A gentle contemplation process for improving self-worth with The Ten Stages

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEP0njALcLzW194v3wMZdQTVveLH26CBZ6wrV13EVdCg6SpWk7Yd-gHQaniJhsO6o5nDfmRtDr266os_HmZG6L_QJeWVDZGPweVqf-NUpVdPk6pmf0pdjArwe-2LNNjUMMOykbKptryD0/s1600/1-higher+power.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEP0njALcLzW194v3wMZdQTVveLH26CBZ6wrV13EVdCg6SpWk7Yd-gHQaniJhsO6o5nDfmRtDr266os_HmZG6L_QJeWVDZGPweVqf-NUpVdPk6pmf0pdjArwe-2LNNjUMMOykbKptryD0/s1600/1-higher+power.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: medium;"><br /><i>Calm,Tide and Ripples Contemplation and Reflection. An average contemplation should not take longer than ten minutes. If it takes much longer, we are “thinking” (rehearsing, calculating) too much.<br /><br />A gentle process for improving self-worth: This program is aimed at raising our self-worth gently and consistently. Just write down the first word that comes into your head</i></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><i>Week 1<br />Self-responsibility to me means…<br />Independence to me means…<br />Thinking for myself means…<br />Trusting my own mind means…<br /><br /><br />Week 2<br />If I operate five percent more self-responsibly today…<br />If I think for myself today…<br />If I bring five percent more awareness to my deepest needs and wants…<br />If I bring five percent more awareness to what I truly think and feel…<br />I am becoming aware…<br /><br /><br />Week 3<br />If I am more straightforward about what I think and feel today…<br />If I operate five percent more self-assertively today…<br />If I treat my wants and needs with more respect today…<br />If I express myself calmly and with dignity today…<br />If I want to translate these ideas into action…<br /><br /><br />Week 4<br />If I pay more attention to my inner signals today…<br />If I am more truthful in my dealings with people today…<br />If I am five percent more self-accepting today…<br />If I am self-accepting even when I make mistakes…<br />If these ideas start working in my subconscious mind…<br /><br /><br /><br />Week 5<br />If I disown what I am thinking and feeling…<br />If I place other people’s thoughts above my own…<br />When I look at what I do to impress people…<br />If I fake who I am to make myself “likable”…<br />I am beginning to suspect…<br /><br /><br />Week 6<br />If I am more accepting of my feelings today…<br />If I deny and disown my feelings…<br />If I am more accepting of my thoughts…<br />If I deny and disown my thoughts…<br />I am becoming aware…<br /><br /><br />Week 7<br />If I am more accepting of my fears…<br />If I deny and disown my fears…<br />If I were more accepting of my pain…<br />If I deny and disown my pain…<br />Right now it seems obvious that…<br /><br /><br />Week 8<br />If I am more accepting of my desire to be liked…<br />If I deny and disown my desire to be liked…<br />If I learn to manage my desire for approval…<br />If I can acknowledge my desire for approval without being controlled by it…<br />If I want to translate these ideas into action…<br /><br /><br /><br />Week 9<br />If I am more accepting of my deepest self…<br />If I deny and disown my deepest self…<br />If I am more accepting of my intelligence…<br />If I deny and disown my intelligence…<br />If I allow myself to understand what I am writing…<br /><br /><br />Week 10<br />Self-responsibility means…<br />If I am more accepting of my thoughts and feelings, whether or not anyone shares them…<br />If I deny and disown thoughts and feelings others do not share…<br />If I betray my thoughts and feelings in action…<br />If I honor my thoughts and feelings in action…<br />I am beginning to suspect…<br /><br /><br />Week 11<br />If I imagine being more self-responsible…<br />If I imagine being more independent…<br />If I imagine looking at things through my own eyes…<br />If I take five percent more responsibility for the ideas I live by…<br />If these ideas start working in my subconscious mind…<br /><br /><br />Week 12<br />If I honor my judgment today…<br />Sometimes I keep myself passive when I…<br />Sometimes I make myself helpless when I…<br />If I pretend to be less than I am…<br />If I allow myself to absorb what I am writing…<br /><br /><br /><br />Week 13<br />If I bring five percent more integrity into my relationships…<br />If I take five percent more responsibility for my choice of companions…<br />If I take five percent more responsibility for my personal happiness…<br />If I take five percent more responsibility for the level of my self-esteem…<br />I am becoming aware…<br /><br /><br />Week 14<br />If I lived five percent more authentically today…<br />If I treat my thoughts and feelings with respect today…<br />If I experiment with being more self-assertive today…<br />If I am willing to see what I see and know what I