the zorba

The Power of the zorba

Massive shifts we’re living through are causing many people and organizations to feel diminished, because of things, experiences and status that they’ve lost or fear they’ll lose. People often describe how they lost their self-confidence or how they got their self-confidence back. RedShift Programs help you re-claim what you think you lost but in actuality, gave away. RedShift programs ask “where’s the zorba?

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One of the results, or benefits, to RedShift clients is to release the contradicting beliefs driving this sense of not being enough and to replace them with beliefs that create natural influence resulting in expanded personal power, life force and a greater and more enriched life experience. These are lasting results, unaffected by external forces and personal challenges and situations.

One side of the change process is inner work requiring stillness, space and relaxation necessary to examine, uncover, release and replace limiting beliefs and then practicing a new belief system in action. The other side of the change process, that I call “the zorba”, is outer work, embracing and experience the qualities of our nature and creaturehood, including:

  • natural aggression
  • sensuality
  • instinctual responses
  • rhythm
  • imagination
  • masculine/feminine archetype
  • magnetism

The metaphor that inspired “the zorba”, is the story of Zorba the Greek. Its a powerful metaphor for the antithesis of over-attachment to concepts and the paradoxical suffering that results from total identification with concepts in the conceptual world.

“Why! Why!” he exclaimed with disdain. “Cant a man do anything without a why? Just like that, for the hell of it?
Zorba

The story’s narrator and main character Basil represents barely alive life we succumb to when we’re so absorbed in our thinking that we lose our connection to nature, to our deep human roots, to our sensual experiences and to our robust, creature-based appetites.

“I still said nothing. I knew Zorba was right, I knew it, but I did not dare. My life had got on the wrong track, and my contract with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had fallen so low that, if I had had to choose between falling in love with a woman and reading a book about love, I should have chosen the book.” Basil/Narrator

The zorba is a joyful re-connection with our creaturehood and its attendant instinctual responses, sensual desires and natural aggression. The zorba is a wake-up call, jolting us out of knowledge and control. The zorba is alignment and identification with a greater power, non-resistance to what is happening and amazement of the mysteries of the world.

He interrogates himself with the same amazement when he sees a man, a tree in blossom, a glass of cold water. Zorba sees everything every day as if for the first time. Basil/Narrator

The zorba is the conviction that the only path, the right way is the one in front of us.

But I believe in Zorba because he’s the only being I have in my power, the only one I know. All the rest are ghots. I see with these eyes, I hear with these ears, I digest with these guts. All the rest are ghosts, I tell you. When I die, everything’ll die. The whole Zorbatic world will go to the bottom! Zorba

The zorba is the instinct and ability to sense change before it happens. The zorba rescues us from the constraints of linear time and the fear of change and taking huge risks.

The head’s a careful little shopkeeper; it never risks all it has, always keeps something in reserve. It never breaks the string. Ah no! It hangs on tight to it, the bastard! Zorba

The zorba is the courage to live up to our innate entrepreneurial, creative and innovative abilities and the refusal to ignore those desires to follow a more conventional path, even if it saps our soul and betrays us.

Awakening in me was the soul of the first men on earth, such as it was before it became totally detached from the universe, when it still felt the truth directly, without the distorting influence of reason. Basil/Narrator

The zorba is the persistence to not give in to failures or be diminished by them. Zorba’s greatest endeavor and achievement is an example: the elaborate cable railway logging operation that he designs, collapses into ruin causing the villagers flee in terror.

The zorba is our return to innocence and uncertainty, seeing what was once intolerable as our greatest gift and point of power.

Zorba: Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it. You’ve got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else…
Basil: Or else?
Zorba: …he never dares cut the rope and be free. from Zorba the Greek

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