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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Well, I just spent so much time on a comment on another thread that I decided I’d post it here for the benefit of whomever might come upon it :)   This comment was spurred by my blog friend, Muse, speaking of my article,  “Words + Emotions = Power”

Dove

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Hey, thanks for reading my article, Muse Actually, I didn’t develop that process with my emotions, I learned it from a therapist I was going to in southern Oregon. And I immediately saw the value in it, but I had (and still have) such a strong block to my healing. It’s such a challenge to get myself to do all the things I have seen the value in. I can let myself get to a point where I can’t make myself do anything, just morbidly depressed. And if I finally sit down and “talk/write” to “Jack,” … let him do his raging on paper, even for just a few minutes, I can get up and immediately feel a change for the better — alive and ready to go about the business of living again I can’t emphasize enough how valuable it is…if we can just get ourselves to do it.

And I couldn’t fully elaborate in that article about it…or my wonderful initial experience with it. But I don’t name them, they name themselves

My first experience (with the therapist) was amazing. I know this sounds weird, but they are actually like little beings inside of us, and they can teach us things if we’ll just listen. Not only did they tell me their names, they told me their ages and WHERE THEY LIVE IN MY BODY. Jack is in my stomach (see my pic of “Fire in the Belly”).  Jack is just 17 — he holds back nothing

I connected with these six parts of me, each told me their name (under “hypnosis,” which felt no different than meditating), age and location in the body. And then the therapist asked them questions, and the answers were so beneficial… These six are, Anger, Hurt, Shame, Depression, Fear, and Sentinel.

Again, so many cool things I learned from doing this. But I’ll share just one more. I wasn’t making these names up. And there were several indicators as to the truth of that. The “Hurt” part of me said “Tom” when asked its name, located in my heart. But I remember feeling like it was a girl. Later I found out that it is a girl, a sweet little girl “Tom” was short for “Tomboy,” which I used to be I call her “Tommie” now I feel a rush of emotion just speaking of her…

Okay one more The only other male is my depression, “Jake.” It was interesting… He said he was in my “colo-rectal area.” I repeated back “rectal”? He then strongly emphasized “colo-rectal.” Alrighty then I couldn’t help noticing that both anger (stomach) and depression (colo-rectal) are male. And that the their names are very similar. What’s in the stomach travels to the colo-rectal area, no? Interesting, eh?

Oh, also, I have a basket of books that the Universe has nudged me toward for years, and I haven’t yet really gotten into them. But one book that’s come up strongly is “Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma” by Peter A. Levine. I’ve read bits and pieces of it, and that’s where I learned how animals shake their fear out. I really should read and study that book.

One final thing Ya’ know how we “accidentally” break something or say something we wish we hadn’t or continue to do something we so don’t want to do, that’s coming from one of them It really is like having little ones within us. We either give them attention, or they’ll “act out” in our lives — hence, the “chaos” we so often experience in our lives. Just like with actual children that haven’t been tended to and cared for properly. It’s kind of unnerving when ya’ think about it, how “they” can momentarily take control of our lives and shake things up and it feels beyond our control…

Dove

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