know…<br />If I fully face the meaning of what I am writing…<br /><br /><br />Week 15<br />If I hold myself accountable for my promises and commitments…<br />If I stop all excuse-making and alibiing…<br />If I refuse to surrender to helplessness…<br />If I were willing to say “yes” when I want to say “yes” and “no” when I want to say “no”…<br />I am beginning to suspect…<br /><br /><br />Week 16<br />If I were willing to let people see who I am…<br />If I took more responsibility for delivering on my commitments…<br />If I operate five percent more self-responsibly at work…<br />If I operate five percent more self-responsibly in my relationships…<br />If I choose to translate these ideas into action…<br /><br /><br /><br />Week 17<br />If I stay connected with what I truly think and feel…<br />If I take more responsibility for fulfilling my wants…<br />If I refuse to blame anyone…<br />If I make my happiness a conscious goal…<br />Right now it seems clear…<br /><br /><br />Week 18<br />If I look people in the eyes and tell the truth today…<br />If I refuse to be ruled by fear of disapproval…<br />If I refuse to hide who I am…<br />If I am simple, honest, and straightforward today…<br />If I allow what I am writing to fully penetrate…<br /><br /><br />Week 19<br />If I bring five percent more integrity to my relationships…<br />If I remain loyal to the values I believe are right…<br />If I refuse to live by values I do not respect…<br />If I treat my self-respect as a high priority…<br />I am becoming aware…<br /><br /><br />Week 20<br />If I accept responsibility for my life and well-being…<br />If I accept responsibility for my choices and decisions…<br />If I accept responsibility for my actions…<br />If I accept responsibility for how I deal with people…<br />If I choose to translate these ideas into action…<br /><br /><br /><br />Week 21<br />If I want to grow in independence, I will need to…<br />If I want to grow in self-esteem, I will need to…<br />If I want to be more authentic, I will need to…<br />If I want to outgrow dependency, I will need to…<br />If I am willing to experiment with these ideas in action…<br /><br /><br />Week 22<br />If I look at things through my own eyes today…<br />If I am willing to see what I see and know what I know…<br />If I am truthful today, even if it’s difficult…<br />I grow in self-respect when I…<br />I am becoming aware…<br /><br /><br />Week 23<br />If I operate five percent more self-responsibly today…<br />If I operate five percent more self-assertively today…<br />If I operate five percent more authentically today…<br />If I operate five percent more honestly today…<br />Right now it seems clear that…<br /><br /><br />Week 24<br />As I grow in self-responsibility…<br />As I grow in independence…<br />As I learn to say what I truly think and feel…<br />As I learn to look at things through my own eyes…<br />If these ideas start working in my subconscious mind…<br /><br /><br /><br />Week 25<br />Sometimes when I am afraid of self-responsibility I…<br />Sometimes when I am afraid of independence I…<br />If I want to outgrow any fear I have of self-responsibility…<br />If I want to outgrow any fear I have of independence…<br />I am beginning to suspect…<br /><br /><br />Week 26<br />One of the things I’ve been learning through this program is…<br />As I notice when I am being self-responsible and when I am not fully…<br />As I notice when I am being authentic and when I am not fully…<br />As I notice how I feel when I am honest…<br />I am becoming aware…<br /><br /><br />Week 27<br />I feel most proud of myself when I…<br />I feel least proud of myself when I…<br />If I give myself credit for my willingness to struggle…<br />If I give myself credit for my dedication to personal growth…<br />If I allow myself to understand what I am writing…<br /><br /><br />Week 28<br />As I learn to translate what I am learning into action…<br />As I continue the struggle, even when it’s difficult…<br />If I choose to persevere, no matter how long it takes…<br />One of the ways I am changing is…<br />I am beginning to suspect…<br /><br /><br /><br />Week 29<br />As my understanding of self-responsibility deepens…<br />As my understanding of independence deepens…<br />As I learn to be more authentic when dealing with people…<br />As everything I am learning takes root in my subconscious mind…<br />I am becoming aware…<br /><br /><br />Week 30<br />As I learn to operate at a higher level of self-responsibility…<br />As I learn to operate at a higher level of independence…<br />As I learn to pay more attention to what I truly think and feel…<br />As I learn to treat myself with more respect…<br />As I go on translating these learnings into 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A gentle contemplation process for improving self-worth with The Ten Stages

