Magic Flight
Magic Flight
The popular idea of magic flight is the adventurer gets the treasure and narrowly escapes with their life as the ruin falls down around them. (Yes, I’ve written scenes like this - it feels disappointing NOT to make the ruin collapse from an author standpoint.)
But for the healing process this looks less like a grand escape and more about taking back what was ours. It can also look like that quiet amazing discovery that, “Hmm - that’s not mine to carry up this mountain.”
Our life experiences can train us into certain mindsets and rules for survival which may or may not be true for us. For instance, my mom hates the smell of lavender. It makes her depresssed and then she gets angry.
I thought I had the same issue. I’m sitting here drinking organic lavender tea mixed with some other herbals and its saving me from seriously ugly pain. Tension Tea - Organic Tea for Tension Relief, Easing Headaches and Migraines (It does have willow bark in it - which is natural asprin, in case that’s a health concern. They have plenty of other teas as well, and are a family owned multigenerational farming operation in Ohio.)
I had no clue I could do this safely. And I was too conditioned to realize that I would not be part of the problem, if I was caught drinking it. (Mind you, its tea - nothing illegal or questionable. There should be no controversey.)
But its the small things where you take control that lead to the bigger things. Its the small moments where you realize, something isn’t right - yet you don’t always have enough information to make a sound decision. And you look back at those moments and go - “Yeah. I should have listened to my gut.”
Your gut is an excellent source of information. We’ve been trained through trauma and Western society’s thinking that to listen to our gut is nonsense. Instincts are built into our system for a reason. They help us get the knowledge before we ‘know’ what’s going on. Essentially - they’re the creaking and the dust, just before the ruin falls and if we don’t listen, we don’t get to escape with the treasure of wisdom and knowledge. That doesn’t mean we’re stuck or relegated to gloom, doom, boom - it just means our escape was thwarted and there’s another way out. There’s always another way out.
Let hope be your torchlight in this darkness - watch out for scary things, and if you need more advice - you may want to check out one of the chapters I posted in my fan fiction The Seven Swords of Diya, where archaeologist Indiana Jones teaches a little boy why we shouldn’t be afriad, and how to treat each other when we have to face our fears.
Perpetual Disclaimer for this series:
I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
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