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noticing…. perhaps surprised by…. a thought that might “feel” a bit “harsh”….
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…pausing…considering…choosing…
maybe reacting to one’s own thoughts… ???
perhaps…bewildered by them?
perhaps….believing? fighting? judging?
but…. none of those leading to positive shifts???
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….perhaps….
opening one’s mind…
opening one’s heart…..
opening to….generating…feeling…
a heart-felt sense of ……softness, gentleness, warmth, love
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opening more widely….
generating a spreading, deepening, heart-felt sense of …
softness, gentleness, warmth, love….
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continuing……immersing the state of mind that generated that “harsh” thought,
immersing oneself in in the midst of … feelings of…. soft, gentle, warm and loving…
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….moment….by moment…..by moment…..
….immersing oneself within….
….a deeply felt sense of…..
….softness…gentleness…warmth….love….
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noticing…..realizing……
??? ……. maybe ……. ???
….maybe some…or many….. of those “inner thoughts”….
almost like insistent little “voices” ….
might be coming from some sense of “inner children” within us…..???? …
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each of those “children” wanting so much to be happy …
trying to prop themselves up….???
trying to protect “themselves”…???? …
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simply struggling and trying so hard to protect a sense of oneself … ???
… trying to establish some sense of a wanted, continuing, valued “identity”…. ?????
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perhaps….
??? … misguided … ???
probably not leading to actually feeling protected and “safe”…
…perhaps leading to feeling even more sense of “vulnerability”… ????
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none the less, still constantly and continually
trying to help, support and protect that sense of “oneself….”
…that sense of …. “I” …….
“I am……………….”
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maybe….
just maybe….????
…..we can shift into a more nurturing, comforting, loving sense….
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we can start “teaching” our “inner” children well…??? ….
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we can start consistently immersing “them” …
each one of “our” children….
immersing “them” in the midst of a loving, “self-generated” sense of…
…softness, gentleness, warmth and love….
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offering…. “ourselves”…
offering…. “them”…
softness, gentleness, warmth and love…
of course, that’s what “they’re” probably wanting …
that’s what they’re probably often seeking …
that’s what they’re probably often crying out for ….
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that’s what we can offer “them…..”
that’s what we can offer “ourselves…..”
offer those precious, lovely senses of feeling…
softness … gentleness … warmth … and love….
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“teaching….your children well….”
shifting perspective and seeing the “children” within each one of us….???
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opening one’s perspectives about those possible “children” within us….
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Realizing…
“know they love you” …
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perhaps…”acting” … “thinking”…in ways that might sometimes be leading to….
less happiness, rather than more happiness, which is what they’re wanting ……
but still “well intended” in their own “childlike” ways….
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“just look at them and sigh…….and know they love you….”
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“know they love you…”
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and try to offer them a genuine sense of….
goodness, warmth, love that they’re wanting…
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“opening” one’s mind…???? …
“opening” one’s heart ….
shifting one’s point of view…??? ….
opening to other strategies …. ???….
shifting perspectives… ??? ….
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lovingly offering “them….”
lovingly offering to “ourselves…”
from “oneself” to “one’s selves…. ” …
immersing “them” in the midst of …..
immersing ourselves in the midst of…
rich, deeply felt, tender-hearted feelings of ……
…..softness….gentleness….warmth…. love….
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