The shadow of owning your experience
Owning your experience is one of Circling Europe's Five Principles of Circling . To me, owning my experience is a way that I can continuously practice recognizing that my experiences are a projection of my own mind. While this is just one lens we can use to interpret the world, it can often result in less suffering than the lens of blaming others or putting responsibility onto them. However, like any other principle, when "owning your experience" is taken as absolute dogma, we can start to more clearly notice its shadow. (cf. Alexandre Dumas: "All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.") The ugly part of ownership that I've observed in myself and many others is that in trying to own our experience, we inadvertently end up reinforcing our own ideas of who we are, as well as a sense of being separate from and invulnerable to others. The shape of this pattern is similar to how, in practicing equanimity, we can accidentally suppress or repress our feeling
YES JULIA!! Thank you for sharing your fear and your joy and I share your excitement to see what happens to you! Write your life, girl! So inspired to see someone else making choices off the path...we need to all have your courage to do what scares you..if we want to make this world more loving and inhabitable for all. Thanks for doing this for yourself, you're inspirational <3
ReplyDeleteThank you Chase <3 so much love to you and your journey!!!!!
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