Extended Focus
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Ruth, our childcare specialist came to class tonight. She was initially challenged by having to focus over the time period of an hour and a half. The meditative music relaxed her, which facilitated her maintaining her attention span. Her initial contracted state began to open as she wrote more and more. What was most gratifying for her was writing a letter of appreciation and admiration to herself, which showed her that she needed to be more self-encouraging. Reading the letter and receiving positive feedback from the group solidified the warm expansion she experienced from expressing herself in such a positive way. Monday, September 17th 2007 at Brown House
Ruth, our childcare specialist came to class tonight. She was initially challenged by having to focus over the time period of an hour and a half. The meditative music relaxed her, which facilitated her maintaining her attention span. Her initial contracted state began to open as she wrote more and more. What was most gratifying for her was writing a letter of appreciation and admiration to herself, which showed her that she needed to be more self-encouraging. Reading the letter and receiving positive feedback from the group solidified the warm expansion she experienced from expressing herself in such a positive way. Monday, September 17th 2007 at Brown House
Tonight at MAWS (Marin Abused Women’s Services) one of the women who is struggling with a strong negative self-image remarked to me that” We all come here with many issues but at the end of the group we leave thinking positively.” Negativity is so powerful when you’ve not had what is positive about you mirrored by your parents. And that is often because their parents did not positively mirror them; you cannot give what you don’t have. One of the writing exercises gave the women an opportunity to re-parent themselves, to offer themselves appreciation and admiration for who they are.
They responded with a vigorous openness that suggests that the hunger for positive regard is just waiting to be tapped, for an appropriate trusting context to be provided into which the consciousness can open. Tuesday, September 18th 2007
They responded with a vigorous openness that suggests that the hunger for positive regard is just waiting to be tapped, for an appropriate trusting context to be provided into which the consciousness can open. Tuesday, September 18th 2007
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