The Stages Meditation of deep silence

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEgrIE-Uec01A7iKtj-81ZpXxSLEnopQdJ0Prq3yjkqIaRfF2ga0J43cKwP649OfkSNy6nUF19x1O9M-mlMTw7RXstRCDFGl1_ZbjVeG4aCRaa1JwycAr0hTRbNq7_WHhmC7aPA4fXMTRbg/s1600/love-yourself-more-6-300x240.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/AVvXsEgrIE-Uec01A7iKtj-81ZpXxSLEnopQdJ0Prq3yjkqIaRfF2ga0J43cKwP649OfkSNy6nUF19x1O9M-mlMTw7RXstRCDFGl1_ZbjVeG4aCRaa1JwycAr0hTRbNq7_WHhmC7aPA4fXMTRbg/s1600/love-yourself-more-6-300x240.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The Stages Meditation of deep silence, after you’ve listened a while to your restless thoughts, and then observed the emotions that arise when you give them space, involves a wonderful sense of peace which is remarkable in its contrast to the petty anxieties that normally govern our lives. In this stage, worries occur to you but you feel you have the strength of mind and equanimity to cope with them all; you remember challenges looming after you leave the meditation, but then notice they don’t seem half as frightening as when you entered.#childwithin#10stages</span><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://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/gentle-contact-with-child-within-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/347227273_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/gentle-contact-with-child-within-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">Gentle contact with the child within. Our child within has often been ignored or banishes for a considerable time span.</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/2015/06/our-lifes-work-it-is-to-recover-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/348691811_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-lifes-work-it-is-to-recover-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">Our life's work it is to recover our child within.</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/2015/06/we-live-in-world-today-that-lacks.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/348786016_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/we-live-in-world-today-that-lacks.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 live in a world today that lacks loving-kindness and compassion for our fellow man and woman.</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/2015/06/the-true-value-of-human-being-is.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/348006899_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivecontact.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-true-value-of-human-being-is.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 true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self.</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/2015/06/meditation-encourages-us-to-soften.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/349865343_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/meditation-encourages-us-to-soften.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Meditation encourages us to soften the voice of our analytical, everyday-thinking-brain and tap into our intuitive, creative, subconscious mind.</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/2015/06/recognising-our-own-interior-voice.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/347431759_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/06/recognising-our-own-interior-voice.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Recognising our own interior voice blaming and shaming, judging and creating stories of victimisation and pointing outwards</a></li> </ul> </div>

The Stages Meditation of deep silence

The Stages Meditation of deep silence, after you’ve listened a while to your restless thoughts, and then observed the emotions that ar...

