Welcome to a "Girl, Take the Lead!" Sound Bite –a short episode which may be a bit more about a topic we’ve covered in the longer form podcast or a quick inspiration. This episode is an inspirational moment. In the book Warriors of the Heart, Danaan Parry provides us the Trapeze Parable which talks about transitions: “the past is gone, the future is not yet here. It’s called transition.”
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Hi there, welcome to. Episode 79 of Girl.
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Take the lead. And this is a sound bite.
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A sound bite is a shorter episode.
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From our longer form. Podcast.
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Or it can be a quick inspiration which?
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Is what our episode is today. And I'm your host yo Canny.
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Today's episode. Comes from the book.
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Warriors of the Heart by. Denon Perry.
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And this parable is called the parable of the trapeze, which
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is. About turning.
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The fear. Of transformation into the
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transformation of fear. And the parable begins like
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this. Sometimes I feel my life.
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Is a series of trapeze swings. I'm either hanging onto a.
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Trapeze bar. Swinging along.
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Or for a few minutes in my. Life.
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I'm hurtling across space in between trapeze bars.
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Most of the time I spent my life hanging on for dear life to my.
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Trapeze bar. Of the moment.
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It carries me along at a certain steady rate of swing, and I have
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the feeling that I'm in control of my life.
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I know most of the right questions and even some of the
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answers, but every once in a while.
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As I'm merrily, or not so merrily, swinging along, I look
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out ahead of me into the distance, and what do I see?
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I. See another trapeze bar.
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Swinging toward me. It's empty, and I know in that
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place in me that knows that this new.
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Trapeze bar. Has my name on it.
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It is my next step, my growth, my aliveness coming to get me.
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In my heart of hearts I know that for me to grow, I must
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release my grip on this present, well known bar and move to the
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new one. Each time it happens to me, I
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hope. Now I pray.
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That I won't have to let. Go of my old bar completely
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before I grab the new one, but in my knowing place.
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I know that I must totally release my grasp on my old bar
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and that for some moment in time I must hurdle.
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Across space. Before I can grab onto the new
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bar each time I'm filled with. Terror.
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It doesn't matter that in all my.
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Previous hurdles across the. Void of unknowing I.
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Have always made it. I am each time afraid that I
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will miss. And thy will be.
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Crushed. An unseen rocks in the
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bottomless chasm between. Bars I.
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Do it anyway, perhaps? This is.
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The essence of what? The Mystics.
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Call the. Faith experience.
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No guarantees, no net, no insurance policy.
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But you do it anyway. Because somehow.
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To keep hanging on to that old. Bar.
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Is no longer on the list of alternatives.
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So. For an eternity that can last a
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microsecond or 1000 lifetimes. I saw across the dark void of
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the past is. Gone.
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The future is not yet here. It's called transition.
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I have come to believe that this transition is the only place
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that real change occurs. I mean real change, not the
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pseudo change. That only lasts until the next
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time my old buttons get punched. I have noticed that in our
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culture, this transition zone is looked upon as a no thing, a no
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place between. Places.
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Sure. The old trapeze bar was real.
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And that new one coming towards me.
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I hope that's real too. But the void in between.
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Is that just a? Scary, Confusing, disoriented.
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Nowhere that must be gotten. Through as.
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Fast and as unconsciously as. Possible.
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No, what a wasted opportunity that would be.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the transition zone is the only
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real thing, and the bars are illusions.
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We dream up to avoid the. Void where the?
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Real change. The real growth occurs for us.
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Whether or not my hunch is true, it remains that the transition
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zones in our lives are incredibly.
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Rich places. They should be honored even.
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Savored Yes. With all the pain and fear and
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feelings of being out of control that can, but not necessarily
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accompany transitions. They are still the most alive.
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Most. Growth filled.
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Passionate, expansive moments in our.
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Lives we. Cannot discover new oceans
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unless. We have the courage to lose
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sight of the shore so. Transformation of fear may have
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nothing to do with making fear. Go away.
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But rather with giving ourselves permission to.
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Hang out in the transition between.
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Trapezes transforming. Our need to grab that new bar,
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any bar, is allowing ourselves to dwell in the only place where
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change really happens. It can be terrifying.
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It can also be enlightening in the true sense.
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Of the word. Hurtling through the void.
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We just may learn how to fly. Thank you for being with us
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today and we hope that you enjoyed.
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This episode. And if you did, please leave a
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comment wherever you listen to. Your podcast.
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And stay tuned for more sound bites to come.
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Talk to you soon. Bye.