There is a story that I first heard a long time ago, maybe even as early as my childhood years. I would stumble upon it occasionally, each time understanding it a bit differently, each time extracting more wisdom from it. I am talking about the Indian two wolves story. It goes something like this:
An old Indian is teaching his grandson about the duality of life.
He exemplifies it with two wolves, one white and one black.
One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego
The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
They are constantly fighting each other.
The grandson eventually asks which one wins.
The grandfather replies wisely: "The one you feed.”
I have seen, read or heard many iterations of this story and it certainly carries a powerful message. I believe, however, that it also…
Fragmentation is not a fairy tale, or a fancy term that the psychologists use to explain some barely known process in the mind. If you take the time to think about it for a little while, you will find that you have it too. In fact, just about everybody has it. That feeling that you have when you do something but would want to do something else instead, is fragmentation. The denying, the dissociation from the dark thoughts in your head is fragmentation. The different “voices” in your head that belong to reason, laziness, productivity, anger, fear, insecurity, even "good" voices like love, compassion, these are all fragments of your own psyche, that sometimes go against each other. The thought of being broken into hundreds, if not thousands of pieces is certainly scary at first but nonetheless, a necessary part in the healing process. You have to know where the wound is, to treat it. The next step is to become aware of the scale of this fragmentation. Once you understand what it is, you…
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