Post by Susan Peabody on May 10, 2016 17:53:56 GMT
My current project is trying to live in the NOW. A friend of mine recommended it. At first I set it aside because I don't read as much, but I kept being drawn to it.
I often have books call to me. Years ago I presented the universe with a question. It was "Shall I go back to therapy?" The next day I could not get the title of a book out of my mind. It was Alice Miller's book, The Drama of the Gifted Child. I had bought it on the recommendation, but never read it because of the title. I did not feel like a gifted child, so how could this book help me. To make a long story short, I found the book and opened it up. In the first paragraph I found this . . .
Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child, pg. 1: Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of the truth about the unique history our childhood . . . In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. The damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone, since we cannot change anything in our past. We can, however, change ourselves . . . We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of the past and are thus able to live with it.
Back to my point, I read Tolle's The Power of the Now and was mesmerized. It all made sense and suddenly I was filled with the willingness to try to live in the now. As it turned out it was more difficult than I thought.
I often have books call to me. Years ago I presented the universe with a question. It was "Shall I go back to therapy?" The next day I could not get the title of a book out of my mind. It was Alice Miller's book, The Drama of the Gifted Child. I had bought it on the recommendation, but never read it because of the title. I did not feel like a gifted child, so how could this book help me. To make a long story short, I found the book and opened it up. In the first paragraph I found this . . .
Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child, pg. 1: Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of the truth about the unique history our childhood . . . In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. The damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone, since we cannot change anything in our past. We can, however, change ourselves . . . We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of the past and are thus able to live with it.
Back to my point, I read Tolle's The Power of the Now and was mesmerized. It all made sense and suddenly I was filled with the willingness to try to live in the now. As it turned out it was more difficult than I thought.