Do you ever feel dependent on others in a needy way? Do you have trouble finding your life path? Do you ever have trouble being assertive? Do you wrestle with fear and worries? If you do any of this, you will relate to Sharon, her Stone, and her Sun-Filled Wood.
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.
We need to learn is how to discriminate between the helpful, nurturing internal parental voices and those that are destructive.
In this interview Holly listens to, respects, and honors old feelings of neglect that have caused a chronic depression for her as an adult. By doing so she allows them to transform into her own, personal solution for how to move forward in her life, to stop creating the constant, bending “wind” of drama and to continue her emotional growth from where it got stuck. She can draw strength from the child part of herself that is able to have fun and enjoy life at a fair.
Where and how we grew up scripts us for the rest of our lives. If we do not re-frame that scripting in a productive way that is compatible with our own inner compass and our budding inner potentials, it will shape us into a bonzai – a diminutive distortion of who we were meant to be
How many of us have doubts, fears, and uncertainties about our future the way Mako does? What does this duck recommend?
What such interviews do is provide a way to access inner potentials that are not stuck where we are stuck. In this case, Rex accesses a part of himself that is not threatened, is not anxious, and does not worry. The theory is that the more Rex talks to and imagines that he is this part, the more he will identify with, and grow into, that innate potential.
This interview shows how Integral Deep Listening can help teenagers find where they can best put their energies so that they can get to the root of their unhappiness and find their inner compass that will direct them to a satisfying life.
Rex is going to be just fine, because he is learning how to find and listen to his own inner compass. You can too!
When you find yourself caught in the drama of some old script inside your head, become Auditorium to gain a sense of detachment from it.
