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

[Guest guest]

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