![]() ![]() Intentionally I expose myself to learning more about these important efforts. On the other hand I am also very aware of the significant number of very positive things being done all over the globe by individuals, small groups, communities, organizations, businesses and corporations working on this crisis. Then I ask my patients to consider this question: What do I do in my life that fuels that difficult feeling? Looking at the other hand I have them ask: How can I cultivate the countervailing feeling to help it to grow? "Now imagine a part of yourself, your personal Higher Self," I say, "witnessing your feelings being held." Of course, initially the feelings will be experienced as out of balance weighted in the direction of the difficult emotion - I am purposefully avoiding the use of the word negative. I encourage my patients to practice holding their upturned hands out in the same way. I demonstrate this by holding my hands out in front of me in an open and upturned position. ![]() Then I recommend to them imagining holding both feelings so that they develop the sense that these opposing feelings can coexist in consciousness. By a countervailing feeling I mean a strong opposite feeling. Then I recommend that they think of what would be a countervailing feeling to the powerful emotion and suggest that they cultivate those feeling states. First I encourage them to feel these difficult emotions - not suppress them or push them away. I have also guided my patients about finding their own pathway of developing an island of sanity. ![]()
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