{"id":331,"date":"2010-04-24T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2010-04-24T23:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T23:05:50","slug":"guidance-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Written in February 2003)
\nDear Guides, can you help me out?
\nDear Jenny, we are so proud of you.\u00a0 You did a splendid job of working with the pain on Sunday \u2014 you were courageous enough to face an enormous pain and learn what it had to teach you.\u00a0 Not many people are able to use this kind of opportunity.\u00a0 Your whole relationship to depression and terror has changed.\u00a0 Instead of rushing to get away from these painful states, you are willing to go toward them with compassion.\u00a0 Like the way you always met your mother\u2019s misery with compassion.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she could not see those times as opportunities for change, she wanted to hide and deny her vulnerability in order to keep \u201clooking good.\u201d You on the other hand have always been willing to face any amount of pain if it brought you to the truth.\u00a0 For you, truth always had a higher value than your own comfort.\u00a0 This time you faced the core of your pain directly, its source in the anger and merciless judgement of yourself for not living up to ideals that you could see, but had no foundation or guidance for actually living out.\u00a0 To make this big a change from your earlier conditioning is a huge piece of work and we congratulate you.\u00a0 Furthermore, your work on yourself has enormous ramifications and ripple effects on this planet.\u00a0 As you work to bring compassion and mercy to your hatred and anger, you are making compassion and mercy more possible for everyone struggling with hatred and anger.\u00a0 The direction the hatred and anger are aimed is immaterial.\u00a0 Those who struggle with hatred for a traditional enemy find it no harder to transform their hatred than you who struggle with hatred for yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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