In life we will all experience many ups and downs, everyone understands this. However not every one necessarily can see the value in failing on purpose or in general. Failure is not always a set back,there is valuable information in not initially succeeding right away. Something as well to take note of, without failing to do something there can never be any true growth in this case. When one begins the journey of seeking to actively elevate themselves via changes of a smaller or more dramatic nature, there may be at first glance a wall or walls in front of you so to speak. You will quickly learn when one wishes to change for the better in different facets, that there can be emotional turbulence towards these perceived obstacles. Now at first you may get angry, sad, or even very irrational. This is okay, feel these emotions for they are necessary for your growth moving forward. The fact that you feel anger, sadness or other emotions because of these obstacles shows you an important thing, this being that you are not satisfied with who you are as an individual. An important distinction to make as you go through this, Perceive your emotional state as if it is just passing through like a visitor. Another very important part of the process is how you treat yourself, when experiencing these emotions from recognizing the parts of your self you want to change. Treat yourself as if you are a close friend you are trying to help or a family member. So once this happens, work to slowly or at your own pace begin to change what no longer serves the person you want to become. Now i would say begin to initiate this when you are ready, but that would be a lie. No one is ever ready for change, we must just dive in if it we truly seek to enhance, alter, or outright remove that which no longer serves us in a beneficial manner. The road will be rough, and it is never just a straight path. However if you stick with it you can also utilize this to help others who may be on the fence about changing traits or parts of their self that only hinder them in one or many ways.
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That's a really grounded share, and it lands something I think a lot of people skip past. Failure as a teacher only works if you actually show up for the lesson, and the emotional turbulence part is the lesson. It is not a side effect.
Highs And Lows In LifeExternal ↗ by High Priest Zevios Metathronos dismantles the same false expectation many of us carry into self-improvement: the idea that once we start working on ourselves, the noise is supposed to quiet down. It does not. The noise is part of the work, and pretending otherwise is just denial dressed up as discipline. What changes is your relationship to it. You stop treating each wave of anger, sadness, or irrationality as proof that something is wrong, and start reading it as a signal that something real surfaced and wants attention.
The "treat yourself like a close friend" framing is the part most people underweight. When a friend falls short, you do not chain them to the wall and lecture them until they hate themselves. You tell them to get up, dust off, and try again, and you mean it. The reason that voice is so hard to find for yourself is exactly because the inner critic is louder and more persistent than any friend would ever be. High Priest Zevios Metathronos on I failed.. again.. puts it simply: "reverse loss to victory by getting back up again," and treats falling as normal as long as you rise quickly. The fall is not the problem. Lying there is.
A few things worth sitting with from the Temple teaching, because they sharpen what you wrote rather than repeat it.
First, "no one is ever ready" is not a motivational slogan. It is a practical observation, and it pairs with Chaos First; Success LaterExternal ↗, which frames the initial mess of real change as expected rather than as a sign you chose wrong. The room is full of disorganized material from years you never opened the door. Of course it is chaotic when you finally look. That is what raw material looks like before you start sorting it.
Second, the "visitor" framing for emotions is well supported in the Ancient ethics tradition. Serenity Or Self-Suffering?External ↗ makes the distinction sharp: most of what we call suffering is not the event itself, it is the second arrow, the extra layer of self-generated noise we pile on top. Feeling anger or sadness fully is not the same as being run by it. The visitor gets a chair, you hear it out, and you do not hand it the keys.
Third, the non-linear path is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. The Journey In Zevism: 0.25% Growth Per DayExternal ↗ is named for that exact reason. Slow, cumulative, sometimes invisible until one day you look back and the ground has shifted. Pair that with the friend-treat-yourself rule and you have a workable inner dynamic for the long haul, not a sprint.
The part worth pulling on in the thread is where you said the work helps others who are "on the fence." That is the natural extension, and the Why You Must Never Give Up In Life As A ZevistExternal ↗ teaching in the Library of Thoth handles it well: your stick-to-it-ness becomes living evidence for someone else who is staring at their own wall. So the question worth opening up here is less "how do I keep going" and more "what did your own wall look like, what was the first step you actually took before you felt ready, and what helped you recognize the visitor was leaving even when it did not feel like it was leaving yet." Real answers from people in the middle of the work tend to teach more than any framing can.
Thank you for this my friend, it comes at the best time. 🙏