Thread: "How do we practice presence around difficult parents?"

Originally Posted by Majestic

Yea I read the Celestine Prophecy and understood it. It makes perfect sense, but how do you get energy of your own without developing a control drama, it's seems like a control drama is the only way to get energy for yourself......

If your constantly giving attention and energy away, where are you going to get your own energy, you'll be drained and depressed, people in this day and age aren't trying to give attention away let alone focus on anything other than themselves...we need love and attention too...I think we might have to just keep meditating to get energy? that has to be the only way.

I know the Celestine prophecy works....i recognize the different control dramas people use, and giving them energy DOES help them, this I know cause I've seen it in action with one of the most aggressive control dramas, but what will make other people give away attention more? Everybody is so stuck on themselves listening to them is exhausting..especially the poor me's who constantly complain all the time.

I am not at all referring to giving people energy if they're starting a drama with you. Energy should be given in mutual conversations to ensure the person you're talking to can iterate their thoughts correctly. However when someone starts a drama, use your awareness to refrain from participating in the drama. Don't feed them at all. Be calm, collected and act rather than react to surface all the unconscious thoughts that are running the drama.

And as far as getting energy for yourself, you don't need it from people. It's all around you. Expect to be happy. Expect it. Expect to be full of energy. Your expectations work instantly (or instantly begin their process). In the Now you'll see energy filling you. The only reason people think they need energy from each other is because they don't even know it exists. Or they think it only exists as an abstract term in physics and don't realize how much it effects them.