Dissociation: Maggot in the Brain - Admission of Trauma

<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/AVvXsEie0Wia6td8VtsDXbuKJ1jhMOQZf_QwsAWrXO3jxTuUcoLxnZVeGUZXGOn-2AauGl7SNbgvOl6TcCpCPOP_OJqP_H2bKHKNypj28ImUDbPzRsS1B3hWTJkxSzUHgO8Gv6pfHUTic6Sp7R4/s1600/DSC_0532.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/AVvXsEie0Wia6td8VtsDXbuKJ1jhMOQZf_QwsAWrXO3jxTuUcoLxnZVeGUZXGOn-2AauGl7SNbgvOl6TcCpCPOP_OJqP_H2bKHKNypj28ImUDbPzRsS1B3hWTJkxSzUHgO8Gv6pfHUTic6Sp7R4/s320/DSC_0532.JPG" width="180" /></a></div> Dissociation: Maggot in the Brain - Admission of Trauma<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Dissociations have the power to create and the power to destroy. We have the awesome ability to take any experience of our lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers us or one that can literally save our lives.<br /> <br />What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.</span>

Dissociation: Maggot in the Brain - Admission of Trauma

Dissociation: Maggot in the Brain - Admission of Trauma Dissociations have the power to create and the power to destroy. We have the a...

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Our minds as adult survivors of trauma are similar to a laptop that's been dropped on the floor. | The Ten Stages

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLM9FgR0HCv5IrTZzlvTPjf6kMRMHg4oFvht4xXbFDmUY0Ps058WtutsBQGg11P4Oq1oFaD_NtKMv-AT7oxeOq13Zpd-Fk1KHBDqXL449dFPZNzI2pIlRekj_K_JlhhIa_6pxlAdULo7o/s1600/workshop+out.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/AVvXsEjLM9FgR0HCv5IrTZzlvTPjf6kMRMHg4oFvht4xXbFDmUY0Ps058WtutsBQGg11P4Oq1oFaD_NtKMv-AT7oxeOq13Zpd-Fk1KHBDqXL449dFPZNzI2pIlRekj_K_JlhhIa_6pxlAdULo7o/s320/workshop+out.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <a href="http://thetenstages.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/our-minds-as-adult-survivors-of-trauma.html#.V6Lm6861iXA.blogger">Our minds as adult survivors of trauma are similar to a laptop that's been dropped on the floor. | The Ten Stages</a>: Our minds as adult survivors of trauma are similar to a laptop that's been dropped on the floor. - The Ten Stages

Our minds as adult survivors of trauma are similar to a laptop that's been dropped on the floor. | The Ten Stages

Our minds as adult survivors of trauma are similar to a laptop that's been dropped on the floor. | The Ten Stages : Our minds as adult...

