SECRETS

All the people I know have 'secrets'. Some they share with me so we can work with them, some they do not - too fearful to give them voice.

Of course, soon after meeting someone, I see there are secrets and what they are related to. I just haven't heard the words that go with the body language and the 'stories' in the head... yet.

Bill Wilson, founder of AA once said: "You are only as sick as your secrets." I find this is Truth with a capital T.  I have worked with people who have been mentally, emotionally and physically crippled for a majority of their lives by what they believed must be kept secret. Soon, after we begin the work of unraveling the 'secret' stories in the head and people begin to discuss their secrets - even if only conditionally and partially - a transformation begins to take place almost immediately as the burdens begin to lift.

Unfortunately, I've also known several people who died from self medicating in order to deny and keep their secrets secret. They never had the chance to be free of them, not even for a moment - unless drunk or drugged. In the end no amount of drink or drugs or other vices could keep the voices in the head from tormenting them in a self contained inferno with all the imagined horrors attached to turning the secrets out into the light. Secrets, suicide and drink or drugs killed them.

TASK

What secrets do you have?
Listen for them this week. 

Change nothing while listening to the "secret's stories in the head".
 

Simply observe, as objectively as possible, what effects they have on the body
        on your relationships with everyone you know and meet

        on your inner and outer freedom in life.

        How do your secrets make you behave?

        Feel?

        Think?

Note your objective observations from the day in your journal every night.

Do not judge, be taken by or speculate about what you observe.

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BE

 LISTENING

IN ALL SENSES AND CENTERS

 
LISTENING   

 
BREATHE IN
 

LISTENING

   LETTING  GO 

  BREATHE OUT 

 
 LISTENING IN ALL SENSES AND CENTERS

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REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT

~L.Lopez