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You Know What I’m Talkin’ About
Think back – and I know you can – to your last romantic break-up. How did you feel? How did you behave? How about your ex?
Aren’t break-ups a trip? Breaking up is hard to do! And I’ll bet you remember lots of details of how it felt and what happened.
Do you know why you remember this experience in living color and great detail?
You remember because break-ups have a greater impact on you than almost anything except birth and death.
They cut to the core and bring up emotions you didn’t know you had. You look back in amazement at things you or your ex said or did. Or maybe you’re in the middle of one now.
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Denying How We Feel
Think about it, we learn to lie not long after we utter our first words. Although we hesitate to admit it, the tendency to lie is ingrained in our psyches. The truth is not always music to the ears.
In the 3rd part of this series, we’re going to take a look at how we lie to ourselves by denying the truth of how we feel.
Responses to the posts about lying were awesome – this is a topic that generates pretty strong feelings and reactions.
In Part I of The Truth of a Lie I talk about lies requiring both compassion and a warrior response. I address the ways in which lies hurt those we love. A technique called stalking your lies is described.
The Truth of a Lie Part 2 is about lying tactics, mean-spirited actions disguised as honesty, and motives for lying.
Since we’re in the midst of a cultural craze of putting on our happy faces (see my post: The Happy Face Syndrome ) it’s especially timely to take a look at how we deny our emotions.
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