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       mariam
       By: mariam Date: August 27, 2014, 1:55 pm
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       I'd like to begin by saying thank you for your work, insights,
       time and attention.
       ...
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       Re: mariam
       By: mariam Date: August 27, 2014, 6:34 pm
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       ...
       Much of what I say, read and write sounds like something I've
       heard, read or wrote before, but I can't remember where or when.
       No one really owns a thought and there's nothing new under the
       sun. My boundaries are nearly unidentifiable and I loose myself
       easily.
       ...
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       Re: mariam
       By: Jed McKenna Date: August 27, 2014, 11:24 pm
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       Hi Mariam:
       Boy, your brain is a pain. You are too smart for you own good.
       The thoughts that come to me are you are experiencing some
       blocks in your body. I strongly believe in breath work, nothing
       exotic, but just good belly breathing, yoga style, and gradually
       getting slower and deeper. Other that than, use your brain to
       whittle down to one question for me.
       Love ya, Jed.
       P.S. Forget that childhood bull, everyone had a challenging
       childhood because no parent knows what to do until it's too
       late.
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       Re: mariam
       By: mariam Date: August 28, 2014, 1:54 pm
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       I'm stuck in the idea that what I do as a mother does matter. If
       I hold on to the false, then I wind up projecting it on to my
       kids, if I let go of the false, perhaps I set an example of how
       it's done. Let go of too much false and I induce fear, which
       tells me redirection is needed. It seems delicate, destroying
       the ego in the second half, while respecting the construction
       and organization of the ego in the first half.
       I'll keep breathing, and whittling...
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       Re: mariam
       By: mariam Date: August 29, 2014, 1:35 am
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       forget the childhood bull, yes, meaning let go of the
       resentment, guilt, shame, awkwardness, anger, blame, judgment,
       confusion, fear, and any thought that might suggest that somehow
       it could have or should have been different. i feel i'm pretty
       much past that part. but i do find the story of my childhood
       explains a lot about how my body and persona function in the
       present day. i've also discovered that many of the blocks in the
       body are undigested sense impressions, some from the formative
       years, that need to be brought into the awareness in order to be
       digested.
       ...
       i'm still whittling away at that one question. i've come up with
       a few, but then answered them myself, and they've disappeared.
       maybe one will stick eventually. in the meantime, i'll just
       enjoy sliding through the curved lines that end in a dot.
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       Re: mariam
       By: mariam Date: August 29, 2014, 9:25 am
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       hey jed,
       one of the questions that i answered for myself has stuck. maybe
       you could just let me know if it resonates with what you've
       found to be the case:
       q: does anything 'i do' matter?
       a: only if i believe it does.
       and one more, which i have not yet answered, that maybe you
       could help me with:
       q: if the questions i'm coming up with are so easily answered,
       then am i asking the wrong questions, is my approach
       misdirected, or is something else going on?
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       Re: mariam
       By: Jed McKenna Date: August 29, 2014, 9:37 am
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       Dear M:
       a and b make sense to me. Don't think you are so powerful. Give
       your kids some credit for Christ's sake. They are ten time
       smarter than you and I are or ever were. You've got that good
       mother crap going on. You just do what you do. You cannot make
       any errors, ever, period regardless of how much you think you
       screw up... baby, you just ain't that powerful except in your
       illusion.
       Question, answer, but you keep questioning it. What's up, do you
       like these endless loops. If so, continue, if not, drop them. I
       think you are drama queening yourself into a little too much
       self-importance. Just let go and let be. You have no say in the
       end so why the hell worry about the middle. Man... I'm ranted
       out. Love ya, Jed.
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       Re: mariam
       By: mariam Date: August 29, 2014, 10:05 am
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       thanks jed.
       i see very clearly that my kids are light years ahead of me, and
       i often feel that they're pulling me through a portal, which
       requires i drop everything weighing me down. it's not
       necessarily that they want me to come, or that i want to go,
       it's more like it's just what's happening. but yeah, there is
       this 'good mother crap' in that i don't want to hold them back,
       slow them down, or otherwise cover them in sticky ego goo, yet i
       notice myself doing it. maybe this is the power-trap you're
       pointing at. maybe it's inevitable and ultimately without any
       significance whatsoever.
       no say in the end, sure. but isn't it possible to clear out some
       murk in the middle?
       go ahead and catch your breath, rant on when indicated.
       love ya too, and thanks again.
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       Re: mariam
       By: mariam Date: August 29, 2014, 5:58 pm
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       whoa! did i ever get caught up in playing the part!
       good, mother, crap = useless dualistic & arbitrary frame of
       reference, role identification/attachment, untruth.
       the forum and the belly breathing are helping immensely. thank
       you.
       #Post#: 153--------------------------------------------------
       Re: mariam
       By: mariam Date: August 29, 2014, 7:00 pm
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       rereading what i've written, a question arises (not for you, but
       for me): can i let it all go?
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