March 2013
Welcome --
"tricycling through molasses"
It's a good time of year to invoke this image, isn't it?
Orson Welles was referring to his fellow actors' "method
process" on the set of "The Long, Hot Summer". However, I feel it exactly captures the way we tend to get bogged down in our emotional processing.
We've all been there -- wrapped up in examining every angle of a situation or exchange -- micro dissecting every gesture, glance, posture and sentence.
Around and around we go. Slogging away at the same old, same old, in service of "growth" or "change".
"If only I could explain this or understand that, all would be well."
How about changing the pattern?
Stop and breathe
Stop "spinning your wheels"
Get off the trike
Wade out of the sticky molasses
Any one of these options will shift the energy in your favor.
It remains the daring choice of change that allows for growth and healing, rather than the repetitive insistence on having to "sort it all out" before taking action.
Besides, we're all too old for trikes, aren't we?
And molasses belongs on the table, not our shoes.
