door breaking down the nursery wall and feel the old traumas, the old longings, the old memories. It hurts to grieve, to feel the rage, to confront the perpetrators, to break the denial. It hurts to shed the mask of comfort and walk into the despair. It hurts to reject the fantasy of one day being loved by those who never really loved you and instead failed to nurture. It hurts to leave the family system behind. It hurts to stand on your own.<br /><br />Yet this process of waking up, and this alone, is the path of our recovery back to life — to a long, healthy inner life. This is the cure for the child withins abandonment .<br /><br /> Related articles <br /><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-of-ourselves.html"><img src="https://i.zemanta.com/339080354_80_80.jpg" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-of-ourselves.html">The Truth of ourselves</a> <br /><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-drop-our-self-centred.html"><img src="https://i.zemanta.com/339197483_80_80.jpg" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-drop-our-self-centred.html">When we drop our self-centred motivations and allow all things to come toward us to carry out practice, that is realisation.</a> <br /><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html"><img src="https://i.zemanta.com/339197490_80_80.jpg" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html">You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it</a> <br /><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-child-within-thats-is-interior.html"><img src="https://i.zemanta.com/340768502_80_80.jpg" /></a><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-child-within-thats-is-interior.html">The CHILD WITHIN thats is an interior voice accessing the exterior and is the only true voice of the child.The authentic intuition voice that lovingly guides your life.</a> <br /><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-we-have-find-child-within-ourselves.html"><img src="https://i.zemanta.com/340330572_80_80.jpg" /></a><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-we-have-find-child-within-ourselves.html">When we have find the child within ourselves</a> <br /><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/addiction-is-way-of-temporary.html"><img src="https://i.zemanta.com/339192659_80_80.jpg" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/addiction-is-way-of-temporary.html">Addiction is the way of temporary forgetting and hence we begin to understand the repeated circles of addiction cycle. This becomes a part of the study course at The Ten Stages</a></span>

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Whatever the present moment contains, accept is as if you had chosen it.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eckhhart_Tolle_front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="English: Head-shot of Eckhart Tolle from direc..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="200" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Eckhhart_Tolle_front.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="131" /></a></div> <em style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">“Whatever the present moment contains, accept is as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.” </em><em style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></em><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">- Eckhart Tolle</strong><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/ego-always-seeks-death-recovery-always.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336757320_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/ego-always-seeks-death-recovery-always.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ego always seeks death. Recovery always seeks life.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-think-its-great-that-stages-offer.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/338528497_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-think-its-great-that-stages-offer.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We think it's great that THE STAGES offer alternative activities for people coming off the isolation of trauma</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-of-ourselves.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339080354_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-of-ourselves.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Truth of ourselves</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-child-within-thats-is-interior.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340768502_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-child-within-thats-is-interior.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The CHILD WITHIN thats is an interior voice accessing the exterior and is the only true voice of the child.The authentic intuition voice that lovingly guides your life.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-drop-our-self-centred.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197483_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-drop-our-self-centred.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">When we drop our self-centred motivations and allow all things to come toward us to carry out practice, that is realisation.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197490_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

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We are ruled by trauma not truth.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="p1"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE81yH_8mGkUH3eUzSt5stKykk4wensdhIB1M6Z5MBADBhoUA_PJne7pS7812zIMJmlQKLkQIEqSHmbcWtUA_S3SM3P_fajqm5Zsc0P-Jh3C2NvpWru5L-czPR0KXufVxczyDnvkKXIQs/s1600/110888-108744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE81yH_8mGkUH3eUzSt5stKykk4wensdhIB1M6Z5MBADBhoUA_PJne7pS7812zIMJmlQKLkQIEqSHmbcWtUA_S3SM3P_fajqm5Zsc0P-Jh3C2NvpWru5L-czPR0KXufVxczyDnvkKXIQs/s1600/110888-108744.jpg" /></a></div> <span class="s1" style="font-size: large;"><i>We</i> are ruled by trauma not truth.  We are the norm.  We remain unconscious of the legacy of poison that we carry from our families and ancestors.  We are destructive toward ourselves, others, and our planet home.  In essence, We are deluded children, seeking to exploit others and the world in order to make up for the deficits of our childhood.  We are rapacious and violent—which are expressions of our childhood neglect.  We befoul the planet with impunity.  We are not sustainable.  We mindlessly procreate, using our own children as a diverting drug from the traumas they carry but deny.  We hope our children will fulfil our own thwarted dreams, and when this doesn’t happen our children receive our rage.  Sadly, this is child abuse and creates another generation of troubled people on a crowded planet.  As We continue to lead unconscious lives, we exploit natural and human resources to a breaking point, such that our extinction looms.</span></div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-think-its-great-that-stages-offer.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/338528497_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-think-its-great-that-stages-offer.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We think it's great that THE STAGES offer alternative activities for people coming off the isolation of trauma</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-of-ourselves.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339080354_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-of-ourselves.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Truth of ourselves</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-recovered-person-becomes-new.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/337310385_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-recovered-person-becomes-new.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The recovered person becomes a new species. 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We are ruled by trauma not truth.

