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okiyoe1 07/28/2010

"So walk with your heaviness, saying yes. Yes to the sadness, yes to the whispered longing. Yes to the fear. Love means setting aside walls, fences and unlocking doors and saying yes...one can simply be in paradise by simply saying yes to the moment."The instant we agree to feel fear, vulnerability, greed or agitation, we are holding our life with a unconditionally friendly heart.
Pat Rodegast : Emmanuel
Radical Acceptance ,Tara Brach

okiyoe1 07/28/2010

I found this to me, to be very useful ,in fact I knew I had read my little Yes!! affirmation somewhere years ago. I found out where Ha!! Very positive ... Yes!!!
Billy

deleted_user 07/28/2010

I like.

Very positive and proactive. Let's stop being run over by our emotions and thoughts and just say Yes to these things.

It looks like the only way these things really have power over us is when we resist them.

Makes sense in paradoxical world.

deleted_user 07/28/2010

Thanks, Billy. I really like this. Becoming OK with feelings I always drank over has been the most rewarding adventure in sobriety.

deleted_user 07/28/2010

Thanks, Billy. Makes me want to pick up that book again! I remember the comfort I felt when reading it years ago and what a difference it made in my life. :-)

xo
~Chris

deleted_user 07/28/2010

Billy. What is the name of the book? I cannot understand which one it is; I'm slow.

deleted_user 07/28/2010

I found a great interview with the author Tara Branch. Good stuff okiyoe1, thanks!

http://www.beliefnet.com/Health/2005/05/Just-Say-Yes-To-The-Moment.aspx

okiyoe1 07/28/2010

S/p the Yes! to, is from Emmanuel : represented by Pat Rodegast
Nice thanks for link Kim:) Omm!
Billy

deleted_user 07/28/2010

The name of the Book is called Radical Self Acceptance by Tara Brach.

http://www.soundstrue.com/shop/STSearch.do?searchTerm=brach&searchDomain=keyword&selectedType=All+Products&searchPage=0&selectedComponentGroup=All&selectedItem=bestsellers

okiyoe1 07/28/2010

No my friend My book cover says Radical Acceptance:) Tara Brach, there is a follow up called that basdist but The cover says Radical Acceptance p.82, Unconditional friendliness.

okiyoe1 07/28/2010

Once again, the Yes!! to is a excerpt from Emmanuel: represented by Pat Rodegast.
,Quoted on p.82 in Tara Brach's book Radical Acceptance:)

deleted_user 07/28/2010

Thanks, Billy!!

CoogeeMum 07/29/2010

Nice Billy. I read Kim's link and liked it so much, just ordered it. Where she talked about 'trance of unworthiness', oh how true was that. Acknowledgement and Acceptance truly did set me on a path to freedom from my self-imposed prison. The book is Radical Acceptance, but she also put out a 3 CD set called Self-Acceptance.

deleted_user 07/29/2010

She also uses the accronym: R.A.I.N. which stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Non-identity.

So when you're experiencing difficult emotions, practice recognizing the emotion, allow the emotion to be as it is, Investigate the emotion in a caring, curious and considerate way, and then watch as you dis-identify your sense of self with that emotion.

okiyoe1 07/29/2010

So much work to do Ha!!!:)

Taradactyl 07/30/2010

Ha I just started reading Emmanuals Book. Neat ideas.

Thanks Billy.

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