Great Adventure.
The name of a theme park, a feeling one
has when starting something new and exciting, a yen,
yearning or calling to something really big. Maybe
you can't quite put your finger on it exactly.
Great Adventure.
We may wait on the sidelines, watching for the
Great Adventure to appear. "Its coming, I can feel
it" Mark says two or three times a year.
Maybe the Great Adventure Train does arrive at
our front door. The challenge there is we may think
we are late to buy our ticket. Or we think of any
excuse we possibly can to get on. "I have a
dentist's appointment Friday after next" says Jack
or "The color of my pants does not match the
seat covers on the train. Sitting on them for
eight hours would just be too tacky!" laments
Natalie.
For a moment, consider that your Great Adventure
is not out there somewhere. It is not a train
which passes by with oddly colored upholstery.
In his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell wrote:"The adventure is always
and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of
the known into the unknown". To look at life
from an "in the moment" experience, the unknown
is as simple as each next moment in your life.
Remember for a moment what it feels like
to fall in love.
Experiment with this example, for a few moments.
Really take your time with it instead of
simply rushing through it.
When you fall in love, for example, and you
feel the love so fully that it literally flows
through your veins, what is the action
that you take as a result?
How are the combined effects of your consistent,
love filled actions the same as living an adventure?
Over time, what people label as "an adventure"
(the rush of new love) turns into a more
ordinary seeming routine.
Or does it?
It is a matter of shifting belief from seeing
the ordinary as "no big deal" to seeing the
ordinary as another stone in the path marked
My Great (amazing, spectacular, colorful,
magical, creative) adventure.
Think of other moments in your life where
your heart tugged strongly on your being.
Maybe it was when you quietly watched
your child sleeping. Or the time you
unexpectedly bumped into a friend you
had not seen in a long time.
What happened in the moment AFTER that?
You charge is to live the adventure in
that moment.
And then to live fully the next moment
after that one.
Last week I stood beside my son Sam's crib.
Watching him breathing in and out, in and
out in the quiet stillness of the night,
I held onto the desire to stroke his golden
hair. I did not want to awaken him from
a much needed sleep.
As a parent, I have grown to understand
that parenting this incredible little
being is as much about allowing him to
explore and live his Great adventure as
it is about making sure his basic
needs are met.
With my older children, I hovered over
them. I wanted to be sure they did not
get bruised or hurt. And in the end,
those experiences were simply delayed.
We all get bruised and hurt. We all
experience less than stellar experiences
from time to time.
It's all a part of this Great Adventure
we call LIVING.
Your commitment to turning towards your
great adventure will cause you to reap
abundant rewards which come in many
surprising shapes and sizes.
The very wise Helen Keller said it
like this: "Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing. To keep our faces
toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength
undefeatable."
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Julie Jordan Scott is a Radio Host, Personal Success Coach,
Entrepreneur and Life Artist who partners with individuals
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