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Making The Ten Stages a taught course allowed for one of the most powerful human qualities that of choice.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLM9FgR0HCv5IrTZzlvTPjf6kMRMHg4oFvht4xXbFDmUY0Ps058WtutsBQGg11P4Oq1oFaD_NtKMv-AT7oxeOq13Zpd-Fk1KHBDqXL449dFPZNzI2pIlRekj_K_JlhhIa_6pxlAdULo7o/s1600/workshop+out.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/AVvXsEjLM9FgR0HCv5IrTZzlvTPjf6kMRMHg4oFvht4xXbFDmUY0Ps058WtutsBQGg11P4Oq1oFaD_NtKMv-AT7oxeOq13Zpd-Fk1KHBDqXL449dFPZNzI2pIlRekj_K_JlhhIa_6pxlAdULo7o/s320/workshop+out.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Making The Ten Stages a taught course allowed for one of the most powerful human qualities that of choice. Choice is actually more powerful than recovery programs because we get to CHOOSE to RECOVER. Recovery is not a state of happiness all the time.<br /><br />Recovery is a dedication to see and move towards the light and the dark. Not just be on a chemical high in the early stages of recovery. RECOVER is a verb and we get to choose TO RECOVER.<br />This brings me to the topic of today, which is choice.Many mystical teachings will tell you that you are 100% responsible for your circumstances.<br /><br />Now – I’m not sure I am totally on board with that assessment because it’s hard to think about starving children and believe that they chose that, or that someone would “choose” to be violated or taken advantage of or worse. I think life is a combination of events, outside of our control, happening, plus our taking independent action to change the events, or the meaning of the events, to empower us.<br />So, I’m not going to say that we are 100% responsible for the events of our lives. But I will say that we are at least 80% responsible for the circumstances of our lives, and that boils down to choice. Sure, crazy things happen, sometimes even “evil” things happen; but once they happen, how WE deal with them will determine the outcome. And every moment we are choosing our way into the next moment, and in every moment, as things happen we are giving those events a meaning. And when we become aware of the fact that we are choosing ourselves into every moment and that our minds are the meaning makers of our lives, we get to see the MAJOR role we play in how our lives turn out.Sure, tragedies happen. But some people thrive afterwards and some don’t.<br /><br />Why? It’s because each person gave the event a different meaning. Some people have abusive parents and then become abusive parents. Some people have abusive parents and then never abuse their children because they don’t want them to go through the same torment.<br />Throughout our lives, many of us will face circumstances that seem unfair, painful and traumatic. And, in the moment, that is true. But as we grow and evolve, we get to see that once we accept what happened, we now have the power of choice to be able to redefine the meaning of the event. Was it GRACE or was it a disaster? Was is the worst thing that happened to you or was it an amazing lesson? Was it a tragedy or an opportunity for you to be able to see how Loving you can be? Was it a dark chapter in your life or was it that the events had to happen in order for you to discover your Light?<br /><br />When we realize we are the meaning makers of our lives, it doesn’t mean that everything was/is or will be hunky dory. But it does mean that we can accept and eventually rise above our circumstances because we realize at our essence we are a Soul that is unlimited and that we have the power to CHOOSE how we are going to respond, interpret and live our lives.<br /><br />Remember, I said, gnarly sh*t happens and until the human race evolves collectively to a point where we see how INSANE some of our actions are, those of us who are on The Ten Stage Path can rise above this insanity and start being the presence of Loving Kindness on the planet that we were born to be.<br /><br />So, if you are the meaning maker of your life, if choice is the most important quality of human behavior, what meanings are you giving the events of your life and what are you choosing to create? And would you like to change that?<br /><br />The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives.</span>

Making The Ten Stages a taught course allowed for one of the most powerful human qualities that of choice.

Making The Ten Stages a taught course allowed for one of the most powerful human qualities that of choice. Choice is actually more powerfu...

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Most of us arrive at a sense of self and vocation only after a long journey through alien lands. But this journey bears no resemblance to the trouble-free "travel packages"

<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHnhFitUpbwA-SfCEROUDQyDS7ocUQRskekZ01O78qHkcw0lrc6jgoYx1wGBMT-jXIU4MkEOuyhDlhkm17Lpg4nl8MMl6UB5fgfOHeVecr4XHNCAd5KnlttRierWsIrfOXmUdWuHVyb8/s1600/truth+trust+consent45.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHnhFitUpbwA-SfCEROUDQyDS7ocUQRskekZ01O78qHkcw0lrc6jgoYx1wGBMT-jXIU4MkEOuyhDlhkm17Lpg4nl8MMl6UB5fgfOHeVecr4XHNCAd5KnlttRierWsIrfOXmUdWuHVyb8/s320/truth+trust+consent45.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Most of us arrive at a sense of self and vocation only after a long journey through alien lands. But this journey bears no resemblance to the trouble-free "travel packages" sold by the tourism industry. It is more akin to the ancient tradition of pilgrimage — "a transformative journey to a sacred center" full of hardships, darkness, and peril."<br />In the tradition of pilgrimage, those hardships are seen not as accidental but as integral to the journey itself. Treacherous terrain, bad weather, taking a fall, getting lost — challenges of that sort, largely beyond our control, can strip the ego of the illusion that it is in charge and make space for the true self to emerge. If that happens, the pilgrim has a better chance to find the sacred center he or she seeks. Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now — in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.<br />— Parker J. Palmer in Let Your Life Speak</span></blockquote>

