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Sunday, 06 July 2008
Archives 2006 Enraptured
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| Written by Jan Allen | |
 We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ––Charles Kingsley I was with a friend recently who was going on and on about all that displeased him about his current career path. Forgetting he is the creator, he lamented those who were holding him back, the culture that didn’t recognize his uniqueness and the pedestrian nature of his choices. Noting that he was mired in what he didn’t want, but not caught up myself in his dream of the world, I asked him to name a time he had felt happy in his work. His demeanor changed, a smile came to his face and he recounted a project he had undertaken in his chosen profession in which all of these beliefs about the world and the people in it had receded and nothing mattered but the work. Field training teaches us that there is always a payoff that makes sense for wherever we are and in his case, he’d been believing that if he stepped out and seized what he really wanted, some harm would come to him. Yet there had been this moment in time when he was engaged in something that he cared deeply and passionately about and in this state of engagement, those many overlays of belief about himself, the world and others receded as he lost himself in the fascination and enjoyment of the moment. This is the further beauty of Field practice. We don’t have to know the beliefs that are countering our desires in order to clear them. We need only fall in love with that which we want; savor this perfect inner experience (to which outer will then correspond); and give ourselves over to our enthusiasm. It couldn’t be simpler. JAN ALLEN is the Director of Field Center and editor of the monthly ezine, “Waves of Change”. Reprinted with permission from the Field Center at www.fieldcenter.org ©2006 by the Field Center. All rights reserved. |
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