The is a universal and timeless myth that talks about the processes of change and transformation that we all experience at some point in our lives. Discover how this myth can help you understand complicated situations, overcome them and enhance your .
How long have you known that things could be otherwise, but you cling to your known world for fear of change? At what point in your life did you stop believing that you were the protagonist and you stayed in your own story as a supporting actor?
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What is the Hero’s Journey for?
We are all at some stage of this hero’s journey.. You may be in full confrontation with someone (“Enemy”), you may feel stuck in a phase of your life in which nothing changes (“the village”) or you may be in the midst of an existential crisis or facing some extremely difficult situation. (“Descent into hell”).
Be that as it may, all the life stages we go through are archetypal. The paths that we are traveling have already been traveled over and over again by other people throughout history, for thousands of years.
Although contexts and settings change, the process of development of the psyche is common and it implies certain challenges and certain stages that, although we feel that they are exceptional or insurmountable, have already been managed and overcome by many people before us.
But how can we get to live a truly meaningful life? It is important to distance ourselves from the social roles that we have habitually acquired in order to connect with our true essenceour identity.
What lessons can we take to focus our future how we really want? Is about and transform traumatic situations into others that really empower us and that we can use for our well-being.
The Hero’s Journey: Between the Ordinary World and the Special World
The Hero balances constantly throughout his journey between two worlds: . Even the special world becomes ordinary with the passage of time, so the hero’s journey is a cyclical journey.
At the beginning of most movies the hero lives in what is known as the ordinary worldwhich could be equated with The Paradise of Adam and Eve or, for example, in the movie “The Lord of the rings”with ‘La Comarca’, the place of residence of one of the before starting your adventure.
In this ordinary world, we find ourselves protected, in our accustomed to our day to day without, a priori, there being too many impediments that disturb our well-being.
However, at this point, something happens that will affect our lives. Here, the protagonist always faces an important decision that will mark the rest of the plot. When this happens, a phase known as “”.
The call to adventure
It’s the point in history where we have to decide leave our ordinary world behind and face new adventures. Leaving our comfort zone is the first step we have to take to change our reality and achieve new goals.
This call can come from a challenge, a crisis, or from someone who needs our help. In any case, it is a process that gives us the option of start our journey, to pass from the ordinary world to a special, unknown and mysterious world. A world that will change our lives forever and will directly affect our identity.
In “Star Wars”, for example, the adventure begins with the kidnapping of Princess Leia, whose correlation in mythology is found in the story of the Greek goddess Persephone and her captor, Pluto. Many times in the cinema the journey begins with the appearance of an evil king or invaders from other tribes.
While, in our daily life, it could be a the loss of a job, a or any conflict that causes us discomfort.
In this phase, the conflicts that call the hero to adventure will mark his contest and the story will focus on the development of skills and abilities will allow you to solve them.
The Hero’s Journey as a path to personal evolution
As the mythologist and professor says : “we must be willing to let go of the life we planned, in order to have the life that is waiting for us”.
sometimes our own and above all, prevent us from taking charge of our lives and making the changes that allow us to move forward.
The resistance to undertake the journey
Our egowhich have been established during the first part of our lives, configure a way of being to which we cling, for fear of not knowing how to survive in any other way.
«To exist is to change, to change is to mature, To mature is to continue creating without ceasing…”
Henry Bergson (1859-1941)
The rejection of the call involves a series of that we will have to learn to overcome in order to undertake our Y . Joseph Campbell defines it like this: “Hell is life drying up. The hoarder, the one who wants to stay in us, to hold on, we must kill him”.
That “hoarder” is the rigid and fearful part of us that prefers the known bad and distrusts both life and itself.
The moment we accept “the call” we enter the “special world”. From here, we stop being in control of the situation and enter a new world of possibilities and experiences that will make us stronger, wiser individuals with a .
«Seeing the world, facing dangers, crossing walls, getting closer to others, meeting and feeling. Is he ”.
Excerpt from the movieThe secret Life of Walter Mitty”
The heroes overcome obstacles, face difficult situations, meet new allies and enemies but, above all, and most importantly, they prepare to …
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