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\nVery often our relationship to the world is, in some way, a projection of the inner relationships between the different parts of ourselves. And, just as often, our experience of others is really a projection of some part of us. All of this can very much get in the way of our being in full and truthful contact with what's outside us. This episode of Turning Towards Life is a conversation about how we might become more skilful at letting go of the grip our inner parts have over our experience - and in doing so how we can find a way to more fully see and appreciate the parts of ourselves and others that less often get our attention, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nThis is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We\u2019re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website.
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\nOur source for this week is written by Justin:
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\nParts of me, Parts of Her
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\n\n\nIt increasingly occurs to me
\nThat my relationship to the world
\nIs most often a reflection
\nOf the relationships between parts of myself.
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\n\n\nIt helps me to remember
\nThat I often see in other people
\nThat of myself that I
\nFear, am ashamed of, or have learned to hide away
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\n\n\nThat there are other inner relationships I can call on
\nThe parts of me
\nthat are settled when I\u2019m anxious,
\nthat love when I\u2019m irritated,
\nthat are courageous and able to take action
\nwhen other parts of me are paralysed with fear.
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\n\n\nWhen I\u2019m bewildered by her rage, to remember
\nto stay in relationship with the part of her that is love;
\nwhen I\u2019m frustrated by his uncertainty
\nto remember the part of him that is clarity;
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\n\n\nAnd that my certainty that she\u2019s judging me
\nmight well be the part of me that judges myself
\nthat my need to rescue him
\nis often the part of me that itself longs to be rescued
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\n\n\nAnd that until I learn to see though
\nmy ways of pushing away and judging and projecting my interior world
\nI can expect to have a tricky time
\nloving the outer world, in which I live every day,
\nas fully as I could.
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\nJustin Wise, www.justinwise.co.uk
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\nPhoto by Roselyn Tirado on Unsplash
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