Lesson 6: A light in the Darkness
Teacher talks with the pupil:
Beliefs are like routines…
…that help to live daily, but they do not serve for special occasions.
It is the same as when you enter in a dark room. At the beginning darkness is perceived as an obstacle and you get paralized, but it is just for a moment, and as soon as you get used to it you start seeing, because you have adapted yourself. The truth is that light has only diminished.
In other way, it is a metaphore for the crisis you are going through. It helps you to understand:
- that in each new situation you have to apply new answers. Routines are not useful any longer.
- that any situation, that we may describe as critical, may be it is only due to your personal perception.
- that we have enough resources to cope with any situation.
Exercises
- Write down in five minutes, three routines frequently done by you. Routines, are based on repetitive past behaviours or beliefs. They must be routines that limit your personal growth, becoming even dangerous.
- Think over the routines that were useful and when and why they have failed you on a new situation.
- Now, find new «alternatives» to those routines. They must be your own solutions: leave free your imagination.
Texts
To give up something can have justification; to give up ourselves, never has it.
Emerson
Exercises
Learning thoroughly:
- You have to go out to the country side and cut some flowers to make a bunch.
- Do not tell me that you are not capable.
- Use your imagination,do not go to a park, where it is forbidden to cut flowers.
Maximum time: 1 hour
EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, YOU NEED TO TAKE IN YOUR HANDS A FLOWER. SEE YOU IN LESSON 7!