What is therapy?
It’s coaxing out our most frightening experiences and feelings.
We have hidden them! Even from ourselves!
Why would we do that?
Because our present beliefs have caused it. The end result is the fighting we all suffer from now!
What should we do differently?
Health, and feeling powerful are all about our ability to enjoy free and unlimited expression!
Everything about life comes from inside!
We’re trying to do it from outside. That bypasses our instincts, feelings, and most of our senses. These have become the enemy.
Looking around, it’s clear that wherever this happens the most, is also where we see the most troubled people.
That shouldn’t be a surprise, having substituted mankind’s rules in place of our only source of inner power.
Unfortunately, living from rules causes the need for evermore rules!
There was a time when life was as it should be, a fantastic adventure.
We didn’t hide anything, and we didn’t feel any need to.
As we lose our ability to express our whole inner world, we also lose our personal power!
Then comes isolation, and loneliness. It’s not others we miss though. It’s the full expression of ourselves!
If we can fully express ourselves, with absolutely nothing held back, living completely out loud, secret-free, then we are in our original condition!
Our self-esteem would be at full strength!
That’s why we felt so good back then. It’s also why we don’t now!
We need to fully express ourselves again to feel accepted and strong!
As we do that, our feelings of being powerful return! That’s because we get our identity back, complete with instincts, feelings, and better contact with our senses.
What blocks our full and honest expression now.
Fear and hurt!
Wouldn’t it be better to not cause the need for therapy in the first place?
Why are hurt and fear in the way? They’re not supposed to be there!
Well, it’s only humans that get that problem.
What causes it?
The beliefs of society!
As mentioned, our civilization doesn’t understand, or recognize the importance of the power of life coming from within!
We don’t allow that!
When the power of life doesn’t come from inside anymore, we are broken!
We are taught to not allow our young to live from their own identity!
We are taught to nurture with rules that don’t fit any real needs of life!
Throughout all of life, the energy comes from within, and it’s supposed to!
We must recognize the needs of our young!
We must understand that if we allow the energy of our children to power their own lives, our world will return to kindness and adventure! If, and when we try that, it works!
The way we are now, our own secrets end up dominating our lives.
The consequences of not expressing what we feel set our path. We spend our lives dealing with the repercussions of not being able to express what we should be able to!
Our own problems end up dominating our days!
I don’t expect there is any way to prove this to those who don’t accept it.
The only proof would be the absolute reality of how this works.
At the very least though, it should be recognized that causing our children to feel so traumatized that they feel a need to bury hurt and fear inside themselves can’t be a good thing!
Allow life to power itself, and the world returns to compassion and fun.
Living from within, people revert to their real nature. That’s not war at all! It’s love trust, community, and play.
Right or wrong, this is already our goal in therapy!
Override other people’s inner voices, and we get hurt, fear, hostility, and fighting. Every time!
This includes all people, especially children.
Children start out self-driven, but are really vulnerable in their early years!
They don’t want to give up on living through their own energy but are too helpless to prevent that loss. It will cost them the connection with their own identity, as well as their needs.
Allow others to live from their own power, family-sized or countrywide, and the results are always strength, compassion, and play.
Life becomes healthy and wonderful again. It’s a universal truth. Throughout nature, that’s how it’s done!
Life gets encouraged in living from its own efforts. That’s the way it is everywhere, and the natural way for people too.
This post is part of https://clarity of innocence.com
Thanks for listening.
The best of luck on your own journey.
Take care,
Norm Cormier
I welcome considering other thoughts.