A recent guided-imagery session gave me a terrifying insight. The therapist offered a theme, I stepped into the image, and let it unfold in any direction. Suddenly, I hit a dead end.
Part of the exercise is to walk into places that are closed to you in ordinary life. I was given the greatest freedom possible, yet I still stumbled. It turned out someone was holding me back even in this perfect environment. Who?
The beauty of the image is that you cannot shift responsibility. In real life, we instantly find a swarm of bad circumstances or hostile people to point at: “There. That’s my obstacle. They are the problem.”
Inside the image, the only one who could restrain me was myself. An unpleasant discovery. You want to protest, argue. But now there is no one to argue with.
Then the insight flips: “Wait… if the only one on earth who blocks me is myself, then a single change could open any door for me?”
Of course, transformation is never instant. Like a wild animal long kept in a circus cage, the spirit needs time. Release it into the forest too suddenly, and the native landscape feels strange, even hostile.
Great changes take time. Stay patient.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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