12/28/2023 0 Comments Revealing the monster within![]() At the very least the knowledge of your Monster will give you a heightened awareness of what you need to work on, or avoid. How much of your day is full of useless activities that end up replacing the tasks you need to complete for your goal? Do you even have a goal? Your Monster does. If you are angry? Why? If the answer is unclear then your Monster is more in control than you think. Awareness is the realization of what you are doing and why. Keeping The Monster Under Control: Balance and awareness is the best way to keep the Monster under control.Not because it hates you, but because it hates change and fears the responsibilities of what comes next. Remember, your monster doesn’t want you to succeed. While not necessarily a bad place, (especially when resting), it is not a good place for productivity and growth. When you feel nothing, then you are in a “Comfort Zone”. Then you know you are on the right track. When you feel the Monster of self-doubt, procrastination, (feel free to place any of your Monsters in the above statement). The resistance you feel from the Monster is not insurmountable, if anything it can work quite well as a barometer in life. Once you recognize this, then the Monster can be used. Fear and Failure can be viewed as either self destructive weapons, or powerful tools for accomplishment and success. The second step is using the Monster: Once you have recognized the monster, half the battle is won.Without this internal dichotomy none of us would have a clue about how to struggle, fight, or earn our way out of failure. After listening to this litany of negative descriptions, one would wonder why anyone would want to work with it, and not simply destroy it. It is the problems that return to us after we have run from everything else. It is the part of us that fears change, yet also hates consistency. Most commonly it comes across as fear, procrastination, complacency and even depression. Recognizing the Monster is the first step: It can appear in the form of a bad habit, or any self destructive behavior.In short, without both, there was no balance. Meanwhile, the Good Kirk had compassion with no sense of self esteem, or ego, hence causing him to have no foundation for wise decision making. Throughout the story it is apparent that the Evil Kirk was selfishly motivated and never considered the long term consequences of his actions. It separated his good side from the evil and created two separate Kirks. “The Enemy Within” had to do with Captain Kirk being involved in a transporter malfunction. ![]() My favorite example of this fictionalized conflict of our good and bad sides was written by Richard Matheson for the first season of Star Trek back in 1966. It is more about how to tame, or incorporate the Monster, than destroy it. Without evil, there is no concise definition of good. Our first inclination is to assume that without evil, good will succeed! This is not necessarily true. Many of these stories end up in tragedy due to the attempt at destroying the “Monster Within”. Phrases like: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”, “be careful what you wish for” and “The Devil within us” all show a common denominator when it comes to dealing with this internal conflict. Most of these fictionalized accounts deal with good intentions gone bad. While it is written as a separate entity from the doctor that created it, it is still referred to as Frankenstien, or Frankenstein’s Monster. Even Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is more about the creation of the monster than the monster itself. Sadly we have been so desensitized by these stories, that we believe them to be literally fiction and not the metaphoric life lessons they are.Įxamples of these stories can be found throughout history in classical fiction such as: Dr. Throughout the ages literature and fiction have given us examples and stories of “The enemy within”. While many self help books preach that the answer lies within, the irony is that so does the problem. It is far easier to point the finger, or direct our critical eye towards others when life does not go our way. Few of us can recognize, let alone tame the Monster within us.
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