Role playing

I stumbled over this site tonight and stopped to have a read.

Most of us unconsciously react to life from a position of victim-hood. When we refuse to take responsibility for ourselves, we play the victim. This leaves us feeling helpless, duped, angry, unable to change; regardless of our situation.
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Know your position, then move on to The Dark Twin Within

"Why did I say that?" or "Why, in the world, did I eat that?" ("smoke that?", "do that?") These are questions I've often asked myself. In such moments I get a glimpse of this "Freudian slippery" side of me that I would rather not own. But after much introspection I have grown acquainted with this dark inner entity. And I've discovered that I'm not the only one possessed by such a one. That in fact we all own a similar sub-personality which could be called our dark twin.
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talk amongst yourselves for a bit

Open communication is an essential part of maintaining any relationship and yet these skills are rarely taught outside the walls of a counselor’s office. Most of us don’t even know the components of good communication. Positive dialogue includes the ability to both share truthfully and listen openly, but we must first know ourselves before we can do either. Self realization is a pre-requisite of authentic discourse . . . intimacy is the result. Unfortunately, most of us have repressed and denied our internal state for so long that we really have no idea of who we are. As a result, true sharing is impossible.

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and perhaps wrap it all up with a little bit about dying...

Describing death as a friendly force goes against the grain of our cultural conditioning. We have been taught to see death as the enemy, as something to be prevented, or at least forestalled, at any cost, even when doing so prolongs suffering. We think of death as the opposite of life and therefore it is seen as bad or wrong; as something unnatural, ugly, but most of all, terrifying. Some “new age” thinkers even promote the idea that death is some kind of personal failure, especially if it occurs through accident or terminal illness. For these thinkers, to get sick, or die suddenly indicates that you are guilty of self hatred or low evolutionary consciousness. Death is thought of as a punishment or a crime, something to be railed against and fought tooth and nail.

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None of which explained how one tiny click beetle can drive a person completely batty.