We live in a time when the pace is fast. We have so much information at our fingertips. We are presented with an enormous amount of information and choice at every turn. This can easily lead to overwhelm. The word comes from the Middle English word “whelmen” to overturn, upset, capsize.
We can end up capsizing our personal boat often, to rite a boat is tiring. If we can regain our balance before we reach that point it is easier to helm our boat to calm waters.
Biography Work can be helpful for finding our balance before we reach overwhelm.
It can also help us ‘turn over’ a new leaf, cross a threshold to a new phase of life. If we reach overwhelm it is easy to lose our sense of self.
What voice do I have in all these multitude of voices?
Where do I even begin to choose what my next step might be? In this age of instant information, having so many options can lead to
paralysing anxiety and fear of making the ‘wrong’ choice.
Biography Work helps us to pause, To process what has happened. To look again at our past with compassion and warmth.
So we can be with our present more peacefully. With a deep admiration for ourselves. Energy is freed that sometimes we didn’t know was trapped.
We can contemplate where we might go next, consciously choosing our path instead of hurrying along until we realise that we have lost our way. We look at our lives inside ourselves and outside, we remember, “never to compare our insides with someone else’s outsides”
We study the seven year cycles of our life and see helpful and unhelpful patterns.
We look at past, present and future as if from a mountain top, we gain perspective on our lives, with a spiritual advantage of encompassing past and future beyond life on Earth.
We use nature, dialogue, colour, journaling, poetry and movement to support us in this process. Through Biography Work we can come to understand our lives clearly for the first time. We can find meaning that we may not have known we had lost, or we may have been searching for for a long time.
We see each human life for what it is: a work of art. A work of art within an art gallery, within the Creation of Humanity, an active work of art, a fundamentally important participant.