New behaviour

New behaviour

Overview On the Sunday afternoon just before your Essentials weekend finished, you experienced new behaviour. To begin the experience, you stood up and embodied a pattern, taking on its posture and body shape. While still embodying the pattern you returned to your seat and looked at all the other participants, noticing how you felt towards [...]
Dialogue with a parent’s child

Dialogue with a parent’s child

Overview Understanding through a Dialogue with Parent’s Child As you experienced on your Essentials weekend, imagine yourself as you were as a six-year-old child, in your Sanctuary, somewhere in a lovely natural place outdoors, sitting against a tree in a clearing. Then imagine whichever parent you want to speak with, walking towards you as a [...]
Self-forgiveness and self-compassion

Self-forgiveness and self-compassion

Overview We covered these three essential components of self-compassion on the Essentials weekend (ref: Kristin Neff). Mindfulness – acknowledge that you have patterns, behaviors, and negative beliefs about yourself. Be mindful not to either exaggerate them, which can lead to self-pity, nor suppress them - instead simply observe them, without judgment. Common humanity – be [...]
Expression on patterns

Expression on patterns

Overview A key outcome of cathartic release work, focused expression, is the creation of a boundary between you and the pattern. It separates you from the negative aspects of the mother and father of your childhood (from whom you learned the patterns), which now only live inside you. It enables you to be calmer, so [...]