Silencing Your Inner Saboteur by Sherry Peters

Author:Sherry Peters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: writing, goal setting, success, self confidence, creativity, confidence, time management, self improvement, achieve dreams, self doubt, prioritization
Publisher: Sherry Peters

Exercises

Write down what happens to you when your saboteur is successful.

Do you become blocked, watch a lot of TV, let life take over or eat up your writing time? If you have, how do you feel afterwards?

How does it affect you?

What is keeping you from writing?

Why is writing this story important to you?

List a few possible ways you can make the work in progress something you want to spend your time on.

Chapter 7

What's in a Name?

In the previous chapter we talked about the symptoms of what happens to us when we listen to the inner saboteur. We have also identified the voice of negativity. Now that we know the symptoms, we can cure the disease.

The Unknown

Why is it important to name the saboteur? To put it simply, we fear the unknown.

The greatest horror stories are those where we cannot see or identify that which is causing the pain and trauma. Bram Stoker’s Dracula was such a brilliant and terrifying novel about a vampire, because the characters did not know what was doing such terrible things to Mina. In the slasher horror movies of the 80s and 90s, we never saw the face of the monster until the end. Bodies would just disappear or be mutilated. In the movie Jaws we only saw the shark fin and part of the mouth, we never saw the extent of the shark, but we were afraid. Dorothy was afraid of the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz because of his big booming voice and the smoke of illusion. Racism and hatred occur because we fear the unknown Other. We don’t know their culture so we do not understand it. We fear it.

As soon as we get to know the Other, a person of a different race or nationality or culture; as soon as we give what we fear a name, know what it is doing, as we now do with the saboteur; because we are dialoguing with it, we no longer fear it.

Van Helsing studied Dracula, he knew how to stop him. Shine a light in a haunted house, we see the mechanics working. Pull back the curtain on the Wizard and you see an ordinary man pulling levers, not a great and fear-worthy Wizard.

In the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, Lord Voldemort is the evil wizard out to destroy everyone, and in particular Harry Potter. Voldemort is so feared by the wizarding community that he is only referred to as You-Know-Who or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Harry and his friends are encouraged to refer to Voldemort by his name because speaking the name takes away the fear of the thing.

When we are ill, we cannot get a proper diagnosis and way to heal, without naming the illness.

Naming the Saboteur

The same applies to the saboteur. Naming him restricts his power over us and takes away our fear of him. Naming the saboteur is how we begin to heal. Naming the saboteur allows us to confront him and find out where he comes from, what he feeds on.

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