Thank you, very much.
~Kellie

Existing in a relationship without drama and conflict: can it be done if you do not recondition your mind, in the present? Perhaps not so easily… you KNOW how to exist in a relationship that has conflict. It’s familiar. It’s easy to your brain, the neurons are linked to fire. You would have to learn a lot of new things to exist in a relationship without conflict.

Our minds are also attuned to fire together, in relationships. You do this, and I’ll do that, and then you’ll do another thing, and so on. We trigger, back and forth, and if it’s unconscious, a reflex, a habit, that will escalate into the situations which are our emotional addictions. We do them because we know them. We fear change, fundamentally. It’s simple biology really, isn’t it? Follow the path of least resistance. It takes new energy to create new neural associations, a new life a new way. Staying with the old, the ‘history’ is the greatest temptation.

But the psychic energy of Thurisaz is really for UNFETTERING. I remember how you linked to my rune site, in July, and I felt that I’d keep an eye and see how things went. At that point, you interpreted Thurisaz in the sense that the resistance was speaking of the conflict between you and your husband. But Thurisaz also, perhaps more accurately, describes this Inner-World resistance of your mind… the struggle against our conditioning, our history, our habits, our ‘fetters’ as the ancients called them.

There is resistance to creating a new way, to learning new things, to making a new life. Great resistance. To change, you must match that resistance, or strategically position your Thurisaz, your Thor’s Hammer, to strategically take out one Giant at a time (Thurisaz, the word Thurse and thus the day Thursday all represent the concept of a Giant). These Giants are unconscious mental constructs. They can be MASSIVE civilization shaping giants, or massive individual constructs.

They ‘resist’ the expansion of consciousness, which is a continual process of learning, awareness,and UNlearning. This process happens ONLY in the presence.

That is why I believe psychoanalysis to be somewhat fruitless in therapy. There’s a great book you should immediately read named ‘Awaken the Giant Within’ by Anthony Robbins. This book is a modern mystical text on Alchemy… but is based on the most advanced findings in applied psychology. It is about changing your life and your mental states not with analysis of the past, but attention to the present, and conscious direction into the FUTURE.

The past will create more past. Surely you’ve seen that in action? The lesson of the third rune, Thurisaz, is to harness the protective force of the present to undo the unconsciousness and conditioning that rules your life…

… and you have picked a fight with that unconscious conditioning. So finish it

Warm regards for the new year,

-Tyriel
[Tyriel's site, runesecrets]