So this years “theme” has gone through an interesting transition. I wrote in “Humble Before the Giant” that although I was still feeling strongly connected to the metaphor of riding giant waves, the quality that I was focusing on had shifted. Instead of the previous year of connecting with joyfulness, it became apparent that the quality I was feeling drawn to was humility.
As it turns out, riding giant waves just needed a couple months more before letting in the new theme that would accompany Humility for the rest of this year. And it came on with full force!
Images are a powerful component of these themes for me. I’m a very visual person and so an image will often form, as the metaphor for where I’m at coalesces. And over the last month, the image of a blacksmith, strong and powerful as he forged the tool he was creating, kept pushing itself to the surface.
The last year has seen me, as I worked towards being capable of riding those “giant waves” and the sheer joy it brings me, patiently and systematically turning up the heat. Smelting off the unnecessary slag that would weaken my ability to take that next step. Now, feeling in a place to test my metal. Or rather, forge it. Even my physical transformation goal seems to fall in time with the pound of this hammer.
And wouldn’t you know it, a couple weeks ago, two days after having all this crystallize before me, the forging process started in earnest. I caught the flu, worst I’ve had in about 3 years. And for 24 hrs, I lay in a dark room, sweating like mad from the internal heat, cold from all the sweating and an incessant pounding in my head. At one point, while lying there, trying to relax and find the calm center as I rode this out, I started to laugh. I couldn’t help it. I thought “Well, I asked for it”. Having my sprite physicality stripped completely out from under me for the next two weeks, tempering my spirit, definitely humbled me. It let me know what it would mean to enter this process.
With an open heart, a fertile mind and humble spirit I step into the black, my path lit only by the glow of the forge…
Dare to Evolve,
Shane.
Provoking article, Shane. Humility always has a way of catching up with me, too. The perspective it brings is invaluable for living each day to the fullest.
Thanks John!
It’s interesting how pervasive the need to keep humility at arms length is, in western society. Part of the driving pioneering spirit I suppose (which isn’t bad). Yet the need for balance so striking, otherwise it turns into “all or nothing”. And because “all” is not only super hard, it’s super hard to sustain if not built up to, we more often than not default to “nothing”.
It’s pretty incredible the sense of calm, detachment and clarity that can come from feeling humbled. A strong launching pad towards achieving our utmost:).
s.
and you know…I’m all so humble…and than it just escalates and escalates and the humility becomes this big big monument sans detail… and I haven’t even put humble lil thought to action yet…and so than I detach from my own self grandeur and have another humble lil thought…and than it just escalates and escalates… haha…
you know of what I speak…
here’s to big big monuments…one humble step at a time. 😉 <3
Haha…..here,here:)
s.
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