#the inner work

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Alright it’s been years since I’ve been on here. But I heard tumblr is still kinda poppin so where my people at

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Books I've Rread to Help with Healing

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple - Seth J. Gillihan PhD

The Love Dare - Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick

The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk

The Inner Work - Matthew Micheletti, Ashley Cottrell

Rumination - Lana Otoya

How to be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Living - David Richo

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I finished this book last week. I opened it intrigued with what it would be like. Finished the book after thoroughly enjoying it. A key theme in the book is the notion of mineness which is similar to the ego. Which is kind of about going from a conceptualised sense of self to a perspective taking self. I love this idea and I find that it resonates with me a lot. A quote I like relating to this is - “instead of attaching to thoughts as mine, we observe them impersonally. A thought of shame arising. A feeling of fear coming up. Passing of clouds in a sense.” I also quite like the idea presented in the book that almost everything about your minds perspectives, beliefs, judgments, values, and desires were inherited or modelled to you.

I picked up this book as a suggestion by a friend on tumblr and feel very grateful that she suggested it to me. I feel like I have grown from reading this book and I now have this desire to read lots of books by Alan Watts 😅 Am excited to pick up one of his from the local library.

A good self-help book.

[johnhmcintosh]

THE INNER WORK

JOHN MCINTOSH

 When circumstances occur such as natural disasters, mutual suffering and as is currently occurring … a global pandemic, there is a natural tendency to ‘pull together’ in a temporary comradery where differences are put aside for the common good. While this ‘does’ tend to briefly neutralize the conflict, which emanates from the Grand Dream that the belief in separation produced … it does ‘not’ bring one to the Awareness of the Truth – the ONE ‘SELF’ YOU ARE.

 What unfolds is an ‘opportunity’ that more easily facilitates the ‘inner work’ of dissolving the conditioning [attachments, expectations and identifications] that has manifested the illusory false self most call ‘me’. This is a fiery task, which no amount of fuzzy, warm, feigned kumbaya will bring about. Each one must “stand in the fire of who they are NOT” in order for the ever-Present SELF to be revealed.

 It is very attractive to let one’s guard down, join hands in gratitude and express the suppressed feelings related to the Love that has lingered in the shadows for eons, and while this is a wonderful experience … it ‘will not’ last. Those defenses [conditioning] still exist and ‘will’ return when circumstances are more balanced [in the highly limited perspective of the false self]. The SELF has opened these opportunities to IT’s slumbering SELF [usually through conflict, chaos and suffering] to turn ‘attention’ inward where Truth resides. It is for you then to take the dive off the cliff of limitation into the Unknown … the SELF is there.

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