Comments on: Talking to a Huge Scary Monster.

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:56:27 +0000

Hilary, thanks for that link. .-= CJ´s last post ... What if there were nothing to fix =-.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:13:35 +0000

CJ, this is reminding me of something... oh yes, Slade Roberson talking about everyday intuition:

Philosophically, you may be comforted to know that it is impossible to “mess up” any decision or choice of direction...

(And he goes on to give a very cool rationale for this, too.)

By: brooklynchick

brooklynchick — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:24:51 +0000

Yay for your amazing conversations with Monsters. I’m going to talk to mine more. :)

YAY for your skabbatical!

By: Sit At My Table

Sit At My Table — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:33:33 +0000

I’ve never commented before.

But I’m moved because when our monsters get free, it sets off all these seismic shakes.

Imagine if we all grappled with our monsters until we were all free.

By: CJ

CJ — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:07:59 +0000

Kathleen, I loved the imagery of a Negotiator waiting…it sparked up all sorts of imagery of what’s going on in the “waiting room” of my inner selves.

Rupa, that was beautiful.

And dear Hilary, exactly the thing I’ve been wrestling with…that probably needs to stop being ‘wrestling’…truly chunking it in and believing that all is perfect, wrong is right…which goes hand in hand with releasing the expectations.

Perhaps stopping the foot stomping would be a step in the right direction. I’ll work on that. LOL.

Thanks for all the bright wisdom that gathers here.
cj

By: Hilary

Hilary — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:11:41 +0000

Wandering happily off-topic…

CJ, you said,

Earlier today my daily writing ended up a conversation about retreating…I’m reading Jennifer Loudon’s retreat book and have been yearning for…something. But there’s lots of “but what if it doesn’t happen, what if I retreat ‘wrong’…blah…”

Well… when I used one of Jen’s audio guides for a retreat, ‘it’ mostly did not happen, I was obviously doing it wrong, and I was pretty grumpy by the end. (There was probably foot-stomping.) Then over the following couple of days, it rained great big wonderful insights and synchronicities.

So… maybe something to be said for discovering your way of doing it wrong so it doesn’t happen ;) .

By: Willie Hewes

Willie Hewes — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:56:06 +0000

Told you it was gonna be awesome.

Thank you for this, Havi. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That was great.

By: Rupa

Rupa — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:47:48 +0000

What I got from this, Havi, is that it’s not the thing. It’s what we expect the thing to do for us. Internally. And if we recognize this, then the thing itself loses its grip on us. Maybe the thing IS the monster? Whoa. So if we set the monster (our thing) free, no longer needing IT, but the fulfillment we associate with it, we are also…free. Free to find fulfillment within ourselves, and then free to accomplish “things” simply for the pure adventure of it. No more stuck. xo

By: Kathleen Avins

Kathleen Avins — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:02:05 +0000

Thank you for this. So powerful, so moving, so helpful.

I think I need to get a clearer image of my own inner Negotiators. Gracious, perhaps I can conduct job interviews! I think perhaps I’m getting a glimpse of someone waiting on the edge of my mind’s eye, sitting in a comfy chair and thumbing through a magazine, waiting to be interviewed for the position. While I wait to fall asleep tonight, perhaps I’ll have a chat with her…
.-= Kathleen Avins´s last post … The trouble with “middle vision” =-.

By: CJ

CJ — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:13:43 +0000

Thank you. I had chills as I opened this up.

Earlier today my daily writing ended up a conversation about retreating…I’m reading Jennifer Loudon’s retreat book and have been yearning for…something. But there’s lots of “but what if it doesn’t happen, what if I retreat ‘wrong’…blah…”

There’s so much foggy and blocked. The conversation didn’t go very far with the inner me’s…lots of

“…”

But your post helped me remember that it doesn’t hurt to continue to be open to the conversation.

Thanks for being you.