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You Are INNATELY Good …
From the time we learn the word “no,” we begin to get the message that what we would do naturally is “bad.”
As young children, we can’t make a distinction between our behavior and ourselves, so we buy into a lie — the lie that in order to be good enough we have to sit still and be quiet, or look pretty, or SOMETHING. But some of the demands we place on children (and ourselves) are more apt to stifle them than make them good.
“Even if you were fortunate enough to grow up in a safe, nurturing environment, you still bear invisible scars from childhood, because from the very moment you were born you were a complex, dependent creature with a never-ending cycle of needs. Freud correctly labeled us ‘insatiable beings.’ And no parents, no matter how devoted, are able to respond perfectly to all of these changing needs,” says Harville Hendrix in his bestselling “Getting the Love You Want.”
We have a fundamental motivation to be accepted, which is why you might jump to defend yourself, your parents, your children (even while reading this). Rejection used to point to a problem that needed our attention, and our survival depended on how sensitive and responsive we were.… More
Let’s connect …
Unless we feel threatened, we connect. Let’s remember that there is no fear in love.… More
Thank you!
To all those who expressed their love on my birthday, I thank you. I want to be present and choose love, and get better at it as I practice. And I’m delighted to practice with you. May we reconcile what we present with the beauty and greatness within us. May we immerse ourselves in that same divinity that surrounds us and, thus, live a life worthy of LOVE, worthy of us.
My thanks to Valerie Stemberger for snapping my photo yesterday on the Silver River I call heaven. … More
Happy birthday to me!
So thankful that at 64 I can begin yet again with deeper knowing and resolve. Let’s not be thinking we have to get old, when we can drink from the fountain of youth. Celebrating in America’s oldest city! Reveling in the beach, life, the fountain of love, my baby … and you, my friends.… More
Let’s dance together …
May we dance together, each in our own way, but all to love.… More
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