10 - Courage
We have pushed ourselves above and beyond what we were thought we were capable. We have proven ourselves to our peers and set new bars to measure against what was believed not attainable. It took effort, grit, and willfulness but, at long last, there is a culmination of experience. After all this…now what?
There is a patterning around productivity to constantly be caught up in the current of Doing. We say yes, take on more, and try to hold everything up even as our limbs quake with fatigue. In this expression of the X, there’s realization that we have been so caught up in activity, and reactivity, that we’ve become bound by it. Addicted to the adrenaline rush, committed to the competition. And now, we long to be free.
The curious power that abides here is that we created the situation. We can just as easily take a new approach, set down our burdens, break away from old patterns. To unlock and release us from this binding, it takes Courage to say one simple, magic word. NO.
Rx: there has been a collapse. We have either released the hold and let it all come clattering down, or gravity has made the choice for us. Either way, this is a release. Let it be purposeful, begin to employ the potency of pause and consideration before bending to gather it back up. Perhaps it’s better to let it all lie exactly where it has fallen.
Embody:
VOLITION
Element:
FIRE
