Mastery
The word that inspired this week’s post is cope. How are very intuitive and sensitive people able to cope with the increasing trauma of daily living?
Sensitive and intuitive people feel energy at very intense levels. Finding and employing successful ways of coping with upsets, deeply disturbing events, cataclysms and traumas becomes essential to healthy survival.
The juxtaposition of a declaration of national emergency for a wall and the suburban Chicago shooting, coming a day after the first year anniversary of the Parkland School massacre, is so vexing to my highly sensitive person. If I entertain this plaguing energy, dwelling on the ethos and pathos, it will make me ill. It is incumbent on me, therefore, to practice the art of mastery.
“Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it.” ~Peter Levine
Staying healthy and well requires action; the action of regulation and control. If I submit my highly sensitive being to the constant battering of my reality, dis-ease is inevitable.
“You cannot control what happens to you but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you. In that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” ~Brian Tracy
The two essential keys to achieving mastery of psychic and emotional sensitivity are: a strong, active belief system, and control of the inner dialogue; especially the thought-words that foment hopelessness, helplessness, and anger turned inward manifesting as depression.
“Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you cannot control what you do.” ~Napoleon Hill
“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” ~John Paul Jones
This is some of, if not the hardest work we ever do. Michelangelo said…”If people knew how hard I worked to get mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” And Don Miguel Ruiz wrote, “Practice creates the master.”
Super sensitive people possess the other side of the gold coin. They routinely see their environment sparkle. Keenly aware of the world around them, delighting in cloud formations. Dew sparkling in the morning sun. The feel and smell of fresh air. The smiling, knowing, eye contact of a passing stranger. The uninhibited laughter of children. The shape and color of a fallen leaf. The feel of water, sun and wind on their bodies. The mating calls of red hawks.
They feel the beauty and subtle smells, sights and energies that most people overlook.
Mastery is a process, not an event. “When you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable. Most assume mastery is an end result, but at its core, mastery is a way of thinking, a way of acting and a journey you experience.” ~Gary Keller.
We cannot master the world, but we can master ourselves. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery then the mastery of oneself.” ~Leonardo Da Vinci
Blessings!
