Comments on: Epiphanies are stoopid.

By: Of course this hero’s saga stuff is hard. It’s supposed to be.

Of course this hero’s saga stuff is hard. It’s supposed to be. — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:40:56 +0000

[...] This is all exactly the kind of absurdly obvious epiphany I’m always having from Dance of Shiva. [...]

By: Lilly

Lilly — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:16:49 +0000

My latest ‘epiphany’, I took the DVD to the Oregon coast on a birthday trip with my husband last weekend. It was a nice relaxing trip, and Shiva Nata session. I came away from that trip with the insight that was ok to come into the light, and things aren’t nearly as hard/difficult/convoluted as I make them out to be. Very simple, yet also fairly life changing!

Thank you…

By: Spike

Spike — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:00:35 +0000

Yeah, epiphanies are stoopid–except to the person having them.

For me it was like living in a world where objects of different mass fall at different speeds. Bricks fall faster than feathers (even in a vacuum) because, well, duh! Bricks are heavier.

And then BING! the epiphany happened, and my world was totally re-ordered. So I ran around dropping apples and airplanes; bananas and bowling balls; cucumbers and cranes, all the while buttonholing passers-by and screaming “Look! Look!! They all fall AT THE SAME SPEED!!!”

And the nice people looked at me like I was a nut, patted me on the head, and said, “Of course they do.” And then they walked away, shaking their heads at me.

However, one day one of them will realize that the world is NOT flat. And that person will probably grab me by the lapels, insisting how amazing it is that (a) we can’t fall off the edge, (b) there are all kinds of shortcuts we can take now, and (c) how this puts seasons and all kinds of other phenomenae into perspective.

I hope I can be the kind of person I wish I was when this happens.
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By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:26:28 +0000

Yes! When I get a wave of truth over my body, or those fully formed bings that flash from the back of my head to the front w/o warning, my rational brain says, “yeah, that’s crazy” – even though it knows the truth and wants badly to believe it. That brain is scared to leave the status quo and grow; it seems to say that where we are right now is good enough, don’t want more, don’t dream or do anything to screw it all up. It would rather have the familiar pain of Now than face an unknown that feels right. Even when I ignore my body, it’s the most rational brain I have – but it’s hard to put your trust in that when it goes against everything you’ve been taught about rationality, pro & con lists, and oh yeah the economy is bad, etc. It’s hard enough to explain that “right feeling” to yourself. So I’m learning to stop explaining and just take little steps that outfox the rational brain.

By: Willie Hewes

Willie Hewes — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:44:56 +0000

Just another comment saying: yes, this.

It seems like some really important, profound things just don’t translate into words. That’s why the thinking brain rolls its eyes at it, it’s not the epiphany that’s stoopid, it’s the translation.

Well, maybe. That’s just what I’m thinking now, but I studied language in uni, that might have something to do with it.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:36:39 +0000

Yes – yes – yes. My moments of bing give me such peace but they aren’t translatable to others. Yes. But oh is it ever lovely to get them – to actually start feeling something “in my bones.” Never knew what that expression felt like before I started doing Shiva Nata.

By: R

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:44:49 +0000

Oooh, I totally get this! (stoopid epiphany?) I was on vacation and saw a guy who looked like someone special, someone that I would like to get to know and I had an epiphany that there were more possible partners our there for me than I had ever met. (Having trouble getting over my ex being “The One”.) And then when I came back and tried to tell this to my therapist it just sounded obvious. But I had “gotten” it at a deep level… like it had previously been in my brain and now was in my body.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:10:49 +0000

Holy wow. Your epiphany helped me sort of untangle some wholly unformed thoughts that were sprouting in my mind. Thoughts that were oddly similar to yours, though I didn’t connect them to Shiva Nata. But now I will!

And though I haven’t written publicly about my Dance of Shiva experience (it’s only been a few weeks), I will say that I already find it incredible.
Zoe´s last blog ..Madness, Genius, and the Things We Don’t See

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:06:37 +0000

finger. button. totally right on Havi!
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By: lucy

lucy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:37:11 +0000

oh this rings so true for me.

I had a post shiva nata bolt of ‘aha!’ just the other day. I went rushing to share with my other half who responded with ‘yeah, I know sweetie, I told you that ages ago’.

There’s such a big difference though between hearing an obvious truth from someone else and actually getting it for yourself at that deep internal level. Even if it’s impossible to explain to the rest of the world!