Hi,

I just had an interesting morning. I had anticipated returning to a long frustrating activity but with better inner and outer skills, I hope. I've been going after this for 2 years since a perfect storm upturned everything. I felt so ready as I slept that I awoke feeling too eager.

I actually stopped myself because I was feeling too good. This is a first. This is huge. A big sign that I'm deep along my path to wellness.

I was thinking all day about a Jung story. He had a client that loved to walk in the Alps. The experience filled him with rapturous emotional and physical feelings of awe and elation—jouissance. Jung warned him to always walk, then, with a companion. The man ignored this and in about a year while walking alone walked off a cliff.

Though I've avoided actual cliffs, I've had disastrous things happen in the past when in a state jouissance.

That I actually could stop myself because I was feeling too good? Son of a gun ...
Revu2