Dear Shipp:

In regard to your last question: you can tag people so that they get a message in their private email account (registered with tiny Buddha) regarding your message to them. I personally don’t know how to do it, but many do. (I have been a very active member here for about a year and a half but I am not running this website; I am strictly a member, like you).

Let’s say you read someone else’s thread and Peter is one of the people replying to the Original Poster (OP). You want to communicate to Peter about his reply. You can post on that thread something like:

* Side note: Peter, I read your reply above and was wondering if you can elaborate on….

Regarding your post before last: fear is in your way of exploring and living-in-the-now. Of course, other people’s struggles are not close to being as scary as our own. this is why people are so quick to know the solutions to other people’s problems, not to their own. Fear is a powerful emotion. From personal experience, it is possible to overcome fear, gradually, one day at a time, sometimes one moment at a time and ” find on one’s own an internalized sense of worthiness and confidence”- it is a personal journey.

Talking about movies, one movie that energized me toward that kind of personal journey is The Never Ending Story, 1984. It has lots of symbolism. One is, that it takes a child to go on such a journey. If not a child, then one with a child’s mind, or a Beginner’s Mind-

It is about learning from-the-beginning, unlearning what we learned and learning anew. When you unlearn that you are unworthy, you learn anew that indeed, you are worthy.

anita