(This is Part II of a three-part article)
In Part I: Fear On Ice we talked about:
- Conflicting desires to change and to stay the same.
- Fears of real, and even imagined threats that make us freeze up, and leave us spinning our wheels, going nowhere.
- Strong fear and traumatic events that leave a lasting impression on us.
- The connection between being stuck and feeling that we have no choices.
I showed you a simple exercise that helps you to break through that feeling of being stuck, and find possibility, and action, again.
But what if your problem seems completely different?
What if you have too many choices?
Have you ever
[Continue reading: Getting Unstuck, Part II: Too Many Choices]
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt afraid to change, yet you wanted to escape with all of your heart?
There are many levels of feeling trapped, and we all too often pretend to have no choices and no way out.
[Continue reading: Getting Unstuck, Part I: Fear on Ice]
Have you ever tried to explain contradictions to young children? As they try to make sense of a confusingly complex world, they search for shapes and boundaries. They want to know where one thing or idea begins, and where it ends.
When the boundaries are violated, when children see contradictions, like the child in The Emperor’s New Clothes they ask.
Some of these contradictions are us being inconsistent, a black and white contradiction, for example where our actions don’t match our beliefs and words.
But then there are situations and ideas where black and white fade away, and
[Continue reading: Facing The Darkness, Part III: Seeing the World in Color]
What is a shadow?
The everyday shadows we see come about when an object blocks a source of light. Not exactly a buzzworthy event!
Why all the fuss about shadows? There are so many legends and myths where shadows have magical properties, including magical creatures that have no shadow at all.
In Jungian Psychology, the word shadow represents an important psychological concept. It speaks of vast unexplored parts of ourselves. When people hear of this concept of hidden parts of ourselves, they often think of a person’s dark side, where violence,
[Continue reading: Facing The Darkness, Part II: The Shadow]
Worse Than Death?
Have you ever heard the famous statistic that more people are afraid of public speaking than of death?
I remember a time in 4th grade when I stood up in class to give a book report. I was so nervous that I turned white and could hardly speak.
The teacher had pity on me and told me to sit down.
(When I was much older, I got over my nervousness, and I’ve spoken calmly before hundreds of people.)
When we’re embarrassed, we experience a little death. Our image of ourself is temporarily shattered.
We’ve all felt embarrassed, so this little death is real to us, and undeniable.
We commonly hide from the reality of our own “big death” that will come at some distant time, so it’s often unreal to us.
My personal favorite joke about death is Woody Allen’s line: “It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens!”
As much as we hide from death, and pretend it doesn’t exist, we’re still frightened by it.
[Continue reading: The Whisper of Death]
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