PART ONE
Most of the time,
when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that
way.
Just remember, in
choosing, that we often resist what we most need.
Frustrations and
rewards exist at all levels on the path.
Many of us find that
we have squandered our own creative energies by investing disproportionately in
the lives, hopes, dreams, and plans of others.
Their lives have obscured and detoured our own.
In dealing with the
suicide of the "nice" self we have been making do with, we find a
certain amount of grief to be essential.
How do you know if
you are creatively blocked? Jealousy is an excellent clue.
All that angry,
whining, petty stuff that you write down in the morning stands between you and
your creativity. Worrying about the job,
the laundry, the funny knock in the car, the weird look in your lover's eye -- this
stuff eddies through our subconscious and muddies our days.
Insight in and of
itself is an intellectual comfort. Power
in and of itself is a blind force that can destroy as easily as build. It is only when we consciously learn to link
power and light that we begin to feel our rightful identities as creative
beings.
Our focused
attention is critical to filling the well.
We need to encounter our life experiences, not ignore them.
Negative beliefs are
exactly that: beliefs, not facts.
Your block doesn't
want you to see that. Its whole plan of
attack is to make you irrationally afraid of some dire outcome you are too
embarrassed to even mention.
Erraticism is a
normal part of getting unstuck, pulling free from the muck that has blocked
us. It is important to remember that at
first flush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
Be particularly
alert to any suggestion that you have become selfish or different. (These are
red-alert words for us. They are attempts to leverage us back into our old ways
for the sake of someone else's comfort, not our own).
Through
self-nurturance we nurture our inner connection to the Great Creator.
Setting skepticism
aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations.
