Are you ready to climb a mountain?
 
  Nigel Buxton Update
Are you ready to climb a mountain? April 2006
 
  Dear Nigel,

Are you ready to climb a mountain? To get to the top and look out at the world at your feet?

I was touched as a young boy by the film of the story of Douglas Bader. Douglas Bader was a fighter pilot in the war. He lost both his legs in a flying accident, and nearly his life. He recovered. He got artifical legs. And he did what was important to him: he got back in an aeroplane and continued to fly and contribute to the war effort as a fighter pilot!

The film is called "Reach for the sky". Great title?

Now I have not seen the film recently (not for about forty years), and my intention is not to promote the film.
What I am promoting is the courage to get up when you are down and to keep on trying new things (trying to do the same thing over and over and getting the same bruise each time is called stupidity!).

 		 
 
Do you feel beaten by your expereinces, or richer because of them?

A friend told me recently that she had had enough of getting into relationships with men, because she always ended up getting hurt. In general when you have a traumatic experience, emotionally speaking, it can put you off long-term. Sometimes we even say "never" again.

But when someone has a big physical "crunch". Everything supports getting back to normal, and doing all the things one did before. You break your leg (touch wood!) and you will make a full and complete recovery. Douglas Bader, at least in the film, was climbing mountains, with artificial legs!

When we are emotionally hurt, maybe we should go through the same recovery procedure as a physical hurt.

First, we put our damaged self in "plaster" for a while. Then we take the plaster off, and maybe we use a "stick" to support us for a while. And, of course, we will need to do some "physiotherapy". This will get the "muscles" working and strengthen them so we can lead a normal life again.
 
 

Anthony Robbins talks of decison-making muscles, and the need to exercise them. We also have "muscles" for our willingness to try new experiences. These muscles need to be exercised and kept in good shape. Each time we "fall", we need to re-educate the muscle, so that we will try again and again. Think back to when you were a kid, how many times did you fall while running, or learning to ride a bicycle and so on. And you did carry on and on. And now are are you doing?

In some way Douglas Bader inspired me, he must have done - I remember his story after all this time. What story inspires you to reach for the sky and keep going to be what you have to be?

What is stopping you from continuing to try new experiences?

Try something new to see how it works for you: and to see in what shape your "muscles" are.

Nigel coaches people like you to freedom – freedom from limitations, freedom to do/be more, financial freedom, emotional freedom, freedom to be yourself.

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