fireworks

millie shows me a human facing a wall.  all they can see is a big white wall.  then she zooms out a little and the human is standing at the base of a very tall cone, so close that they can't see around it in any direction.  the base is wide and the cone is about ten times the height of the human.  from their position, it looks like an insurmountable wall.  she zooms out some more and there are many of these cones, all with humans pressing their noses against the base.

"remember?"

yes.  this is about flow.  right now, there isn't any water in sight, no flow at all.  but I remember her lesson about the mountains in the river...  as the flow increases, the resistance decreases exponentially, because the mountains (and the cones) are narrower at the top.  you get a lot of pay-off for increasing flow even a little bit.  I remember.  I just don't know how to put it on command.

then the picture shifts to one of those fireworks that have the curly spiral that shoots upward.  the firework explodes, sparks fly and the spiral just takes off, whistling like crazy as it zooms through the air.  she keeps showing me the same firework exploding over and over.

"you all have your personal fireworks.  things that set you off.  things that send you spiraling out of control, emotionally, energetically.  you don't have to ignite them.  you can turn your attention, your energy away from the fireworks that you set off repeatedly in yourself.  your focus is the match.  take your focus away from your personal fireworks *before* they ignite, before they explode, before they go spiraling out of control."

wow.  that is a powerful idea.  I think I can do that.

thank you, millie.