We are ruled by trauma not truth.  We are the norm.  We remain unconscious of the legacy of poison that we carry from our families a...

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The Child Within has become a mental repository that holds our repressed feelings and experiences

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7zmL68A3ehgrFo__2_dCn7CKAFPFHh4zoLOR6grEdrtjWauKvgXhGH0sbfyBCV-h8AF_hyv6yfoueU4RsuTiakbkH8KT7GOSN_xqxpEcr4Gb5sZ3h_vjCagHib0lD5Pwyu_L7eBwBlAa1/s1600/onelife56.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="940" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7zmL68A3ehgrFo__2_dCn7CKAFPFHh4zoLOR6grEdrtjWauKvgXhGH0sbfyBCV-h8AF_hyv6yfoueU4RsuTiakbkH8KT7GOSN_xqxpEcr4Gb5sZ3h_vjCagHib0lD5Pwyu_L7eBwBlAa1/s320/onelife56.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />The Child Within has become a mental repository that holds our repressed feelings and experiences—all that was too painful to feel or know at the time it occurred and all that remains so. These troubling experiences usually occur in childhood, that vulnerable time of life when we were trapped in our situations and when the implications of what we saw and experienced overwhelmed us. To save our sanity we held these difficult feelings and experiences for a later time, in hopes that we would become strong enough and authentic enough to bear their emotional impact.<br /><br /><br />It is painful to process anything in the unconscious. But the hardest experiences to process are the betrayals of our parents. It is a sad fact that the people who should have loved and protected us the most instead failed us the most. Yet only a person who has experienced enough adult autonomy and separation from his or her parents can withstand the emotional onslaught of repressed feelings and memories when they emerge. For many it is too much to ask; they become as overwhelmed as they were when they were children.<br /><br /><br />It is important to note that trauma is not all that lives in our unconscious. Also repressed in our mental repository is our full palette of creativity, authenticity, and originality. These gifts were not welcomed in an emotionally constricted family or society. So when the pain of unresolved traumas comes out, so too do our positive gifts.<br /><br /><br />But what happens if we don’t process what lives hidden within us? This Child Within of repressed trauma and thwarted creativity saved us as children but it destroys us as adults. All that lives in our unconscious begins to fester and make its presence known through symptoms—physical or emotional. Here the unconscious rules our life. And can rule our unconscious species.<br /><br /><br />Even though symptoms may be painful, they really are our friends—for they tell us that something has gone wrong. Our symptoms tell us that our version of a perfect childhood, or our family’s version of a perfect family, is not true. We begin to suspect that something occurred in our history that has hurt us. Eruptions from the unconscious are really seismic helpers. As painful as they may be, they are an emergence of repressed material that needs our healing, love, and attention. They can save our lives. In fact, without them we are lost.</span></div>

The Child Within has become a mental repository that holds our repressed feelings and experiences

The Child Within has become a mental repository that holds our repressed feelings and experiences—all that was too painful to feel or k...

