Human beings live on multiple levels simultaneously; therefore, we always have a number of options available to us for how to face any challenge, problem, or goal.
It’s not that one of those levels is ‘right’ and the others are ‘wrong’.
At the same time, dealing with issues on a deeper level (for example, the level of consciousness or ‘internal experiencing’) can have profound, far-reaching effects.
I think a decent principle is: Start where you’re currently able to start, and then expand from there.
Since it’s Chinese New Year right now, might as well put a relevant Chinese saying here:
山不轉路轉
路不轉人轉
人不轉心轉
[When blocked by a mountain…]
If you can’t move the mountain, then move the road;
If you can’t move the road, move your body;
If you can’t move your body, move your mind.
And here’s a story that illustrates the same point:
Long ago in ancient times, when everyone walked barefoot, there was a powerful leader. He was walking in his lands when he stepped on a thorn and pierced his foot. Filled with rage, he summoned his advisors to him and said, ‘It is unacceptable that I could be walking in my own land and receive harm from it! Here are your orders! By the end of 7 days, you must place soft furs, skins, and mats over every surface of my kingdom so that wherever I walk, the earth will softly massage my feet! Do it or I will execute all of you and find advisors who CAN do it.’
The leader’s lands were vast and the advisors knew that they could never achieve this in 7 days. And they despaired for 6 days. Until on the 6th night, suddenly one of them saw the solution.
On the final morning, the group of them came to the leader with two soft and thick skins. They approached the leader and wrapped the skins around his feet and fastened the top so that they were both comfortable and secure.
“Now, my leader, wherever you go in your land, there will always be a soft carpet beneath your feet.”
This is just a story, of course. But you can see the point.
On another note, I myself have height insecurity. Not crippling, but it comes up sometimes. The thing is, at this time, it’s very, very low on my list of priorities. Hopefully I’ll get to it once my more important goals are sorted. If not, then, if reincarnation is real, I’ll try to do it next time.