Shadowing-Übung: How to Parent Yourself - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
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All of us were parented.
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For many of us, it went well.
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We were loved, our views were respected, our needs were tended to.
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It helped to make us the more or less sane people we are now.
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But for others among us, things went really rather badly wrong.
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Perhaps there was unreliability, anger, humiliation, violence or worse.
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If there was, we're liable to have been deeply marked.
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We may, even if it all happened quite a number of years ago now, keep noticing new ways in which the past is getting in the way of a good life in the present.
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Our inadequate parenting experiences undermine our ability to have sound relationships,
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the right sort of confidence and to extend adequate nurture to ourselves.
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We would like, of course, to move on.
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There is something unbalanced and deeply cruel in the idea of the first 12 years determining the next 50.
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We cannot change the past, but it does remain open to us to correct at least some of its repercussions.
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We may learn to do this through a neglected and yet deeply powerful process we call re-parenting.
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How our parents behaved will have laid down a template in our minds about how we should respond to challenges.
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But we don't need to remain forever stuck with the kind of care which we imbibed in the early years.
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We by nature have an ability to parent ourselves.
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What this means is an ability to comfort ourselves at moments of difficulty, to interpret the troubles that beset us with imagination and kindness,
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to encourage ourselves in the face of anxiety and loss, and to reassure the more fragile,
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agitated parts of us by drawing upon our experience and our serene aspects.
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All this is what good parents naturally do for their children.
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But if this didn't happen to us, we can still, in adulthood, step in and do it for ourselves.
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One part of the mind can speak to the other.
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One part can act as the sane, resilient counterweight to the bruised and more immature side of the self.
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We can figuratively put an arm around our own shoulder.
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Our experience of the shortfalls of our own parents offer us an expertise
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that is wasted if it stays stuck at the level of just criticism.
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It should become the template for a far more useful project, the creation of an inner ideal parent,
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who acts in all the ways in which the real thing should have done but didn't quite.
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Knowing so much about what we did not have enables us to be experts at what we need
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and should believe we can provide for ourselves.
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We already have the perfect inner parent.
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It's simply in many ways the opposite of the one we had.
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Though childhood is a one-off event in material time, in psychological time it's endlessly recurring.
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The eight-year-old us is still there, and we can talk to it and respond to it in a way
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that allows it to mature and strengthen in the way it always should have done.
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We can dare to make use of a much underestimated capacity – that of re-parenting ourselves.
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Warum man mit diesem Video sprechen übt?
Dieses Video zum Thema "How to Parent Yourself" ist perfekt fürs Shadow Speak – es kombiniert einfühlsame Sprache mit tieferen Gedanken, was dir hilft, nicht nur Wörter, sondern auch Emotionen in Englisch auszudrücken. Die natürliche, gesprochene Form des Sprechers macht es easy, die Rhythmen und Pausen nachzuahmen. Üben mit diesem Inhalt stärkt nicht nur deinen Sprachfluss, sondern auch dein Verständnis für komplexe Themen – ideal, um gesunde Selbstfürsorge in Englisch zu diskutieren. Ein echtes Plus für deine sprachliche Selbstsicherheit!
Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext
Beachte diese nützlichen Strukturen, die du im Video findest:
- "We're liable to have been deeply marked" – Hier wird die "liable to have + Partizip II"-Struktur verwendet, um eine wahrscheinliche Folge auszudrücken. Perfekt, um über langfristige Wirkungen zu sprechen.
- "It remains open to us to correct" – "Remains open to us" drückt aus, dass etwas noch möglich ist. Ein eleganter Weg, um Handlungsoptionen zu beschreiben.
- "One part can act as the sane counterweight" – "Act as" hilft, Rollen oder Funktionen zu definieren. Nützlich für Erklärungen in Diskussionen.
Häufige Aussprache-Fallen
Aufpassen bei diesen Wörtern – sie klingen einfacher, als sie sind:
- Re-parenting – Die Betonung liegt auf "re", nicht auf "par". Sage "riː-ˈpeərəntɪŋ", nicht "ˈriːpærəntɪŋ".
- Undermine – Das "d" ist fast unsichtbar: "ˌʌndəˈmaɪn", nicht "ˈʌndərmaɪn".
- Serene – Die "e" am Ende ist lang: "səˈriːn", nicht "səˈrin".
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