Re: Fwd: A Little Story I Like to Tell

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Also for you TC - I read your latest post since I sent this. HTo: "ACT" <act_for_the_public >Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:42:26 AMSubject: Fwd: A Little Story I Like to Tell

Wanted to share this with you all, and especially Lin and Tara:

Your deepest Self is not flawed in any way. There is nothing wrong with you. The energy that seeks expression through you is valuable beyond what words can describe. Helena

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Finding the Spark

A Little Story I Like to Tell

There is a story I like to

tell my clients. It is a useful story for helping us make sense out of

how we got to be the way we are.

It is a story that helps

generate compassion for our most despairing struggles. It is a story that

helps identify the many things we do to try to get love. It also helps us

realize our strategies for getting love have never worked in the past and will

never work in the future.

It is also a story that

points us in the direction of a more authentic connection with our deepest self

as well as a more authentic connection with the people who populate our world.

You could say it is a story

about not only finding the spark of light we most truly are but it is also a

story about shining our light to all we touch. Here is my story....

Looking For a Dance Partner

We come into the world

looking for a dance partner. We are looking for a

special dance partner. We are looking for a partner that will follow our

lead; a partner that will be responsive to our needs; a partner that will adapt

to our rhythm and pace.

We are looking for a partner that will

gracefully, attentively and without agenda focus their attention on the miracle

of life seeking expression through us.

If we are fortunate enough

to get a dance partner who responds in these ways a wonderful progression occurs.

Under this set of

circumstances we experience ourselves as inherently valuable; we also know we

do not need to do anything beyond being our most authentic self to be loved and

safe and secure.

Such is the importance and

result of having a good enough dance partner.

However if our dance partner

is not able to follow our lead and is not available to help us when we lose our

balance or get out of step an entirely different progression occurs.

Under this set of

circumstances we predictably come to the conclusion that there is something

wrong with us. We might conclude this in any number of ways.

Typical examples are the ideas I am not enough or I do not matter or everything

that goes wrong is my fault...

Another outcome of this set

of circumstances is the belief we must take charge and do something to get our

dance partner to follow our lead or to get them to be available when we need

assistance. We conclude we must do something to have love.

Typically examples of what

we might conclude we need to do to get a rhythmic and calming dance is to give

up our needs, try to be special, to be flirtatious, to take the blame for

everything that goes wrong, to become who we think other people want us to be,

or to hide our feelings....

The list of what we try to

do to make the dance work is really quite long. It is of utmost

importance to know that none of them have ever really worked in the past and

none of them will ever really work in the future.

Under these conditions we

are left with the task of realizing a greater truth about who we are and how love

works. And in my story that truth is...

Your deepest Self is not flawed in any way. There

is nothing wrong with you. The energy

that seeks expression through you is valuable beyond what words can

describe.

You are most loveable and bestowed with amazing

grace when you are most yourself. You

do not need to do anything beyond being your most authentic self to be loved and

safe and secure.

And in my story any thought

to the contrary of these two truths simply is not true.

With the light of love,

Jim Kremmel

jim@...

findingthespark.com

524 W. 18th Ave., Spokane, WA 99203, USA

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