Be Real, Be Empathic, Be Creative, Be Whole-Craig
Craig Sones Cornell, MSEd JD

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
-Meryl Streep

When I want to let go of something or a dysfunctional part of someone, I first look at what it is specifically, objectively that I want to let go of. I bring it into my imagination in sensory detail and report on it to myselfe like a multi-sensory video camera would, without filtering or judgment. Then I let the negativity I have about it come to life, again without judgment. I let it really rip. I think in street poetry with expletives and all. Then I breathe and sense the feelings that come alive in me that are lurking beneath irritation and anger. Those deeper feelings point to universal human needs and core values that are met by the unwanted attachment. What am I satisfying in a less than conscious, life serving way by what I want to let go? Once those precious needs and core values are identified, I bask in them, usually with eyes closed, I experience them viscerally. I bring them to bubbling aliveness. In the glory of the alive need or core value, I imaging another way to meet them and make a request of my self that is doable and present to meet those needs in the more life serving way I imagined.

Happy connection to the deeper self, Craig.

The living energy of universal human needs and core values bubbling through us makes us alive.

All the best, Craig