Resilience and Authentic Listening
Hi @Everyone, I was just having a yarn with a friend of Deb's and the thought arrived that authentic listening with trusted friends is absolutely critical for emancipation from our embedded mistaken narratives. This is because those narratives are non-consciously embedded in our bodies. So that even when someone says something like, "that's a mistake what you're doing", that behaviour is dysfunctional etc, we can't hear it because we are compelled, that is, physically possessed by the primary habitus. So we don't believe in what we're being told, and/or we dismiss it out of hand, without regard, without really entertaining the thought. And then this whole other subsidiary defensive narrative kicks in. In the blink of an eye. Without listening. Authentic listening teaches us to slow this whole dismissing down. The other thing is that it points to the nature of resilience as fundamentally relational, not psychological. We need…
Hey Rod, the link doesn't let me have access 😭