[MT] Re: Network: Creating the Perfect Statements, II

  Yes, yes, Suzanne! This is it exactly. Thank you for jumping in! Love,
Stephanie

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I'm new to this list but couldn't help jumping in here. I and many
>therapists I know actually use the terms "taking responsibility" and "owning
>one's stuff ," interchangeable. The latter term was coined by Fritz Perls of
>Gestalt fame and I suspect he meant claiming or owning our stuff as the
>opposite of denial.
>
>The other take I have on this phrase "Don't own it" which may be closer to
>what Stephanie means is not to "identify" with or make something solid, a
>permanent part of the "Self" when it is something you want to get rid of. I
>do an energy work called Wave Work and I encourage my clients to witness the
>sensations, feelings, thoughts that they experience as "impermanent, just
>passing through. Very similar to the Vipassana Buddhist teaching that there
>is no permanent self, just awareness and a constant stream of rising and
>passing away of experience.
>
>Metta,
>
>Suzanne
>
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