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Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Self Hate [5 of 12]
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Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Self Hate [5 of 12]
Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Guilt [7 of 12]
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.
2. Shame
a. Practice: give GRACE to shame
- Gratitude: honor the beautiful life force: within, in nature, past/future
- Release: letting go of how we think we ought to be, and be as we are
- Accept Perfect Imperfection: touch perfection within and self-love now
- Capacity to Change: harness the opportunity to choose our actions now
- Equanimity: embrace goodness and celebrate wholeness
b. Transforming Action:
- Mindful of self: focus: self acceptance in wholeness
- Mindful of others: release judgments and how others should be/do
- Participate in efforts that honor wholeness in self, community, world
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.
2. Shame
a. Practice: give GRACE to shame
- Gratitude: honor the beautiful life force: within, in nature, past/future
- Release: letting go of how we think we ought to be, and be as we are
- Accept Perfect Imperfection: touch perfection within and self-love now
- Capacity to Change: harness the opportunity to choose our actions now
- Equanimity: embrace goodness and celebrate wholeness
b. Transforming Action:
- Mindful of self: focus: self acceptance in wholeness
- Mindful of others: release judgments and how others should be/do
- Participate in efforts that honor wholeness in self, community, world