A group of my friends and I watched a DVD doc called "Finding Joe" about the hero's journey by Joseph Campbell. I bought the DVD and Carl and I watched it last week. It really inspired us both to get off ours duffs this week, but…anyway, enough about that! I know I am inspired to go on my own journey finally doing some things I really want to do. I know I often resist doing the one thing I most want to do. So here's what I read today…..
If you resist the call, you are right on course. Resisting the call to the adventure is part of the journey.
It's natural to resist that which not only fills a deep need, but can also reveal where you might have fear or self doubt.
When I went to the vertigo doctor this week, he kept using the terms "empower" and "power through". I believe spiritually my vertigo is a symptom of an imbalance in my real life versus my creative life. He diagnosed me with the most common kind of vertigo and he treated it with physical therapy right there on the spot. It was so scary because he placed my head and neck and body in positions that cause great fear and distress to me- he could see how scared I was to be placed in those positions which HAVE ALWAYS caused me to have extreme vertigo, but he held me down and "empowered" me to "power through". He gave me exercises to power through a four day vertigo episode that may come in the future in only four minutes.
I can't help but think that powering through our fears might be empowering after all.
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