The Great Unravel

The Great Unravel…

 AKA

What the hell am I doing?

Who am I?

Why am I here?

What’s it all about?

All of life's big questions.  A period of life in which one finds oneself ‘coming undone’.  Perhaps the realisation of WHO and HOW you were being over the last 5, 10, 20 years does not resonate with you anymore. 

Through life's experiences we create papier mache nesting dolls, one ‘story-of-self’ constructed to conceal the other. Each shell is constructed to help us interact with the world in a “safe” way. It’s protective and maybe we feel it’s a more socially acceptable version of our Self.  It’s also what we were capable of at that time with the resources we had.

So this is where I found myself.  Too many questions…not enough pebbles. (guess the movie reference!) 

But by rearranging some letters…and buying a vowel…my Great Unravel is becoming my Great Reveal. 

We are our own experiment - every choice we make has an outcome - we are living proof of our choices to this very moment, right here and now.  However, many of our choices are not conscious, they run on autopilot in the unconscious mind.  We are often not really present when making these ‘choices’ (reaction/response), there’s no clear intention from the conscious mind about an outcome, we react in a familiar way because that's what the programming we have installed through living our life tells us to do. Repetition builds strong programs. 

And so I find myself asking “How long have I been repeating this or that program?”

And I find the answers sometimes disheartening and painful to accept.

And it’s why I was drawn to undertake NLP training. To understand myself better and to create lasting change for myself and for others.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung

To separate the Self from the Stories of Self a shift into conscious awareness will be required and yes, this will be all varying degrees of unfamiliar and uncomfortable! Be kind to yourself.  And it's a process, it’s an unspecified period of transition, it requires a willingness to let go as you crack open the shells, layer by layer and reveal who you truly are. Hmmmm…deep.

And it takes surrender

And courage

And compassion 

And the rewards are GREAT

She remebered who she was, and the game changed.