Most of us arrive at a sense of self and vocation only after a long journey through alien lands. But this journey bears no resemblance to the trouble-free "travel packages"

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It is our child hidden within, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We are created perfect.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzxdy1CZI_8jFmmkCU8AAI2uImeHXSW30rGDPZN3Rxuk3x10khx1fT_xm1zR37l5F47KegsyYpqP-iHlFXpgvaFEegY7KSa53otxl6CsToEKdArKJwe-liUm9L1rnZEkkBu2u8MRIoUQ/s1600/10+stage+media+savvy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzxdy1CZI_8jFmmkCU8AAI2uImeHXSW30rGDPZN3Rxuk3x10khx1fT_xm1zR37l5F47KegsyYpqP-iHlFXpgvaFEegY7KSa53otxl6CsToEKdArKJwe-liUm9L1rnZEkkBu2u8MRIoUQ/s320/10+stage+media+savvy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Truth is in our genes. It is the essence of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our child hidden within, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We are created perfect, and despite the inevitability that we loose some of that perfection when we mature and develop in the midst of others who are dissociated, we always retain the capacity to become perfect once again. Our Child Within may be buried deeply, but as long as our hearts beat there remains hope.</span>

It is our child hidden within, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We are created perfect.

Truth is in our genes. It is the essence of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our child hidde...

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Healing our unresolved childhood will accomplish separate studies

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLM9FgR0HCv5IrTZzlvTPjf6kMRMHg4oFvht4xXbFDmUY0Ps058WtutsBQGg11P4Oq1oFaD_NtKMv-AT7oxeOq13Zpd-Fk1KHBDqXL449dFPZNzI2pIlRekj_K_JlhhIa_6pxlAdULo7o/s1600/workshop+out.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/AVvXsEjLM9FgR0HCv5IrTZzlvTPjf6kMRMHg4oFvht4xXbFDmUY0Ps058WtutsBQGg11P4Oq1oFaD_NtKMv-AT7oxeOq13Zpd-Fk1KHBDqXL449dFPZNzI2pIlRekj_K_JlhhIa_6pxlAdULo7o/s320/workshop+out.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Healing our unresolved childhood will be accomplished in separate studies: First, it would make us far better and less abusive , because when we heal our traumas we don’t pass them on , and second, because of this, we will become far healthier stewards of the earth , because we will not  be so traumatised, and thus, by extension, dissociated.<br />The best way for us to heal our unresolved childhood is to study our action plan the ten stages — and fast. The best way to optimise  is to focus our energies inward by avoiding engaging in projection, thus, to live healthy lifestyles. The short-term answer to this is that we who become healthy become parents by proxy to the whole species. The long-term answer is that once the species as a whole plays catch-up and heals into maturity, then many of the healthiest among us would then want to propagate the ten stage philosophy.<br />Anyone who denies we are in a major rush to change things has his or her head buried in the sand, and lacks an ability to fathom the destruction we will have wreaked on our planet  in a few short generations’ time. Conclusion here: the time to change is now. If you deny this you are part of the problem.<br />Despite the rush we are in, healing ourselves is a process that takes time. It does not happen overnight. But it need not take many decades or generations, especially if we have allies on the healing path.<br />Attempting this plan requires major sacrifice — personal, emotional, social, familial, economic, and relational. So be prepared for a rough road. The irony is that we presently have the option of sacrificing; in the future, if we don’t do our homework, these sacrifices will be thrust upon us in far less pleasant ways.</span>

Healing our unresolved childhood will accomplish separate studies

Healing our unresolved childhood will be accomplished in separate studies: First, it would make us far better and less abusive , because w...

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