Post by Caressa2 on May 7, 2004 7:26:57 GMT -5
What you know in your head will not sustain you in moments of crisis...confidence comes from body awareness, knowing what you feel in the moment.
- Marion Woodman
We live in a culture that worships logical, rational, linear thought processes and disdains and ignores feelings. Feelings are seen as uncontrollable, dangerous, and unnecessary.
Yet, it is our feelings that make us human. Our feelings warn us of danger. If we are out of touch with them, we may miss danger signals.
It is our feelings, not our minds, that tell us when someone is lying to us. When we are being lied to, we feel it right in our solar plexus. We need our feelings to help us deal with the world.
My feelings are a gift. I am lucky to have such a range of them.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
As a result of using for so many years, I stuffed my feelings good and bad. I wasn't aware that I was, I had no conscious contact what so ever.
When I came into recovery, people would say, "Well you are human you know?" My reaction was, "What, merely human!" The selfish, self-centeredness of my disease had a horror of being 'normal' and the rebel in me wanted to fight the systems and the world. There was no way I wanted to be like the "Earthlings" as my co-sponsor called people without the disease of addiction. The hardest thing for me to do was to allow myself to become vulnerable. Yet to be vulnerable is to become spiritual, so I was at war with myself.
I also know that people use their "humanness" as a cop out on changing their life. They excuse their behavior as "Well I am only human you know?" That is true, but that isn't an excuse not to change, and hopefully toward better things, and a more humane way of living and thinking.
- Marion Woodman
We live in a culture that worships logical, rational, linear thought processes and disdains and ignores feelings. Feelings are seen as uncontrollable, dangerous, and unnecessary.
Yet, it is our feelings that make us human. Our feelings warn us of danger. If we are out of touch with them, we may miss danger signals.
It is our feelings, not our minds, that tell us when someone is lying to us. When we are being lied to, we feel it right in our solar plexus. We need our feelings to help us deal with the world.
My feelings are a gift. I am lucky to have such a range of them.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
As a result of using for so many years, I stuffed my feelings good and bad. I wasn't aware that I was, I had no conscious contact what so ever.
When I came into recovery, people would say, "Well you are human you know?" My reaction was, "What, merely human!" The selfish, self-centeredness of my disease had a horror of being 'normal' and the rebel in me wanted to fight the systems and the world. There was no way I wanted to be like the "Earthlings" as my co-sponsor called people without the disease of addiction. The hardest thing for me to do was to allow myself to become vulnerable. Yet to be vulnerable is to become spiritual, so I was at war with myself.
I also know that people use their "humanness" as a cop out on changing their life. They excuse their behavior as "Well I am only human you know?" That is true, but that isn't an excuse not to change, and hopefully toward better things, and a more humane way of living and thinking.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.