Invite the compassionate Presence of Spirit into your heart to help you learn what you are doing or thinking that may be causing your pain.
Consciously move out of the intent to protect/control and into the intent to learn about what you are doing or thinking that may be causing your pain so that you can move into loving yourself and others.
When you connect with Spirit and move into the intent to learn, you are in a loving Adult state, as opposed to the ego wounded self state you are in when you want to protect/control.
In Step Two, you welcome and embrace all your feelings with a compassionate intent to learn.
The challenge on the spiritual path is to reach such a deep place of inner security that we are able to stay open to learning with ourselves and with Spirit, no matter what. This means being able to be loving to ourselves in the face of others attacking, blaming, crazymaking, withdrawing. It means staying open to learning with Spiritregarding our own highest good and the highest good of all, no matter what.
By Dr. Margaret Paul
