Offence is yesterday’s hurt returning
Recording 02 of 07
When a past personality rises and takes the stage
Emotional offence is not “you now” but a hurt persona from the past, a previous version of your self rising into the present, hunting a wrong word, and insisting on being understood.
LENGTH: 59 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1997
PLACE RECORDED: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Emotional identification, Emotional pain, Emotional self, Resolving trauma without going into the past, Emotions and Repetition, Emotion and the past, Personality
SUMMARY
Much of what appears as present feeling is the repetition of past energy, a previous incarnation of your self: a time when you were hurt, failed and a personality formed to defend that pain. In a current situation that pushes the old wound, that past person actually comes up in the body and has its say. The face hardens, the pain returns, and you take a position of offence.
The self then looks for any word that suggests it is not understood. It will never be satisfied, because it is the self. It may even create a wrong word in the other, then take offence at it. So the present becomes distorted by the past hurt.
The spiritual endeavour here is simple: see the mechanism, refuse taking a position, and do not feed emotion with more emotion. Seeing the past personality expressing itself is a major step towards disidentifying with the past.
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