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Originally Posted by pachyderm
To me, mindfulness and meditation are different things. Meditation might be a technique to help in being mindful, but mindfulness is just being aware of what your real thoughts and feelings are, without censorship.
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Can you do that without therapy? I couldn't. I would think that getting rid of the censorship is exactly what therapy is all about, no?
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As a child, I think not being able to talk about something is almost the same as not being able to think about it. In my case, anyway, I think I perceived that I could not even afford to think about many things, in case I slipped and let something I thought get expressed, and that was dangerous. So I learned not even to think about forbidden subjects.
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Yes, yes, I agree. Particularly for very young children. And all of that was set up before memory, if not before language. But I don't comprehend how you could have known about that without therapy. I mean, that's what repression is all about
: not thinking about forbidden subjects. There are all kinds of things that I couldn't let myself think about, but I only learned that recently, with T. I had no idea of any of this stuff until recently. Yeah, I read a lot of books. Big deal. Fat chance. It doesn't help. Take care!
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