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We can look at how we are robbing
ourselves of our
creative power and creative ability by the burdens we carry or
the burden others have given us to carry. In looking at any burden
we carry there is of course the question,“What problem (s) do we
face in leaving and letting go of any one of our burdens?” We can
playfully arise at the answers in doing a little
ritual, ceremony or
metatheater.
We can look at our life and identify as many items as we can that we
feel are burdens we carry. They can be regrets, obligations,
attachments or anything that resembles a burden. For each
burden, we write it out on a slip of paper and addition but the name
of the burden on a list of burdens. We then tie the slip of paper to
a rock of about one or two pounds. We then put the rock with the
slip of paper into a backpack. The backpack is symbol of the load we
carry. Each burden is represented by a slip of paper tied to a rock
in the backpack. We then put the backpack on and start to walk while
looking at the list of burdens talking to someone about the burdens,
what then means and how we could get ride of them. We walk for
several miles carrying this backpack representing the life we chose
to live at some level of our being by picking up these burdens. Then
at some point, when we get tired enough, we let go of the back pack
after making a commitment to change our life and identifying a plan
of action as to how to get rid of each burden or to change the
burden to lighten it. We cannot drop the backpack until we make the
commitment to change and have a plan for each burden.
When the backpack full of burdens is dropped, we probably will feel
a loss of balance, uncenteredness, or even stumble without the load.
But we will feel a lightness. What we feel physically will also be
what we experience within our life as we drop the burden. We will
feel a freedom but we will also stumble. We may also find ourselves
feeling some anger at some of the people in our life for giving us
the burden that they did. We may also feel anger at ourselves for
having accepted the burden. However, we do need to take
responsibility for our role in accepting the burden they gave us. We
did not have to accept it.
We will need to realize that each person only gave us what we,
ourselves, asked to get because of how we came to think the world
works. In this awareness each person has been our teacher only to
show us how we think and what burden we felt we needed to accept. In
dropping the burden and see how and why we accepted it, we can
realize we need not have accepted any of these burdens if we had
been able to see, think and perceive differently. The burdens are
only what we believed we needed to carry. We only needs to remember
in this realization the process that we each play role for others.
We create our experiences by playing these roles for ourselves and
others and they in turn, for us and themselves.
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