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Don't think for one second that some man made system is more powerful than our child within. It's not and never will be.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDysTMCw12LUCY16_g56thCAElLynkm_aYWaMIYCMEFAr8_jFy3D2aek_Izr7ThKUvzyaFfO6VPoDxBROPi4ivnKwYVkf8JeF11yqlpATKHWJW6YdHGdHrUD4qRt-c3jvftCKYktOlg-k/s1600/1887.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDysTMCw12LUCY16_g56thCAElLynkm_aYWaMIYCMEFAr8_jFy3D2aek_Izr7ThKUvzyaFfO6VPoDxBROPi4ivnKwYVkf8JeF11yqlpATKHWJW6YdHGdHrUD4qRt-c3jvftCKYktOlg-k/s320/1887.jpg" width="250" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">No matter what calendar you use - the Mayan calendar or the modern day Gregorian calendar, they are ALL man made. In fact, a pope - Pope Gregory, created the calendar we use today, and it was made official in the 1500s. So it's not even 500 years old. And yet we place so much emphasis into a cycle and number system that we created, and it isn't even that old. Yet we buy into this superstition.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">And in doing do, we forget the real recovery work.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Which is always in the present moment. We dress up our spirituality like it's some kind of entertainment or superstitious thing and give all the emphasis to a date or an "era" that we live in instead of doing the work and BEING an example of Loving-Kindness. We don't care if it's the beginning, middle or end of a calendar. We don't care what's in retrograde or what our sign "tends" to be like. We don't really care what our birthday numbers "say" about us, or if we think today is the day after the end of the world or the first day of a new world.<br /><br />ALL of it is our human projection. And none of it means anything if we are not being compassionate. It's just entertainment at best and an excuse for us not to grow and play the victim at worst.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The only thing we are meant to do is Be our example of Loving-Kindness - NOW. This present moment is all we ever have and it doesn't matter what cycle we are in or not in - what matters is that we keep connecting to our Source he child within - that we keep practicing the principles of our recovery path and that we do not use the excuse of a superstitious belief system to justify what we need to take responsibility for.<br /><br />There is a kind of spiritual escapism or justification that really bothers us. We once had friends who were total jerks and did some very nasty things to themselves and us. These were dear friends at the time and they justified it by saying, "I'm a Scorpio,a Virgo and an Aries  it's in our nature," thus taking zero responsibility for their part they played in it. It's not that they are or are not a Scorpio - they acted and it's important to be able to be responsible for the action we take - no matter our sign, what a calendar says or what is in retrograde.<br /><br />Whenever we hear people talk about Mercury being in retrograde as a reason to justify their problems, we always say - "Mercury may be in retrograde, but we are not."<br /><br />Nothing is more powerful than our child within - no planet, no karma, no calendar, no cycle. And we connect with our child within in here and now. Don't let superstition block taking responsibility for our life and don't think for one second that some man made system is more powerful than our child within. It's not and never will be.</span><br /> <div> <span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/half-way-through-course-after.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364124457_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/half-way-through-course-after.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Half way through the course after meditations we will start practicing using our newly found intuitive voice</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivecontact.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-sickness-will-not-come-to-end.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/348006894_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivecontact.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-sickness-will-not-come-to-end.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The sickness will not come to an end.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/at-our-conception-we-are-perfect-we-are.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/349653879_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/06/at-our-conception-we-are-perfect-we-are.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">At our conception, we are perfect. 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Punishment didn’t solve our child withins problems; it intensifies them.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQu0ifezV5EEA_OMWlynVsOO05KxZBBpVPpHiNSn0yX583csJuBjaf-z7mOY3tyyv5ZJxE7-jtgBQQ1xd9yGrOZdfBkqNn3FhaBKMsvHArTeBDpOj1aR8m7oEjTOzOOOQnSef3mxcYH6g/s1600/good+things.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQu0ifezV5EEA_OMWlynVsOO05KxZBBpVPpHiNSn0yX583csJuBjaf-z7mOY3tyyv5ZJxE7-jtgBQQ1xd9yGrOZdfBkqNn3FhaBKMsvHArTeBDpOj1aR8m7oEjTOzOOOQnSef3mxcYH6g/s320/good+things.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><i>Punishment didn’t solve our child withins problems; it intensifies them.</i></span><br /> <br style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;" /> <br style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;" /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Want to know a secret about punishment?</span><br /> <br style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;" /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">It requires constant escalation.</span><br /> <br style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;" /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">In order to maintain the temporary effect of controlling behaviour, the punishment, or threats of punishment, must constantly be ramped up. we who had the experience of starting out with popping a tiny hand escalate to smacking a chubby little leg, then paddling a small bottom. Over time, as our children’s needs which have been driven underground emerge in ever-increasing behavioural issues, we found out often they the controllers are resorting to yelling and threats and physical punishment more and more often.</span><br /> <br style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;" /> <br style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;" /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">We who have experienced the use punishment-based parenting approaches other than physical punishment find that they must escalate and escalate to keep us under ‘control.’ Behaviour charts, time-outs, grounding, and removing privileges are some examples of non-physical punishment-based behaviour we have experienced. While these behaviour modification techniques may be less painful our child within physically, they still didn’t address the underlying needs being communicated by the behaviour and often are as destructive to the parent/child relationship.</span>

