Filipino Myth And Legend

Filipino folk expression shows seven types of life experience

Filipino Myth And Legend

Filipino Folk material can be seen as 7 basic life principles: the 7 Words. Identity is first, where the central story can be put most simply as: who am I? As a rule each of us has a need to become a lot clearer about the things we are trying to achieve. This concerns all and everything, from what is useful to feelings that are uncomfortable. The mystery is to know how to achieve a clear mind and then to find the solutions to whatever problems we have to deal with. The 7 Words System offers a easy insightful routine that allows us to reach a greatly improved knowledge of what exactly we are trying to find. The process opens with No. To begin with, we will need identify precisely what it is that actually we don't want, what is not useful, before we can know what we do want.

Filipino Myth And Legend

Second, the quest for knowledge, reaching out beyond the horizons of habit to meet new people, new ideas and new ways to see the world. The next stage connects to the word Hello. We will certainly need to open up to new possibilities if we expect to expand our scope of answers to the troubles that life throws up. You agree? To get something different we will need to extend our perspectives and look where we have not previously looked already. Novel thoughts, new associates, new places and new things are all characteristic of giving deliberation to something we have not previously faced. This entails that we substitute old for new, that we have something to offer in reasonable return for what are trying to acquire.

Filipino Myth And Legend

Then love. Romantic love between woman and man is favourite, yet the importance of family, village, nation and humanity itself also shows acts of kindness. Between all existing options, some are more appealing than others and of course we want them to have a higher value, because we appreciate them more. This is explained by the primary word Thanks. Repeatedly, we forget the worth of what we have, then blindly move into thanklessness and are likely to assume what should not be assumed.It's more than merely politeness to let somebody see our appreciation for things we esteem; it has a major consequence in helping us to accomplish our ends. In some unconscious way, we are magnetized to what we convey gratitude for, and yet it's equally true to say that we are able to attract them to us too. We acquire pull when we say Thanks and therefore, if we do so, we readily bring things towards us.

Filipino Myth And Legend

The Hero’s quest. The brave young man goes forward to take on challenges, either external or internal. The defeating of evil is a metaphor for the battle of light and darkness within one’s own heart. Goodbye is the fourth of the 7 primary words and relates to a progression that has four phases. They are: realization, decision, completion and moving on. Goodbye is being said to a particular stage of development, and therefore is observed plainly as utter dismissal of a viable path of action that we had been going towards and in future will not engage in. It is a turning point in our selection of possible futures. Goodbye is different from No in that it means that we have had some kind of involved interaction already, which now needs to end compared to No's rebuttal in the first place. Bona fide decisions cut the past away completely and that penetration establishes an opportunity that otherwise does not arise.

Filipino Myth And Legend

Vision Quest. The seeker needs to find answers to deep issues of concern that expand power and wisdom. The future becomes known according to the customs of what has gone before unless we take control of it and shape it to our aspirations. To do this obliges us to have a vision of how we want it to be; this vision has to be very clear, clear-cut and positive converted into intention. They differ don't they - vision and intention? The first is to some extent dreamlike and the second is much more concentrated and willful. For a vision to become real there must be support. . Nothing can be achieved without earning the benefit of others - this takes skill, doubtless arguments, even stimulation. It is not always obligatory to tender something such as money or money's worth.

Filipino Myth And Legend

Another theme that appears in song, myth and epic is redemption. Each of us, yearns to be released from the pain of guilt and shame, and purified through atonement. Sorry, the sixth word, is best seen as repairing damage done if we've been insensitive or oblivious to the needs or wants of another. The best plan is to make sure we avoid the need to say it by being considerate beforehand. For what reason? Well it's because anyone we upset could easily be inclined to act against us and lessen our probability of achievement of our goals, so it is simply more wise to take into account others as well as ourselves. It is all to do with being responsible, having a degree of feelings towards anyone we've upset and making recompense when we've made a mistake. Then and only then will it ever be possible to prevent or repair bitterness and release the unending unpleasantness that otherwise would intensify and become further aggravated.

Filipino Myth And Legend

The final journey is the quest for the absolute. This can take the form of spiritual ascendancy, seclusion, surrender and death, a final acknowledgement of the unity of all life. The concluding phase of our 7 Words approach is to do with acceptance; there are times when we simply have to agree to what we cannot change. The word is Yes. It would be good wouldn't it if we were able to make the world exactly the way we envision it - but in fact we can't. We always need to withstand what comes, and to take what is not exactly what we asked for. The best knack is to place reliance on the fact that everything eventually turns around to our advantage, that the modifications to our plans are all improvements when perceived in the perspective of the longer term. Indeed it's not easy to see it when we are still close and attached to our desires of course not! Yet wait a bit and you may well see that the unanticipated incidents, the surprises and defeats are actually the best bits masquerading as trouble.

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