Orestes teaches us to look at inner anxiety from another perspective
Anxiety is a crucial signal that God gives us, reminds us of physical and mental health problems and prompts us to reflect on ourselves.
But more people will choose to escape and attribute the problem to the outside world - the hypocrisy of friends, the exploitation of superiors, and the pathology of society. So I missed the opportunity to heal myself.
The ancients said: "Goods and misfortunes depend on each other, and yin and yang change, and transform each other."
Good things turn into bad things, and bad things turn into good things, because of diseases, we cherish health more, because of darkness, and light more.
Greek In mythology, Orestes is the grandson of Mycenae city lord Atreus . Atreus is ambitious and wants to prove that he is unparalleled and is even greater than the gods. Therefore, he is punished by the gods. His descendants are cursed, causing Orestes' mother to commit adultery with her relatives and kill his husband and wife Agamemnon. Her lover takes power.
12-year-old Orestes wandered in a foreign land and vowed to avenge his father, but the act of killing his mother was also unbearable to the law. Orestes was in a dilemma and endured great pain, but in the end he killed his mother. So, the gods sent the goddess of vengeance to punish him. Orestes was constantly chased by the goddess of vengeance. The goddess of vengeance turned into a monster with a human head and bird body, constantly intimidating, attacking, and cursing him. He wandered around, seeking ways to make up for his sins. After years of loneliness, reflection and self-blame, he asked the gods to show mercy and revoke the curse of the Atreus family. He said that he had paid a great price for the crime of mother murder, so the gods held a large-scale public trial.
The sun god Apollo defended Orestes, saying that everything was arranged by himself. He issued a curse and order, which put Orestes in the dilemma of killing his mother. But Orestes stepped forward and denied the statement that Apollo . He said, "It was me who was at fault, I killed my mother, it had nothing to do with Apollo." His sincerity and frankness moved the gods, and finally pardoned Orestes, canceled the curse of the Atreus family, and turned the goddess of vengeance into the goddess of kindness, and the monster with human heads and birds into loving elfs.
The monster with human head and bird body is an illusion of Orestes' own psychological and an embodiment of the symptoms of his inner pain. The loving elf is also an illusion in his heart, but it is just an illusion after healing his heart.
After all, people live in their inner world and subjective ideas.
Facing reality and acknowledging problems instead of blindly escaping pain and responsibility is the beginning of self-healing.
Healing one's heart is not only like the recovery of a disease, but also the growth of the mind. It is about entering another state of the mind, transformation and transcendence. You can feel the strength and joy of the higher level of heart.
