Posted by pegasus on May 9, 2007, at 11:36:35
In reply to Re: One more thought » pegasus, posted by Daisym on May 9, 2007, at 1:08:10
Hey Daisy,
He said an interesting thing about the mirroring, and I'm wondering what you think of it. He said that when you're a child, taking in the parental reflection is a primary process. I guess meaning that when you get the reflection from your caregivers, you connect it with your own experience and grow from that. But when you're an adult and try to do that work, when you weren't able to as a child, it is always a secondary process. So, I guess he means that we've largely lost the ability to directly connect it to our own experience, which comes so naturally as a child.
So, then he hesitated to give me the feedback I was requesting, so that I could have the space to employ that primary process of finding it in myself instead. I guess the idea is that I need to exercise the part of connecting to my own experience, if I'm going to be able to do this work completely. And I might not have done that without guidance.What do you think of that?
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