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Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Fear [9 of 12]
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Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Fear [9 of 12]
Strategies for Healing and Transforming Experience: Despair [11 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.
6. Hurt
a. Practice: HEAL hurt
- Honor ancestors by releasing hurt and harnessing our power well
- Embrace capacity for forgiveness, resilience and change
- Accept what is- finding the capacity for love and joy in present moments
- Let go of hurt: embrace that we choose how we respond
b. Transforming Action:
- Mindful of self: Listen deeply and heal one’s hurts by seeing hurt in all
- Mindful of others: Cultivate capacity to hear others hurt with compassion
- Participate in efforts for healing hurt through empowering action for all