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Now is not the time to let those who are living their addiction nightmare convince you that your recovery in the ten stages aren't true.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVa3X1Dhypao6ZOpU7PlBU7ozqi7Nmo-lQRXtBkAwJuqNtleC7m8CLmgmxYEiD0EAsER7WXusbVdXAkEjCJp22c9FCg6b8F5oyXX7Ea_0J6rizec0ukJbuscKa4m5V1GZx_ngu0vHTAY/s1600/baby+head+doll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVa3X1Dhypao6ZOpU7PlBU7ozqi7Nmo-lQRXtBkAwJuqNtleC7m8CLmgmxYEiD0EAsER7WXusbVdXAkEjCJp22c9FCg6b8F5oyXX7Ea_0J6rizec0ukJbuscKa4m5V1GZx_ngu0vHTAY/s320/baby+head+doll.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Now is not the time to let those who are living their addiction nightmare convince you that your recovery in the ten stages aren't true. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">They are simply living in bondage of the fear that isn't even real. Instead of buying into what you see, hear and feel from the outside world, check inside and listen to the subtle whispers of our heart and of The Child Within. They don't have the seal of some major treatment facility or a degree from a rehab, but those whispers from our child within are what have guided all the great beings of our world to do amazing things. Greatness is simply trusting ourself more and more every day.<br /><br />So, can you detach from the nightmares of others and begin to live our own recovery? Do we have what it takes to call fear's bluff and to call the bluff of the recovery world? We want to know!</span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/12/child-withins-hidden-agenda-workshops.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/365278838_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/12/child-withins-hidden-agenda-workshops.html" style="background-image: none; 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Let us be mindful of our actions.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq90tuPPSYWeRAnfKE9lcOz6yWrUioCXhY0oVHT2l_EUi4fvAwP1A0M1T26rR4icWZ3rYdIzXYbHqjL8Qshvi2Tm2sqYCfT5soXLhJdbe8sm2u8iymaW2e1QTlgX4JZ3wQKeLhVkj-HXk/s1600/Child+within264.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq90tuPPSYWeRAnfKE9lcOz6yWrUioCXhY0oVHT2l_EUi4fvAwP1A0M1T26rR4icWZ3rYdIzXYbHqjL8Qshvi2Tm2sqYCfT5soXLhJdbe8sm2u8iymaW2e1QTlgX4JZ3wQKeLhVkj-HXk/s1600/Child+within264.jpeg" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">Let us be mindful of our actions.<br /><br />The precursor to action is thought. Sometimes it can be VERY hard to be aware of what we are actually thinking, especially because many of our actions come from our unconscious thoughts trapped inside our child within. If we want to tap into what’s really running us, but are having a hard time, let us see what actions we are taking.<br /><br />We want recovery, but we run away when it shows up. There is a misalignment there of desire and thought.<br /><br />In this literal world, we can LITERALLY create (from the inside out) any type of experience we wish to choose. It is when our desires, our thoughts and our actions are in alignment that this kind of life begins to emerge.<br /><br />The seed of a desire for something greater lives within all of us, but our lack of action prevents that kind of life from unfolding.<br /><br />Imagine if a farmer had seeds and land to plant his seeds, but doubted that the seeds would grow if he planted them. So if this doubt were strong enough, the seeds would never get planted. Or, they get planted, but then the farmer becomes too impatient and digs up the seeds the next day or the next week because the crop hasn’t come yet.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">The farmer still has no harvest. Then a second farmer comes by at harvest time with a full crop of harvest, and the first farmer gets jealous and angry at the second farmer for having abundance. The first farmer may blame The Universe or say, “People like me aren’t supposed to have this harvest,” but in reality, it is the farmer's own doubt and impatience that prevents him from reaping his harvest.<br /><br />We are many times like the first farmer. Our seeds are our desires. Our fields are our daily actions. We must plant our desires in actions and then be patient. If weeds of doubt creep in, we must clear them out. And in perfect time we will be able to harvest the fruit of our faith.<br /><br />This is how life is. We need to nurture the fertile soil of our actions with faith and patience.<br /><br />So, today, are we not getting what we want? Look at our desires. Look at our actions. Where is there a disconnect? How can we adjust our actions to sync up with our recovery? And, if that feels weird, how can we change our MENTAL habits to allow ourself to take the proper action that is in alignment with our recovery?<br /><br />The answers to the lack we may be temporarily experiencing are all within our child. Show up, let go and trust The Stages one day at a time. Get our desires, thoughts and actions in alignment with our perfect child within and then let our patience and faith shower down on the fertile soil of our actions.<br /><br />Our harvest WILL come.</span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/07/anger-is-not-enemy-at-stages.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/350624820_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; 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padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Making Contact we must touch the seeds of our childhood pain and emotional suffering</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-stages-find-affirmations-are.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/355417912_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-stages-find-affirmations-are.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The stages find affirmations are especially useful when negative thoughts interfere</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://recoverystages.blogspot.com/2015/06/i-cant-think-properly-our-child-within.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/noimg_24_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://recoverystages.blogspot.com/2015/06/i-cant-think-properly-our-child-within.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">"I can't think properly" . Our Child Within describes its thought disorder from the inside.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/08/our-addictivedysfunctional-behaviour-in.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/noimg_85_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stageforum.blogspot.com/2015/08/our-addictivedysfunctional-behaviour-in.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Our addictive/dysfunctional behaviour in the past has mystified us</a></li> </ul> </div>

