:: Aham Prema ::

Dear You, Yes, you.  In the middle of the night, I hear a song and I start to cry.  I think of you.  I miss how we were in simpler times.  I'm so sorry for any pain I've caused you.  I try my best, always.  I do love you.  Whether it seems that way or not.  I love you.  As much as I can.  I'm just selfish.  I'm sorry.  I know I've hurt you.  I'm working on it.  I gotta do what I gotta do for me to be able to really love you the way you deserve.  Because, right now, I'm just selfish.  I have to be.  I'm hurt inside.  We all are.  We find crafty ways to hide it, but we are.  Can you be real enough to see it?  Feel it?  It's okay, babe.  That's life.  There's immense beauty in the healing of these pains.  That's what we do.  And we're doing an awesome job.  Amazing, in fact.  But damn, when I'm really open, I can feel that pain.  Ouch.  It...

There are all types of beliefs about the self, but this is what I believe.  I'm putting this up as a foundation for other things I want to share.  As with most things that I believe, I learned this by being open to hear others' opinions and teachings, applying them to myself and my experiences, and feeling my way through what resonates with me as feeling true and right (for me). Of course, me being me, thought of this as total BS the first time I heard of it.  But thank God, I was open enough to consider it, as I have learned over time the great value contained within this concept.  There are three key parts: The Inner Child Often seen as the part of us that is pure and innocent, the inner child is a snapshot of us when we were around six years old - before we entered kindergarten and began focusing on left brain activity (logic).  This energy remains with us forever and is the happy, playful part of ourselves.   The "dark side" of the inner ch...