Is the Drama in Your Life the Only Excitement in Your Life?
Have you ever known someone to have a life filled with
drama, only to be bereft of real, solid happiness and peace? We often call this
kind of person a Drama Queen, whether it’s a guy or a gal.
Drama can be very addictive if it is your means for
self-importance in the world. When you derive all of your meaning from life by
the amount of turmoil you can conjure, you know you have a problem. As I have
gotten older, I tend to stay farther and farther away from this type of person.
Their energy is life-sucking.
As a young man I had a lot of drama in my life, most of it
not self-imposed. But our early years are when we learn how to manage life and
love. So it stands to reason, that we may try to recreate drama, should our
lives stop having considerable meaning.
I remember a time when I truly started to feel the Peace of
God in my life. Strange doesn’t begin to describe the feeling that enveloped
me. I was used to a life of struggle, fear, and anxiety. So, when peace came to
visit, all I felt was a big, fat void. It felt strange and lifeless. It was
similar, I guess, to the feeling cigarette smokers say they feel when they stop
having a cigarette in their hands after they quit.
What do I do now? What is emptiness about? Is peace a
“something” to do?
A very smart therapist told me once that I needed to take a
year or two off from relationship, because I didn’t know what it meant to be
alone. I spent many years fighting the assignment, until I began to reflect on
what I just described about peace.
What I really was running from in being alone… was God.
Peace was the presence of God. I felt uncomfortable in the presence of Spirit,
to put it bluntly. Until I could sit alone and be fine with it, I decided, I
was going to forgo any kind of new relationship. This was no longer an
assignment for a therapist; it was a spiritual dictum.
I made a good choice. The first few weeks were hell. I sat
alone with the television on, the computer on my lap with four open chat
windows, played online games, and talked on the phone. What I didn’t do was be
alone. It took weeks before I began to shut out the social media and disturbing
crime dramas, which only reflected my inner turmoil even more. Soon, I began to
take small chunks of time to the silence.
There I met a surprising guest—someone I didn’t imagine
still existed. His name was Bobby. He was about seven years old. He hid out in
a closet underneath his brother’s clothes during the day. His only source of
light was a LiteBrite with the pretty colored pegs forming the shape of a
butterfly…
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