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Accessing Our Authentic "Self" with Richard Schwartz

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

CHAPTER

The Nature of the Mind Is Multiple

In contrast to most psychology, it turns out that the nature of the mind is to be multiple. My belief now is that we're born with them, and they're all valuable,. They get forced into roles that might have been necessary during a trauma or attachment injury but can be damaging with your life. So other parts jump out of their naturally valuable states and become protectors; some protecting by trying to control everything in your outside world. There's another class of protector who will immediately jump in to deal with this emergency in an impulsive way: firefighters.

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