Stories and What They are able to Tell Us About Our everyday life

I have been working on a new creative project. A lot of energy and enthusiasm being spent. Plenty of productive time making new things. Bouncing my ideas off others in a coaching group. But each time I embark on a fresh journey of making, I’ve found myself becoming angry.

Why does this happen? What is this anger about? The proceedings?

My mentor and i also were discussing this. She wondered aloud this thought: “It sounds like the tender spots are your location angry”… yeah. Very tender. The anger is telling me something.

Discovering that it is sometimes complicated to help keep a job picking anger throughout, I needed to find away out to work “through” or “around” the anger. So, I distract myself with painting, stories, dancing… something creative, but more mundane plus a bit mindless. This creative energy releases my head to ensure I can “trick” my anger into thinking We are busy with other things.

Once i do that I refer to it as “spinning”. Spinning reminds me in the stories from the spinning wheel where I’m able to get busy creating (much like the wool on the wheel). This paves the way to metaphor and takes me from my need to “control” an undertaking.

Once i began drawing this image… of a spinning wheel… I figured of “turning straw to gold”. I became reminded again of the story of Rumpelstilskin. You realize, the main one… the millers daughter, the father says “she can spin straw into gold” for the king… as well as the king wants to check this out… of course, if she cannot, she will be put to death… ? Then, a strange little man appears. He tells her they can spin straw into gold… however it will go to a price to her.

I discovered the story and study several versions of it. It resonated with me at night. However, when i usually do, I could to logically “organize” the storyline. This caused me to get more frustrated, when i had not been seeing or feeling what this story was wanting to tell me.

Therefore i went back to my “dream capture” work. Someone said the storyline as though it were a dream I needed had. Then, Used to do the following:

Listed out each of the characters
Listed out the “key words” in the story that resonated beside me
Re-read each word and wrote what that word meat if you ask me in my current situation

Then… I began to get noticable just what the story was telling me. Can do for you I stumbled upon

The miscroscopic man (Rumplestilskin)=anger/creative fire/naming
The miller’s daughter=rest/creativity/giving
The king=accountability
Spnning wheel=creating/spinning/asking for help
The baby=creation (project, artwork… )

While each of these “characters” comes with an independent role, Each of the characters create one “psyche” for me personally. Many of us have of those qualities within us.

In order to make something, it will require much energy… and rest can be needed. We’ve got to give of ourselves and ask for help.

In the end, a child exists and we’ll not give it up. It really is our “creation” and we’re impressed by what we should are making. Also, what it takes to have there.

What did I learn?

That this story resonates with me. Also, this story will repeat itself over and over when i still create, rest, parents and finished a job. Though Rumpelstilskin stomps himself in the ground at the end of the story, that little man will probably be back… and then suddenly time, I am going to know his name.

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