This interview shows how Integral Deep Listening can help teenagers find where they can best put their energies so that they can get to the root of their unhappiness and find their inner compass that will direct them to a satisfying life.
The eagle guffaws. He laughs so hard he almost falls off his perch.
“Kid! You gotta be kidding me! Are you blind, delusional, or just stupid? YOU’RE AN EAGLE!!!”
In the following interview, Amber gets in touch with a part of herself that doesn’t worry about money and discovers that it is not only happier than she is, but that can teach her those skills. If Amber can do it, you can too!
Is your love relationship more like a sprouting flower or a decomposing tree stump? The truth is that it probably has qualities of both. The challenge is, “How do I have more sprouting flowers today in my life?” “How do I have less of a sense of decay, of being cut off from life?” While … Read more
Sometimes your self-aspects are immature, selfish, controlling, and don’t want to change. They have run the show for years and aren’t going to go away just because you want them to. In this example, guilt has controlled and limited this lady’s self-esteem and had a major negative impact on her relationship with her family and … Read more
We are all habitually locked in the box of our waking world view. We are not used to taking other perspectives. IDL teaches this essential capability for growth and transformation.
“I am in this room in a corner and swaying from one side to the other! I have big black eyes and a knot on my head like you would see on an air balloon!
I like this balloony thing on my head. You know when you let out the air in a balloon? I can let off steam if people bother me! I just think, ‘Kiss my ass!'”
Don’t waste much time with dreaming dreams of victimization. Look for a way out of the drama. Some IDL dream interviews emphasize healing. Others emphasize balance. Others emphasize transformation. This one emphasizes all three.
It takes a lot of energy to go through life holding up a shield, out of a knowledge that there are parts of yourself that can be hurt. When we awaken to choosing to experience the parts of our ourselves that do not die then we can give up a defensive posture.
The devil part of Luna thinks she is stupid to allow herself to be scared by it. It sees the proper response as self-confidence and to give up playing the victim. It makes clear that it represents her own highly self-critical self-talk that makes her wrong and scared. It recommends that she just ignore her self-critical self-talk. If she does, it predicts that it will go away.
