Meeting the child Within

The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives. www.thetenstages.com In the ten stages its important to understand how we are operating ,our functioning, the activity of our home grown constructed shadow self. When our child within operates, our shadow self cannot possibly understand the child within. It is only when the shadow self, which is our conditioned self, our ancestral voice, which has been cultivated through centuries of time, which is everlastingly seeking its own security, its own comfort—it is only when that shadow self is quiet that we will see that there is a different kind of movement in our life, and it is this movement which is going to bring clarity. It is this movement which is clarity itself. To understand, we must fully understand the shadow self, be aware of it, know all its movements, its activities, its demands, its pursuits, and that is why meditation is very important. We do not mean the absurd, systematised cultivation of a certain habit of thought, that’s all too immature and structured. By meditation we mean to understand the operations of shadow self, to watch it, to know how it reacts, what its responses are, its tendencies, its demands, its aggressive pursuits—to know the whole of that, the unconscious as well as the conscious part of it. When we know it, when there is an awareness of it, without controlling it, without directing it, without saying, “This is good; this is bad; we’ll keep this; we won’t keep that,”—when we see the total movement of our shadow self, when we see it totally, then it becomes quiet...then we learn to let go and finally gain our freedom.