HEALING Looking on the bright side

Contracting is rewarding but is stressfull. Saying it isn't is in my opinion being in dangerous denial that will catch up sooner rather than later.

The wonderful rewards coming with contracting are offset with (i) constantly working to tight deadlines.. (ii) an endless striving to keep up with technology... (iii) with contracting comes renewal time - often wondering whether the project is to continue.. and if not (iv) waiting by the phone wondering if its the agency calling you to go for an interview.... then (v) having to be fast on the pick up when accepted into an environment thats completely new... where you (vi) are always the outsider having to be a friend to employee who at times views you as less than one of those from within their own fold.

The list goes on. I'm sure you will have plenty more to add to the list.

The point however is this stress has to go somewhere and that somewhere is your body. Now I know I am preaching to myself as one of the converted but the most important question is how is it with you?

To what extent in your view is dropping the stress lodged in your body and healing important?

Chiron the Wounded Healer

Chiron is also known as the Wounded Healer

It is useful to look at Chiron in your Natal Chart but perhaps more useful still is to look at chirons transit (specifically its return ).

For those of you interested in learning more about Chiron and the Chiron Return have a look at what Karyl Jackson has to say about the Influence of Chiron...

In life...

we are given the deep hole of experiencing unfair situations that we must accept, deal with, understand and ultimately bless. This is a very tall order, however, our life, our path is sprinkled with them

I like to see these 'experiences' as a growing, expanding, internalized mountain of 'IMPRINTS' that begin to 'take over'.. that need to be dealt with and 'healed' or our bodies will eventually break under their strain.

For more on chiron.. two prolific writers on the subject Zane Stein and Barbara Hand Clow

AREAS TO HEAL

Where to look? There are so many areas! Where to begin?

A good place to start is in your work relationships.

• Person Next To you
• likes you? helps you? collaborates with you OR
  
• hates you? blames you behind your back? sabotages you? annoys you?
• Person(s) you Supervise
• don't understand you? don't support you? undermine you? resist you? frustrate you? do not like you? tell stories about you?
  
• Person Supervising You
• tells you what to do.. puts pressure on you makes you angry
  
• Person Appraising You
• tells you whether you are good enough OR
• leaves you feeling insignificant? unworthy? not good enough?
• Person Competing Against You
• always wins and you always lose?
  
• Person Interviewing You
• accepts you?
  
• rejects you?
  
• Person you Serve
• is grateful? makes you feel useful? OR
  
• complains? angry with you? takes it out on you? blames you?
  

What OTHER areas STRESS you.. hurt even more than this?
To what extent is healing your body, mind, and spirit IMPORTANT?