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The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
Here is an important realization to digest: Our wanting, which is driven by our unintegrated emotional charge, leads us to believe that what we seek in order to feel satisfied is something solid and tangible – money, a car, a new house, a position in the workplace. But it isn’t. It’s never the “thing” that we are really after, but the resonance
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All behaviors we witness during our interactions with others that aren’t acts of unconditional love are unconscious pleas for unconditional love.
Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
benefits our entire experience.
Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
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whenever we attempt to have a loving relationship, it appears as though “the other keeps doing this unloving thing toward us.” Through the messenger mirror-effect, our unconscious definition of love reveals itself in the conditions the other lays down for us in order to be loved.
Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
.c1Translation: The mean and hurtful things done to us by those we love harm us because the other is laying down conditions under which they will love us. But those conditions are the very conditions that WE think are necessary in order for someone to love us. It bothers us when THEY demand those conditions, but it bothers us because WE limit our worthiness to those conditions. When we feel anger because someone has demanded something of us unjustly, that unjust thing is the very condition that WE think we have to satisfy to be loved.Try to think through some of these conditions.
The main characteristic of charged emotion is that we perceive it as uncomfortable.
Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
but because parents are only able to offer the same quality of unconditional attention to a child that they received during their childhood.
Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
Our earliest memories are only available as emotional signatures.
Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
We may become grumpy and irritable for no conceivable reason.
Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
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