Artical

[frannyan]

"If every time you become aware of a flaw with yourself – let's say you get angry or resentful or jealous or act too passively – and as a result of this awareness you come down on yourself and make yourself feel bad or guilty, then you will become unwilling to want to continue looking at yourself. This is simple negative reinforcement. This does not allow awareness to work because self-discovery becomes linked to trashing ourselves for not living up to some image we have of ourselves, or others have of us. The fact is that we have all had less than optimum childhoods and as a consequence developed personality traits and habits that we judge unacceptable."

http://thewayofseeing.com/article_be-gentle.html

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[swirling-chaos.livejournal.com]

Interesting.