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Arabella, before you start talking about "guarantees of safety", perhaps you should ask your Master Clinical Psychologist friend whether the advice you gave offered any such thing.
Do you really think the Yi is never going to advise anyone to face their fears, or to follow a path that is truly challenging? Do you think that the Yi is never going to tell you you are wrong, change your path? Do you think somehow, by way of example, a God of love will not tell people who ask him for advice that he wishes them to be a force for peace in the world, even if that is the most difficult of paths to walk? Think of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela...
If truly difficult things which hurt like hell have been asked of you Arabella, things which still hurt, I would suggest it is perhaps because somebody loves and trusts you, as a leader figure, to do the right thing.
Ghandi didn’t rush out to hug aggressors and make them feel better. He humiliated them. He sat still, said nothing, and resisted, to make clear that they needed him more than he needed them and that he would require respect and freedom from oppression if they wanted his participation as a leader. He didn’t respond to pressure and bullying. Bravo. This is precisely what was recommended in this case.
I don't know that anybody has ever accused Ghandi of failing to face his fears. To the contrary, he was simply smarter than a physically superior adversary.
Well Arabella. I fail to see how humiliating the man, whom you had never met, who had really not committed any sins, is any kind of pathway to peace or overcoming one's fear. There are far worse things in this world Arabella, and you don't build a person who can take on the world with such advice, nor do you make them one bit safer really.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).