Let us be mindful of our actions.

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We must have the mind of our child within in order to grasp the deeper meaning of recovery.

<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br /> </span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha3qMG-P3TfQiN8-ns8y9RADn9meNRNU4Ej_pWGvJIkdrR5W-1-6QiufRInjzVxsxcQ4XbSQtcrnCJ8pF8Xw371DdFaGpmitg73ZPFFtlkhdZYOWEaMfzvsthdHj7qU4RfPM7mE0r_m6st/s1600/1-state+of+mind.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha3qMG-P3TfQiN8-ns8y9RADn9meNRNU4Ej_pWGvJIkdrR5W-1-6QiufRInjzVxsxcQ4XbSQtcrnCJ8pF8Xw371DdFaGpmitg73ZPFFtlkhdZYOWEaMfzvsthdHj7qU4RfPM7mE0r_m6st/s320/1-state+of+mind.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"> We must have the mind of our child within in order to grasp the deeper meaning of recovery. What is a child like? A child is new, untainted and curious. A child knows nothing of failure, of heartbreak, of death or other people’s opinions. A child lives curiously in the present. Let us make our goal to let go of the tainted old thoughts that hold us back. The thoughts that there is no love out there, that our dreams are not achievable, that happy endings don’t exist or that you’re just not supposed to succeed. Let us make it our aim to return to having the mind of our child within. Not forgetting our historical past whatever the circumstances, but understanding learning from it and not allowing it to taint our present moment.<br /><br />Let us not know anything of failure and just proceed daily with the intention that we will eventually get it right. Let us not give up in frustration but instead return to curiosity and see everything that happens as a lesson and let us remember that delays are not denials.<br /><br />Our recovery. When we meet our recovery of life with a new mind, in every moment we begin to move our perceptions into the magic of our child within. We begin to enjoy the journey instead of being terrified by it. When we have the mind of our child, we are humble and receptive to new information. We do not let our egos get the best of us, so that we can humbly follow guidance rather than thinking that we know it all. Having the mind of our child is the first movement, but once we do, we have now properly mentally prepared ourselves for our full recovery. If we enter our recovery with a tainted, jaded and cynical mindset, we will miss many opportunities and improperly label our intuitive voice as disaster.<br /><br />Let us make it our intention to set out on recovery today with the new mind of our child within. Not throwing away what we’ve learned, but learning to reinterpret what we’ve been through so that it serves us moving forward, rather than hold us back. Let us meet recovery from a curious, humble, yet empowered point of view that turns disaster into grace, rejection into protection and crisis into opportunity.<br /><br />You see, when we meet our recovery in this new way, life opens up. We begin to let go of what pains us and embrace what sustains us. We see everything in a new way and can receive, where before we have judged everything with a parental voice and kept out.<br /><br />To be humble, curious and new in our approach, but still honour our intelligence will produce the highest form of living. This is the approach that enables us to manifest that which we truly desire.<br /><br />Let us be willing today. Let us meet today with the new eyes of our child within. Let us decide to be recovered anew today.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #0b175f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/07/we-wrongly-believe-we-are-centre-of-our.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/353660772_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/07/we-wrongly-believe-we-are-centre-of-our.html" style="background-image: none; 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We must have the mind of our child within in order to grasp the deeper meaning of recovery.

