Posted by annierose on December 30, 2004, at 7:07:58
In reply to Re: Pink and yellow swirls - largely incomprehensible » annierose, posted by Dinah on December 29, 2004, at 23:31:25
Yes Dinah - I'm with you on the hearing everything. I hear when she shifts position in her chair, reaches for a pen and the cell phone thing happens too (and I hear her read the "text message"), reaches for a kleenex, etc. I didn't know you close your eyes as well, but you are sitting, right?
You are doing such good deeds from the heart for your father. He does appreciate it.
I can't remember if it's this thread or another, you were talking with dasiym about sitting with pain. A co-worker of mine gave me a poem for Christmas and it talked about that. The poem is very long, so I'm just typing a small excerpt, from "The Invitation" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
"I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.... I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in empty moments."The actual piece is 3x as long. Although not it's intention, part of it does speak to the therapy-client relationship for me. What do you think?
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