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C. Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience

Passive participation is individualized and varied, promoting a variety of potential emotional responses.  This section suggests strategies for healing and actions for transforming the experience based upon emotional responses rather than categories of roles in the conflict. There are many paths to healing these injuries from passive participation in conflict. The following are merely suggestions on how one might approach healing and transforming the emotional responses.  


1. Self Hate

            a. Practice:  love ACES self-hate

                  - Accepting Now: all things are as they are now – letting go

                  - Compassion: acceptance of oneself/others, seeing others in us

                  - Embracing Power: awareness enables us to choose our actions

                  - Self-Love: deep listening to oneself, giving self-empathy


            b. Transforming Action:

                  - Mindful of self: focus on loving to oneself as key to giving love to others

                  - Mindful of others: how one treats others is how one treats oneself 

                  - Participate in efforts of love on personal, community, and global level