Full Circle.
Connecting the Dots.
It’s time to allow your feelings to show you what fears have been reflected back to you by other people. In the below exercise be sure to be as clear and honest as you can be: no one will see it apart from you - and once you are able to recognise the fears, it will be far easier to transcend them.
The more story we have, the more we can really exhaust the feelings we’ve experienced. And the more we can exhaust our feelings, the better able we are to gain a new perspective.
Remember, the fears are merely a tool to illuminate the karma.
Feeling Our Way Through.
List the feelings that your latest relationship triggered in you. The list can be as long as you wish. If it’s short, be sure to include the most precise words as possible to really be able to home in on the issue.
Once you have your list, can you better identify what your issue is (if you haven’t already)? Can you recognize the pattern of thoughts and behaviors you displayed as your issue played out?
Writing the Story.
Take your list and write a minimum one-page story with you as the main character. It’s important not to judge or criticize your character, but rather to allow yourself to play through this realistic or imagined scenario where you experience and encounter all the feelings you listed, using the exact words you have listed above.
Allow any feelings to surface and feel free to insert new ones as they occur to you. The story can be as long or as short as you’d like so long as you are keeping with the integrity of the exercise and you are not short-changing yourself the opportunity to explore this story. Permit your character to encounter new challenges if you wish, take the journey with yourself and see where it leads.
When we give ourselves the opportunity to play out a story to the very end, we may find that we have truly finished it. So allow it to get to the end, without forcing it or allowing your ego to write a more desirable ending where we look good or play the hero. In doing so you can explore the fear in a safe space.