Supporting personal practice

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Comment by Marjolaine Hohberger on January 12, 2012 at 2:17am

The part where we managed to heal ourselves and positively spreads around has to be reconected again and again. In my personal case I get fallbacks and need to be reminded of my arrogance and ego, forgive and forget, and reconnect and give back joy and positivity. Mostly traumatized people have fear I think, so overcome our fear of being human.

Comment by Susan Szpakowski on April 30, 2011 at 11:04am

That sounds like a great practice to me, Kevin. And I agree with both you and Renee that we have to see it, really know it, in ourselves before we spontaneously see basic goodness in others. Every morning I try to remember to do my "bus practice"--noticing and letting go of any filters I have that get in the way of seeing the basic goodness in everyone else.

Comment by Kevin A. Johnson on April 27, 2011 at 5:35pm

In my formative years I adopted the belief that there was no such thing as human goodness, but over the past 15 years I've come to evolve past those impositions and set my goodness free.  That evolution began with one question: what if your belief is wrong? Even today I ask myself that about everything, and it has liberated me in unexpected ways. I think that this journey has taught me that we are all freedom fighters of some sort--shunning and throwing off repression and suppression of our individual and corporate expressions.  We all want to practice being fully ourselves. I think we all desire to believe and experience our own goodness in relationship with those around us.  What is the object of our basic human goodness? Ourselves..each other...so perhaps the practice for me is simply recognizing the human sitting or standing next to me--and being good to them.

Comment by Renee Jackson on April 25, 2011 at 11:17am

My basic human goodness begins with self-awareness, and Being true to my self. It's letting go of the conditioning imposed upon me by others, and creating the norms that work for my authentic life. It's learning to love myself, and being my best friend. Then I will be functioning from a place of human goodness. Because I have no need to judge or make assumptions. I honor and values our differences, and understand that we're reflections of each others...I see others as I see myself. My response to life is that of love; whether it is reciprocated or not, love is like a seed you plant it and walk away. Someone else will water, another nurture, but the unseen/the Universe/God will give the increase. When goodness is modeled, it can be contagious!

Comment by Theresa Heeg on March 28, 2011 at 10:24pm

Gratitude and Forgiveness = Basic Human Goodness

Comment by Adrian Pyle on February 25, 2011 at 12:46am

A blog post about an experiment in Melbourne, Australia, for people trying to practice good neighbourhood building...

 

http://www.community.aliainstitute.org/profiles/blogs/an-experiment...

Comment by Susan Szpakowski on November 26, 2010 at 5:33pm

Well said, Mia. Today I am experiencing the "gentling" power of community as the other side of personal practice. My friend Michael Marlowe says that perhaps THE most important message for our time is "you are not alone."

Mindfulness softens the personal boundaries and contractions that create the illusion of separateness, self-consciousness, judgements, fear, aggression, and all the rest. When that relaxes, the energy and goodness around me can pour in. As the Beatles say, "When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you...Silly girl."

It has taken a lifetime to realize that "helping myself" this way is a practice that I do alone, to discover that I am not alone.

Comment by Mia Angela Barbera on November 23, 2010 at 11:38pm

Reading the comments served as a practice just now. I felt wider boundaries, softer and gentler. Perhaps if I/we practice "belonging", we can feel less afraid of who we are and trade self-consciousness for the generosity and calm that seems to comes from the felt experience of a wider boundary. This is so easily created in a simple practice. Grazie. Thank you, community, for being here on this page. Mia Angela .

Comment by Genevieve Boast on June 7, 2010 at 7:30am

Hi All,

Having recently started my own social enterprise that is geared around teaching skills for human connection and happiness to young people I loved 'The Choice' below.
Gen

Comment by Jan Gunnarsson on July 2, 2009 at 5:00pm

Hi Betsy!

Good to meet you!!

Yes, it can work great for meditation or as a thought on the way to work. It´s about arriving in harmony to work and colleagues!

Stay great and keep up that kayaking! Jan

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