Raven's Word - Drama Drama

Another update from the inspirational Tegwyn Fietze.....DRAMA DRAMA

‘To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it’ Ken Keys Jr – Handbook to Higher Consciousness

Drama means literally – a play or a performance - the playing out of a tragedy or a crisis. How often do we create our own tragedies and dramas? How often do we set up a series of circumstance for ourselves, not always consciously I grant you so that we can enact a role that we think or feel or even want to play. How often do we do this so that we can be seen as the saviour, or the martyr or the hero or the selfless giver, or perhaps the victim? We sometimes enable those around us to play out their dramas too, and we support the drama they are creating, we play along because it serves something in us too.

We see this in our daily serving of soapies (another book I’m going to write is ‘What I’ve learnt from soap opera’s’). I’ll admit it’s an over exaggerated example, but serves a learning purpose. When someone has the choice of being honest and communicating clearly and directly the issue at hand, subterfuge and half-truths are given. We see our soapie stars actively setting up circumstances to trip one another up, manipulate and coerce one another into feelings and actions that will suit the perpetrator of the manipulation and coercion. Over exaggerated in the soap yes, but don’t we do this too?

Obviously this behaviour fulfills a need of some sort in yourself as well as those you get to play along with you. Sometimes this happens on a small scale – starting an argument for instance, even if it is just to get a negative response, it’s better than no response. Knowing what buttons to push in someone else and then actively pushing to get a reaction. That’s an example of a drama on a small scale. Dramas on a large scale involve many people buying into your proposed performance and being willing to play along with you.

‘Just look next time you are having some trip and riding a problem – just watch. Just stand aside and look at the problem. Is it really there or have you created it? Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh – The Tantra Vision vol 1

The trick is to recognise when this is the case. It is knowing or discerning when you or someone else is genuinely hurt, or having a problem of some sort, or genuinely needing help and when you are or someone else is doing something that is self serving in a negative way. Whether you are setting up the drama yourself or whether you are enabling someone else’s drama both are negative intentions, which just perpetuates the whole situation.

‘Life is like a movie you see through your own unique eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it in that counts’. Dennis Waitley – The winners edge.

Be clear of the ‘why’ you are doing things, even when those things are seemingly good with honest intentions. Mostly question your deepest intuitive feelings about a person or situation and act on those too. If you listen closely to what you know to be true, you will be able to give true and accurate responses that are manipulation free. Do this especially when you find yourself continually setting up the same or similar circumstances that have the same or similar results that do not serve you. Then perhaps it is time to change the role or the perception of the role that you are playing.

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