This blog is about learning to understand all of our feelings and learning to consciously face, feel and experience all of our feelings within the context of our own childhood. Everything we become and happens to us is connected to childhood. Not every victim becomes an abuser, but every abuser was once a victim of abuse, these are facts, Violence is not genetic, it’s learned. https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-dance-to-freedom-book-reviews.html
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Salazar's Dictatorship
"Just as in the symbiosis of the "diaper stage," there is no separation here of subject and object. If the child learns to view corporal punishment as "a necessary measure" against "wrongdoers," then as an adult he will attempt to protect himself from punishment by being obedient and will not hesitate to cooperate with the penal system. In a totalitarian state, which is a mirror of his upbringing, this citizen can also carry out any form of torture or persecution without having a guilty conscience. His "will" is completely identical to that of the government.
Now that we have seen how easy it is for intellectuals in a dictatorship to be corrupted, it would be a vestige of aristocratic snobbery to think that only "the uneducated masses" are susceptible to propaganda.
From the book For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing and the Roots of Violence pages 42 and 43
Poisonous pedagogy is a phrase I use to refer to the kind of parenting and education aimed at breaking a child’s will and making that child into an obedient subject by means of overt or covert coercion, manipulation, and emotional blackmail.— Alice Miller, The Truth Will Set You Free
There is a good deal else that would not exist without “poisonous pedagogy.” It would be inconceivable, for example, for politicians mouthing empty cliches to attain the highest positions of power by democratic means. But since voters, who as children would normally have been capable of seeing through these cliches with the aid of their feelings, were specifically forbidden to do so in their early years, they lose this ability as adults. The capacity to experience the strong feelings of childhood and puberty (which are so often stifled by child-rearing methods, beatings, or even drugs) could provide the individual with an important means of orientation with which he or she could easily determine whether politicians are speaking from genuine experience or are merely parroting time-worn platitudes for the sake of manipulating voters. Our whole system of raising and educating children provides the power-hungry with a ready-made railway network they can use to reach the destination of their choice. They need only push the buttons that parents and educators have already installed.— Alice Miller, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Being Truthful and Authentic Will NOT Get You Many Fans
Being truthful and authentic will not get you many fans. I speak from experience, and I can testify to that.
Yes, when our goal is to control and manipulate others perceptions we lose what is important and what really matters in life.
“…I really want to reinforce the idea that so-called therapists and gurus only substitute one dangerous illusion for another. As Alice Miller writes, “What can happen when a doctor doesn’t stop at self-deception in his flight from pain, but deceives his patients, even founding dogmatic institutions in which further ‘helpers’ are recruited to a faith advertised as scientific truth,’ can be catastrophic.”64
The key to effective therapy is learning how to use your present triggers productively. They can help us clarify, understand and consciously feel our intense emotions within the context of our own childhoods without losing our adult consciousness.
A good therapist can help us regain our adult consciousness if we lose it and encourage our autonomy, so we can deal with present issues from an adult perspective.
But when a therapist regresses us to the state of the desperate child we once were and keeps us feeling old pain over and over again, that just reinforces our dependency, keeps us vulnerable to all kinds of manipulations, and makes our addiction to pain harder to shake.
Why do people keep punishing themselves? As Alice Miller writes, “… the awareness was borne in upon me that in a state of regression, it is not possible to judge the competence and integrity of the person one has turned to for such guidance.
This opens up all kinds of opportunities for abuse. The intensive phase with which primal therapy begins is an immediate obstacle to the formation of a balanced, critical, independent assessment of the therapist’s abilities by the client.
The fact that the attendant uncritical and irrational expectations of healing and ‘salvation’ can lead to the establishment of totalitarian sects is borne out by the crass example of mass abuse at the hands of the exponents of ‘feeling therapy’ as described in detail by Carol Lynn Mithers in her book Therapy Gone Mad: The True Story of Hundreds of Patients and a Generation Betrayed (1994). But this study was possible only after the community she describes had disbanded, something that frequently takes decades.
Today we know that such groups exist and that members of sects are done irremediable harm before they become aware of the fact.”65
In another book, she goes on to say, “The thing that concerns me most about cult groups is the unconscious manipulations that I have described in detail in my work. It is the way in which the repressed and unreflected childhood biographies of parents and therapists influence the lives of children and patients entrusted to their care without anyone involved actually realizing it.
At first glance, it may seem as if what goes on in cults and cultlike therapy groups takes place on a different level from the unconscious manipulation of children by their parents. We assume that in the former instance, we are in the presence of an intentional, carefully planned, and organized form of manipulation aimed at exploiting the specific predicament of individuals. … First, they had learned how to reduce people to the emotional state of the helpless child. Once they had achieved that, they also learned how to use unconscious regression to exercise total control over their victims.
