(((chaotic13)))
Great thread!
I just caught up reading through it, and it made me think of 'The Power of Now' by Tolle. He says there is our true self and our 'pain body'. When our pain body is in control, that is when life feels out of control. The pain body lives in either the past or the future, but the true self lives in the now.
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Originally Posted by chaotic13
My question for the group today is do you know or have a good sense of who you are? Are you able to stay connected to that YOU, during therapy or when interacting with others?
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I'm working on it. The most powerful sessions I have these days are when I can stay connected to my core self. It is still scary, because it means living in *that* moment. I really have to trust myself and T enough to know that whatever comes up, it will be ok.
Those days when I just talk about what has happened or might happen, I am missing out on the moment, and not really connecting as deeply. Little by little my awareness is raising and I'm able to quiet my pain body and be more in the moment both in and out of therapy.
(If you can't tell, this book has been hugely influential for me. I find the pain body analogy something that makes a lot of sense, and when you are able to really just 'be' in the moment, it is an amazing thing.)
Yes, it all makes a lot of sense to me!
