(September 1, 2013 at 10:27 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: I am aware of the events and people who caused them and I have always been a person who has been somewhat proud of the things that he has accomplished by himself despite the hardships I have encountered. Therapy of such a thing always means to reencounter and go through such events in a painfull detail. I would considere that to be surrender to the people who treated me so badly.
But the reality of the situation is quite the opposite. As of now, these past events and the people behind them are holding your subconscious mind hostage, and talking about them and working through them would free you of their grip, as you would lessen, or even eliminate, their effect on you. By refusing to work through this and simply repressing it all, you are surrendering to them, as you are allowing them to have control over you.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
