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So I began to ask myself the question, “What is it internally that I don’t want?” More than that, “What is it that I am internally moving away from?” Lo and behold, I discovered that my sense of “desperation” was actually keeping me from feeling despair, from a complete absence of hope. Losing hope is the most intense feeling of powerlessness in the range of human emotions. Some part of me was convinced that slipping into despair meant death, so that part of me had been resisting despair in order to survive.
wanted death. And so I did the opposite of what I had always done. I turned around and I ran straight into the tornado. I committed emotional suicide. I didn’t know what would happen, but I did it anyway. I was in for a surprise. For a moment, I drowned in the misery of heavy anguish. It felt like I was being crushed, bruised, and broken. I took a breath. Instead of pulling away from it, I went deeper; I gave the feeling permission to consume me. I allowed it as if it had a valid reason to be there. And soon, like sunrays penetrating the depths of the ocean, I experienced a lightness of being. I felt relief. The fear of the feeling itself was evaporated by my choice to dive into the feeling instead.
I tried it almost every time I was confronted with an uncomfortable feeling that I was tempted to run away from.
So many souls in this world need healing, and I had discovered that it all starts with really feeling our emotions. In the womb, we humans felt sensations from the world before we even saw it. When we first come into this life as tiny babies, we experience the world entirely through perception. As we proceed through life, we carry the emotional tone of our childhood into our adulthood. It’s a learned vibrational state that we build upon and add to.
We will spend our lives trying to “fix” ourselves with little to no success.
As we matured, one part of us grew up but the other part stayed a child. This inner child symbolizes our emotional selves. Regardless of your childhood experiences, good or bad, the adult part of you grew up, despite not getting everything it needed as a child. Therefore, your adult self holds the key to healing.
My wish for you is that you experience the kind of joyous life that is available only to those who are willing to courageously journey deep within themselves, resurrecting the aspects of themselves that have been lost.
SEEKING THE GREAT RECONCILIATION The Completion Process is the doorway to liberation. It’s a way to put yourself back together again so you are no longer inhibited by the past or terrified of the future.
Others succumb to addiction to try to drown out the pain of emptiness. All of the difficult circumstances that we struggle with have one thing in common: trauma.
A person might not even be consciously aware of the trauma, even when it causes serious grief in day-to-day life.
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The Completion Process by Teal Swan presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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