  We must have the mind of our child within in order to grasp the deeper meaning of recovery. What is a child like? A child is new, unt...

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We have died inwardly before we even become adults.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQqNl4jjz6qI5MpNIeXBgN3DwANA6rviuC6IEjtFHfZlTEYVMyeKrnmMAZcM2wn9AjXoDtZa2m1Ap4rZM8DFTBqnp1DkIjmv2bgGjQgEpAit5NEOXg8yhSW7qFxLldWiKv3wERG8iFClU/s1600/design_banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQqNl4jjz6qI5MpNIeXBgN3DwANA6rviuC6IEjtFHfZlTEYVMyeKrnmMAZcM2wn9AjXoDtZa2m1Ap4rZM8DFTBqnp1DkIjmv2bgGjQgEpAit5NEOXg8yhSW7qFxLldWiKv3wERG8iFClU/s320/design_banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">We have died inwardly before we even become adults. 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We have died inwardly before we even become adults.

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Recovery is a painful thing to wake up to.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_dlBH3GRIyBIcNOPa5emge351lSmoQgNrRQe4ics9dSwg-gPXcz97vHd9mkBWRN7pxJ5RaXnKSydGyuD4JUqehnAj3IKrSVknG2Ohq-KgsyHmS6HhrDoSuD-tz1F3I88pHHqBVIrxPZm/s1600/19_1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_dlBH3GRIyBIcNOPa5emge351lSmoQgNrRQe4ics9dSwg-gPXcz97vHd9mkBWRN7pxJ5RaXnKSydGyuD4JUqehnAj3IKrSVknG2Ohq-KgsyHmS6HhrDoSuD-tz1F3I88pHHqBVIrxPZm/s320/19_1024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Recovery is a painful thing to wake up to. To make a decision to connect to our child within. It breaks the rules. It angers the norm. It enrages parents. It puts a target on our back. And it hurts. It hurts like hell. It hurts to rip down the psychic prison wall and feel the old traumas, the old longings, the old memories. It hurts to grieve, to feel the rage, to confront the perpetrators, to break the denial. It hurts to shed the mask of comfort and walk into the despair. It hurts to reject the fantasy of one day being loved by those who never really loved us and instead drank our psychic blood. It hurts to leave the system behind. It hurts to stand on our own.<br /><br /><i>Yet this process of waking up, and this alone, is the pathway back to our recovery — to a long, healthy life within ourselves. </i></span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-death-rate-for-our-child-within.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/343159025_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; 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Recovery is a painful thing to wake up to.

Recovery is a painful thing to wake up to. To make a decision to connect to our child within. It breaks the rules. It angers the norm. ...

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Within the centre of each of us lives our child within.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSVuz42wNI-j6JIe_WHbvZ8oWKjbxYiQI6P31zRVelWOIUMU1ntXN1at2tDp01U4-0s43X6wEv6h_fCF8a9th08c_Ew4hKoatiCOwf8QSHf7-Tomxq9goLzvhEvN8z49T140eWmUlPIU/s1600/cwithin234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSVuz42wNI-j6JIe_WHbvZ8oWKjbxYiQI6P31zRVelWOIUMU1ntXN1at2tDp01U4-0s43X6wEv6h_fCF8a9th08c_Ew4hKoatiCOwf8QSHf7-Tomxq9goLzvhEvN8z49T140eWmUlPIU/s1600/cwithin234.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Within the centre of each one of us lives our child within.The Child Within we once were.This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are and what we will be.Often this child lives in suppressed isolation constantly awaiting contact.</span>

Within the centre of each of us lives our child within.

Within the centre of each one of us lives our child within.The Child Within we once were.This child constitutes the foundation of what w...

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