Re: Yipes! Aunt Dorothy is coming for tea so we are bolting down the hatches, now!

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Crumbs, all the wonkey English is on full view again. I tried so hard

but I still miss things. Perhaps acceptance will sort things out.

Kv

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>

> Gilbert say's, in his book, The Compassionate Mind, that hunans

> have an immense capacity for ralaxation (or something like that) -

> personally I think cats are much better at it. But for many of us with

> nervous illness, though, this abilty seems to completely go, and isn't

> this wretched?.

>

> My ACT books would really scare me when it came to accpeting

unpleasant

> things, I would find myself tensing up and getting really paniky just

> reading this. Then they might say that even when you are on your boat

> enjoying the sae, let the monsters on board too, if they want to come.

-

> what! In my favourite ACT book , The CBT Practioners Guide To ACT,

there

> are cartoons of all these horrible monsters sitting there crammed in a

> very small boat with you. Hmmmm, now who in their right mind would let

> that onboard with them? Well, it's not my idea of a picnik, anyway.

But

> this week something strange happened, and that despite feeling very

> uncomfortable, and in a fair amount of physical pain due to my

hemoroids

> (I'm so poorly right now) I felt at times such gorgeous peace and some

> degree of happiness too, although everything still felt all wrong,

> especially me!

>

> Hey! Perhaps I'm beginning to get some of this stuff now, so if we

learn

> to fully accept then that calm responce that Gilbert talks about

> can kick in, which feels really nice! Right now I'm qu'ite excited

about

> all this, so maybe those monsters don't you much so hurt much afterall

> when you welcome them in and hug them. Crumbs! I think I can handle

> this. ---- 'Hey! What's that you have got in your hand. Eww, yuk, now

> put in your pocket and come here with us'.

>

> Kv

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