Irene Rose Counselling and Psychotherapy in Hampton East, Victoria | Alternative & holistic health service

Irene Rose Counselling and Psychotherapy

Locality: Hampton East, Victoria

Address: 8 Jetty Road, Dromana 3936 Hampton East, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.irenerose.com.au/

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20.01.2022 The path isn't a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths. ~ Barry H. Gillespie [Image: Tatsuro]

14.01.2022 The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face to face. When we feel resentment because the room is too hot, we could meet the heat and feel its ...fieriness and its heaviness. When we feel resentment because the room is too cold, we could meet the cold and feel its iciness and its bite. When we want to complain about the rain, we could feel its wetness instead. When we worry because the wind is shaking our windows, we could meet the wind and hear its sound. There is no cure for hot and cold. They go on forever. After we have died, the ebb and flow will still continue. Being able to appreciate, being able to look closely, being able to open our minds - this is the core of loving-kindness. ~ Pema Chodron [Art: Marta Orlowska]

13.01.2022 All feelings are only looking for a loving home, for mercy and protection. Feelings that have been resisted, pushed away, denied, banished, do not actually disa...ppear; they live on in the darkness of the Unconscious, homeless and hungry for love, pulling the strings in our relationships, our bodies, our work in the world, getting in the way of our joy. Screaming for attention, deep down in the Underworld, they sap and drain our vitality and self-expression, cause us to become reactive, compulsive and obsessive, depressed and anxious, and ultimately affect our physical health... all in their attempt to get us to listen. Until one day, we remember, all feelings are sacred and have a right to exist in us, even the messiest and most inconvenient and painful ones. And we remember to turn towards our feelings instead of running away. To soften into them. To make room for them instead of numbing them out or ignoring them. These hungry ghosts, now fed with our love, our warm attention, our curiosity, and Presence, now given a home in us, can finally come to rest. They no longer need to pull the strings in our lives. They now have the empathy they always longed for. So much of our precious life force, our prana, our chi, our sacred energy, is spent on this Sisyphean task of pushing feelings away, trying to make them go 'somewhere else', but where would they go? For even the Underworld is within us. So much creativity is released, so much relief is felt, when we break this age-old pattern of self-abandonment, go beyond our fearful conditioning, and try something totally new: staying close to feelings, not pushing them away, as they emerge in the freshness of the moment, looking for their true home which is our own hearts. I am eternally grateful to the gods of the Underworld for keeping my feelings safe until I was ready to feel them, for protecting me from what I was not yet ready to protect. ~ Jeff Foster [Image: Michal Karcz]

11.01.2022 Apply within... You once told me You wanted to find Yourself in the world -... And I told you to First apply within, To discover the world within you. You once told me You wanted to save The world from all its wars - And I told you to First save yourself From the world, And all the wars You put yourself Through. ~ Suzy Kassem [Art: Christian Schloe Digital Artwork]

11.01.2022 Always straddling the tension and trying not to tap out. Forever convincing ourselves that we can hold so many contradictory pieces and feelings. Not only are t...ension and contradictory pieces OK and normal they're the magic sauce. Carl Jung called the paradox one of our most valued spiritual possessions and a great witness to the truth. He wrote, Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life. Sometimes beautiful. Sometimes terrible. Always deeply human.