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Laddership Day 1: Emotion, from Fear to Love
Who do we have to be to face fear with love?
How might we love our fears away?
To choose love over fear, it helps if I have recently enjoyed deep sleep, nourishing food, a bath, a hug, or a deep breath. If nothing else, a deep breath and a moment of pause can allow me to dip into the well of being foaming with love at heart center. Whereas a lack of breath, sleep, nourishment, water, or hugs is almost sure to bias me toward fear. Remembering this humble truth in the presence of one who is fearful is itself a condition that inspires me to choose love over fear.
The Path to Laddership and Living in the Gift
This August, I shifted my work into the realm of gift and set foot on the Path of Laddership. I’ll be sharing a series here of writings inspired and prompted by the Laddership Pod. This is a bit of preamble for context.
For many years, I have felt that putting a price on my work would cheapen it. That conviction has not weakened, despite the hardship and poverty it has wrought in my life. Instead, at long last I am beginning to discover the trail under the brambles and brush that leads out of these dark woods. Charles Eisenstein’s Living in the Gift course through the New and Ancient Story Community shone like a beacon of hope, just as I was faced yet again with the impossible task of pricing my expertise. Applying the course to my life, I am encouraged and heartened, feeling, for the first time in my life, free to create what my heart sings about. Some days living in the Gift feels a bit like chasing a rainbow, and other days it feels like homecoming as my ambition returns, and with it the courage to claim my work and share it widely.