Brokering Growth

My therapist prescribed a new exercise in my last session. The therapy he teaches is heavily based on physical exercises, stretching mostly, with emphasis on different postures and parts, according to need. He pointed me back to an exercise he’d prescribed a few years ago, one he calls a “nine-year-old” exercise. That means it’s intended to give access to feelings I had at that age, or still have from that time in my life. As a result I’ve actually relived some of the doubt and uncertainty I felt at that time, which still affects me. I see it this way: a window frame on the third floor of a house can get out of whack because of a fault in the foundation. That fault sets off a chain of disconnects all the way up through the house that finally show up in the crooked window frame. A person can be like that. A pocket of weakness left behind in childhood sends a chain reaction into adulthood that shows up in some insecurity or weakness that can make things hard in the day-to-day. The idea of the exercise is to access those feelings and that energy and make adjustments in order to improve my adult situation. By building that bridge to my weak place – that nine-year-old pace – I can export the needed strength across that bridge from a strong place. I get the weak place to the table by accessing it through the exercise. The strong place is easy to access. Once they’re both sitting down, I broker the deal. The best part is, it works. Ever forward.

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