Easy to shake your head and say no. And yet we are the hero’s of our own lives – if we choose to be. We can stay small and mediocre and pretend that we’re victims of circumstances, or we can choose to go the extra mile or ten thousand and make our lives a work of art and a work of heart.

Joseph Campbell, a perpetual and inspired student of mythology and comparative religion, revealed the common thread of the ‘Hero’s Journey’. Having spent an extraordinary weekend a month for eight months experiencing The Transformation with Darren Eden I have learned a lot about the Hero’s Journey and how it applies to my own life.

The first step of the journey we were shown was the idea that we’re all born of Royalty – in essence that we are all actually and truly Divine Magnificent Beings. Many of you will nod an agreement at this as the majority of spiritual paths suggest the same.

So what does it mean to consider ourselves Born of Royalty, what difference does it make, can it make? I’ve been playing with this idea for many years having begun my spiritual and personal growth path over twenty five years ago, and yet I’m only feeling the implications now.

I remember my innocence before I started this delving in to my psyche – I thought I was a well adjusted and normal person. Then I got to know the word ‘stuff’. Suddenly I was weighed down with ‘stuff’ and turned in to someone I considered quite neurotic! That old can of worms is well avoided if you don’t want to upset the applecart. ( Just testing if I could manage two cliché’s in one sentence!)

Having done some workshops on belief management I found myself overwhelmed at the number of negative beliefs I held about myself and felt in a miasma of debilitating energy. And the tools I learned I couldn’t quite put in to practice enough, in fact I managed to tie myself in such clever knots that I believed they could never be undone. Not in this lifetime anyway. In effect I couldn’t sense my divinity even though I believed in it on a head level.

Then I discovered the Hero’s Journey and Darrens approach.

Using my imagination to access symbols which then reveal their meanings through effortless intuition (not my previous experience by any means) I discovered how I have been experiencing myself both subjectively and objectively.

My symbol was a square porcelain sink like they have in the butlers pantry or where the scullery maid spends her nights up to her elbows in dishwater. What immediately became clear to me is that this is how I’ve viewed myself all my life. I knew it instantly as in this intuitive space there’s no need to pretend; it was if my life had opened up like a flower to be seen in all its facets (or fawcetts in this case!).
I recognised that sense of feeling second class or second best, even though it feels cringeworthy to say so. Subjectively I considered myself ‘less than’, and therefore at other peoples beck and call, subject to their needs and desires, where mine were of no consequence. I saw how that has played out in most of my relationships and could also see where I had stamped my feet on occasions in rebellion – but to minimal change. And yet much of this wasn’t new to me. What made the profound difference was the understanding that as this sink was in only one room of the mansion, then I had been identifying with only one small part of me, and believing that small part to be all of me.

This understanding has made a significant impact. I really ‘get’ that objectively the scullery maid is simply a part of my identity; a small portion of the whole me. The rest of the mansion is now open to exploration and I finally know I can be the Lady of the Manor – in touch with my divinity, my sovereignty.

Strangely I had thought that to ‘be of service’ was the same as ‘being in service’ and yet now I see that I can be far more of service when I access my fullest potential. Knowing yourself, in your heart, as a divine magnificent being doesn’t send your ego in to overdrive. Far from it. Recognising and acting from your divinity is a place of responsibility and its only when we pretend we’re divine that our ego becomes over inflated and prone to bursting.

Our own hero’s journey is a real and tangible path – one we can refuse or one we can embrace. What do you choose?

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