When Arielle takes a bath she likes to hold on to washcloths. She holds it over her tummy, chest and hands and it keeps her warm. The cloth holds the warm bath water on her exposed skin and she feels comfort in being covered in this nakedness. But the washcloths hold all the stuff that is in the bath water and that stuff can't be good for her. So we don't let her suck the water out of the cloth.
Arielle on the other hand has no idea that the water is bad for her and she likes the idea that she can get something out of the cloth when she sucks on it. It is a warm wet liquid and logic would tell her that this is like mothers milk. It does not taste like milk but it has the same characteristics and it can't be bad.
Her first observed illusion is that she knows what is best for her at this time. I am telling you this so you understand why she may feel sad when we take it away from her. She becomes highly upset when we don't let her suck on the cloth and she believes that she has been shown an injustice. How is it that we have any right to take something so great from her, she must think. (maturity is the ability to control your emotions.)
(most illusions are when we use emotions to bypass logic) The illusion is that the cloth is good for her. It has made her happy to find something that is like her breast milk. But it is not breast milk and the illusion must be broken. It is the mind and not the heart that has created the feeling of happiness. Her limited logic has told her that she has found milk outside of mother's breast. So the mind creates feelings of sadness because it hold an illusion of unreasonable logic. There was no reason to believe that she had milk. Reason is not a feeling. Reason is a process of learned observations. We add up the things that we have learned in life. And all we know is all we are. Thus we expand our world when we stay in learning mode. We can only find happiness when we follow our hearts.
*Orange writing are lessons learn from Bill Readler and Global Centers.
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