Stories along with what They could Inform us About Our Lives

I’ve been implementing a whole new creative project. Lots of energy and enthusiasm being spent. Lots of productive time making new things. Bouncing my ideas off of others in the coaching group. But every time I set about a fresh journey of producing, I have found myself becoming angry.

Why does this happen? What is this anger about? The proceedings?

My mentor i were discussing this. She wondered aloud this thought: “It feels like the tender spots are where you stand angry”… yeah. Very tender. The anger is saying something.

Discovering that it is sometimes complicated to hold an undertaking using anger throughout, I want to to find a way to operate “through” or “around” the anger. So, I distract myself with painting, stories, dancing… something creative, but more mundane and a bit mindless. This creative energy frees my thoughts so that I will “trick” my anger into thinking I am busy with things.

After i do this I call it “spinning”. Spinning jogs my memory in the stories of the spinning wheel where I can get busy creating (such as the wool around the wheel). This opens the door to metaphor and takes me from my need to “control” an undertaking.

When I began drawing this image… of a spinning wheel… I figured of “turning straw to gold”. I used to be reminded again from the story of Rumpelstilskin. You understand, the one… the millers daughter, the daddy says “she can spin straw into gold” on the king… and also the king desires to check this out… and when she cannot, she is going to go to death… ? Then, an odd little man appears. He tells her he is able to spin straw into gold… but it’ll go to an expense to her.

I came across the story and browse several versions of it. It resonated when camping. However, as I usually do, Cleaning it once a to logically “organize” the storyline. This caused me to become more frustrated, when i had not been seeing or feeling what this story was looking to tell me.

I really went back to my “dream capture” work. I just read the story as though it were a goal I had had. Then, I did so the next:

Listed out all the characters
Listed out your “key words” from the story that resonated with me at night
Re-read each word and wrote what that word meat to me inside my unique circumstances

And then… I began to see what the story was telling me. Can do for you I ran across

The little 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 each one of these “characters” comes with an independent role, ALL of the characters create one “psyche” for me. Most of us have of such qualities within us.

To create something, it will take much energy… and a lot rest can be needed. We’ve got to give of ourselves and request help.

Eventually, a child arrives and we’ll not cease. It can be our “creation” and we are amazed at what we are making. Also, what must be done to acquire there.

What did I learn?

That this story resonates when camping. Also, this story will repeat itself time and again as I carry on and create, rest, other people and complete a job. Though Rumpelstilskin stomps himself in to the ground after the storyplot, that little man will be back… followed by time, I’ll know his name.

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