I collect metaphors that symbolize one's core identity. Such as the truck that is stuck spinning its wheels in the mud. It is NOT a truck stuck in the mud, it is just a truck, that happens to be momentarily stuck in the mud. Being stuck in the mud is a behavior, the core identity is a that of a truck!
Can you think up another metaphor for core identity?
someone once told me...it's not what happened...it's how you react to what happened. my tendency is to go from 0 to 60.....hopefully I can slow down.....
ReplyDeletehow far off this exercise am I? ok classmates....i'm ready for feedback!
My belief is that when we see something that we react strongly to we all go from 0 to 60. That is how we are designed.
ReplyDeleteThe issue isn't whether we go from 0 to 60, it is how long we stay at 60 and from there whether we continue to accelerate, or begin to coast back down to 0.
Reactions are healthy assets that promote survival. Reprocessing the same reactions repetitively is where valuable motivation to do something you feel is important can get magnified to a point where it becomes something nonconstructive, dis-empowering or deflating.
When you really get down to it, so many of the ways that we define ourselves actually belong in the outer circle. In Spanish, they have two ways of saying I am, one reflects state and the other a permanent trait. I thought about this when I was doing my sorting. I asked myself, is this a permanent characteristic and let that help me decide what circle the things belonged in. The core should be a collection of permanent traits or at least thats how I interpreted it.
ReplyDeleteThis one is where I start to see the obstacles to my vision, my core identity is in direct conflict with the beliefs and the rules I have been operating under. For ME the image needs to have the LINE between the two sections erased, the separation is what is holding me back from moving forward. Drawing it this way, for me, helps me to integrate and REWRITE the rules.
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