How do you eat an elephant?

Artist Attribution
Sequoia Trees are huge trees, but they didn't get
that way over night. Each moment another part of
the tree grew in relation to what was already there.

If what we are growing is something we want, it is
worth the wait, as there is a foundation for what
we come to have.

Sometimes we just want to get things "over with"
because we don't want to face what seems to be the
enormity of it all. It's too bad that things don't
often - and actually quite rarely - work that way.

At the same time, we underestimate the value of what
we are building upon. It is a paradox that one is never
at a destination without simultaneously beginning a
new journey. If unable to see that, what is happening
might seem like one very long, overwhelming journey
in which you never feel like you are making any progress.

Journeys have unexpected events. It is inherent in
what a journey is about. No way to truly know
something until you are in the midst of it.

As with pretty much everything, how we interact
with things in life can also apply to one's hypnotic
experience. I often find that there is an impatience
on some people's part for things to happen.

Some want to be "instant" mindless zombies, and can
be impatient with the process of what can take them
there. Think about it, if you could instantly be
there, how would you know you were there, if you
were mindless, and how would you know what that was
if you would cease to be able to tell that there
was something that had taken place.

You want what you want, in part,
because it contrasts with what you know.

The best thing you can do is take one step at a
time, and interact with things as they happen.
You could anticipate what you think might happen,
but odds are you still may be surprised, and the
moment will take care of itself. It can be times
like that that magic seems to happen.

Allowing life (or a hypnotic experience) to unfold
can be quite difficult if you always want things
figured out before you even start. About the only
thing that you can have some certainty about from
moment to moment is that you will take the next step
along the way, and while there may be some leaps,
most of them will be likely be small; and I bettcha
if you do that you'll be here exactly where you want
to be before you know it. ;)

How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.