I was happy to share my “Alpine hero’s journey” in the webcast last week, and I am grateful for the feedback from several of you about the positive effect it had created…wishing of course that it will contribute to the achievement of your MKMMA hero’s journey.
In the mean time, I would like to share with you another insight I got during the week, as an extension of that mountain metaphore…
Did you ever ask yourself like I did also, “Once I will have reached that big goal, what shall I do next?” or about another person that you admire for their high achievements – an Olympic gold medalist, a high achievement businessman, a great musician, a famous actor, etc… – “Now that (s)he has achieve THIS, what could (s)he possibly do better?”
From another perspective, that same question becomes critical when we see ourselves or anyone else installed for too long in a comfort zone, even if sometimes hard-earned…What happens then in 100% of the cases?
You know it: degeneration!…Of what?
Well, of anything that is not maintained active…some muscles or the whole body in the physical area, the brain or part of it in the mental area, some specific skills that were required to “reach the top”…
That top which will soon transform itself into a deadly comfort zone if we choose to stay there…
Why did I write “deadly”?
Because, using again the mountain metaphore, the top of a mountain is not meant for a man to stay, it is a deadly environment!
Indeed, nothing can stay alive for long at the top of a mountain, not even the tiniest bacteria, because of the harsh conditions which reign up there – rarity of oxygen, wind, cold, lightning,…
So then, why would we want to go there?
Aren’t we crazy?!
No, we aren’t!
Because everybody knows (sometimes unconsciously) that mountain tops are the domain of gods and positive divine entities, and that the view from there is…well, there is nothing like it!
Whether it is a real mountain, or any project or goal dear to our heart, it is the same: positive divine entities are waiting for us up there and that’s why we want to go…BECAUSE IT BRINGS US CLOSER TO OUR TRUE NATURE!
But once we have met these entities, they don’t expect us to stay forever…
They have made their influence on us, they allowed us to discover a little more of the truth about ourself, and now they want to be left alone again and become available for someone else…
That’s why the third scroll says at the end “Nor will I allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.”
What a wise advice!
… my thoughts translated and brought to consciousness in your words … merci beaucoup, also for being one of those positive entities in my present journey.
Aloha Luc, What a wonderful 2nd instalment in the Mountain Saga! Mahalo for your wonderful insights – I really appreciate your sharing them with us on our MKMMA journey. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda – Welsh: Happy New Year. May your 2016 be everything you wish for … and MORE. Yours in Gratitude, Light & Love wendyht
What a great insight into not staying at the top…We’re never really at the top anyway…Thanks so much Luc
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I love your analogy to the top of the mountain. I think it is safe to say that few people have given much thought to this perspective – great insight! Bobbie
What an interesting concept about not staying at the top. …but what if one has been there for years and years and years and has made a comfortable home of it? If one is completely satisfied at where they are is there then a need for change? Just my mind reacting to the thoughts you started in motion in it. Thanks for sharing Luc!
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