Wednesday, April 20, 2011

67 On Seeing Clearly Perhaps for the First Time

EXPERIENCE has taught us that when we cover our pain with cognitive insights we lose sight of what really needs to happen for us to heal or to come to a place of spiritual completion.

It is a fact that most people are well into their recovery processes before they truly begin doing the “feeling work.” For some it takes years to come to this place. Unfortunately, some never reach this place within themselves. The search for cognitive insight into why is often the culprit that keeps most lost in their private little prisons avoiding the feelings they need to process in order to escape the prison walls that confine them.

They are both their own gatekeeper and keeper of the keys.

There Are Signs, Posters, And Slogans That Are Put On Walls At Some Of The Various Recovery Group Meetings, And One Says:

THINK


THINK


THINK


Translated, This Means:

After Three Thinks, Give It Up

You Will Only Hurt Yourself.





Extracted from Experience Has Taught Us, 175 Missing Pieces ... Published Bright Star Press 2000 ... Author Neil Douglas Tubb ...


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