Invite the compassionate Presence of Spirit into your heart to help you learn what you are doing or thinking that may be causing your pain.
Consciously move out of the intent to protect/control and into the intent to learn about what you are doing or thinking that may be causing your pain so that you can move into loving yourself and others.
When you connect with Spirit and move into the intent to learn, you are in a loving Adult state, as opposed to the ego wounded self state you are in when you want to protect/control.
In Step Two, you welcome and embrace all your feelings with a compassionate intent to learn.
Embrace with compassion your wounded feelings of anxiety, fear, depression, anger, jealousy, guilt, shame, aloneness, rage, blame. Hold the wounded child and explore what you are thinking or doing that is causing these feelings. What are you telling yourself? All thoughts that create suffering are lies to ourselves. Discover the thoughts that are creating your suffering. Pain is a part of life, but suffering is a choice that results from our untrue thoughts.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
