Examples Of Philippine Folktales

Filipino folk expression shows seven types of life experience

Examples Of Philippine Folktales

Filipino Folk material can be seen as 7 basic life principles: the 7 Words. Identity is first, where the central story can be put most simply as: who am I? Predictably many of us have a real and important need to become better focused about the things we are trying to achieve. This concerns everything, from what is useful to avoiding sore, difficult or awkward feelings. The mystery seems to be to do with how to reach that clarity and then to uncover the answers to problems. The 7 Words System offers a simple insightful means that enables us to get a greatly improved feeling of what it is that we are looking for. It begins with the word No. At first we need mark out exactly what we do not want what is not useful, before we can know what we do want.

Examples Of Philippine Folktales

Second, the quest for knowledge, reaching out beyond the horizons of habit to meet new people, new ideas and new ways to see the world. The following step correlates with the word Hello. We will certainly need to open up to new things if we have a desire to open out our choice of solutions to questions arising. You agree? To get something fresh we will need to extend our sphere of awareness and look where we have not previously looked previously. Original dreams, new contacts , new situations and new things are clearly facets of giving reflection to something we have not until that time faced. It calls us to trade old for new, that can tender something in fair return for what are trying to acquire.

Examples Of Philippine Folktales

Then love. Romantic love between woman and man is favourite, yet the importance of family, village, nation and humanity itself also shows acts of kindness. Among all available opportunities, some are more pleasing than others and we give them a higher worth, because we appreciate them more. This is explained by the primary word Thanks. Repeatedly, we forget the meaning of what we have, then blindly move into ingratitude and are likely to assume what should not be assumed.It's more than simply politeness to show our appreciation for things we esteem; it has a significant part to play in helping us to achieve our goals. In some unconscious way, we are magnetized to what we communicate appreciation for, and yet it's equally accurate to say that we can to attract them to us too. We increase magnetism when we say Thanks and therefore, if we do so, we smoothly bring things towards us.

Examples Of Philippine Folktales

The Hero’s quest. The brave young man goes forward to take on challenges, either external or internal. The defeating of evil is a metaphor for the battle of light and darkness within one’s own heart. The word Goodbye is one of the seven primary words and concerns a course of development that has 4 clearly defined steps. They are: realization, decision, completion and moving on. Goodbye is being said to a possible stage of development, so is to be seen in simple terms as utter rejection of a workable course of action that we had been stepping towards and in future will not engage in. It is a crossroad point in our pick of potential futures.Goodbye is different from No in that it suggests that there has been a degree of connection already, which now needs to end contrasted with No's rebuttal in the first place. Genuine decisions cut the past away unconditionally and that sharpness makes an opening of a doorway that otherwise does not come to exist.

Examples Of Philippine Folktales

Vision Quest. The seeker needs to find answers to deep issues of concern that expand power and wisdom. The future becomes known according to the habits of the past unless we take control of it and bend it to our aspirations. This forces us to have a vision of how we want it to be; this vision has to be very clear, unambiguous and optimistica€”and transformed into intention. They differ don't they - vision and intention? The first is rather dreamlike and the second is much more concentrated and conscious. For a vision to become real there must be support. . Nothing can be made possible without earning the aid of others - this takes skill, probably arguments, even stimulation. It is not always compulsory to present something such as money or money's worth.

Examples Of Philippine Folktales

Another theme that appears in song, myth and epic is redemption. Each of us, yearns to be released from the pain of guilt and shame, and purified through atonement. Sorry, the 6th primary word, is best seen as making good damage done whenever we've been uncaring or oblivious to the needs or wants of someone else. The best strategy is to make sure we forestall the need to say it by being thoughtful earlier. Why on earth should we? Well it's because anyone we upset could easily be inclined to act against our better purposes and lower our probability of accomplishing what we intend, so it is simply more shrewd to take into account others as well as ourselves. This question is all about being responsible, having some concern towards someone whom we've upset and making compensation when we've slipped up. Then and only then will it ever be feasible to prevent the likelihood or patch up offense and let go of the unending nastiness that otherwise would develop and worsen.

Examples Of Philippine Folktales

The final journey is the quest for the absolute. This can take the form of spiritual ascendancy, seclusion, surrender and death, a final acknowledgement of the unity of all life. The concluding point of our 7 Words approach is to do with acceptance; there are instances when we simply have to consent to what we cannot change. The word is Yes. It would be delightful wouldn't it if we were able to make the world exactly the way we envision it - but in actual reality we can't. We always need to suffer what comes, and to take what is not exactly what we asked for. The greatest habit is to have an expectation that everything in due course turns around to our advantage, that the modifications to our plans are all improvements when perceived in the perspective of the longer term. Surely it's not easy to see it when we are still close and attached to our desires of course not! Still hold your horses and you may well see that the serendipitous occurrences, the surprises and frustrations are actually the best bits masquerading as misfortune.

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