{"id":7123,"date":"2021-05-27T10:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:25:59","slug":"finding-help-for-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7123","title":{"rendered":"Finding Help for Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would be a 3rd cup writing except I\u2019m too scared for caffeine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Looking for help, I went to Matt\u2019s blog, and just intuitively clicked on April 2019, then on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/a-container-of-holding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Container of Holding<\/a>.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Matt reminds me that I\u2019m not alone, that there are other empaths out there with wounded younger parts, who are feeling terror for the destruction of the earth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I am suddenly aware of a huge crowd, and people are coming to sit down next to me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is comforting to know I\u2019m not alone, I\u2019m in the company of my peers. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before sitting down to write, I prayed to the Bodhisattva of Compassion, saying that I simply couldn\u2019t handle this much fear, that I need some help with even the fear that is legitimately mine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Then I got out the statue of the Bodhisattva holding a baby and set her up in front of the big crystal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I intended to light a candle in front of her, but got distracted until I looked up just now, after doing this writing.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I still feel<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span>little fear, but I also feel comforted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I am not alone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There are people sitting near me, and people all around the planet doing the lovingkindness meditation for all beings.<\/p>\n<p>These are paragraphs from Matt&#8217;s blog that helped the most:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is it my pain alone that I am feeling, my personal emotional overwhelm, my trauma, my grief, my uncertainty, my anguish? It\u2019s so much to hold. Or is it that of the ancestors, the stories and feelings and memories and images of those who have come before, or even have yet to come? It is not always easy to tell and the weight of tending to it all can be unbearable at times.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While recognizing our common humanity and history\u2014and the vast relational field that we share with others who have come to know healing, wholeness, and mercy\u2014doesn\u2019t necessarily make the pain go away, it provides a context or container of holding in which we can find the strength, the hope, and the vision to find a way through, to discover a light that has never truly gone out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would be a 3rd cup writing except I\u2019m too scared for caffeine.\u00a0 Looking for help, I went to Matt\u2019s blog, and just intuitively clicked on April 2019, then on \u201cA Container of Holding.\u201d\u00a0 Matt reminds me that I\u2019m not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,11,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-journal","category-present-day","category-spirit","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}