How you respond to the things in Your Room determines whether you are expanding or contracting

Perceiving the things in Your Room as “not you” and reacting to them as random external occurrences contracts it and limits your creative abilities

Perceiving the things in Your Room as “You” and responding with acceptance and ownership expands it and increased your creative abilities

THEREFORE

To expand and create, first recognize the external as a projection of the internal and find out what it is telling you about yourself

Once you find this out, you can then adjust the thing within yourself strategically in order to shift the nature of the external

One of the most notable oppositional reflective relationships was coined by Carl Jung as the Anima / Animus relationship. A woman will face her own asymmetry through a man who possesses all the qualities which she has let wither within herself and visa versa.

The relationship between Clarice and Hannibal in Silence of the Lambs is a perfect example of Animus Integration in a woman. Hannibal is the perfect manifestation of everything Clarice needs to balance and improve her own design and the stakes are high enough to force her to try.

Watch the two clips and notice how Clarice shifts from adversarial and reactive to accepting, taking in and integrating the insights Hannibal provides. She allowing for his way without losing herself in it. Only when she accomplishes this can she unlock the gifts he has for her.

HINT: Many reflections are inversions. They are not revealing your own active Currents to you so much as they are reflecting the opposite of those Currents. Opposing Currents are often forced to be embodied “externally” because you have not been activating them and are becoming lopsided in your design so to speak.

FOR INSTANCE: A woman’s Story (self) may be hyper charged with currents of accommodation. Meaning she is a very accommodating and easy going person, hyper-focused on other people’s needs. She is lopsided in her design, leaning too heavily to accommodation to create an expansive and creative life.

The heavy lack in her her Story of imposition and targeted action (the opposite of accommodation) will begin to manifest in her experience as an oppositional reflection. In this case it will most likely show up as a man - romantic partner or boss . This man will put the woman though a gauntlet, imposing himself with increased intensity until the woman either recognizes the game and activates her own Currents of Imposition, setting strong boundaries, stating her needs etc OR she does not recognize the nature of the game and collapses under the asymmetry.

Failure leads to contraction: experiential deterioration: disease, job-loss, bitterness, injury, and eventually death

Success leads to expansion: new possibilities open up, health increases, mood improves, promotions occur, and less adversarial people begin to enter experience - creating newer but less harsh tests

Can you face the monster without battling or succumbing to it? What does the third option look like?

Whom or what is the monster in your life?