From then on, what they did seemed to come automatically, in accordance with the childrearing patterns instilled into them in their own childhood.”66
Most people who search for answers never actually find them, because people suffering with their own repression are the ones who practice traditional therapies. Since the beginning of human history, priests, teachers, gurus, psychics, doctors, philosophers, and psychologists have all duped people into thinking they could provide real assistance, when it was never possible because the healers were also victims of their own childhoods.”
From the book: A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions, pages 129, 130 and 131
Monday, April 22, 2024
What Happens To The Children Of Extreme Narcissists?
I know of a narcissist who once told me she wanted to have a child to have an heir for her money because she didn't want some of her family members to get her money.
She's misplacing or transferring all of her unresolved repressed hatred into some of her aunts and cousins. That's sad to have a child to take revenge on her aunts and cousins.
Some of her aunts and mother, whom she hates so much never had access to enlightened information when they were young to help them break the vicious circle. She on the other hand has been introduced to enlightened information and still can't break free from the chains of compulsion repetition. She is taking the same footsteps as the people she judges and hates so much.
As long as people's childhood repression goes unresolved they will be driven by the repressed emotions of the child they once were into the state of repetition compulsion sooner or later in one form or another. There is no escape.
The easiest way to guarantee to always have a scapegoat or a poison container at your disposal to constantly use to alleviate your unresolved childhood repression is to give birth to them.
The narcissistic parent, by contrast, sees their child as an extension of their own ego and as their “property.” The child is a reflection of the parent and belongs to the parent. Either the child is seen by this parent as conferring some advantage in life, or the child is seen as a burden and a nuisance; often both.
The child of extreme narcissists is never seen for who he or she is, and is never appreciated just for him or herself. The extremely narcissistic parent can only enjoy and exploit their child for what the child does for them or how the child makes them look to others.
The “love” the extreme narcissist gives to their child is a pseudo-love that’s shallow and conditional and doesn’t come close to meeting the child’s real needs. As a result, the child grows up with an empty space inside them that was supposed to have been filled with parental love and validation.
As they’re growing up, the child of the extreme narcissist can go in one of two directions. They can channel their low self-esteem and need for love and approval into people-pleasing, trying to get others to accept and validate them. Or, they can compensate for their deep feelings of inadequacy by inflating their fragile ego and becoming grandiose. They can become as narcissistic as their parent was.
The children who grow up to be people-pleasers seem, on the surface, to struggle a lot more in their lives, as they look to others to make them feel good about themselves. They are insecure and they go to great lengths to obtain approval from those around them. They focus on making other people happy, rather than on taking care of themselves.
The children who grow up to be narcissists might achieve some measure of success, in that their inflated self-worth can lead them to attain certain goals, but they can never be truly happy. The emptiness within them will never be filled by following in their narcissistic parent’s footsteps. They will never have real love in their lives and all their accomplishments will ultimately feel meaningless.
The paradox is that the children who grow up to be narcissists don’t see that they have a problem. Their inflated ego denies the deep wound within them. They’re unable to recognize the empty hole where self-love should be, so they can’t conceive of real ways to fill this void. They’re doomed to remain narcissists, pursuing external gratification and seeing others merely as a source of this gratification or an obstacle to it.
The children who grow up to be people-pleasers, on the other hand, have the capacity for insight into their own behavior. They’re able to look at their choices and take responsibility for their behaviors. These people-pleasers can use counseling or therapy to build their self-esteem and fill that emptiness within them. They can learn to love themselves and receive love from others, without having to earn it through pleasing.
The child of the extreme narcissist who grows up to be a narcissist themselves is doomed, in the same way as their parent is, to a life of empty, exploitative relationships and the compulsive pursuit of external solutions – money, fame, power, influence – for their real inner needs for closeness, happiness, and meaning.
The child of a narcissist who grows up to be a narcissist themselves might look like they’re doing better, but they’ll never live a good life. The child of the narcissist who grows up to be a people-pleaser is the much luckier one, as they have a real chance to change and to live a full and satisfying life with real love and real meaning."
Read more in the link below:
https://marciasirotamd.com/
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Just Walk Away
Cut your losses and walk away.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US
What John Barnett did that's what the corrupted people at my job of nine and a half years were hoping I would do too! When exposing corruption, you have to be able to stand alone on your own two feet and be flexible enough to bend when punched hard by the bullies so you can get back up stronger! Corrupted people only care about money and power over others and don't care about anyone's safety and well-being. Sadly, John Barnett didn't find the strength to stand alone.