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For victims of disrespect and trauma, dissociation is often lifesaving.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMhULQ2cv-MqJCP34XOzm2jI4jxWw1ZXK65m95VcUdvns3XDXrhY5NGL9R-cTp5FugvlMS84jxuVbuYosI-dsOPeAg3iylUsByDJ4d6Z9UnCPMcOAm2oSLqek_zkaB79gGAS5KhMOh/s1600/trauma123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMhULQ2cv-MqJCP34XOzm2jI4jxWw1ZXK65m95VcUdvns3XDXrhY5NGL9R-cTp5FugvlMS84jxuVbuYosI-dsOPeAg3iylUsByDJ4d6Z9UnCPMcOAm2oSLqek_zkaB79gGAS5KhMOh/s1600/trauma123.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">What children — or, for that matter, adults — generally do when exposed to physical violence or other trauma they can’t flee from or prevent: They “dissociate.”<br /><br />Dissociation is an involuntary human response to stress or trauma that causes the conscious mind to withdraw and turn inward, reducing incoming stimuli and mitigating the effects of overwhelming emotion. The feeling is one of being present but not consciously aware of oneself or one’s surroundings and is characterised by memory loss and a sense of disconnection. For victims of trauma, experts say, dissociation is often lifesaving.<br /><br />But when the dissociative response is called on repeatedly, especially in early childhood, the defence can become fixed and ingrained, disrupting normal functioning and undermining emotional and physical well-being. The most common cause is child maltreatment — physical, emotional or sexual abuse.</span>Related articles<br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/dissociation-dissy-can-affect-our.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340506802_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/dissociation-dissy-can-affect-our.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dissociation( DISSY) can affect our perception, thinking, feeling, behaviour, body and memory.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/dissociation-being-split-off-from-ones.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854393_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/dissociation-being-split-off-from-ones.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dissociation (being split-off from one's deepest truth) mimics recovery - but it isn't recovery.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/05/our-sense-of-reality-and-who-we-are.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340504801_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/05/our-sense-of-reality-and-who-we-are.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Our sense of reality and who we are depend on our feelings, thoughts, sensations, perceptions and memories.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-weve-seen-is-that-not-very-many.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854406_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-weve-seen-is-that-not-very-many.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">What we've seen is that not very many people are willing or able to expend the necessary time or energy for recovery to take place.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/lesson-2-like-all-bad-decisions-we-make.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/335589192_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/lesson-2-like-all-bad-decisions-we-make.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LESSON 2: like all bad decisions we make, even our reenactments/dissociation offer us a chance to learn.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/03/we-then-always-have-to-involve-our.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854368_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/03/we-then-always-have-to-involve-our.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We then always have to involve our primary repetition compulsion. We compulsively replicate our unresolved traumas in an attempt to heal them.</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

For victims of disrespect and trauma, dissociation is often lifesaving.

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Is there any way for you to think, choose, or act that isn’t determined by processes outside of your control?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHwuKwqYklx-gwAULlsGypizJOrCLbYKPTqFoRAC_szSMVDPd1ELnaB_yTjrH9JQRMdVgegbNFX01-wiaHI_t2oKhZLxV9mWe2-MiZMqIShy58HDXo75ydWq1amSFyI50q0fIb1iW44Ra/s1600/1-1-The+Ten+Stages234-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHwuKwqYklx-gwAULlsGypizJOrCLbYKPTqFoRAC_szSMVDPd1ELnaB_yTjrH9JQRMdVgegbNFX01-wiaHI_t2oKhZLxV9mWe2-MiZMqIShy58HDXo75ydWq1amSFyI50q0fIb1iW44Ra/s1600/1-1-The+Ten+Stages234-007.jpg" width="129" /></a></div> If all your thoughts, beliefs, decisions and behaviour ultimately depend on neural processes and environmental factors over which you have no direct control or access, can it be said that you have anything like a free will, as it has been traditionally conceived? Is there any way for you to think, choose, or act that isn’t determined by processes outside of your control?<div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/lesson-2-like-all-bad-decisions-we-make.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/335589192_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/lesson-2-like-all-bad-decisions-we-make.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LESSON 2: like all bad decisions we make, even our reenactments/dissociation offer us a chance to learn.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-become-very-uncomfortable-that-this.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854363_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-become-very-uncomfortable-that-this.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We become very uncomfortable that this study course would dare to contradict everything we hold dear.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/dont-blame-ourselves-for-our-rage-our.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854370_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/dont-blame-ourselves-for-our-rage-our.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Don't blame ourselves for our rage, our sadness, our frustration, our testiness.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/stage-9-within-stage-9-we-come-to.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854426_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/stage-9-within-stage-9-we-come-to.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">STAGE 9: Within Stage 9 We come to acknowledge our journey into reality through the stages.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/ego-jumps-around-causing-chaos-and.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336853377_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/ego-jumps-around-causing-chaos-and.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ego Jumps Around causing chaos and drama - Stage Intuition is Consistent</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivecontact.blogspot.com/2015/04/especially-at-first-as-we-engage-with.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336853074_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivecontact.blogspot.com/2015/04/especially-at-first-as-we-engage-with.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Especially at first as we engage with The Stages, we become more aware of our rampant thoughts and violent emotional swings.</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

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