![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Rather Brilliant.
Mar. 27th, 2008 02:34 pm[bold & underlines text is my emphasis, where this really GETS me and makes me say HELL YEAH.]
An alarming national trend:
The Language of Wounds
From Anatomy of the Spirit
by Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
As a fourth chakra culture, we have language of intimacy that is now based upon wounds.( Read more... )
The problem with such support systems is the difficulty of telling someone that he or she has had enough support and needs to get on with the business of living. In many ways, this problem reflects our skewed understanding of compassion. Compassion, a fourth chakra emotion and one of the spiritual energies contained in the sefirah of Tif’eret, is the strength to honor another’s suffering while bringing power back into one’s life. Because our culture for so long did not allow time for healing the heart nor even recognize the need for it, we have overcompensated for this earlier failing by now failing to place any time boundaries around that healing. We have yet to create a model of healthy intimacy that is empowered yet still vulnerable. At present, we define healed as the opposite of needy. Therefore, to be healed means to be fully selfcontained, always positive, always happy, always sure of oneself, and never needing anyone. No wonder few ever consider themselves “healed.”
An alarming national trend:
The Language of Wounds
From Anatomy of the Spirit
by Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
As a fourth chakra culture, we have language of intimacy that is now based upon wounds.( Read more... )
The problem with such support systems is the difficulty of telling someone that he or she has had enough support and needs to get on with the business of living. In many ways, this problem reflects our skewed understanding of compassion. Compassion, a fourth chakra emotion and one of the spiritual energies contained in the sefirah of Tif’eret, is the strength to honor another’s suffering while bringing power back into one’s life. Because our culture for so long did not allow time for healing the heart nor even recognize the need for it, we have overcompensated for this earlier failing by now failing to place any time boundaries around that healing. We have yet to create a model of healthy intimacy that is empowered yet still vulnerable. At present, we define healed as the opposite of needy. Therefore, to be healed means to be fully selfcontained, always positive, always happy, always sure of oneself, and never needing anyone. No wonder few ever consider themselves “healed.”
