Posted by Lindenblüte on September 20, 2006, at 9:21:24
In reply to Re: Update on hypnosis *possible trig*, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2006, at 23:58:00
Thank you Antigua for the update. This is really fascinating. I wonder if the hypnotism didn't truly "take" but just gave you a neutral place for you to allow yourself to recognize and work on something.
Your mind is a library and it's full of books and notes and crammed-in documents. Maybe hypnotism provided you with a clean desk. A large clean work surface. You're the one who chose how to use it. Which books to pull from the shelves. What you want to take notes on. What you want to write your next story about.
It's okay. There's nothing inherently "TRUE" or "FALSE" about memories. Sometimes our memories of the facts (the exact people/places/timeline) is totally wrong, but the meaning of the memory, or the emotions it evokes are incredibly accurate. (or vice versa). Which one is "real"?
And what does any event mean to a little kid, anyways? How would you expect the average little kid to deal with this stuff? The kid you see riding down the street on her bike, or playing in the sandbox at the playground, or walking around the grocery store? How would they know what's real? What it means?
It's okay to have a little innocence inside of you. A little angry child- who knows she's been hurt, but doesn't know why, or how, or by whom.
I guess the first time that I started to feel how wrong my childhood was was when I started working with kids a lot. I saw something so precious and wonderful. Their individuality. Their little selves. Even infants have little personalities. It's a wonderful thing-- to be a person. Even if we start our lives as a creature that's weaker, softer, more innocent, naive... That's not a "bad" thing. That's part of being human. It's okay. It will be okay.
You have stuff to work on that will affect your future. A painting in progress that is slowly taking shape. You may not have control over the contents of the painting, but you can control how large it is, how realistic you want to make it look. What colors to select. How big the canvas will be. Where you want to hang it- in your entryway, in your closet, in your living room, tucked into your bookshelf... Just don't forget that it's YOUR painting. YOU'RE the artist. YOU get to decide where to put it while you're working on it, and where to hang it when you're reasonably satisfied.
-Li
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