Sublime

Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death

6. Take responsibility for the image and the vicious circle it has created. At any stage of the work on our images, their hold on the unconscious can immediately be lessened by our willingness to take responsibility for our lives. Even if we do not know exactly what in us causes the disharmony or unhappiness, assuming self-responsibility loosens parts

Everyone is people, including those with superstar careers and outsized budgets. Therapists and doctors and parents and children and teachers and that rude person you just encountered — all of them are people.

Will we look within? Can we see that to be of most service to others we must face our own doubts, needs, and resistances? We’ve never grown without having done so. This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve fought the inertia of conditioning.

Holding space is the wise and appropriate response to such hauntings. And to hold space well requires a willingness to accept and integrate our own anger, regret, and sorrow. It obliges us to honestly apologize when our actions cause harm, and to fearlessly own the darkest corners of our life’s stories. In doing so, we gain the capacity to be prese

“hip to the realities of inequality.”

While institutions might trust experts, they seem wary of us, of our emotional stability.