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Unlimited Horizons
Stage 1 - Entanglement
Theme:
Deeply absorbed by emotions, events, activity Subject to violent emotional storms
Duration:
unlimited
STAGE 1 presents us an unending chain of situations we are deeply involved in. Utterly captivated by activities we initiate and by events the world confronts us with, we feel an almost inescapable compulsion to react to these events.
We spontaneously evaluate situations either as positive (good), if they bring us pleasure, - negative (bad), if they bring us distress, - or as irrelevant, if they don't trigger feelings.
Typical for this stage are unexpected, abrupt swings from highly positive to intensely negative feelings - and vice versa.
While in this stage we are deeply convinced to be in complete control of our life. But a closer and deeper look reveals a drastically different picture: • How often do we feel victimized by events we hardly are
able to bear, let alone control?
