Overwhelm - and a little help from my Higher Self

I sometimes go into periods of overwhelm, whether my internal thoughts and assumptions are shifting or external projects are piling up, or both.  At such times, my old  familiar patterns are to freeze, procrastinate, become (even more) forgetful, and/or escape into a juicy book or some comforting chocolate.

I’m moving away from lots of the unproductive responses (like telling myself how bad, silly or dysfunctional I am acting, and how I simply must snap out of it!)  I’m even finding some positive approaches that help!

Top of the list is to notice when I am judging, and remind myself I really don’t need or want to do that.  (I’ve become familiar enough with my judging habits by now to know that’s true.)

Once I can relax and stop defending me from myself, I can just get to work digging through what needs to be done.

And sometimes my Higher Self, unconscious mind, or whatever part of me seems to know far more than I do will step in with a bit of advice or encouragement.

In the midst of one such recent period of overwhelm (right after I started to write this, in fact), I had a dream in which I was a member of a very large, very excellent and famous orchestra.  We were on tour, stopped at one of the towns where we were to perform.  The conductor was rehearsing small groups of us at a time to make sure each of us was very sure of our part and how that fit in with all the parts around us.  She knew the overall piece thoroughly, and we were all totally confident that she would pull all these pieces together for the performance so long as we did our parts.

I’m taking all this as reassurance that if I focus on the parts I need to be doing right now, they will all come together in harmony to make beautiful music when the time comes.  I know I woke up feeling great!

Comments

[Square-Peg Karen]

What a fantastic post! Your dream incredible..ohman, you'd make a Jungian do flips...Gestalt training worked with dreams much like Jungians and so I am doing my own little flips - i LOVE this...hope it's really staying with you - it seems like big medicine, doesn't it? So glad you wrote about it...

[Hiro Boga]

Lynne, your Self gifted you with such a wise dream! Thanks for sharing it with us. I love the image of the conductor gathering all the musicians' parts into a single, lovely whole.