In my private counseling, I have found that my experience with my parents is not unique at all.  With all of my clients, when we finally get to the core issues of their problems, in almost every case, they boil down to feelings of lack of self-worth: not being good enough and powerless to do anything about it.

I want to share a paragraph from Bill Harris, the Director of Centerpointe Research Institute, which is dedicated to Mind Research and Healing through Deep Meditation.

He says: “The bottom line is that most of us have wounds from childhood that need healing before we can truly live happy, joy-filled lives and fully realize our potential as human beings.  Many, of course, are unaware that the parts of their lives that don’t seem to work are the result of these unhealed wounds.”

Just to summarize, in the last series of blogs, we have been talking about our perceptions of things that happen around us and how we got those perceptions.  Perception is the meaning we attach to anything and it is determined by our values, beliefs and attitudes – our childhood programming or “writing on our walls”.

Shirely Macleane, the actress and author said: “We don’t see the world as it is.  We see it as we are”.  Or another way of saying the same thing is: “I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it.”