Hello
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being many of the people with whom I have had contact recently, and other visitors to the Weekly Friday Feast thread
{As always, if I haven't mentioned someone, you will often have been present in my thoughts}
Best Wishes to All for the Weekend.
I'm making positive progress with various aspects of my life. I can understand the feelings, that I sometimes have, and that others have also expressed; such as the feeling of having an impenetrable barrier in front of us. There appears to be no way over, under, around or through this barrier.
Another analogy might be to have feelings as though we are piloting an aeroplane which has stalled and the engine has cut out, feeling as though we are dropping out of the sky, feeling helpless, but looking for any place in which we can make a safe emergency landing
The reason for recommencing my current discussions with a counsellor was, in part, an awareness of those feelings of being like a yacht with no wind in the sails, be-calmed on a still ocean, and feeling somewhat purposeless and unable to move.
I find that it's when I think of how I am feeling and make an imaginary scenario to match the feelings, that I am then more able to picture a solution, or at least overcome the inertia that seems to be restraining me, and consider a way of moving and a direction in which to move.
Then I begin the process of considering how I can move forward positively, or at the very least, start moving again. It's in that way that I start developing answers and considering alternatives for myself and my progress.
And movement begins again.
With those thoughts in mind, I approach the weekend and look forward, with a somewhat higher level of positive expectation and purpose. I know, from past experience, that I will face those senses of impenetrable barriers, of no sense of power or control over my own life, of no wind in the sails. But, also re-calling that in the past I have begun again, I have found a way past the obstacles. I have, by calmly considering the methods that I have learned before, re-started my engine and recovered into a "position of normal, acceptable, self-managed, controlled and enjoyable 'flight'."
With My Very Best Wishes to Everyone
@HenryX
My Kitten Pepper Looks like this one - I tried to Post an actual Photo of Pepper.