The Top 10 Questions on Committing to Change (Crossing the Threshold)
Category: Spirituality, Awareness, Path, Energy, Flow, Learning, Consciousness (BC352)Originally Submitted on 3/13/2001.
The Hero's Journey is another way of viewing a rite of passage or personal development: adolescence, first career, sobriety, parenthood, retirement, self-peace, etc. Crossing the Threshold is the fifth stage of this Hero's Journey. The hero has accepted the Call to Adventure and has begun training with the Mentor to prepare for the ordeal (attempt at big change). It could be argued that this step in the hero's journey requires the most courage. There is no turning back after crossing (committing). It often takes an external event or internal epiphany to motivate the hero to cross from old world to the new. The hero may also meet the Threshold Guardian who represents the hero's neuroses and inner critic. It is the Threshold Guardian's job to make sure the hero believes in herself and her abilities before she is allowed to cross.
1. Have your crossings ever been physically manifested, or have they been internal?
2. What did you give up to cross?
3. What external force helped you to finally commit to the journey?
4. Have you ever crossed the threshold unwillingly?
5. Have you ever crossed the threshold unknowingly?
6. How does the guardian make your crossing more difficult?
7. When has a guardian become an ally in your life?
8. How did you land on the other side?
9. How is crossing the threshold like dying (metamorphosis)?
10. Who did you become when you crossed?
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