The Wild Horse and Feeling Overwhelmed
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As part of the series on making the Wild Horse more practical I would like to address something that is very prevalent in our time, namely the fact that so many of us are feeling overwhelmed by our current circumstances.
Before we start, I think it is important that everyone understands what the Wild Horse is. the Wild Horse is a combination of two of the Laws of OUR Nature: the Law of Self and the Law of Slip. The Law of Self states- we will think of ourselves first, note that we start at this point and do not stay at this point. We move from this point of focus on ourselves at different speeds, but that is where we start. In a similar fashion the Law Slip says that we go to the worst place we can possibly go first. If you would like more information on the Wild Horse feel free to have a look at my TEDx talk that I did on the topic.
Today we want to look at the tendency to exaggerate what you are dealing with. That does not say that we do not have very difficult things that we are dealing with, it just says that sometimes we make this more difficult or bigger than it needs to be. That whole thing about turning a mole hill into a mountain and the reason for that is mainly the Wild Horse. Most people currently tend to fall into this trap, because it is an accepted norm nobody is going to tell you that you should not be thinking that we are all in a difficult time. During this time everyone agrees it is tough and I absolutely agree with that statement these are trying times, but what happens is that what we are dealing with is being exaggerated. It becomes so big that we cannot deal with it.
I have heard people say, “I don’t know how we should deal with this future; I think everything is senseless”, we think this is a new thing. I can remember when I was in school, grade one, I overheard my father say “I don’t know why we even vote, because there’s no sense in it, politics is all just a scam anyway!” That was 30 odd years ago. Today is probably different but it is the same dynamic. We still have Wild Horses that tell us that everything is at its extreme. We tell ourselves that it is going to be bad for ourselves and that makes it difficult for us to deal with the things that we are dealing with daily.
So, my challenge to you today is. Note how you look at the current situation. Whatever your current situation might be, acknowledge that it is bad but try to stay away from putting it into the extreme unmanageable difficult box. Start managing it, by focusing on the small and manageable and work towards a more manageable environment and view thereof. This can be achieved by asking yourself “So what can I do?” We tend to be fast at seeing what we cannot do and when we focus on everything, we cannot do we feel helpless and that is exactly what the Wild Horse does, because the worst thing about yourself that you can think is that you can’t do anything. So, the more we focus on what we can do, the more we will feel empowered. Then we will start dealing with things and thereby start taming that Wild Horse that is currently just stealing from us.
I want to challenge you do that exercise. Have a look at other areas of your life where you are really exaggerating the power of your environment and the power of the current situation. Then start forcing yourself to search for more solutions for the things that you can do. There are always things that are in your power and possibly the things that you can be grateful for and all of that will change not your world but your attitude towards the world and as we change our attitude towards our environment, we can deal with far more things.
Now if you want to take this to the next level you want to ask yourself how you help the people around you with the Wild Horses they have about the current situation and how can you help them to improve that thinking about the power of the current situation.
I hope you have fun working on this and I wish you all the best in this process.