March 20 Cherokee Feast of Days Vol II
Another amazing entry from Joyce Sequichie Hilfer's book of wonders:
Few people go through life without some kind of trauma. But everyone doesn't react the same way. Certain experiences are magnified by pain and kept alive by distressed memory - so hostile conditioning is the result. Our own included.
Nothing is ever fixed by glossing it over or covering it up. We cannot change what has already happened, but we can lessen the effect by putting it in perspective. It happened, it hurt, it still hurts. Talking about it makes it more vivid - but writing about it in a personal journal takes it out of us and puts it somewhere else. Seeing it in black and white brings it into focus - and ultimately helps heal our wounds.
"Our eyes are opened so that we see clearly."
Red Jacket
Seneca
circa 1700s
Few people go through life without some kind of trauma. But everyone doesn't react the same way. Certain experiences are magnified by pain and kept alive by distressed memory - so hostile conditioning is the result. Our own included.
Nothing is ever fixed by glossing it over or covering it up. We cannot change what has already happened, but we can lessen the effect by putting it in perspective. It happened, it hurt, it still hurts. Talking about it makes it more vivid - but writing about it in a personal journal takes it out of us and puts it somewhere else. Seeing it in black and white brings it into focus - and ultimately helps heal our wounds.
"Our eyes are opened so that we see clearly."
Red Jacket
Seneca
circa 1700s
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Comment by Shawn on March 25, 2009 at 9:20am -
Great quote! Good reminder.
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Comment by Elly Rose on March 20, 2009 at 10:05pm -
Julee,
Again, such truths you are sharing. I love the book and I love the quote from Red Jacket, May all of our eyes be opened so that we can see clearly.
Elly Rose
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Comment by Dawn wwt on March 20, 2009 at 7:34pm -
what a good book! thank you for sharing it's wisdom with us. i am going to look and see if i can get a copy of it.
writing things down in a journal is very helpful to me. sometimes i look back at past entries and think, if anyone were to see this they would think i was a very negative person, but that is because i generally write to gain perspective and relief when things bother me.
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