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Growth is when we realise the expansive urge for truth at our core. This is our deepest and most natural tendency—to grow beyond ourselves.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgavJ3uX0VAm8R6rR0Im09kqp3bFWxzcbGec4TgulP07FEEAQBpCJmL57CgNRRB0HkEhA7vOKhg1Ri-YmzNeU73wyb7-8SkB6QGU9tgSjNksbqE-4nIsBAP-LMMJ0b1ZGlboXPY6xiM9UM/s1600/10428672_10154666833615702_3280276145782273141_n.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/AVvXsEgavJ3uX0VAm8R6rR0Im09kqp3bFWxzcbGec4TgulP07FEEAQBpCJmL57CgNRRB0HkEhA7vOKhg1Ri-YmzNeU73wyb7-8SkB6QGU9tgSjNksbqE-4nIsBAP-LMMJ0b1ZGlboXPY6xiM9UM/s320/10428672_10154666833615702_3280276145782273141_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Growth is when we realise the expansive urge for truth at our core. This is our deepest and most natural tendency—to grow beyond ourselves.<br /><br />In order to grow, we must align with this calling. But there is a price: we must resolve our traumatic legacy. We must leave our tribes and their denial of the wounds we carry. We must leave their limiting definitions of meaning and safety. We must part company with the known and the norm and the poison they unwittingly carry. We must shun the external definitions of identity. We cannot play a role to be true. We must define ourselves by aligning with the truth at our core and grow beyond the attitudes and behaviour of our tribe and the culture that sustains their denial.<br /><br />To fail to grow is an aberration, a thwarting of our natural propensity. To fail to grow is a perversion of our natural instincts to be more. This thwarting of our natural urge to evolve is the result of emotional trauma, inflicted during childhood by those who had power over us. These traumas entangle our life force and inhibit our growth. Our child within remains in shock and terror—daring neither to be true nor creative. When we resolve our traumatic past, we begin to evolve quite naturally as life intended. Our consciousness expands and we know and align with the truth that runs like a river through all that is—including us.<br /><br />We needn’t invent the capacity to grow: we either allow it or prevent it. For some, to grow seems farfetched, which reveals how far we have drifted from our natural purpose and how terrified our child within has become. The failure to grow depicts the power of convention and highlights the overt or hidden pressure exerted on us by our tribes to remain obedient, wounded children.</span><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://recoverystage.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-order-to-grow-we-must-align-with-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/344103171_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://recoverystage.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-order-to-grow-we-must-align-with-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">In order to grow, we must align with our child. there is a price</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/in-short-emotional-traumas-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/336853051_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/in-short-emotional-traumas-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">In short, emotional traumas are connected with our old self. By dropping the old self, traumas disappear automatically</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/2015/04/if-you-drop-old-self-traumas-are-gone.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/339572698_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/04/if-you-drop-old-self-traumas-are-gone.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">If you drop the old self, the traumas are gone automatically.</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/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://recoverystages.blogspot.com/2015/05/full-recovery-is-consequence-of-full.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/340560786_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://recoverystages.blogspot.com/2015/05/full-recovery-is-consequence-of-full.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Full RECOVERY is a consequence of the full resolution of our traumas.</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/2015/06/for-our-child-within-trauma-is-still.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/346226501_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/06/for-our-child-within-trauma-is-still.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">For our child within the trauma is still going on in our head, though not in our reality. Our intuitive voice is high jacked by the traumatic voice of childhood.</a></li> </ul> </div>

Growth is when we realise the expansive urge for truth at our core. This is our deepest and most natural tendency—to grow beyond ourselves.

Growth is when we realise the expansive urge for truth at our core. This is our deepest and most natural tendency—to grow beyond ourselve...

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The critical ingredient in recovery is getting off our butt and doing something.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwvljAyXITjX4MnnfO04avrPrBoNy9eacMfktwB1YRL6t3mNZz8nfcqjrgA_h0znOn44Wl9i6xFhw3tesEdu_ACPvZ5JrnnWx47D99EZvFRS7-GD7Tde0soMFHyRfq-yG-CEVXJOD8fNc/s1600/childhood+respect.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/AVvXsEhwvljAyXITjX4MnnfO04avrPrBoNy9eacMfktwB1YRL6t3mNZz8nfcqjrgA_h0znOn44Wl9i6xFhw3tesEdu_ACPvZ5JrnnWx47D99EZvFRS7-GD7Tde0soMFHyRfq-yG-CEVXJOD8fNc/s320/childhood+respect.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: x-large;">The critical ingredient in recovery is getting off our butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas about recovery, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true Stager is a doer, not a dreamer.</span><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/2015/06/meditation-encourages-us-to-soften.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/349865343_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/meditation-encourages-us-to-soften.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Meditation encourages us to soften the voice of our analytical, everyday-thinking-brain and tap into our intuitive, creative, subconscious mind.</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/2015/06/the-true-value-of-human-being-is.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/348006899_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivecontact.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-true-value-of-human-being-is.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 true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self.</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/2015/06/we-live-in-world-today-that-lacks.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/348786016_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/we-live-in-world-today-that-lacks.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 live in a world today that lacks loving-kindness and compassion for our fellow man and woman.</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/2015/06/our-lifes-work-it-is-to-recover-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/348691811_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-lifes-work-it-is-to-recover-our.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; 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Our child within has often been ignored or banishes for a considerable time span.</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://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-false-self-has-convinced-us-that-we.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/347434190_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-false-self-has-convinced-us-that-we.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 false self has convinced us that we need to overcome the world as our false self sees it.</a></li> </ul> </div>

The critical ingredient in recovery is getting off our butt and doing something.

The critical ingredient in recovery is getting off our butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas ab...

