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doodah · 09-16-2008, 06:58 PM

Such an interesting topic here. I've done recapitulation without knowing the word. The end result is understanding that you are not anything that anyone, including yourself, has ever said you are. What you discover is your programming, how your thoughts, habits, beliefs, have been given to you by others. If you focus on one belief and follow it back you will find who/where it comes from. If you don't like the effects it's having in your life, you can change it. I'm not saying that changing beliefs is easy, though. We've spent a lifetime practicing certain attitudes and beliefs. It requires a conscious intent to practice a new belief to make it real, but over time it does become real.

One example: love and pain. These were connected in my life. I disconnected them and through meditation and journaling found all the sources that had taught me that. I dealt with them in meditation, cutting bonds, handing back contracts of pain, expanding contracts of love. I used affirmations and practiced paying attention to my thoughts. Now love is love and has no pain in it. I do not accept any such definition of love.

09-16-2008, 06:58 PM	#6
doodah Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 373	Re: Any experience with recapitulation? Such an interesting topic here. I've done recapitulation without knowing the word. The end result is understanding that you are not anything that anyone, including yourself, has ever said you are. What you discover is your programming, how your thoughts, habits, beliefs, have been given to you by others. If you focus on one belief and follow it back you will find who/where it comes from. If you don't like the effects it's having in your life, you can change it. I'm not saying that changing beliefs is easy, though. We've spent a lifetime practicing certain attitudes and beliefs. It requires a conscious intent to practice a new belief to make it real, but over time it does become real. One example: love and pain. These were connected in my life. I disconnected them and through meditation and journaling found all the sources that had taught me that. I dealt with them in meditation, cutting bonds, handing back contracts of pain, expanding contracts of love. I used affirmations and practiced paying attention to my thoughts. Now love is love and has no pain in it. I do not accept any such definition of love.