02/09/2023
Marion Woodman once asked people before they began therapy with her, to agree to devote one full hour everyday to working with a journal, practicing active imagination, working with colour/paints, and working with dreams. She said, many people stated that, "but i dont have that kind of time. i cant cut that out of my schedule", to which she respectfully responded, "then you are not serious about this work. What could be more important than this kind of encounter with the magnitude of your own soul's journey?
Let's embrace "Introspection as a way of healing".....
so check-in with yourself:
what got touched today within me?
what generated a significant amount of energy?
where did that energy come from?
what did that touch in my history?
what are the big issues that have now been activated?
How do we navigate the residual effects of past trauma? Experiences with people in our surrounding environment trigger crises of confidence. How we address challenges to our outer reality helps to re-shape and re-parent our inner reality. Conflict tends to be internalized and insecurities are dealt with in private. And then 'temporarily' forgotten (the ego is at work), keeping us in a functioning state, like driving a car on a spare tire, without any thought given to taking steps towards the puncture (s) on the original tire.
We only momentarily recognize the subtle ways we keep ourselves locked into painful (familiar) cycles by keeping a past incident's impact flesh in our minds. By holding onto these unhealthy dynamics, we innocently and in an eerie way think that we wont be a target for future bullies and aggressors. In actuality we become our own worst bullies by living in a state of hyper-vigilance whilst still following old patterns.
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