Jumping out of the Box after Midlife
I’m way past mid-life. However I feel as though I going through that transition time again, this time more consciously and with a sense of play. What I mean by “mid-life” is that point after age forty when the life so carefully constructed in the early decades begins to unravel. Marriages fall apart; jobs disappear; bodies change; children leave the nest; death and illness appear everywhere; or you have a growing sense of “is this all there is.” In short, usual life is being “de-constructed.”
One way of looking at mid-life crises or any life crises/difficulties is to see them as opportunities. You’ve been stopped in your tracks, so to speak. The paralysis and difficult feelings contain huge incentive to experiment with different perspectives and choices. After all, if you repeat the patterns and the choices of your previous decades, you’ll probably end up with the same result, unhappiness.
The reason for my current transition is the guidance I’ve received from spiritual or metaphysical principles and teachers for over a decade. Recently this led to a decision to voluntarily “de-construct” my life. Wanting my life to be radically different, I decided to stop many habitual actions and choices, starting with simple things such as what I am having for breakfast. What I do the rest of the day depends mostly on what felt inspiring to me. In short, I wanted to live more through intuition and spontaneity.
I believe that many artists’ creativity comes from intuition and spontaneity. So rather than a left-brain approach to life, mid-crisis is a chance to explore a right-brain approach. Perhaps this is one interpretation of what Einstein means when he said that problems cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them. Therefore, the recommendation is to jump out of the many boxes of beliefs, action, habit and patterns.
During this time for me, the prospect of learning affiliate marketing showed up. I barely knew what the term meant. But this coaching course seemed attractive and interesting so I signed up. It’s been quite a ride since because I’m a writer not a techie. There are lots of technical details to learn. In short, I jumped out of another box 6 weeks ago.
I should add here that in the last 4 decades I’ve been a teacher, a psychologist, life coach, healer, and writer. Affiliate marketing is a very different world from what I had been doing.
I don’t know where this adventure is leading. It’s clear to me that I’ve been introduced to a world, perspectives, strategies and people that are new. But that’s how it is when you choose a path that “is less traveled.”
My present coaching course has been fun for me because there is enough about it that uses gifts I like to use: namely, being a student and learning something new, research, writing, persistence, resourcefulness, patience to overcome frustration (I’m not sure about this last one). While being engaged in this course, it’s been essential for me to practice my spiritual principles. These include watching when I forget about what is important and real, and keeping my integrity and peacefulness. Thus, it’s an excellent learning experience or classroom ion many levels. By using these familiar gifts, I feel less dis-oriented through my transition.
I definitely recommend jumping out of the box especially at mid-life because many of you are being forced to by internal and external circumstances. Why not embrace the changes and the adventures, instead. In fact, if you don’t keep jumping out of boxes, life is only repetitive. You stop growing and expanding. Then you may come to the end of your life wondering but not knowing what you were capable of doing or being.
The results of my work of the last 5 week doing swivel sweeper g2 reviews can be found somewhere in the Internet world. If you find it, I’d welcome your feedback.
And if you are inclined to jump out of the box in your life, I want to support you. Please let me know.
Anne Uemura, Ph.D.
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