Pocket Books by Stephen Andrew
The question is, can we change our systems to expect the worker, the helper to be the most skillful in creating empathy regularly and creating a state of compassion and radical acceptance? Because that is love.
I want you to dance with fear. I want you to understand that it's there. If you want to know how to get it to come out, just lean towards somebody, see if you don't feel it. And if you don't feel it yet, just lean a little closer.
Your heart has no judgment, no responsibility other than this moment in time and the presence which you bring to it. So, we can work on that and just let that presence in and come from the heart, because it doesn't have a goal, except I want to understand you.
Now, listening to the whisper of a human soul is a wonderful job.
What if we just accepted that we cannot change or control anything outside of ourselves? We can let go. It’s not easy, however we need to train ourselves every day to adjust to a new way of being and thinking. Our mind can be our enemy, or our mind can be our best friend, our greatest lover. Which do you choose?
How are men hurt and what is codependency (my definition: our adaptation to trauma)? Why do men need to gather with each other to soften the male oppression? Men supposedly have everything. We, men, have it all. I'm going to discuss how I perceive the word codependency and how it relates to the way men are hurt, and how at the crux of this are addictions, compulsions, and obsessions.
