Wednesday, July 1, 2009

208 - Shame about shame.

We have been taught to feel ashamed of our shame by the degree of silence on the subject. Silence makes the word and feeling unspeakable. I use the word shame alot partially in order to normalize it and to take the shame from the word and feeling of shame. It is a perfectly normal and natural part of our feeling life. It becomes a problem with the large amount of shaming that goes on along with the fact that we were conditioned to suppress feelings without sufficient support ie., understanding, acceptance and compassion for our feelings. Again no blame.
Peace,
Ken

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2 comments:

  1. "we were conditioned to suppress feelings without sufficient support." Good note because in suppressing the feelings I have also suppressed the name for those feelings, probably due to "sufficient support." I need to practice finding names for the feelings thereby being able to get "understanding, acceptance and compassion". Thanks

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  2. I have an extra feelings list if you would like one.

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