I have already been implementing a fresh creative project. A great deal of energy and enthusiasm being spent. Lots of productive time making new things. Bouncing my ideas off others inside a coaching group. But each and every time I attempt a brand new journey of developing, I find myself becoming angry.
How come this happen? What exactly is this anger about? What is happening?
My mentor and that i were discussing this. She wondered aloud this thought: “It seems like the tender spots are where you are angry”… yeah. Very tender. The anger is saying something.
Discovering that it is sometimes complicated to help keep a project going with anger around, I desired to find a way to work “through” or “around” the anger. So, I distract myself with painting, stories, dancing… something creative, but more mundane as well as a bit mindless. This creative energy frees up my mind in order that I can “trick” my anger into thinking I’m busy to things.
When I do this I refer to it “spinning”. Spinning reminds me of the stories of the spinning wheel where I’m able to outside, hurry up creating (like the wool about the wheel). This opens the door to metaphor and takes me faraway from my must “control” a task.
Once i began drawing this picture… of an spinning wheel… I was thinking of “turning straw to gold”. I became reminded again with the story of Rumpelstilskin. You know, the one… the millers daughter, the father says “she can spin straw into gold” for the king… as well as the king wants to see this… and when she cannot, she will go to death… ? Then, an unusual little man appears. He tells her they can spin straw into gold… but it will go to an expense to her.
I discovered the storyplot and browse several versions from it. It resonated beside me. However, as I usually do, I used to logically “organize” the story. This caused me to become more frustrated, because i was not seeing or feeling what this story was looking to figure out.
Therefore i returned to my “dream capture” work. Someone said the tale as if it were a dream I’d had. Then, I did the following:
Listed out all of the characters
Listed out the “key words” within the story that resonated when camping
Re-read each word and wrote what that word meat to me during my current situation
And after that… I began to notice what are the story was saying. Can do for you I ran across
The small 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 these “characters” comes with an independent role, Each of the characters create one “psyche” for me personally. Many of us have of those qualities within us.
In order to make something, it requires much energy… and a lot rest is also needed. We have to give of ourselves and ask for help.
In the end, a baby comes into the world and we will not quit. It really is our “creation” and we’re surprised about what we should make. Also, what can be done to acquire there.
What did I learn?
Until this story resonates when camping. Also, this story will repeat itself repeatedly as I always create, rest, other people and finished an undertaking. Though Rumpelstilskin stomps himself in the ground at the end of the story, that little man will likely be back… and next time, I’ll know his name.
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