Every time you interview a source of stress in your life, an anger, disappointment, sadness, or fear, or a character from a dream or nightmare using the simple IDL interviewing protocol, you will expand your sense of self to include those pressures that before seemed beyond your control.
In the following interview instead of just steaming, trying to ignore her anger, or lashing out, Ella does something different and highly unusual. She listens to her anger at her X.
If you spend a tenth of the time listening to your inner compass that you instead spend listening to and following the advice of your inner parent and your family members, you will change your life.
As a young person, Claudia realized that she did not want to believe in any definition of the divine that allowed injustice, cruelty, and needless suffering. She did not have beliefs in religion or universal love to fall back on when her father died when she was fourteen or when she experienced the loss of other loved ones over the years, including beloved pets.
We need to learn is how to discriminate between the helpful, nurturing internal parental voices and those that are destructive.
How many of us have doubts, fears, and uncertainties about our future the way Mako does? What does this duck recommend?
Unless you can come to respect and cooperate with your own inner monkey, most of what you call meditation will be spend in fighting with it.
The worst we can do by following Witches Broom’s recommendations is to waste our time; however, we may find that instead we move toward our inner compass and discover that we can access our inner strengths more often and in ways that are of greater benefit to ourselves and others.
This is her deceased father’s gift to Maria – the healing of the woundings of old memories and awakening to the potential of a life of inner peace.
How would our life be different if we were to practice becoming that authentic potential that is trying to be born within us? Wouldn’t that assist in the birth of a healthier, happier way of being and living into our every day experience?
