The Hamster Wheel of Discontent

A former client, the other day, was bemoaning some some distant fate that she thought would be visited upon herself created by her vivid imagination.
I looked back at my notes from a year ago and read scenarios that at the time seemed insurmountable. But, she has healed significantly and moved ahead so much in exactly those same areas that a year ago were impossible.
She has forgotten the unhappiness, the stress, and underlying anger that in part defined her life when we first started working together.
This is so typical; people loose their perspective and sometimes take for granted all their hard work that is required when they decide to get on the journey of healing and change.

In this case, Barbara was more comfortable holding onto her old pattern of thinking the same thought over, and over, and over…much like a hamster on a wheel….always going but never arriving. The discontent and powerlessness she believed was her ‘lot’ in life was only fear. The activity of repetition takes a lot of energy and removes us from enjoying the moment…robs us from hearing the birds, from seeing the dew on the leaves, from smelling freshly cut lawns. Being comfortable with just being takes discipline, paying attention to one’s mind chatter, and most importantly, making a choice.