Wednesday, November 21, 2018

WHAT DOES MY DEFENSE SYSTEM HAVE TO DO WITH REPRESSING EMOTION? EVERYTHING!

As our understanding of the complex workings of
Our brains continues to increase, the fact that
Our defense systems deny us ownership of emotions that
We’ve been taught to disrespect in others makes sense for this reason:
As long as our own socially unaccepted emotional reactions
Remain unconsciously repressed within
Subconscious pockets of our brains
We feel no reason to reject ourselves

And with that insight in mind, here comes
The revised three step plan that my faith in
My power of intuitive thought has filtered into
Yhe conscious portion of my mind, overnight:

Step one:
Each time unnamed anxiety strikes, I'll remember to muster
The courage to stop denying ownership of offending emotions

Step two:
I'll work toward consciously identifying
The repressed emotion (which is natural to human nature)

Step three:
Once identified, I'll accept the emotion as my own so as to embrace
My vulnerabilities realistically rather than feeling ashamed of myself

You see—the more I come to respect myself, vulnerabilities and
All as a whole, the less apt I’ll be to judge others too harshly when their
Natural reactions expose the same vulnerabilities, which
Prove classic and universal to human beings, one and all—

In short, this three step plan will offer me a balanced view of
My strengths and shortcomings, thus serving to enhance
My natural sense of judgement with an intelligent, compassionate
(Rather than a defensive, self righteous) view of human nature, in general

And now you can see why the right question to ask is not
How many Annies live inside me but
How many natural emotional reactions has
My defense system secreted from the conscious portion of
My mind so as not to judge, disrespect and reject myself as
Harshly as I judge and disrespectfully reject
The emotional reactiveness of others—in short, by placing
My vulnerabilities in the same boat as the vulnerabilities of
People in general, my relationship with my whole self and others
Grows ever more balanced, thus stabilized and easy to
Nurture—naturally, compassionately and lovingly—over the long run

I mean, seriously—if
There's only one of me in all the world then
Once my intelligence absorbs the necessity of
Identifying,  feeling and releasing 
Natural emotional reactions (that children
The world over are taught to deny, repress and disown) in
A productive and proactive manner then I'll be able to discern
The true feeling that I’ve been programmed to reject as
My own before confusion sets my mind to reeling with
A defensive attitude, which produces
Negatively charged energy that swirls toward
The surface of my conscious awareness as
Unnamed anxiety, which will continue to weigh heavy on
My spirit so as to disrupt my peace of mind as long as
A repressed emotion remains unrevealed to me

PS
I wonder if intuitive strings of insight, which
Have surfaced over these past several days, will
Ready the conscious portion of my mind to explain
The homework assignment that my therapist suggested, several
Weeks back, as being a helpful tool to employ whenever
I feel troubled by my inability to identify a repressed emotion—

Holy smokes!  It's just come clear to me that
My intuitive powers chose to pen the last couple of
Posts in hopes of guiding my conscious awareness to
Absorb insights concerning the fact that, once again
Emotional complexity, which remains in need of
Compartmentalization, has been anxiously disrupting my peace of mind—
Hmmm ...

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