Modern life has taken away our freedom of full expression!
This has been done through assumptions that we all believe to be true but in real practice work against the fullness of our own lives.
These assumptions are beneficial only to those who want to be in control.
Why would anybody waste their own lives trying to control ours?
Because they don’t have inner lives! In that condition, they are oblivious to our natural responsibility and joy. They assume we are like them!
They think running our lives will help them. This is just where people go when they don’t have their own inner strength and purpose! Unfortunately, in doing so they destroy the quality of everyone around them!
That is what is happening to our world. Even our beacon of hope for freedom and rights, the USA, seems to be self-destructing!
FACTS OF LIFE!
Assumptions that just aren’t true have the power to destroy the human race!
We cannot continue to live by incorrect assumptions and still survive!
WHERE DOES GOODNESS COME FROM?
It does not come from laws and punishment.
If it did, our prisons would be the leaders of goodness! Anybody see that happening?
It doesn’t come from control! Do we see goodness coming from the strictest families and governments?
So, where then?
GOODNESS COMES FROM INSIDE!
Goodness is inherent in life! Life is responsible all by itself!
For that to happen though, life needs full expression!
We have been restricting and controlling expression for some time now!
Are we enjoying the results?
To bring goodness back, we need to allow full emotional expression once again. No more holding back!
We each need to be able to express ourselves full-out, just like every other life on earth already does!
WHY WILL THIS WORK?
Because people have identities. We have needs. We have feelings. We have instincts.
All of these are honorable and responsible!
Take away our controls, and these qualities will restore all of us to becoming honorable and responsible once again!
Now, I think we all understand we can’t suddenly remove all our rules. The damage already within us would have to be repaired first! This is possible by the way.
We can begin a return to natural goodness with each new person though!
Each infant will become competent infinitely faster than what we see now! Don’t believe it? You’re in for a surprise, along with the discomfort of being proven wrong on a gigantic scale!
Life comes from within! When we let that happen, it happens fast, and it happens with authority!
That is what we will see! We have already seen it though, and either ignored it, blamed it on something else, or found a way to pretend it’s not true.
INSTINCTS!
These are natural. We should still be feeling and being guided by ours. They carry the wisdom of the entire human race throughout its history. They are our very best source for our actions!
Can’t feel them? What do you suppose happened to them?
Do you suppose being told to shut up and listen might have something to do with their absence?
OUR NEEDS!
When we can feel these, we can go directly to satisfaction. Needs are unique to each life, however in humans the biggest is to be accepted, cherished, and loved! When we can feel these we will obviously behave well!
Can’t feel them? Good luck stumbling around in the dark! Good luck being good as well! Some of us do it though, regardless of the cost! We deserve that recognition.
Once again, could being told what we need rather than being listened to, have anything to do with not being able to feel our own needs?
FEELINGS!
Ahh, the thrill of life! The joy! Haven’t felt that lately? Yes, that’s tragic! But, we still get the despair anyway, don’t we?
Feelings are not only our first language but also our only real one! Just try to explain joy or despair with words!
Without feelings, life really is hopeless. There is no purpose or reward.
We all started out fully connected with our feelings! For the most part, that was the real us! We had fire! We were ready for anything, and looking forward to all of it!
The loss of our feelings is the most pain we will ever experience! Why can’t we feel them anymore? Could it have anything to do with being told off every time we fully expressed anything at all?
THE CHANGE IN US!
We disconnected! We were forced to!
We left our own inner world behind!
We are only left with thoughts! We think that’s life! We lack full expression! We lack being able to feel our needs. Our instincts aren’t even a memory. We are no longer aware instincts even exist.
Life comes from within! Throughout nature that is fully supported and encouraged.
This is where we humans have failed. It is costing us dearly!
We do not support our young in their own development! We assume we can do it better for them!
We have, one by one, robbed each of our infants of their connection to their inner lives.
Connection with our feelings, needs, instincts, and identities, is gone from our world. What remains is thoughts and conflict!
THE ASSUMPTION THAT HAS KILLED GOODNESS!
We are not the masters of our young!
We are fellow travelers in life!
Our responsibility is protection, not control!
Live is designed to find its own way!
We have to get that through our heads, and the belief that we know best out of our heads!
We don’t know best! Inner life does! Identities do! Needs do! Instincts do!
Feelings are our joy, and along with needs and instincts, the best protection we will ever have!
REPAIRS!
Our social workers have been gaining understanding even within a repressive civilization.
They are gaining skills and appreciation of personal rights!
When those rights expand to include infants, our journey into darkness is over!
In the meantime, we each want more personal expression!
What prevents it? Embarrasement?
We don’t want any more of what has hurt us the most!
It’s truly unfortunate that those hurts have become our limitation!
They have though!
The road back to full connection with our inner lives lies right through those hurts!
It’s also the road out of fear!
In therapy, we dig out our hurts and grapple with them with a clear mind for the very first time.
We do it with forgiveness for ourselves because we were never responsible. We have all done bad things. It was interference from others that made all of it happen though. In our original condition, we would never have done any of these things.
With every hurt we share we become a tiny bit less afraid, and a little more expressive! We begin to understand more as well. The connection provides our ultimate wisdom!
The blame belongs to those who profit from the hurt we all live with. They don’t want health for all! They are also too damaged to realize they’re working against their own best interests! They could be cherished, but have settled for being feared.
Thanks for listening.
Good luck on your own journey.
This post is part of https://clarity-of-innocence.com
Take care,
Norm Cormier
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