Comments on: Broken Promises and the gifts they contain. http://fspnewsletter.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/broken-promises-and-the-gifts-they-contain/ Real People Having Real Conversations Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:30:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Shaun http://fspnewsletter.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/broken-promises-and-the-gifts-they-contain/#comment-35 Shaun Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:19:09 +0000 http://fspnewsletter.wordpress.com/?p=172#comment-35 I can see how this promise to try live to identity and ideal of being a good little girl can be limiting and depending on what that personally means. I guess that is what the journaling has done over years for you. Create the contemplative moments challenging why you made that promise and if it serves you well in some ways or not. I guess this is the thing, if we make a promise to be seen a certain way and have an identity, whatever that means to us personally is the domain we restrict to us until we may realise we need to grow more and it no longer may serve us. As spiritual beings having a humnan experience the soul cries out for more expression than identites we try to take on for whatever reasons to start with. The ego mind likes an idenitity to keep us the same and survive in the familar roles but it conflicts with deeper parts of our being which always wants to grow and experience more. I've actually always tried to avoid any identities I sense could pigeon hole me which is interesting as I write this I realise maybe that is like a promise I made to myself. I can see how this promise to try live to identity and ideal of being a good little girl can be limiting and depending on what that personally means. I guess that is what the journaling has done over years for you. Create the contemplative moments challenging
why you made that promise and if it serves you well in some ways or not.

I guess this is the thing, if we make a promise to be seen a certain way and have an identity, whatever that means to us personally is the domain we restrict to us until we may realise we need to grow more and it no longer may serve us.

As spiritual beings having a humnan experience the soul cries out for more expression than identites we try to take on for whatever reasons to start with.

The ego mind likes an idenitity to keep us the same and survive in the familar roles but it conflicts with deeper parts of our being which always wants to grow and experience more.

I’ve actually always tried to avoid any identities I sense could pigeon hole me which is interesting as I write this I realise maybe that is like a promise I made to myself.

]]> By: Sim Garner http://fspnewsletter.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/broken-promises-and-the-gifts-they-contain/#comment-34 Sim Garner Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:10:14 +0000 http://fspnewsletter.wordpress.com/?p=172#comment-34 What you are calling core promises do have a tendency to hold us to things that may cause pain. The promises themselves aren't the culprit. It is the beliefs behind the promises that are hurting us. By looking at the promises we dig out the beliefs and bring them to light for analytical examination. Once examined and found harmful to you as an individual then we can more easily allow those beliefs to fall away and replace them with more beneficial beliefs. Very good article Cate. What you are calling core promises do have a tendency to hold us to things that may cause pain. The promises themselves aren’t the culprit. It is the beliefs behind the promises that are hurting us.

By looking at the promises we dig out the beliefs and bring them to light for analytical examination. Once examined and found harmful to you as an individual then we can more easily allow those beliefs to fall away and replace them with more beneficial beliefs.

Very good article Cate.

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