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/search?q=psychological+lynching++
John Barnett worked for Boeing for more than 30 years before retiring in 2017.
In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.
Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett's passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.
It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.
Mr Barnett had worked for the US plane giant for three decades, until his retirement in 2017 on health grounds.
From 2010, he was employed as a quality manager at the North Charleston plant. The facility builds the 787 Dreamliner, a state-of-the-art airliner used mainly on long-haul routes.
In 2019, Mr Barnett told the BBC that under-pressure workers had been deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the production line.
He also said he had uncovered serious problems with oxygen systems, which could mean one in four breathing masks would not work in an emergency.
He said soon after starting work in South Carolina he had become concerned that the push to get new aircraft built meant the assembly process was rushed and safety was compromised, something the company denied."
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What Narcissists Hide After Being Dumped
Real is Naked and Proud
Malignant narcissism is an epidemic, these evil people are among us everywhere, acting as if personality pretending to be good people but are wolves in sheep's clothing. They live in a world of lies and illusions and if they discover you are a carrier of the truth based on facts that can expose them for the fraud that they are, you become a threat and their enemy number one that they must destroy. They will gather all the forces at their command to discredit you.
A narcissist will always have someone they accuse of ruining their life. It is invariably the same person the narcissist is trying to destroy.
Unawakened Person: I'm better than you.
Awakened Person: Okay.
Unawakened Person: No, really. I am richer, better looking, drive a better car, have a better job and live in a bigger house.
Awakened Person: (With no sarcasm) How wonderful that you have a nice house, job, and car. You are blessed.
Unawakened Person: Wait! No envy? Aren't you jealous?
Awakened person: No, I feel joy for your good fortune and wish you more of it.
Unawakened Person: How are you able to be happy for me when I have more than you and am bragging about it?
Awakened Person: You see my friend each of us values certain things. The things you have mentioned, the possessions and privileges are not important to me. Love is important to me. Compassion is important to me. Kindness is important to me. When one lives this way then there can be no envy of another's material success.
I no longer look for the good in people, I search for the real... because while good is often dressed in fake clothing, real is naked and proud, no matter the scars.
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2019/04/communities-are-micros-of-world.html?m=1
Refusing to apologize is a weakness, not a strength.
I'm sorry if.. isn't an apology, that's blame.
I'm sorry for... is an apology, that's taking responsibility.
Mature people have the strength to take responsibility. Toxic immature narcissists don't.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Generosity A Key Word to Happiness
No one can accuse me of not being generous!
When I had money, I was generous with my money, and when I gathered enlightened information that was helpful to me I shared it with everyone freely and in my book A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions.
Today, my sharing is more enlightened, it no longer enables people's compulsions. People get mad at me when I say no to feeding their compulsions and that's okay.
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Star Psychologist Adam Grant Suggests Your Overall Happiness Comes Down to 1 Life-Changing Word
Age-old wisdom we've heard growing up actually does lead to success and happiness.
Giving is connected to more happiness
You might consider giving more for your personal well-being. A Harvard Business School study concluded that the emotional rewards of giving are the greatest when our generosity is connected to others.
In other words, if you spend money on yourself, your happiness doesn't change. But if you spend the money on others, you actually become significantly happier. For example, donating to an unfamiliar charity doesn't raise your happiness levels as much as contributing to a cancer-stricken friend's GoFundMe campaign does.
This was the first study of its kind to examine how social connection helps turn generous "prosocial" behavior--the type that benefits another person--into positive feelings for the donor.
Grant coined the term "otherish" giving, which refers to offering help to those you choose to, and which ultimately benefits you by lifting your spirits. Economists describe this feeling as the "warm glow" of giving, while psychologists call it the "helper's high." Neuroscience also indicates that when we engage in these acts of giving, our brain's reward and meaning centers are activated, which emit pleasure and purpose signals as we act for the benefit of others.
The bottom line? The social connection tied to giving--whether to a person in need in your community or organization or a grassroots charity close to your heart--gives the giver the greatest psychological benefit and boost of happiness.
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Saturday, April 6, 2024
Narcissists Suffering
...It is a great mistake to imagine that one can resolve traumas in a symbolic fashion. If that were possible, poets, painters, and other artists would be able to resolve their pain through creativity. This is not the case, however. Creativity helps us channel the pain of trauma into symbolic acts; it doesn't help us resolve it. If symbolic revenge for maltreatment received in childhood were effective, then dictators would eventually stop humiliating and torturing their fellow human beings. As long as they choose to deceive themselves about who really deserves their hatred, however, and as long as they go on feeding that hatred in symbolic form instead of experiencing and resolving it within the context of their own childhood, their hunger for revenge will remain insatiable" Alice Miller
Friday, April 5, 2024
The Main Reason Why Narcissists Are so Dangerous
NARCISSISTS USE THE SILENT TREATMENT AS A FORM OF CONTROL AND PUNISHMENT.
