Misogi yes, and I'm saying this to myself as much as anyone. Most of us are already surrounded by hard things we've been carefully stepping around. The conversation we keep rehearsing in our heads but never have. The boundaries we don't set because the moment isn't right. The decision we push to later, when conditions are better. They won't be. We can't change everything at once. But picking the one thing you've been avoiding the longest and going after it: that's an everyday Misogi.
I don't know that I agree with the everyday Misogi in the comments, I think it misses the point. Sure, it's great to challenge our comforts when we decide to face something head-on instead of ignoring it, but that's not really what a Misogi is. I've done a couple Misogi and they are exciting and difficult and scary. Mine were hiking rim to rim last year with friends and then doing it alone this year after a really bad hike last time. Both times I trained hard, I thought I knew what I needed and I was excited and nervous. And both times I was so physically drained by the end, I was wondering why I'd done it when NOT doing it would have been easy. In those miles and hours you learn so much about yourself, and sometimes those thoughts are appreciation for what you CAN do, and others there are reflections on what's not going right and how that discomfort feels. Both hikes changed me in very different ways. On the first one, I thought I was going to die and the second, I was so tired but thinking about what I'd do the next time.
I read recently that a lot of the effects of stress in our body has to do with our perception of stress. When we believe stress to be bad for overall health, our health deteriorates. But not all stress is bad, especially when we use it to drive ourselves forward. I wonder how much of this is cause and effect and what's just correlation. Surely, the person that takes stress in stride have similar perceptions of other things in life and may not get so quickly derailed.
Question - for I guess Michael or anyone else that has done this. I don't need the specific details of your misogi - but if the goal is 50/50 chance of completion, where have you netted out on success versus failure? Perhaps an interesting review would be to look specifically at the "failed" misogis and whether success is necessary for growth or learning.
I agree with the other comment. The everyday Misogi is the real key to growth. Picking one big hard thing to do can, of course, be an opportunity to grow, but it can also just feed vanity or other less desirable traits. It's a both/and.
Misogi yes, and I'm saying this to myself as much as anyone. Most of us are already surrounded by hard things we've been carefully stepping around. The conversation we keep rehearsing in our heads but never have. The boundaries we don't set because the moment isn't right. The decision we push to later, when conditions are better. They won't be. We can't change everything at once. But picking the one thing you've been avoiding the longest and going after it: that's an everyday Misogi.
I don't know that I agree with the everyday Misogi in the comments, I think it misses the point. Sure, it's great to challenge our comforts when we decide to face something head-on instead of ignoring it, but that's not really what a Misogi is. I've done a couple Misogi and they are exciting and difficult and scary. Mine were hiking rim to rim last year with friends and then doing it alone this year after a really bad hike last time. Both times I trained hard, I thought I knew what I needed and I was excited and nervous. And both times I was so physically drained by the end, I was wondering why I'd done it when NOT doing it would have been easy. In those miles and hours you learn so much about yourself, and sometimes those thoughts are appreciation for what you CAN do, and others there are reflections on what's not going right and how that discomfort feels. Both hikes changed me in very different ways. On the first one, I thought I was going to die and the second, I was so tired but thinking about what I'd do the next time.
I read recently that a lot of the effects of stress in our body has to do with our perception of stress. When we believe stress to be bad for overall health, our health deteriorates. But not all stress is bad, especially when we use it to drive ourselves forward. I wonder how much of this is cause and effect and what's just correlation. Surely, the person that takes stress in stride have similar perceptions of other things in life and may not get so quickly derailed.
Question - for I guess Michael or anyone else that has done this. I don't need the specific details of your misogi - but if the goal is 50/50 chance of completion, where have you netted out on success versus failure? Perhaps an interesting review would be to look specifically at the "failed" misogis and whether success is necessary for growth or learning.
I agree with the other comment. The everyday Misogi is the real key to growth. Picking one big hard thing to do can, of course, be an opportunity to grow, but it can also just feed vanity or other less desirable traits. It's a both/and.