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The Vulnerability of Joy & Sillyness
I have just come back from a day of inner work through the Island of Man and had an insight that I would like to share and get your thoughts on.
There is a vulnerability to be found within joy and from sharing our happiness. One that is just as important to explore as the darkness.
Context: we were offered a variety of different workshops that (I felt) would have been an invitation to explore the darkness and work with the deeper aspects of the self, inner work etc. Beautiful and amazing facilitators offering incredible processors and discussions.
I haven't worked with these men before, and would like to do so at some stage, but I felt called instead to do a workshop on improv comedy - something that 'serious Zac' would never have engaged with or even considered.
I realized that I could fall into the habit of doing the deep work, exploring and sharing the darkness, doing that kind of work yet again. And while it would have been valuable, it wasn't as scary as simply playing, making a fool of myself, and exploring and sharing laughter.
I initially felt out of my comfort zone, but quickly realized that a good thing. Playing and expressing within the positive, the silly, the joyous holds a level of vulnerability that I need to explore, one that up until today I never even knew I was ignoring.
Question: What is scary for you to explore and express? And why?
The inner darkness
The inner light
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The Vulnerability of Joy & Sillyness
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