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.
Joy and love are what we feel when we have surrendered to God guiding our life. Fear is what we feel when our ego/wounded self is in charge. Yet our wounded self fears the surrender, fearing loss of self. We need to be willing to lose the self to gain the Self.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