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BOOM – nice child within is GONE and triggered child within shows up.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiW2LllRMPtc_oL_c6siqbWwsnBi6dJ9SuTD67knBPTjfzWuhUA0qfSOz5NZ4jz0APbop7PW3UvdtaUO6xyEnCTf0cj8AnnUXtjynQa98ZYlimVxUkzEBC4OR4JyTRS5sxfwEXwoNdyp8/s1600/110888-108744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiW2LllRMPtc_oL_c6siqbWwsnBi6dJ9SuTD67knBPTjfzWuhUA0qfSOz5NZ4jz0APbop7PW3UvdtaUO6xyEnCTf0cj8AnnUXtjynQa98ZYlimVxUkzEBC4OR4JyTRS5sxfwEXwoNdyp8/s1600/110888-108744.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Our Triggers happen.<br /><br />They do.<br /><br />There’s nothing we can do to stop them – because it is through our triggers that we can learn about ourselves.<br /><br />We still get triggered.<br /><br />Someone says something. Someone does something. Something happens.<br /><br />BOOM – nice child within is GONE and triggered child within shows up.<br /><br />It’s inevitable.<br /><br />We’ve come to believe that the journey is really about seeking the peace within the chaos – the Truth within the trigger.<br /><br /> <br />Life is not about NOT being triggered. Life is about bringing knowledge and AWARENESS to our triggers and moments when our emotions come up from our turbulent past.<br /><br /> <br />You see, a lot of us make the mistake of shooting for a “spiritual bypass” – where they try to deny their humanness, they try to deny their emotions, they try to put their negativity and triggers in a box and then pretend they don’t exist.<br /><br /> <br />And then – over time – they stack up – and BOOM – we have a breakdown, an emotional explosion or other expression.<br /><br />Having these moments doesn’t mean something is wrong with us. It means we are human.<br /><br />Here at The Stages, we advocate full acceptance and expression of our child within.<br /><br />This lets us be fully alive. From there, we also believe in tapping into the higher awareness that is our child's withins domain, that is the observer of the adult mind and emotions.<br /><br />We are part child, part adult. To deny either is to deny who you are.<br /><br />We can’t just sit around and justify our negativity as “being child-like.” And we also can’t not express ourselves because we are “adult.” We need both. We are both.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><i>This is the beautiful balance that we get to walk as a child within having the human experience.</i></span> <br /><br />We have found that when we let ourself express, when we allow ourself to be who we are – without any judgment – amazing things start to happen.<br /><br /> <br /><br />And once we express ourself – without judgment – we do our best to bring our awareness, my child withins perspective into the moment.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Our aim is to have our child withins awareness be there as we are being triggered, so that we catch ourself faster.<br /><br /> <br /><br />We all have triggers. We all have intense emotions, both dark and light. These are not good or bad – they are just information.<br /><br /> <br /><br />We must allow ourselves to express ourselves; we must allow ourselves to be FULLY adult and FULLY child.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><i>This dance is the dance that allows the greatest version of our life to be lived.</i><br /><br /> <br /><br />How can you allow yourself to be both adult and child?</span></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #0b175f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></div>

BOOM – nice child within is GONE and triggered child within shows up.

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That's the stages path - vulnerability and courage.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdxfLXp0_QRpVi0FLtPWkaw9iEqP8JCEoRNw-0uiSHIvNj3rbfi-2VNUUCSFSFsXQfoHUVyaQWmVXKn064IuFp-lu7G6ImCH8KJeE7S_Ng7-uDOCYhsbKc_qzrGoSA9mVqLdIlnh4zoYB/s1600/Child+within264.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdxfLXp0_QRpVi0FLtPWkaw9iEqP8JCEoRNw-0uiSHIvNj3rbfi-2VNUUCSFSFsXQfoHUVyaQWmVXKn064IuFp-lu7G6ImCH8KJeE7S_Ng7-uDOCYhsbKc_qzrGoSA9mVqLdIlnh4zoYB/s200/Child+within264.jpeg" /></a><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Instead of expressing how we feel, we blame, judge and then convict the other person of being guilty. Then we project our verdict onto them and wonder why they react negatively and then use that negative reaction as further proof that our verdict was in fact, correct.<br /><br /><br />Instead of blaming and judging, if we can open up, become vulnerable and express our feelings and needs, we give the other person an opportunity to course correct with this new information.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And, if over time we are expressing our needs and feelings and they aren't being seen, have the courage to pick up our things and leave. That's the stages path - vulnerability and courage.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It might seem scary, but showing emotion and expressing your needs is how you build intimacy.<br /><br /><br /><br />(And having high standards and the courage to maintain them is how you make sure that only the best kind of relationships remains in your life.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In the stages to no longer blame the other person, but instead to see the other person as a mirror of his or her own life. It's the stages way to share his or her feelings, rather than blaming someone else for not meeting the needs that were never expressed in the first place. It's the student who is strong enough to walk away from a broken and unfulfilled kind of relationship if his or her needs and emotions aren't being seen.<br /><br />When you see the current relationships of our life as not a victim, but as a mirror of our own life, you can begin to take empowering actions.</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #0b175f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"> </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" style="clear: left;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/05/greatest-human-exploration-and.html" target="_blank">Greatest human exploration and adventure based recovery study program on this planet and it is available to you.</a> (stagesevents.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/05/we-are-unwittingly-being-constantly.html" target="_blank">We are unwittingly being constantly influenced or covertly controlled by our unconscious child within.</a> (childwithinus.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/half-way-through-course-after.html" target="_blank">Half way through the course after meditations we will start practicing using our newly found intuitive voice</a> (stagesevents.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-begin-journey-inward-to-heal.html" target="_blank">When we begin the journey inward to heal our emotional suffering and try to avoid falling into the ruts of familiar behaviour that doesn't work for us</a> (stagescommunity.blogspot.com)</li> </ul> </div>

