Pacing a Crisis

Crisis is a function of absorbing more energy than we can integrate into our current concept of self. When this happens, whether the energy is positive or negative, the boundary that separates us from the rest of all that is blurs. As this happens we are swept into chaos: a boundary-less sea of possibility that further overloads our circuitry.

Our primary need as an ego at such times is to re-establish the boundary of self. Because most of us feel more confident in and familiar our ability to manufacture fear and pain, and in our ability to define ourselves as inadequate and angry, we will tend to start there.

In other words when too much positive energy floods into our system for our concept of self to assimilate, we will go into crisis and then backlash into the most constricting patterns we know how to define ourselves by. This is in an effort to ground back into a solid sense of self.

One course of action is to cultivate a deeper awareness of self that can hold the greater flows of energy. Meditation and prayer are ways to do that from within. We can also stretch our sense of self  with dance, writing, play, singing, and sexuality.

Action: When you are confronted head on with a big flow of success, consciously slow the process down to buy time to integrate. It can serve overall stability to pace yourself rather than crash and burn after an overwhelming success.

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Dane E. Rose