tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888062989373409064.post6608516606520240935..comments2023-03-31T06:11:09.400-04:00Comments on Mother Lode: Young and Rich? Ohhh....Jung & ReichDarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063312878854248109noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888062989373409064.post-51581303267726120062008-10-22T10:46:00.000-04:002008-10-22T10:46:00.000-04:00Hi Iamus! MWAH! You are right, being "soft" makes...Hi Iamus! MWAH!<BR/> You are right, being "soft" makes one more <I>in</I>vulnerable. I was referring to the that feeling of tenderness one gets when exposed after being armored up. Just like searing sunlight when a blindfold is removed. Learning to feel comfortable and fluid in that exposure and with the tenderness without toughening up again is difficult to do. <BR/><BR/>That "trust" is very tough to achieve. I have strangled my potential before. I know exactly what you mean. I get caught up in fighting for my life. I need to learn to shake that feeling of struggling. I often feel stretched so thin as do many people in my position.<BR/><BR/>There is a retreat at my Temple that I really wish I could go to so I could slow down. My days and nights are like a blur. It is so easy to be reactionary and put up walls for protection when the daily drive is for survival. Surviving rather thriving...cliche but true.Darahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18063312878854248109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888062989373409064.post-46735259112262297332008-10-21T23:15:00.000-04:002008-10-21T23:15:00.000-04:00Soft doesn't need to mean vulnerable. Hard and imm...Soft doesn't need to mean vulnerable. Hard and immovable is characteristic of vulnerability, because it implies separateness from things around, the building of a wall to protect something weak. Softness is a dissolution of barriers between things, and is therefore the ultimate expression of the confidence and security in things.<BR/><BR/>It builds a view of the world as not only coexistent, but codependent with yourself. For every push there is a pull. You go in with the whirl and out with the swirl. When you are supple and malleable in every thought and action, you can flow in and around anybody and anything. Trust that what you are at the root has no need of protection, it is the most powerful part of you and anything you do to cover it will only strangle its potential. The less you try and protect it, the more you will project it.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Oh, and hi! Sorry for not being in touch for so long. Stories to tell, though!iamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06710967560012428771noreply@blogger.com