Toxicity and Pain
All learning is a process of paring down and building up brain cells. When I repress a memory, it lives in my brain as a cell assembly, with associations and feelings attached to it. When it becomes conscious and the full assembly comes to light, I can look at it in its entirety: I can see it with new eyes.
Inner growth can be seen as a shift in perception. Carl Jung says that we never really solve a problem, we simply go to the top of a mountain and learn to see the situation differently. These shifts in perception create shifts in self-concept and in the way I live my life. Each day I die a little and am reborn.
I experience a shift in perception.
Nay, but as when one layeth
His worn-out robes away,
And, taking new ones, sayeth,
"These will I wear to-day!"
So putteth by the spirit
Lightly its garb of flesh,
And passeth to inherit
A resident afresh.
The Song Celestial of Bhagavad-Gita
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