The Dialogue of Self Liberation

25/07/2022

Dear Friends,

Just a quick update to let you know we've been busy behind the scenes at TDSL for sometime now, writing a book about The Dialogue of Self Liberation.

We would like to thank you all for your continued love, support and patience, and we look forward to sharing more information about this soon.

In the meantime, here are a couple of links to the recent episode of the "How to Not Get Sick and Die" podcast with Matty Lansdown, interviewing TDSL co-founder Cheyne Towers.

Link to Apple Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/how-to-not-get-sick-and-die/id1450212088

Link to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2FTMqWqzD89wyFMHUudbX9

Listen to How To Not Get Sick And Die on Spotify.

11/03/2022

What do we say to ourselves? Do we have an internal dialogue that we'd never utter to others? How do we transform our internal dialogue? "How can we let go of something when we may not be aware of it," Cheyne Towers, MBAThH On this week's PTSD and Beyond ...

11/03/2022

I recently had the pleasure of speaking on the PTSD and Beyond podcast, hosted by Dr. Deb Lindh.

This was a wonderful interview and conversation about The Dialogue of Self-Liberation, and how this can be of great benefit in helping people who have experience of trauma.

Please take time to listen and to share!

We have an upcoming TDSL Live Program event, starting on Monday 2nd May 2022 at 6pm UTCBST, book your place!

https://learntdsl.com/join-live-program/

https://ptsdandbeyond.podbean.com/e/cheyne-towers-1/

What do we say to ourselves? Do we have an internal dialogue that we'd never utter to others? How do we transform our internal dialogue? "How can we let go of something when we may not be aware of it," Cheyne Towers, MBAThH On this week's PTSD and Beyond ...

02/11/2021

Change can be challenging if we have carried within us feelings of guilt, shame or regret; or if we first have to admit and acknowledge that maybe we have unintentionally

- limited
- hurt
- abused
- lied to
- let down
- ignored or
- failed ourselves or others.

In order to free ourselves from the weight of those things, we must first forgive ourselves.

Forgiveness is the active process of acknowledging what we have done, learning from those experiences, and then leaving them and any associated feelings in the past.

This allows us the possibility to make a committed movement away from those old non-useful patterns of thinking, feeling, acting and being.

In this very specific way The Dialogue of Self Liberation itself is a practical process of Self-Forgiveness which allows us to draw a distinction between what we have felt and our opportunity to feel something different, from now...

What are you ready to begin forgiving yourself for today?

With Love and Gratitude,

Cheyne

23/10/2021

The words we choose to use determine what we feel and how we experience it.


Often common phrases can have implications which may not be immediately obvious to us and yet have an impact.

The following are some examples:

- "This" and "these" implies something is close and immediate to us.



- "That" and "those" implies something is distant from us.



- "Yet" allows for the possibility for something to occur in the future. Eg “I can’t naturally apply The Dialogue of Self Liberation YET”.

- "I Am", states that something is true of us now, it is an identity statement.


- "My, states that something belongs to us, as if we own it, like Gollum with the ring.


- "Always", implies that something will always be true and can be no other way.

- Never, implies that something is impossible, that it can not and will not occur at any time.


- Can’t, means we are not able and without further qualification suggests we never will be.


- I Won’t ever, implies that we have already given up.

- I Don’t ever, implies there is something which we actively do not engage in and never will.

Sometimes other people can pass limitations to us with such statements and questions as:
- “You never...”,
- “You always...”,
- “You don’t...” or
- “Why don’t you ever...”,
- “Why do you always...”.

Other times we may ask non-useful questions of ourselves which presuppose answers, such as:

- “What is wrong with me?” implying, ‘There’s something wrong with me’

- “Why do I always...?”, implying, ‘I always do something and there is a reason for it’

- “Why does this always happen to me?” implying, ‘This always happens to me and there is a reason for it’.

Understanding the hidden implications of our communications, and then actively applying the The Dialogue of Self Liberation allows us to ‘Reclaim Control of the Helm of Our Ship’, thereby reclaiming control of:

- Our Thinking
- Our Feelings
- Our Actions
- Our Reactions
- And most importantly...

THE PRESENT MOMENT

What common phrases have you noticed in your self talk with hidden implications?

With Love and Gratitude,

Cheyne