Dr. Sandra Parker - Meaning and Purpose

Personal meaning is central to a sense of aliveness. It emerges out of a connection to who we are at our core, a connection to our emotional self. Contact with that core sense of ourselves allows us to determine the important values that can then shape our actions and choices. So that we are living proactively, from the "inside out", rather than reactively, from the "outside in".

When we have a sense of meaning we can find value and worth in activities and goals, our emotions and physical senses bringing a richness and vibrancy to our experience. Meaning and purpose also provide a holding environment for us in times of difficulty, allowing us to maintain a sense of hope.

Meaning and purpose arise not out of ideas but out of core feelings. And it is vulnerable to feel. We need to grow our ability to tolerate vulnerability in order to access the deep emotional direction we each have inside of us. And that means we need to grow our ability to notice signal anxiety, take care of it, and soothe it in the body.

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[DrSandraParker]

We all have anxiety - it's just part of being human & we are actually meant to grow into more of who we really are by feeling it. Anxiety is our body talking to us about vulnerability: uncertainty, loss, not having complete control over important outcomes. We fear we can't bear that truth & we fret and worry and try to control things rather than be in our body and feel. The work is coming home to the body, being with & really feeling the physical sensations. Simple to get but not easy to do.

[amenah1989]

i kinda get it but ur a bit trippy. i have anxiety and we need more info.