THE HATCH
If you watched LOST, the TV series, you know It took tremendous work to open The Hatch: old dynamite explodes, killing the workers. Toppling trees won’t budge it. Finally, The Hatch is opened. Inside is a ticking mechanism and they wonder if it will bring an end of the world if interfered with. We all have such a Hatch – our hidden world, which is often locked tight, even for ourselves. LOST, the TV series, is rife with father issues, which is exactly what locks up that inner world and infuses it with fear. It needs to be opened, and then explored, and rid of crippling, destructive booby traps as well as the infused threats from authority figures that often lurk in our chromosones!
Dr. Harold Searles, a famous Psychiatrist, coined a term - derepression. It refers to the need and the process by which all the anger, resentment, fear and other emotions stored and locked up in a person can be decontaminated. Too often as we grow up, we are encouraged to “eat it” - to eat the shit, to swallow the shit.
Derepression is typically caused by “eating shit”- internalizing negativity from others when you have no other resource - they’re bigger, stronger, in control, threatening your life or livelihood or freedom! If you eat shit, you eventually become full of shit. Once you’re full of shit, you can’t take no more shit. Once you can’t take no more shit, you start giving other people shit. And so it goes……….. Eating shit happens when the people around you are abusive and domineering and you are unable to leave the situation or effectively protest against it. Bullies make people eat shit, but likely because they’re already full of shit from eating too much shit earlier in their lives, or maybe in an ongoing manner!
As abused people grow up, many of the authority figures in their lives - teachers, ministers, parental — can’t deal with their anger and shut it down, make them eat it. Once they get to therapy, it can happen again if the therapist doesn’t understand the need for validation of the anger and the processing of it. Otherwise the fire just continues to burn and the taste of shit never leaves the mouth. Sometimes these people keep getting passed on, year after year, without getting the help they truly need.
Caution is often important because people often don’t know how to handle the emotions they’re stored up and locked up inside. Yet this is THE HATCH! Hard to open! Scary to enter and explore. Hard to understand what’s in there or what to do with it.
This is where the Spiritual Warrior comes in! The ability to handle the anger as it emerges without needing to retaliate or ask the person to stuff it back in or disqualify the anger. A Spiritual Warrior has the capacity to protect itself, to strike back, but is able to choose not to when they understand the nature of the anger.
If you watched LOST, the TV series, you know It took tremendous work to open The Hatch: old dynamite explodes, killing the workers. Toppling trees won’t budge it. Finally, The Hatch is opened. Inside is a ticking mechanism and they wonder if it will bring an end of the world if interfered with. We all have such a Hatch – our hidden world, which is often locked tight, even for ourselves. LOST, the TV series, is rife with father issues, which is exactly what locks up that inner world and infuses it with fear. It needs to be opened, and then explored, and rid of crippling, destructive booby traps as well as the infused threats from authority figures that often lurk in our chromosones!
Dr. Harold Searles, a famous Psychiatrist, coined a term - derepression. It refers to the need and the process by which all the anger, resentment, fear and other emotions stored and locked up in a person can be decontaminated. Too often as we grow up, we are encouraged to “eat it” - to eat the shit, to swallow the shit.
Derepression is typically caused by “eating shit”- internalizing negativity from others when you have no other resource - they’re bigger, stronger, in control, threatening your life or livelihood or freedom! If you eat shit, you eventually become full of shit. Once you’re full of shit, you can’t take no more shit. Once you can’t take no more shit, you start giving other people shit. And so it goes……….. Eating shit happens when the people around you are abusive and domineering and you are unable to leave the situation or effectively protest against it. Bullies make people eat shit, but likely because they’re already full of shit from eating too much shit earlier in their lives, or maybe in an ongoing manner!
As abused people grow up, many of the authority figures in their lives - teachers, ministers, parental — can’t deal with their anger and shut it down, make them eat it. Once they get to therapy, it can happen again if the therapist doesn’t understand the need for validation of the anger and the processing of it. Otherwise the fire just continues to burn and the taste of shit never leaves the mouth. Sometimes these people keep getting passed on, year after year, without getting the help they truly need.
Caution is often important because people often don’t know how to handle the emotions they’re stored up and locked up inside. Yet this is THE HATCH! Hard to open! Scary to enter and explore. Hard to understand what’s in there or what to do with it.
This is where the Spiritual Warrior comes in! The ability to handle the anger as it emerges without needing to retaliate or ask the person to stuff it back in or disqualify the anger. A Spiritual Warrior has the capacity to protect itself, to strike back, but is able to choose not to when they understand the nature of the anger.
If you watched LOST, the TV series, you know It took tremendous work to open The Hatch: old dynamite explodes, killing the workers. Toppling trees won’t budge it. Finally, The Hatch is opened. Inside is a ticking mechanism and they wonder if it will bring an end of the world if interfered with. We all have such a Hatch – our hidden world, which is often locked tight, even for ourselves. LOST, the TV series, is rife with father issues, which is exactly what locks up that inner world and infuses it with fear. It needs to be opened, and then explored, and rid of crippling, destructive booby traps as well as the infused threats from authority figures that often lurk in our chromosones!
Dr. Harold Searles, a famous Psychiatrist, coined a term - derepression. It refers to the need and the process by which all the anger, resentment, fear and other emotions stored and locked up in a person can be decontaminated. Too often as we grow up, we are encouraged to “eat it” - to eat the shit, to swallow the shit.
Derepression is typically caused by “eating shit”- internalizing negativity from others when you have no other resource - they’re bigger, stronger, in control, threatening your life or livelihood or freedom! If you eat shit, you eventually become full of shit. Once you’re full of shit, you can’t take no more shit. Once you can’t take no more shit, you start giving other people shit. And so it goes……….. Eating shit happens when the people around you are abusive and domineering and you are unable to leave the situation or effectively protest against it. Bullies make people eat shit, but likely because they’re already full of shit from eating too much shit earlier in their lives, or maybe in an ongoing manner!
As abused people grow up, many of the authority figures in their lives - teachers, ministers, parental — can’t deal with their anger and shut it down, make them eat it. Once they get to therapy, it can happen again if the therapist doesn’t understand the need for validation of the anger and the processing of it. Otherwise the fire just continues to burn and the taste of shit never leaves the mouth. Sometimes these people keep getting passed on, year after year, without getting the help they truly need.
Caution is often important because people often don’t know how to handle the emotions they’re stored up and locked up inside. Yet this is THE HATCH! Hard to open! Scary to enter and explore. Hard to understand what’s in there or what to do with it.
This is where the Spiritual Warrior comes in! The ability to handle the anger as it emerges without needing to retaliate or ask the person to stuff it back in or disqualify the anger. A Spiritual Warrior has the capacity to protect itself, to strike back, but is able to choose not to when they understand the nature of the anger.