Archetype Hype.

Let me start off my saying that The Rhyme Zone is a great way to come up with a catchy bloggie title to make me feel a little sma-hhhat.

Before I get all deep on your asses, let's start out with my new creep-tastic glasses. Guess what those bad-boys do? Turn right into sun glasses. BOOM.

Another point of house cleaning...are we still voting? I'm getting killed...and it might be because I don't have much of a following.

Help out if you can. Tell yer friends...and leave a comment for me...I'm talking to you, everyone (except isrut, gobble's mom, itsKITE! and Shannon.)

To help out before I talk about archetypes, I'll define it first- An archetype ( /ˈɑrkɪtaɪp/) is a universally understood symbol^[1] or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated. Archetypes are often used in myths andstorytelling across different cultures. (thanks Wiki!!)

I just left this comment on a friend's bloggie after she talked about the fear of success:

We were talking about archetypes in a yoga seminar the other night. We were standing in mountain pose and were asked to imagine ourselves as a mountain. It was really interesting to hear all of the responses- mountains are strong, sturdy, both unchanging (rocks and all) and flexible (climate change from top to bottom.) Me? Being a mountain scared me. If I'm a mountain, I can't hide (potential change is threatening...)


I'm dealing with a tumultuous time in an area of my candy land.  This area as I know it could either be left completely intact OR be completely SMARSHED to pieces and I'll get to explore how I fit in OR it can all be wiped clean and I'll get to start over completely a new. 


Yoga is a great way to talk about archetypes since many of the names of the poses are archetypes- warrior, tree, mountain, frog, etc. So I'm imagining myself as this mountain, and it scares the s-h-you-know-what out of me. I feel like I've defined my life in this area (pardon the vagueness with the "area" I might share when the dust settles...) for a long, long time. Starting over clean OR starting over a new might mean I would have to swallow my pride and possibly hurt some feelings. Staying exactly the same? I think I'd hurt my own feelings. I'd feel stuck. Stagnant. Not the good kind of mountain- in this area, I think it's time for growth one way or the other.


I don't want to bog you all down too much with the Yoga Philosophy but one of the four parts to Karma yoga is non-attachment (to results, in this case.) 


So I'm working from a place of Karma Yoga the acceptance (of change), concentration on what I can/cannot change, excellence of my actions for excellence's sake, and non-attachment of the results with my image of a mountain. I'll focus on the positives: the unwaivering, sturdy, flexible, VISIBLE...