Scream

SCREAM = to voice a sudden, sharp, loud cry; to terrify or scare away; to protest, demand, or complain vehemently

QUESTION: When was the last time you screamed?

STORY: Everyone has experienced something that made them scream. Screaming is not a soft, gentle emotion. Screaming is a loud, demanding, powerful expression that bursts from your gut. In The Prosperos, I learned a tool to help me work with my emotions. This tool is known as RHS™ or Releasing the Hidden Splendour™. It’s a 5-step tool that I’ve used many times when difficult things happened. Like when I lost my job or when my dog died. Here’s my story of when my relationship of 5 years broke up: I was driving on the freeway re-living the memory of our last fight and tears were coming down my face. I knew I better get off the freeway, so I parked my car in an empty lot and screamed at the top of my lungs saying what I could not have said back then. And then, as I released both of us from the anger, blame, guilt - I felt an emptiness and then I felt a whole new energy. RHS™ is a GIVE-FOR (forgiveness) tool. You give up the old version of a memory for a new understanding. And today I continue to carry the new understanding!

QUOTES

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me!’ No! You just scream.” ~ John Lennon

“I always feel better after a good scream.” ~ Helena Bonham Carter

“I scream, you scream, we all scream…for the TRUTH!” ~ Stephen Colbert

EXERCISE

STOP.

Relax.

Sit quietly. Assume an erect posture. Sense the breath. Relax and bring to mind something that could make you scream.

Get your pen and paper and write words or draw lines expressing the energy of screaming - and when done with that - release the hidden splendor. Feel the old dissolving into a new understanding. And move forward into your day as a student of life willing to learn and unlearn.