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Turning inward and facing the dark within is the single most valuable action you can take in your spiritual path to wholeness..

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17/06/2022

"Anyone who identifies with the daylight half of his psychic
life will therefore declare the dreams of the night to be null and void, notwithstanding that the night is as long as the day and that all consciousness is manifestly founded on unconsciousness, is rooted in it and every night is extinguished in it."

C. G. Jung, Aion

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24/05/2022

“Individuation is a central concept in Jungian theory. It refers to the process in which a person in actual life consciously attempts to understand and develop the innate individual potentialities of his or her psyche. Because the archetypal possibilities are so vast, any particular individuation process inevitably must fail to achieve all that is innately possible. The important factor, therefore, is not the amount of achievement, but whether the personality is being true to its own deeper potentialities rather than simply following egocentric and narcissistic tendencies or identifying with collective cultural roles.”

Excerpt From: Hall, James A. “Jungian dream interpretation : a handbook of theory and practice"

Art: Nobody Lost, Nobody Found Painting by Davide Cambria

03/05/2022

Four Stages of Forgiveness

4- “FORGIVE

There are many ways and portions to forgiving a person, a community, a nation for an offense. It is important to remember that a “final” forgiveness is not surrender. It is a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one’s resolve to retaliate. You are the one who decides when to forgive and what ritual to use to mark the event.

You decide what debt you will now say needs not be paid further.

Some choose blanket pardon: releasing a person from any restitution now or ever. Others choose to call a halt to redress in process, abandoning the debt, saying whatever has been done is done, and the payback is now enough. Another kind of pardon is to release a person without his having made any emotional or other sort of restitution.

To some, a finalizing of forgiving means to regard the other indulgency, and this is easiest with regard to relatively benign offenses. One of the most profound forms of forgiveness is to give compassionate aid to the offending person in one form or another. This does not mean you should stick your head in the snake’s basket, but instead respond from a stance of mercy, security, and preparedness.

Forgiveness is the culmination of all foregoing, forbearing, and forgetting. It does not mean giving up one’s protection, but one’s coldness. One deep form of forgiveness is to cease excluding the other, which includes ceasing to stiff-aim, ignore, or act coldly toward, insisting on being neither patronizing nor phony. It is better for the soul-psyche to closely limit time and repartee with people who are difficult for you than to act like an unfeeling mannequin.

Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many time-honored ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances

— it’s a whole new game if there’s another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of an offense.

You can devise a blanket forgiveness. You decide.

How does one you know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to remember to say about it all. You understand the suffering that drove the offense to begin with. You prefer to remain outside the milieu. You are not waiting for anything. You are not wanting anything. There is no lariat snare around your ankle stretching from way back there to here. You are free to go. It may not have turned out to be a happily ever after, but most certainly there is now a fresh Once upon a time waiting for you from this day forward.”

Excerpt From
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pincola Estes

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29/04/2022

01/04/2022

Four stages of Forgiveness

2- “FOREBEAR

The second phase is to forebear, particularly in the sense of abstaining from punishing; neither thinking about it nor acting on it in small or large ways. It is extremely useful to practice this kind of containment, for it coalesces the issue into one place instead of allowing it to flow everywhere.

This builds focus toward the time when one proceeds to the next steps. This does not mean to go blind or dead and lose self-protective vigilance. It means to give a bit of grace to the situation and see how that assists.

To forebear means to have patience, to bear up against, to channel emotion. These are powerful medicines. Do as much as you can. This is a cleansing regime. You need not do all; you can choose one, such as patience, and practice that. You can refrain from punitive uttering, muttering, from acting resentful, hostile. To refrain from unnecessary punishing strengthens integrity of action and soul. To forebear is to practice generosity, thereby allowing the great compassionate nature to participate in matters that have previously caused emotion ranging all the way from minor irritation to rage.”

Excerpt From
Women Who Run with the Wolves/
Clarissa Pincola Estes
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27/03/2022

Four Stages of Forgiveness

1. to forego—to leave it alone”

1- FOREGO

To begin to forgive, it is good to forego for a while. That is, to take a break from thinking about the person or event for a while. It is not leaving something undone, but rather more like taking a vacation from it. This prevents us from being exhausted, allows us to strengthen in other ways, to have other happiness in our lives.

This is good practice for the final letting go that comes with forgiveness later on. Leave the situation, memory, issue as many times as you need to. The idea is not to overlook but to become agile and strong at detaching from the issue. To forego means to take up that weaving, that writing, to go to that ocean, to do some learning and loving that strengthens you, and to allow the issue to drop away for a time. This is right, good, and healing. The issues of past injury will bedevil a woman far less if she assures the wounded psyche that she will give it healing balms now and deal with the entire issue of who caused what injury later.

Excerpt From
Women Who Run with the Wolves \
Clarissa Pincola Estes
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19/03/2022