That's the stages path - vulnerability and courage.

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The quality of our life is directly related to the amount of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have with our child within.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHjq455EHOw8zbXEn3bC-9SqRL_hF3KAhSwN38as98pxBG4BIVP1SpBOclq68h3y1N6ZnpmN1h2eYz5MjPNFCPXiJe4FHVhtehuwcqRqUfCwDdcCFZgI25VC0QHUWrU_GX5KWEn7CyBAm/s1600/304576_167883410002376_707153215_n.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/AVvXsEiOHjq455EHOw8zbXEn3bC-9SqRL_hF3KAhSwN38as98pxBG4BIVP1SpBOclq68h3y1N6ZnpmN1h2eYz5MjPNFCPXiJe4FHVhtehuwcqRqUfCwDdcCFZgI25VC0QHUWrU_GX5KWEn7CyBAm/s200/304576_167883410002376_707153215_n.jpg" width="147" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The quality of our life is directly related to the amount of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have with our child within.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Upon reflection and practice, We’ve come to believe this is true.<br /><br /><br />Why?<br /><br /> <br /><br />Because uncomfortable conversations involve telling the truth. And at first, the truth and realisation can be painful.<br /><br /> <br /><br />How much precious time and energy can we waste not talking about our childhood?<br /><br /> <br /><br />A day?<br /><br /> <br /><br />A month?<br /><br /> <br /><br />A year?<br /><br /> <br /><br />A decade?<br /><br /> <br /><br />A lifetime?<br /><br /> <br /><br />Even longer perhaps.<br /><br /> <br /><br />They say that the truth will piss us off – We don’t think that’s true. We think the truth is terrifying you.<br /><br /> <br /><br />A truth like – it’s time to recover from our childhood wounds.<br /><br /> <br /><br />A truth like – I want to get sober.<br /><br /> <br /><br />A truth like – it’s time for change.<br /><br /> <br /><br />A truth like – I quit.<br /><br /> <br /><br />They are scary truths. And we don’t know how to talk about them without it being drama. Why? Because we are scared to feel.<br /><br /> <br /><br />It’s easier for us to fight than it is to feel. It’s easier for us to withdrawal than it is to feel.<br /><br /> <br /><br />So we put up roadblocks and create drama and dissociate – instead of sharing our truth from our heart and feeling the feelings that come with it.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Ending a relationship with ourselves is not an easy conversation.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Nor is saying, I remember you.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Or I quit forgetting.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Or, I want more from life.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Or, I deserve to treat my child within better.<br /><br /> <br /><br />But, what if having hard conversations actually was the beginning of improving our life. What if not having difficult conversations could be holding you back from really getting our life going.<br /><br /> <br /><br />What if, instead of death – freedom was on the other side of having that difficult conversation?<br /><br /> <br /><br />What would you do then?</span></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></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://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/gentle-contact-with-child-within-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/347227273_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/gentle-contact-with-child-within-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">Gentle contact with the child within. 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The quality of our life is directly related to the amount of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have with our child within.

