Tamed With a Thread
Directing fiery energy
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With reference to the recent posts, listed above, the dragon slumbers, but we have prepared ourselves for the energy that it will send forth once it is woken and called upon to work. That is, we are prepared to receive the bountiful supply of force that it can give us. There is no need to destroy this inner dragon, or to try to hide it away from our sight. In fact, to do so, if it were possible, would be to destroy part of ourselves, and the means to greater things.
I am calm and relaxed, but I have much work to do. I have made a plan, and have decided on a definite course of action. It is true, it is somewhat difficult and time-consuming, requiring strength and stamina, of mind and body, and, perhaps most of all, of feeling. However, the dragon, in all its forms of the animal within, is potentially there to help me. It only needs to know what it must do. Without that conviction, it does its own thing, and, in the process, wreaks havoc. Indeed, we must help each other. It has to know that helping me is how I can then help it - can feed it, can give it a beautiful sleep afterwards, when the work is done; in fact, much better than if it hadn’t worked for me. Actually, I can do almost nothing without it. It has the energy that I need.
But how to rouse the dragon when the body and mind are in a state of lethargy, or even despondency, or when feeling overwhelmed, or when it seems fate has decreed that abundant energy is no longer mine? In fact, when weakness and lassitude and even loss of meaning overtake me?
Of course, a sudden crisis is likely to rouse the beast, but is there a smoother, gentler, transition?
Instead of being moved by random agitations, I myself move from a still place. It is a place I have prepared, and the smallest movement to the largest, inner and outer, is attended to, but not entangled with.
From this inviolate place, there is a possibility of direction, of preventing waste of energy, or destructiveness. Now the dragon, with the lightest touch, is my devoted ally.