You are the Hero in your Life Story.
When we experience a difficult situation in our lives we can look at it in a number of different ways.
We can -
- fight the situation and everyone around us
- feel miserable and at fault
- put up with the situation and continue as before
or
- look at the situation in a different way, discover what we want and deal with it at our best.
My choice is the last one and this is how I do it!
When I heard about Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey, I was fascinated. I read his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces and began to see my problems as tutorials. If I could attend these tutorials awake, bright and willing I’d get the value from this one and onto the next. My “problems” or my difficult “situations” were just part of the big adventure of My Life! I could hardly wait!
And I didn’t have to wait too long! Soon I was caught up in my next “tutorial”.
I was diagnosed with an auto-immune malfunction. My immune system was attacking my liver and my liver was very ill. As I said above there a number of ways we can react when we experience a difficult situation and I began with the first - I got angry. I was angry with the lab results. I was angry with my consultant. I was angry with my friends. Then I went on to miserable. I cried a lot. I blamed myself. I was upset for being so upset and that just led to more crying!I didn’t want to put up with the situation and carry on as before, I wanted something different.
About this time my Mentor came along and she allowed me to put my attention on what I wanted and she taught me how to be at my best. Then I seemed to know what to do next……….
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And that’s the way it has continued. This is a different way to live and it took time to learn but I feel more in control from the Hero’s perspective. It was easier to make the behavioural changes (like saying “No” or eating healthily) I needed to make when I am at my best in any moment. Now I know what I want and realise I’m the Hero in my story.
Now, I work with others using the Hero’s Journey. The Access Your Calm course teaches participants about the Hero’s Journey and gives them an experience of being at their best. The Hero Program teaches individuals the physical movements (unique to them), that allow them to be at their best in any moment. The Warrior Space allows participants to experience “being” at their best in a group sharing life’s challenges in this way.