Hi Hunterad,
It’s so cool that these discussions are doing something beneficial, it’s actually such a wonderful thing that human beings can assist each other in this way.
Just to add from my recent experience to what you wrote in your post. I wrote the other day in my journal that I have been ushering myself towards enjoyment and appreciation… I really like this word in this context - to usher. It has the connotations of a gentle guiding towards something, of a helpful accompanying through a process etc. It’s for sure different to demanding, pushing etc.
I notice that when Richard or Vineeto or Geoffrey write, those words are intended to do exactly that, to usher fellow human beings towards discovering their own freedom, and ‘I’ can do something similar towards ‘myself’. That when things go awry ‘I’ can assist and guide ‘myself’ through it all in that same gentle and beneficial manner - always back towards enjoyment and appreciation.
It’s very nice to be nice to myself 