Intellectual Discernment - focused within
Intellectual Discernment - focused within
“One of the gifts of the twelve step recovery process, of learning to apply the Serenity Prayer in our lives, is that we start to learn how to take responsibility without blaming - either our self or others. We learn how to take responsibility for the things we do have the power to change - and hold others responsible for their side of the street.” “When I use the term paradigm shift, I am talking about changing the context, the framework, in which we view life. Like the quote above about the 3 blind men from my book, if we are not looking at a larger picture we are not seeing clearly. If we are viewing our self and life out of eyes that are limited by polarized, shame based beliefs, then we are not seeing life clearly - we are not seeing the whole elephant. Our perspective of anything dictates our relationship with that thing. And our perspectives are set up by the intellectual paradigm we are empowering - by the attitudes, beliefs, and definitions that we are holding, both consciously and subconsciously.” “We have the power to change the attitudes, beliefs, and definitions that are dictating our relationship with life. We can start practicing discernment - picking the baby out of the bath water - once we are willing to start looking within without shame and blame. The key to doing this is to detach from our own process enough to develop an objective perspective of our self.”
This is the third in a series of articles focused on how to apply the Serenity Prayer in our lives by having the wisdom and discernment to recognize the things we do have the power to change.
Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2015 by Robert Burney PO Box 98 Fallbrook CA 92088.
Intellectual Discernment - focused within was originally published online on the Inner Child/Codependency Recovery page that I used to edit for Suite101.com Directory on August 27, 2002. There is a list of - and links to - other articles recently published on that Directory on my Suite101 Articles page.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/Intellectual_Discernment.htm