Your Hero ’ s Journey

One pattern I’ve seen among my readers (and especially CGC members) is that we’re all progressing through our own version of the hero’s journey. In our cases this isn’t about vanquishing some personified foe through violent means. It’s an inner journey where we start out living much like everyone else, we soon find ourselves dissatisfied with “normal” life, and we progress through phases of exploration, discovery, conscious creation, and ultimately leadership. Resisting the Journey Just as many reluctant heroes initially resist the journey they’re about to take anyway, we harbor similar patterns of resistance that keep us stuck. A common pattern is to resist what we don’t want, mistakenly thinking this will somehow help us progress. Resisting scarcity doesn’t create abundance. Resisting loneliness doesn’t create social flow. Resisting meaningless work doesn’t create fulfilling work. Even when we know this, we still succumb to these traps. One reason is that we’re actually resisting something greater, and it’s this greater challenge that scares us and makes us pull back. Each part of our journey comes with its own challenges, and these challenges tend to increase in magnitude and difficulty as we progress. Life doesn’t become golden just because you’ve achieved financial abundance. You simply graduate to a whole new set of challenges. In a way scarcity is easier than abundance. Scar...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Abundance Values Source Type: blogs