08-30-2018, 11:34 AM
I agree that work is required, thanks for bringing this up, Lighthouse!
One concept that I have been thinking about quite a bit lately is the degree to which discomfort seems to almost universally attend this work. Lately I'm starting to think that, if I am reacting to something because it makes me uncomfortable, there's probably something to look at there. Of course discomfort is a vast spectrum, but there's something about the using the word itself to help me recognize micro-opportunities to examine my feelings. There's almost always something there that's worth my attention. In the best cases, such opportunities allow me to even attempt reactions that I normally wouldn't, and thereby start taking on new biases.
A small but personally significant example of this is speaking a foreign language in their country. I used to be deathly afraid of misspeaking in German when I was an exchange student over there, and that was when I was at my most fluent! On this recent trip over, however, I made a point of "leaning into" experiences of discomfort, even panic, and really trying to act upon the belief that the energetic qualities are the most significant, with language more as a carrier wave. I wanted to see if I'd do any "better" by simply paying attention to my feelings instead of trying to prevent or ignore them. I was floored by how liberated I felt, regardless of how it turned out. In many cases just being able to stand up for myself more confidently took a huge weight off my shoulders, and showed that things I might once have interpreted as slights were just things that happen in life.
To look at discomfort, tightening, panic, fear, uneasiness, pain, etc. as a signpost, this is one of the things that builds our understanding of our polarized biases. This is precisely what most people think life is supposed to be about minimizing. While I understand and respect the language around "triggering" that is used by social justice activists and those who advocate the therapeutic approach, I do think it is a sign of this late hour in third density, when everything is just getting too intense in some cases. Triggering is an excellent term for describing how catalyst manifests on the other side of the veil. We engage in therapeutic remedies, and often to good effect, but eventually we have to work through it on our own. That's scary and uncomfortable, and takes willpower to accomplish, and triggers provide opportunities to do the work that convinces the self one is ready for the next step.
One concept that I have been thinking about quite a bit lately is the degree to which discomfort seems to almost universally attend this work. Lately I'm starting to think that, if I am reacting to something because it makes me uncomfortable, there's probably something to look at there. Of course discomfort is a vast spectrum, but there's something about the using the word itself to help me recognize micro-opportunities to examine my feelings. There's almost always something there that's worth my attention. In the best cases, such opportunities allow me to even attempt reactions that I normally wouldn't, and thereby start taking on new biases.
A small but personally significant example of this is speaking a foreign language in their country. I used to be deathly afraid of misspeaking in German when I was an exchange student over there, and that was when I was at my most fluent! On this recent trip over, however, I made a point of "leaning into" experiences of discomfort, even panic, and really trying to act upon the belief that the energetic qualities are the most significant, with language more as a carrier wave. I wanted to see if I'd do any "better" by simply paying attention to my feelings instead of trying to prevent or ignore them. I was floored by how liberated I felt, regardless of how it turned out. In many cases just being able to stand up for myself more confidently took a huge weight off my shoulders, and showed that things I might once have interpreted as slights were just things that happen in life.
To look at discomfort, tightening, panic, fear, uneasiness, pain, etc. as a signpost, this is one of the things that builds our understanding of our polarized biases. This is precisely what most people think life is supposed to be about minimizing. While I understand and respect the language around "triggering" that is used by social justice activists and those who advocate the therapeutic approach, I do think it is a sign of this late hour in third density, when everything is just getting too intense in some cases. Triggering is an excellent term for describing how catalyst manifests on the other side of the veil. We engage in therapeutic remedies, and often to good effect, but eventually we have to work through it on our own. That's scary and uncomfortable, and takes willpower to accomplish, and triggers provide opportunities to do the work that convinces the self one is ready for the next step.
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