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Recieved: 2002/11/11 10:19
Subject: Re: [K-list] Emotionalism
From: José H

Hi Ken,
>
> A few self-help systems I've seen preach the doctrine of
> returning to the inner child. While child-like innocence is a
> beautiful thing, temper tantrums and thoughtless childish behavior
> is usually hurtful, to oneself and to others. No, these novel New
> Age systems aren't for me. I doubt their efficacy and doubt the
> motives of their founders.
>

I agree and just want to comment some on this part you wrote. Returning to
the inner child is very useful, to heal. Often anger and thoughtless
reactions come from unhealed parts of your inner child. But you do need
awareness of what is going on, where does it really come from and why am I
repeating this behaviour now. And, risking sounding arrogant - I do miss
that kind of awareness and skill sometimes in New Age circles. There are
wonderful opportunities there for healing old pains and becoming more
detached. Sometimes those opportunities are simply missed and people go home
with the same patterns, because there is not enough awareness of the
dynamics of emotions. Some knowledge on psychodynamics wouldn't hurt in some
of the groups I participated in.

So it can be very effective to return to old behaviour and old pain (when
you are ready for it) of your inner child, but just acting out (only) will
not help you. It is not effective when you don't get awareness on what it is
all about and the opportunity to heal, and act differently in similar
situations and get positive reactions, so your heart will heal and you will
not act out your old pain in the future.
In the end you have an inner child inside you, that is healed and can be
open to the world, inside a person that can behave in a grown up way.

Well - so far some of my own doubts on the efficacy of New Agesystems. Maybe
you are right on the motives of some, I don't know. This is just my
experience.

Jose

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