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Hitting our Brain’s Pause Button

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Stop it.<br /><br />You need to practice how to live in the moment. You need to develop the ability to focus on the minutiae of life.<br /><br />Whether it’s eating, drinking, talking, writing, or whatever, slow it down.<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />Well, when you slow down, so does everything else. Your thoughts, your body, your surroundings even; they all move at a slower pace which fosters a sense of calm.<br /><br />Obviously you can’t live your life in slow-mo, but you can take a few minutes every day to yank your mind out of the future and help reduce how much you worry in the process.</span></span>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/2015/05/rewiring-and-accessing-mind-through.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/340776161_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; 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display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We have found out through our own experience as we become enlightened about the effects of childhood abuse and gaining contact with our child within</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/we-can-become-emotionally-traumatised.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/335589187_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/we-can-become-emotionally-traumatised.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 can become emotionally traumatised in early childhood</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://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-child-within-relationship-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/357267696_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-child-within-relationship-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">The Child within relationship to meditation often replicates the foetus</a></li> </ul> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul" style="clear: left;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-child-withins-preschoolers-dreams.html" target="_blank">The Child withins preschoolers' dreams are often static and plain</a> (childwithinus.blogspot.com)</li> </ul> </div>

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I want it.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPqaUCfZ8uZHm0hq1dVk9oa2WsCzYgYi5UVXJOBqMEqdJXfS4rXVfS_Bf16olbRto6Oabox8vCfQKokkIg6D4W4bxIrEGK1OR-w3KIpUcZbXwJG8LD8K2J2DyHh82OBQmqRpoGBN7owfY/s1600/1-potty23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPqaUCfZ8uZHm0hq1dVk9oa2WsCzYgYi5UVXJOBqMEqdJXfS4rXVfS_Bf16olbRto6Oabox8vCfQKokkIg6D4W4bxIrEGK1OR-w3KIpUcZbXwJG8LD8K2J2DyHh82OBQmqRpoGBN7owfY/s1600/1-potty23.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I want it.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I must have it.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have to possess it.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I own it.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I don’t use it.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have debt from it.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It owns me.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It has changed me.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It steals time from me.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It blinded me.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It has taught me.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It has helped guide me.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I desire little.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I keep a little.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I am happier with little.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I miss little.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I stress over little.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I was transformed with little.</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://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/gentle-contact-with-child-within-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/347227273_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/gentle-contact-with-child-within-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">Gentle contact with the child within. Our child within has often been ignored or banishes for a considerable time span.</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/2015/06/our-lifes-work-it-is-to-recover-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/348691811_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-lifes-work-it-is-to-recover-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">Our life's work it is to recover our child within.</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/2015/06/we-live-in-world-today-that-lacks.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/348786016_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/we-live-in-world-today-that-lacks.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 live in a world today that lacks loving-kindness and compassion for our fellow man and woman.</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/2015/06/the-true-value-of-human-being-is.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/348006899_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivecontact.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-true-value-of-human-being-is.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 true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self.</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/2015/06/meditation-encourages-us-to-soften.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/349865343_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/meditation-encourages-us-to-soften.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Meditation encourages us to soften the voice of our analytical, everyday-thinking-brain and tap into our intuitive, creative, subconscious mind.</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/2015/06/recognising-our-own-interior-voice.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/347431759_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/06/recognising-our-own-interior-voice.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Recognising our own interior voice blaming and shaming, judging and creating stories of victimisation and pointing outwards</a></li> </ul> </div>

I want it.

I want it. I must have it. I have to possess it. I own it. I don’t use it. I have debt from it. It owns me. It has changed me....

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The primary function of the ten stages is to recognise and not to fight.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GbByQ2RW4WoTth5PWvj5OvYKtcQrF2czwrrlXMuYMklllv-pD3L6WzKSvtUCYbiGKbZ6LgKLjbPkKdXb0vMC2rNSXaBWqFa9nEi9fn6Er2UjroyfwUQOcOc66r4wg0ei7J0GjCylnpE/s1600/1-hope.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/AVvXsEg-GbByQ2RW4WoTth5PWvj5OvYKtcQrF2czwrrlXMuYMklllv-pD3L6WzKSvtUCYbiGKbZ6LgKLjbPkKdXb0vMC2rNSXaBWqFa9nEi9fn6Er2UjroyfwUQOcOc66r4wg0ei7J0GjCylnpE/s1600/1-hope.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">The primary function of the ten stages is to recognise and not to fight. We can stop at any time and become aware of the child within us. When we recognise the child within for the first time, all we need to do is be aware of him or her and say hello. That’s all. Perhaps this child is sad. If we notice this we can just breathe in and say to ourselves, “Breathing in, I know that sorrow has manifested in me. Hello, my sorrow. Breathing out, I will take good care of you now.”</span>

The primary function of the ten stages is to recognise and not to fight.

