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Posted - 05/12/2013 : 21:46:00
“Any negative emotion that is not fully faced and seen for what it is in the moment it arises does not completely dissolve. Children in particular find strong negative emotions too overwhelming…and tend to try not to feel them…Unfortunately, the early defense mechanism usually remains in place when the child becomes and adult. The emotion still lives in him or her unrecognized and manifests indirectly, for example, as anger, anxiety, or even physical illness. Most psychotherapists have met patients who claim to have had a totally happy childhood, and later the opposite turned out to be the case….Even if both parents were enlightened, you would still find yourself growing up in a largely unconscious world” (Tolle 141-2 |
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