I have been focusing on a whole new creative project. A great deal of energy and enthusiasm being spent. A lot of productive time making something totally new. Bouncing my ideas away from others in a coaching group. But each time I start a fresh journey of producing, I have discovered myself becoming angry.
Each and every this happen? What’s this anger about? What is going on?
My mentor i were discussing this. She wondered aloud this thought: “It appears like the tender spots are where you are angry”… yeah. Very tender. The anger is saying something.
Finding that it is difficult to hold a task choosing anger around, I needed to find away out to work “through” or “around” the anger. So, I distract myself with painting, stories, dancing… something creative, but more mundane along with a bit mindless. This creative energy frees my thoughts to ensure that I can “trick” my anger into thinking I’m busy to things.
After i make this happen I refer to it “spinning”. Spinning reminds me in the stories in the spinning wheel where I could outside, hurry up creating (much like the wool for the wheel). This opens the door to metaphor and takes me from my should “control” a task.
When I began drawing this picture… of an spinning wheel… I was thinking of “turning straw to gold”. I was reminded again from the story of Rumpelstilskin. You already know, normally the one… the millers daughter, the father says “she can spin straw into gold” on the king… along with the king really wants to understand this… of course, if she cannot, she’ll be put to death… ? Then, an unusual little man appears. He tells her they can spin straw into gold… but it’ll attend a price to her.
I found the tale and read several versions of it. It resonated beside me. However, as I usually do, I could to logically “organize” the tale. This caused me to be more frustrated, while i was not seeing or feeling what this story was attempting to inform me.
And so i went back to my “dream capture” work. I read the tale just as if it were a goal I’d had. Then, Used to do the following:
Listed out each of the characters
Listed the “key words” in the story that resonated with me at night
Re-read each word and wrote what that word meat if you ask me within my unique circumstances
And then… I began to see what the story was telling me. Here is what I stumbled upon
The tiny man (Rumplestilskin)=anger/creative fire/naming
The miller’s daughter=rest/creativity/giving
The king=accountability
Spnning wheel=creating/spinning/asking for help
The baby=creation (project, artwork… )
While each of these “characters” comes with an independent role, Every one of the characters create one “psyche” to me. We have all of the qualities within us.
To create something, it requires much energy… and far rest is additionally needed. We have to give of ourselves and ask for help.
Ultimately, a child arrives and we’ll not quit. It can be our “creation” and we are impressed by what we should are making. Also, what can be done to acquire there.
What did I learn?
That story resonates with me. Also, this story will repeat itself over and over because i always create, rest, other people and handle a project. Despite the fact that Rumpelstilskin stomps himself to the ground at the conclusion of the story, that little man will be back… and then time, I am going to know his name.
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