Listening is the powerful, soothing agent of all communication.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CIw4zOgeMSk/WcN7W8MILwI/AAAAAAAAdOc/7NujMsRK7mA6rwUU3e4haHqNerS8ZArKgCLcBGAs/s1600/ADDICT%2BCOM%2BVOICE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1132" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CIw4zOgeMSk/WcN7W8MILwI/AAAAAAAAdOc/7NujMsRK7mA6rwUU3e4haHqNerS8ZArKgCLcBGAs/s320/ADDICT%2BCOM%2BVOICE.jpg" width="226" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Listening is the powerful, soothing agent of all communication. Listening is the best tool there is to lower anxiety, diminish division, and open into sameness, into togetherness. Listening will help almost anyone who is triggered to calm down. The deeply beautiful and profound thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi says. "Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Listening is a gateway to that open field."<br /><br />Any conversation is energised when individuals express differences. But what often happens is that we become aggressive rather than grateful for the chance to envisage fresh perspectives. We can see the value in even contentious discussions:<br /><br />"Conflict is a way for us to learn how to integrate our differences. As we learn to include more difference, our relationships become more interesting, more authentic, more trustable. We have more bandwidth for the challenge of being human, and we can engage that challenge together."<br /><br />The time is ripe to "take heart and assume that we can and will learn new ways of coexisting." We are challenged to constructively deal with our differences, activate our natural compassion, practice meditation, and act with emotional maturity in every difficult relationship in our lives.</span>

Listening is the powerful, soothing agent of all communication.

Listening is the powerful, soothing agent of all communication. Listening is the best tool there is to lower anxiety, diminish division, a...

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We become willing to break free of considering ourself in the victim role.

<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />We acknowledge at list the limits of our own power, especially in the realm of dissociations</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4jQ5-2QWA9g/VdBXS9BRdaI/AAAAAAAATZ4/cyBxMdldB2o2Qgjf9tv2C-Mh8rNhgvCwwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/scars.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4jQ5-2QWA9g/VdBXS9BRdaI/AAAAAAAATZ4/cyBxMdldB2o2Qgjf9tv2C-Mh8rNhgvCwwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/scars.jpeg" /></a></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />We become willing to break free of considering ourself in the victim role.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Reach out to our own interior child within for help and reconciliation.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />We Acsess our needs, compulsions, talents, and potential fearlessly.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Risk, share, and understand our history of the ancestral voices </span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Make restitution to ourselves for the harm that has been done to us.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Identify and constructively explore our resurrected  feelings.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Stop trying to control and rescue the behaviour of others.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Heal from all disrespect and abusive relationships</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Develop the meditational wisdom to distinguish between what we can change and what we can't whilst Living one day at a time</span></div>

We become willing to break free of considering ourself in the victim role.

We acknowledge at list the limits of our own power, especially in the realm of dissociations We become willing to break free of consideri...

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We who have heard this profound message of the ten stages are shocked

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PeBdqmEuwW4/Tx5GEzwOi-I/AAAAAAAAcDc/eODEZjKxelQ4dT612kJlFkdSmYA0MCnywCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/hand%2Bfish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PeBdqmEuwW4/Tx5GEzwOi-I/AAAAAAAAcDc/eODEZjKxelQ4dT612kJlFkdSmYA0MCnywCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/hand%2Bfish.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">We who have heard this profound message of the ten stages are shocked, because we are used to being coddled and told how great and smart and wise and enlightened and healthy we already are.<br /><br />We are used to being told it was just fine for us to have children. We are used to being told that our abuse of our children was not really abuse and that our sick conditional love for our children really was love.<br /><br />We are used to being told that our own lies and insanity were actually perfectly healthy and normal. We have become used to listening to false prophets, gurus and mentors when we have problems. We are used to being told that our mindless behaviour was wise, and that we are doing the right thing by building a wall between our consciousness and the wrenching pain of our true, deep spirit the child within.<br /><br />We are used to being told that our crazy culture was healthy, our treatment of the earth’s resources was progressive, our romantic relationships were beautiful, our love for our parents was appropriate and warranted, our histories of abuse are overrated, our pop-psychologists are indeed psychologists, our wars and hatreds are largely justified, our petty prejudices are acceptable as long as they did not push them in others’ faces, and our hatreds are rational.<br /><br />We are used to being placated and numbed and medicated and enslaved and psychically castrated by those who are profiting from our herd mentality. And we have always thought this illusion was what love is all about.<br /><br />We become uncomfortable when we hear a program that would dare to contradict everything we hold dear. And yet these words resonated with us on some deep and long-forgotten level. We are not used to hearing the truth. It makes us curious. And it also makes some of us want to kill us in a sea of our denial.</span>

We who have heard this profound message of the ten stages are shocked

We who have heard this profound message of the ten stages are shocked, because we are used to being coddled and told how great and smart a...

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We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oK8ce7T3tLs/VazIv25qO8I/AAAAAAAATG8/Iv2DYjbIfLA8ZVKRwJYZYSOF2ozaAj3cQCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/yoga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="320" height="161" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oK8ce7T3tLs/VazIv25qO8I/AAAAAAAATG8/Iv2DYjbIfLA8ZVKRwJYZYSOF2ozaAj3cQCPcBGAYYCw/s200/yoga.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Beatrice Bruteau, quoted in Jan Phillips' book The Art of Original Thinking, makes change imperative: "We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and to carry us around to its new course. We are the future. We are the revolution.</span></blockquote>

We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change

Beatrice Bruteau, quoted in Jan Phillips' book The Art of Original Thinking, makes change imperative: "We cannot wait for the wo...

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Q&A: our plastic addiction is out of control. How can we consume less? | Environment | The Guardian

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FWy3RaWGlbk/V08JjUveB4I/AAAAAAAAWX4/qyJ314_2-HcWqtlSRYnxJ8797M1GI9_dwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/dreamwarrior%2B897.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="133" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FWy3RaWGlbk/V08JjUveB4I/AAAAAAAAWX4/qyJ314_2-HcWqtlSRYnxJ8797M1GI9_dwCPcBGAYYCw/s200/dreamwarrior%2B897.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/08/our-plastic-addiction-out-of-control-cut-consumption-now">Q&A: our plastic addiction is out of control. How can we consume less? | Environment | The Guardian</a>: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;">'via Blog this'</a>

Q&A: our plastic addiction is out of control. How can we consume less? | Environment | The Guardian

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You are destined to fly

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qs1OFbT7xAM/SwciJYujwsI/AAAAAAAAcDg/FMj8sN9FWhAYddylDs-Zy4som0OqD3MIwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/alcohol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="425" height="212" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qs1OFbT7xAM/SwciJYujwsI/AAAAAAAAcDg/FMj8sN9FWhAYddylDs-Zy4som0OqD3MIwCPcBGAYYCw/s320/alcohol.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You are destined to fly, but that cocoon has to go.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">— Nelle Morton quoted in Writing from Life by Susan Witting Albert</span></blockquote>

You are destined to fly

You are destined to fly, but that cocoon has to go. — Nelle Morton quoted in Writing from Life by Susan Witting Albert

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