{"id":100,"date":"2009-02-13T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch4cs.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-02-13T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T20:48:00","slug":"what-attracts-you-to-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/what-attracts-you-to-other-people\/","title":{"rendered":"What Attracts You To Other People?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Michael Ryce<\/span> talks about how it is helpful to hear the same material stated in different ways and from different points of view and different disciplines, such as science, psychology, theology, etc., and that this helps us integrate new material. \u00a0This post is about how we give up on the true nature of ourselves sometime between the time we are born, and the time we become adults. \u00a0Dr. Ryce<\/span> describes this process in some detail in his lecture titled “From Co-dependence<\/span> to Inter-dependence”, in which he discusses the role of the Power Person in each of our lives. \u00a0A Power Person is anyone for whom we “gave up” our conscious connection to our true nature as Love, in order to win the acceptance, and approval of the \u00a0Power Person. \u00a0Clearly each of us can have more than one Power Person in our lives. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Identifying who those Power People are, and discovering the patterns we have developed in our behavior in order to try to please them, is a very useful part of the process of returning to the conscious awareness of our true nature as Love. \u00a0The more we can identify the things that trigger us to feel anything less than Love, the more we have the opportunity to “Forgive” or “Cancel” and dismantle that part of our stored memories and false realities.<\/div>\n
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Gregg Braden has written a book titled The Divine Matrix<\/span>\u00a0which is all about the invisible energy that connects all of creation. \u00a0It is called different things in different cultures, but it all boils down to the realization that we are all connected, and that nothing, and no one, is truly separate from the rest of creation and existence. \u00a0In the last quarter of the book, Gregg Braden describes a co-worker he knew who was frequently “falling in love” with people despite the fact that he was happily married. \u00a0This person used to “fall in love” with the waitress at lunch, or the bank teller, then come back to the office and obsess about the latest person he was attracted to, and wonder if this person was supposed to be his soul-mate.<\/div>\n
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In the book Mr. Braden offers the following explanation for why this happens, and why each of us find people to whom we are instantly and powerfully attracted. \u00a0He suggests that each of those people are exhibiting traits, characteristics, and skills which we have denied, repressed, or buried in ourselves. \u00a0He suggests that we deny, repress, and bury those traits in ourselves in order to fit in with, or be accepted by, different people and groups in our lives. \u00a0He suggests that most of the time this is a process we are not consciously aware of, but that some people make conscious choices to “give up”, or hide parts of themselves in the pursuit of career, and other goals.<\/div>\n
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He suggests that those traits, qualities, and skills are not gone, they always remain part of who we are. \u00a0We cannot be otherwise. \u00a0What is needed is for us to recognize, and willingly accept the challenge of facing the fear of being who we really are. \u00a0So why not try this as a challenge? \u00a0Why not begin to notice the people you admire, and are attracted to, and let yourself question how that person is displaying a part of your personality, skills, and traits which you have buried, denied or repressed? \u00a0Make some mental or even paper and pencil notes about those qualities,\u00a0<\/span>and then examine;<\/div>\n
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\u00a0“How would \u00a0my life be different if I fully owned and lived from these qualities and traits?”,\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u00a0“How do I imagine this would challenge or change some of the key relationships in my life?”,\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u00a0“Who in my life, was I trying to please, or appease by hiding this part of myself?” \u00a0<\/div>\n
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The goal, IS THE\u00a0PROCESS<\/span> of learning to love and accept yourself as you truly are!<\/div>\n
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We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. \u00a0Everything else is false.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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