Alysse Aallyn

Tag: #WarriorLife

  • Becoming a Warrior – The Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn

    EGO – YOU

      What It Means If You Choose This Card – Your ego has work to do. Jung tells us that in your dream, you are everyone. You chose the Ego card to start your day. Or did it choose you?

      YOU ARE A SEEKER – You are self-defining. You are on a quest. You wish to explore your possible incarnations.

      WARRIOR DANGERS– The danger of solipsism is that in turning our eyes inward we miss important signals coming from other people and the world around us. Yet you must “retreat inward” it’s a vital path to self-knowledge and growth.

      WARRIOR CHALLENGE -set a Spirituality Schedule to reflect your needs and interests. Appoint time to be absolutely alone, for meditation and reflection. If you cannot find a room to yourself, a closet will do. You can sit in the meditation position or assume any position that allows you to be comfortable enough to become physically forgetful. Concentrate first on building a life that allows both inner and outer growth. Surround yourself with people who respect this decision.

      WARRIOR OPPORTUNITY – This is a journey. Accept it. Begin a journal with 1. “I” and write down your meditation thoughts and desires. This can be a poem, a fantasy, a checklist – whatever pattern occurs to you as supportive of your desires. Make a list of goals. Push shame away. This is about YOU. Of course as you evolve, your goals will evolve, and your journal will reflect that. When you have completed your Time Alone – ten minutes to an hour – whatever works for you – pat yourself on the back. What an achievement! You are started on a path of making changing Nightmares into Dreams and making dreams come true.

      How I Became a Warrior: Am I me or is my diary me? I’ve been keeping a diary since I was seven years old. My first problem was who I was writing to – that took seven years to solve. (Answer: Me.) My second problem was who I was. I haven’t solved that one yet but since I became a warrior I feel I’m within sighting distance of the answer.

      • A warrior repels takeover because
      • A warrior knows what she has to defend
      • A warrior knows when to let down her guard
      • A warrior learns from mistakes and hones her art

      Planning: Warriors lead a designed life. A diary (also called a Training Journal)offers the ideal format in which to plan. Attempt to quantify the difficulties that you feel and assess possible reactions. Just because a situation is tough does not mean it shouldn’t be explored – on the contrary

      • Warriors aren’t afraid of difficulty:
      • Warriors look for opportunities for resistance training

      The First Resistance – Often savage, is from yourself. Slowly we realize we have hijackers inside our brains wrestling for control. You can recognize these by their negative content. They clearly wish to subdue us into clones which is NOT HEALTHY.

      Becoming a Warrior – It is this resistance that first marks our warrior status. Congratulate yourself. You are on the road.

      Training Journal – Carefully assess your desires versus the demands on you. List expected results if you gave in to either. Develop a concept of health. Is ”freedom” staying up all night, consuming whatever substance makes you “feel better”? Clearly not. Assess the negative voice; “You’re weak”, for example. Being “in flight” from the negative voice is actually giving it mastery, you must stand up to it. Learn to answer back – “I’m in training. I did better today than yesterday.” Keep track of your achievements. Even really small ones: “I meditated for 10 minutes” are significant.

      Models & Mentors: Always survey possible models. Who do you admire? Is it

      Bruce Lee: “The difference between a warrior and an average man is laser focus.”

      Is it Carl Jung: “I am not what happened to me I am what I choose to become.” Develop your own models.

      Accept mystery: Life isn’t “win or lose.” It can’t be quantified because we are magical souls with magic coursing through us. Sometimes it’s impossible to figure out and must simply be absorbed, not rationalized. Learn to enjoy art and accept the relief it offers. Reflect back as much magic & mystery as you can muster. Your tastes will develop according to your growth – that’s a good thing. Treat yourself like a loving sensei who wants the best for you.

      #Haiku: Id vs Ego

      Argumentative
      Executioner
      Prowls brain
      Seeking
      Loopholes

    1. Secrets of the Self -how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

      The Rose – Vulnerability –

        Sharing poetry is the most painful vulnerability. That was when I realized for the first time that pursuing life of art requires the warrior sensibility. You have to keep going, no matter what other people say and what they recommend. Some advice is good and some isn’t. We all need to develop our warrior instincts and our warrior sensibilities.

        Poetry is a language it takes a lifetime to learn to speak. Luckily, other people speak it! Back when I was a new mother for the first time, I advertised for poets and assembled a book of over 50 poems, representing over 40 poets from 26 states, writing about the experience of being female, and called it The Feathered Violin. We printed 450 copies and shared it widely, all around the country.

        In terms of sheer daring, this may have been one of the most daring things I’ve ever done!

        POETRY

        The world that seems to us so still


        And echoes no reflection of our will


        Somehow produced the seed that in us all


        Resurrected us from worm to fish, to crawl


        Upon the earth, to stand and then


        Return a child to creep and crawl again


        In some unending pattern, sane or not


        Judging by the brain that this same seed begot


        And yet within our every cell lies curled


        A revolutionary flag to be unfurled


        And lead us on to who knows what potential end


        Beyond the reach of enemy or friend?


        Can it be that simple balls of spinning glass


        Possess the strength to lift from this morass


        All that we are; though we don’t understand


        This torch we pass so tenderly from hand to hand?

      1. Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn

        Passion – Courage –

          When I gave my stepmother a short story to read, she recommended I join a writer’s group. I laughed and said I’d belonged to COUNTLESS writer’s groups! Literally, God knows how many.

          She was surprised, I guess that my bumps hadn’t been smoothed out.


          It takes courage to share your passions. I saw a lot of talent in writer’s groups. They definitely showed me techniques of riveting attention grabs I hadn’t yet thought of. But every writer comes up against the problem of; how much are you going to let them change you. Usually, if you follow someone’s direction down an uncertain path, you need to be able to trust that person. And I could never quite get there.

          I remember when my first serious novel was accepted for publication – “serious” as opposed to my gothic – I was so excited, and immediately shared that info with two of my writer’s groups, thinking they might want me to speak about the effort and the experience. But they showed no interest whatsoever. I couldn’t even get my local newspaper interested!

          I contacted my old writing teacher and offered him a copy but he was uninterested, too. He’d moved on.

          This was a shock. I couldn’t have pissed off ALL these people – in one of those groups I had been a completely accepting student. I began to think it might be like contacting a home-buying seminar and telling them you’ve bought a house. All they’ll say is, “Good for you.”

          Writer’s groups are about relationships – something I suspect I’ve never been good at.

          My courage was diminished: somewhat. Luckily the Warrior Ethos tells you that’s exactly the time to make a plan to keep going. Because Being Warrior isn’t about Going Along to Get Along. It’s about finding out what the truth really is, every time. Truth isn’t a fact, it’s a modality Warriors live in. Warrior passion never diminishes. It grows.

          #Haiku: Wake Up I’m All Alone

          #Haiku: Wake Up I’m All Alone

          Spooks need
          Dupes:
          Dead need
          Goodbyes:
          Sustain
          Feedback loop:
          Frustrate
          Rejection.