Simply Listen, Be Kind Not Right. And Take No Shit. The Illusion of Control Masks Patterns of Fear and Shame, Instead Create The Calm Inner Space To Hold and Surrender To The Uncertainty of A Moment To Moment Mystery. That is Whole Presence
Isn't That Interesting?
Maybe it’s you. Maybe it *was* you.
Maybe it’s a parent, a partner, a colleague, or friend?
Notice who it is you’re thinking of as you read.
Instead of facing their fears or their shame, they find it more tolerable to exert power and control over another.
This act creates the illusion that they are worthy and deserving of [insert outcome of control here] — maybe it’s being right, maybe it’s keeping you in their life, maybe it’s proving their point, maybe it’s having you submit to them in some way.
If someone needs to exert power over another it undoubtedly means that they feel powerless in themselves.
All it does is create an illusion.
Isn't That Interesting?
That illusion helps them avoid a belief that lies within:
That illusion helps them avoid a belief that lies within:
I am undeserving,
I am unworthy,
I am not good enough,
I am powerless.
Control does not exist without shame and fear.
Control does not exist without shame and fear.
It breeds off of it.
If this is you, might you turn safely towards your fears and shame. Might you begin to get to know them better so that they don’t rule your life. Ignoring, denying calls or avoiding them does not make anything go away, it intensifies it, even if you can’t see it.
If this is someone you know, how do you participate in this dance?
Isn't That Interesting?
From Love, Not For Love
Isn't That Interesting?
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