EMPATHETIC PEOPLE GO NO CONTACT AS A WAY TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND RECOVER. They are not the same response.
"Pathologically narcissistic personalities are very punitive. This means they desire to punish others for the things they believe others have done to them. They are easily offended, easily insulted, easily angered, and often feel rejected or attacked. They assign the blame for their feelings to other people and, if the feelings are negative, narcissists seek to punish these others for what they've supposedly done, which is considered by the narcissist to be incredibly, even unreasonably wrong and terrible. A crime of this magnitude cannot simply be allowed to stand. The other person absolutely must be punished for it.
This is in part due to the size and constitution of the pathologically narcissistic ego, which is both enormous and almost absurdly fragile. This is a very bad combination because that makes it easy to damage and impossible to avoid. Not only do they think virtually everything is to or for or because of or about them because their ego is disproportionately huge, but because it's so fragile, virtually everything insults, offends, hurts, or upsets them. It can be so severe that it comes across as what looks like paranoia or even delusion." Read more in the link below
https://discover.hubpages.com/health/narcissistic-relationships-the-punishment-never-ends
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Relationship expert tells people to never get married unless you're willing to do 3 things
I have been saying this for a very long time!
This is why I now choose to stay single because I don’t want to deal with anyone's shit at an intimate level. I'm getting too old to waste my precious time with people’s unresolved childhood repression.
"So why does he tell unsuspecting people not to get married? "Because a long-term partnership might be one of the hardest paths out there. It will confront everything about you and your partner. Your relationship skills will be tested. And all your unresolved childhood trauma will come to the surface," Gaddis wrote.
Unresolved childhood trauma can become a major problem in relationships because oftentimes our trauma is present in how we react to conflict or relationship strain. According to Kaytee Gillis, LCSW-BACS, childhood trauma manifests in relationships in multiple ways including fear of abandonment, being easily irritated, constantly arguing, or avoiding conflict at all costs."
https://www.upworthy.com/relationships-expert-marriage-rules-rp2
"If the repression stays unresolved, the parents’ childhood tragedy is unconsciously continued on in their children” Alice Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self) Page 23
Let's make it clear! Only children are abandoned. Adults are left! As adults, we fear of being left behind. Now when people leave me I get happy! More free time for me!
Only children need and must have unconditional love and protection no matter what, it’s their birthright and the parents’ obligation to love and protect them. But adults can never be loved unconditionally. You would not love a rapist or dictator. The love between adults needs to be earned.
“As adults, we don’t need unconditional love, not even from our therapist. This is a childhood need, that can never be fulfilled later in life, and we are playing with illusions if we have never mourned this lost opportunity. But there are other things we can get from a good therapist: reliability, honesty, respect, trust, empathy, understanding, and an ability to clarify their emotions so that they need not bother us with them. If a therapist promises unconditional love, we must protect ourselves from him, from his hypocrisy and lack of awareness” Alice Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self) Page 45
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/search?q=only+children+need+unconditional+love
Monday, April 1, 2024
Know Your Enemy
"Narcissists don't want love, they want attention. If they can't get positive attention, they will take negative attention. If they can't have your admiration, they will accept your rage. But they must provoke some response from you. That is their goal - to provoke a response, any response. It solidifies, in their minds, their power over you, that they are calling the shots, that you are weak, or gullible, or easily manipulated, or vulnerable or whatever they have labeled you in their mind that means you are "less", less than them." Kellen Vonhouser
"Both narcissists and Empaths suffered from carly childhood trauma. The Empaths took that pain and became more compassionate, not wanting others to suffer the same fate they did. while the narcissists got angry and decided to take their anger out on the the world. Vowing to put themselves first. Empaths were strong enough not to let the trauma destroy their goodness. while narcissists were weak and let the trauma overcome them." -Maria Consiglio
It's a nice community, with average people, They might be sociopathic, but certainly not Super Rich. The Super Rich don't live in gated communities, They have their own, gates and servants, and people who answer to them.
I am not critiquing your writing just trying to make sure, that you are correct in your assumptions.
M.
M, I almost wrote in the last text that the sad part is: that the sociopaths in S are not even that rich, but next to me they are and they dream of being super-rich. They want to make sure all those they see below them stay below them.
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2017/07/know-your-enemy.html