The primary function of the ten stages is to recognise and not to fight. We can stop at any time and become aware of the child within us. ...

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We learn to recognise our child within, the function of loving-kindness is to soothe and relieve our difficult emotions.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GbByQ2RW4WoTth5PWvj5OvYKtcQrF2czwrrlXMuYMklllv-pD3L6WzKSvtUCYbiGKbZ6LgKLjbPkKdXb0vMC2rNSXaBWqFa9nEi9fn6Er2UjroyfwUQOcOc66r4wg0ei7J0GjCylnpE/s1600/1-hope.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/AVvXsEg-GbByQ2RW4WoTth5PWvj5OvYKtcQrF2czwrrlXMuYMklllv-pD3L6WzKSvtUCYbiGKbZ6LgKLjbPkKdXb0vMC2rNSXaBWqFa9nEi9fn6Er2UjroyfwUQOcOc66r4wg0ei7J0GjCylnpE/s1600/1-hope.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">We learn to recognise our child within, the function of loving-kindness is to soothe and relieve our difficult emotions. Just by holding this child gently, we are soothing our difficult emotions and we can begin to feel at ease. When we embrace our strong emotions with loving-kindness and concentration, we’ll be able to see the roots of our recovery. We’ll know where our suffering has come from. When we see the roots of things, our suffering will lessen. So Stages Meditational practice recognises, embraces, and relieves.</span>

We learn to recognise our child within, the function of loving-kindness is to soothe and relieve our difficult emotions.

We learn to recognise our child within, the function of loving-kindness is to soothe and relieve our difficult emotions. Just by holding t...

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Anger is not an enemy at the ten stages.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsmnHxUOtYN5Ly_5oSVfmsCJ9ECT37q-YDue170v7YcFTyKjptQM5vL8i9wMThS1Tnt29VN9sJEE_zmLYOHWUX5avMfLlyAPd1xyFjMywPfxrwh7u1J6T-J_MgEI0rrSgfW7tcRk_k_U/s1600/FotorCreated20sd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsmnHxUOtYN5Ly_5oSVfmsCJ9ECT37q-YDue170v7YcFTyKjptQM5vL8i9wMThS1Tnt29VN9sJEE_zmLYOHWUX5avMfLlyAPd1xyFjMywPfxrwh7u1J6T-J_MgEI0rrSgfW7tcRk_k_U/s320/FotorCreated20sd.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Anger is not an enemy at the stages. Both the child within and its hidden anger are ourselves. Meditation is there not to suppress or fight against anger, but to recognise and take care of it—like a big brother helping a younger brother. So the energy of anger is recognised and embraced tenderly by the energy of our meditation.<br /><br /><br />Every time we need the energy of meditation, we just touch that seed with our mindful breathing or mindful walking, smiling, and then we have the energy ready to do the work of recognising, embracing, and later on looking deeply and transforming. Whatever we’re doing, whether it’s cooking, sweeping, washing, walking, or being aware of our breathing, we can continue to generate the energy of meditation, and the seed of recovery in us will become strong. Within the seed of our recovery is the seed of our concentration. With these two energies, we can liberate ourselves from all afflictions.</span><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/2015/07/meditation-gives-us-way-of-gaining.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/355155370_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/07/meditation-gives-us-way-of-gaining.html" style="background-image: none; 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padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/08/making-contact-we-must-touch-seeds-of.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/356892464_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/08/making-contact-we-must-touch-seeds-of.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Making Contact we must touch the seeds of our childhood pain and emotional suffering</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; 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Anger is not an enemy at the ten stages.

Anger is not an enemy at the stages. Both the child within and its hidden anger are ourselves. Meditation is there not to suppress or fi...

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