Dissolving Fears

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from The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
by Michael A Singer 

Imagine that you have a thorn in your arm that directly touches a nerve. When the thorn is touched, it's very painful. Because it hurts so much, the thorn is a serious problem. It's difficult to sleep because you roll over on it. It’s hard to get close to people because they might touch it. It makes your daily life very difficult. This thorn is a constant source of disturbance, and to solve the problem you only have two choices.

The first choice is to look at your situation and decide that since it's so disturbing when things touch the thorn, you need to make sure nothing touches it.

The second choice is to decide that since it's so disturbing when things touch the thorn, you need to take it out.

The effects of the choice you make will determine the course of the rest of your life.

Hat Tip: Shreya Dubey
Thank you for your contribution our community through your daily shares, Shreya 💜

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We usually make the first choice to make sure nothing touches the thorn because we have an aversion to pain.

When we pull out the thorn, it will hurt and it will bleed. The thorn are the painful memories from our past, painful memories in our DNA inherited from our ancestors and if you believe in past life, painful memories from our past lives.

These painful memories are stored in the conscious mind (5% of our mind), sub-conscious mind (15% of our mind) and in the unconscious mind (80% of our mind) because we pushed our painful memories under the carpet as we did not know how to process the pain at the time of the incident.

The impact of these painful memories is that we have fear stored in our mind which blocks us from realizing our highest potential and our circumstances in the world outside is a reflection of these fears hidden within us.

What we do is keep battling with our circumstances which are mere reflections of our fears within. That is why we keep struggling.

Our Leadership Depth journey is the journey to go within to dissolve fears in our conscious mind, in our sub-conscious mind and in our unconscious mind for us move from fear towards love for our own self as the first step in Gear 1 to love for all beings and for all things in Gear 5.

Gear 1 Habits are designed to dissolve fears in the Conscious Mind. The keystone transformative practise in this Gear is Reflection.

Gear 2 Habits are designed to dissolve fears in the Sub-Conscious Mind. The keystone transformative practise in this Gear is Psychodrama.

That is why we have integrated Psychodrama as part of the RYD Journey. Since December 2023, Brave Hearts, Ashokas and Socratians have been going through the process of the Journey Within through Psychodrama.

From 15-Sep-24, we will open up the Psychodrama process for the whole community.

On 15-Sep-24, Kay Lord, Psychodrama Trainer, Educator and Practitioner, with 40 years of deep experience, based out of Houston, US, will be in India to run a one-day in-person deep-dive immersion for RYD Circle of Love in Mumbai.

She is my trainer, guide and mentor after my earlier mentor transitioned over at 88. I have been experiencing and learning this modality from him since 2020. I am deeply grateful to Herb and Kay for their massive contribution to my life. 

Psychodrama has made a huge difference to my life in supporting me to get in touch with my Hole-in-the-Soul roles (Helpless Child, Critical Parent, Bored Avoider, Super Hero Martyr), to begin the work on dissolving them and in strengthening my Peaceful Warrior roles.

Hole-in-the-Soul in our Spiritual Body creates the small mind in our Mental Body, which creates limiting roles in our Emotional Body, which creates low energy in our Energy Body, which creates limiting behaviours in our Physical Body.

In RYD Leadership Depth journey, we work on all the 5 bodies to transform (TRANScend our default FORM) ourselves to be a Whole Soul, Big Mind, develop and strengthen Peaceful Warrior Roles, unleash limitless Joyous Energy within, and become healthy and fit; responding to the world with Heathy Positive Uplifting Behaviours that contribute to us and those around us to realize our highest potential and make a massive positive impact through our work as an outcome of that.

The Leadership Depth journey is isolation is difficult. It is in integration of the 3 journeys - Leadership Depth, Business Excellence and Craft Mastery - that we progress with greater ease, grace and velocity to Have It All.

That is why in RYD, we travel the 3 journeys simultaneously to joyously lead ourselves and our business from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

Holding space for each one of you to joyously fly high in the vast sky of your limitless possibilities 💜

Loving you,
j.