Don't ever lose your passport
Published: Fri, 09/27/13
A couple of years ago a friend of mine was going on a Christmas
holiday to France with his cousins and another friend of theirs.
All was prepared in great detail including the purchase of a 4x4
vehicle since they were going to a chalet in the mountains and snow
was expected. A late nigh ferry was booked for Christmas Eve.
However a few hours before they were due to leave my friend's
cousin decided to get his passport and couldn't find it
anywhere. His flat was turned upside down to no avail. In the end
it was decided that the offending document had probably been in the
pocket of a jacket which had been given to a charity shop. So a
rather different Christmas than the one planned was had in London.
A replacement passport was obtained after Christmas and the trip
took place over new year instead. There was another occasion when
my girlfriend was meant to return from a family holiday to attend a
wedding with me. When she got to the airport she had forgotten her
passport and had to go back and get it so she didn't make it to
the wedding with me.
You can have every intention of traveling anywhere in the world and
know exactly where you want to go. You can have the plane tickets,
the currency you need, hotels booked but if you can't produce a
passport at the airport you won't get far.
On Wednesday I wrote about the three aspects of the self
represented by: The dragon (bodily functions), the eagle (the
rational mind) and the squirrel (the unconscious, emotional self).
All three have to work together but which one holds the passport to
new opportunities? There may be physical limitations in terms of
time and space to overcome, but that is a matter of patience and
determination. You have to know where you want to go and have some
idea of how to get there but that is just a matter of thinking and
getting information. But if the emotional self goes into revolt
then you will find yourself making all kinds of excuses for not
moving forward and instead just go around in circles. The real
problem is that the squirrel part of yourself depends upon
paradigms which are very deep rooted patterns of behaviour which
are often embedded in us during very early childhood. Real change
depends upon changing these paradigms. Although it really isn't
that hard to create new patterns of behaviour the emotional part of
ourselves finds it very threatening and will do anything it can to
prevent the change taking place. So if the metaphorical passport
is in the care of the squirrel it will probably be buried
somewhere. The squirrel will also have conveniently forgotten
where and changing the paradigm is avoided.
The real purpose of Stav is to equip those who are willing to learn
with the means to make the most of their lives. Training the body
isn't really that difficult, sharing knowledge and ideas is
quite straightforward. Making someone aware of their inner
squirrel and how it is likely to behave when change threatens, that
is the challenge.
While we are on an international theme, the USA training for next
month has been canceled due to lack of support but we are planning
for the last weekend of March in New Jersey, more on that soon.
Also, I have two new members signed up on the new membership
scheme, one from Canada and the other Chile. I am very pleased
about this but is there anyone interested this side of the
Atlantic? Nine days left at the introductory rate
http://www.iceandfire.org.uk/join.html
regards
Graham
PS Bruin was wondering how her mother (whose name was Pyramus, the
benefit of a liberal arts education was that I could choose
Shakespearian names for some of our cats) managed to climb into
the top of the wardrobe. What the kitten Bruin didn't know was
that Pyramus would jump off my shoulder into the top of the
wardrobe and there wasn't actually any other way of getting
there. However in the subsequent weeks whenever I went into the
bedroom I would find the little brown kitten looking up at the top
of the wardrobe and obviously trying to work out how to get there
herself. If she had been able to use a drawing board and a slide
rule (this was about 20 years ago) she would have been doing
calculations on how to get up there. It was quite amusing watching
her trying to figure out the problem but I expected that she would
eventually realise it was hopeless and find something else to do.
How wrong I was...