FEARLESS CREATIVITY!
Being fearlessly creative means that you are free from your fears... the fear of what others might think of you - fear of not enough money etc... This is true freedom!
John Mayer reveals this secret in his song
No Such Thing....
No Such Thing....
"I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above"
The "lie" you've got to rise above is fear... and when do you... you enter the almost magical place where the impossible becomes possible and miracles happen. Don't let your fears stop you...don't stop before the miracle.
After spending 3 days with my coach and mentor, Steve Chandler (pictured to the above) in Vancouver, Canada attending his Creator's Landing Wealth Creation Workshop, it became vividly clear to me that there is no lack of money, only a lack of imagination! I also realized that fear is the only problem that there is to solve.
Steve Chandler just finished writing his 17th book and it is titled FEARLESS! I am writing and recording the song Fearless to go along with the book as well as creating a new website called Become Fearless, so stay tuned for this in the next few weeks.
You can download 3 preview chapters of FEARLESS at www.SteveChandler.com/Bonus.html . And his is complimentary eBook "Powerful Graceful Success - The Secret Key to Mastering Time, Love and Money" has been very instumental in helping me blast through my fears and get and stay in action towards accomplishing my dreams and goals.
Ready to Become Fearless?
Steve gave me permission to share is blog posting about what fear actually is and how you can rise above it and get into bold action to create your dreams! From Steve's blog http://www.imindshift.com/
During my past ten years as a corporate trainer, business coach and life coach I thought fear was a given. I believed everyone had to live with plenty of fear. All that changed about three years ago when I went through Byron Katie's nine-day school and began working with myself and my clients to eliminate the thinking patterns that create fear.
What I found in my own life and in my coaching sessions was that fear could be dissolved at the level of thought. That it was unnecessary to spend each day avoiding fear or suffering through it. This was a tremendous breakthrough for me and my clients and I have captured all the elements of the breakthrough in my new book, FEARLESS.
In the popular book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway Susan Jeffers asserts that fear will never go away. That as long as you grow, you will experience fear. She says, "Every time you take a step into the unknown you experience fear." Is that true? Jeffers says that "fear is part of the package" and you better get used to it. But whose package is she referring to? Many children and all adults try new, unknown adventures with no experience of fear whatsoever. Some people fearlessly embark on projects while others run in the other direction.
Her position is that you are simply always going to be afraid. It's part of this scary human package. So let's learn to overcome, push through and tough it out. Her final philosophy is that "pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the bigger underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness!" So these are our choices in life-1) Doing frightening things that scare me to do them or 2) Living with an even bigger underlying fear that comes from feeling helpless. Her choice reminds me of Woody Allen's statement that "Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."
In my years of working with my clients and myself I used to assume that fear was a given part of the package-and our options were about overcoming the fears with actions. It worked. But then new fears would rise up and again the choice would be between the horrible and the miserable.
When I began integrating the writings of Ken Wilber and The Work of Byron Katie into my own life and the lives of my clients is when I began to see some new choices. I began to see that fear was not necessary. It did not have to be "part of the package."
So rather than feeling the fear and doing it anyway-how about feeling the fear and looking for the thought that causes it? It's the thought that is the source of the problem. It's time to send in the bomb squad, or else that thought (I'm not safe"?) will rise up in other situations throughout your whole life. Let's defuse. Not overwhelm. Let's not fight fire with fire, let's fight fire with water.
The great Chinese sage Lao-Tzu said, "There is nothing softer and weaker than water. And yet there is nothing better for engaging hard and strong things."
It is possible to live in fearless creativity. In this moment, right now. And when fear arises, it's not only possible, but proven enjoyable to dismantle and undo the thought that causes the fear . . . so that you return once again to a fearless state.
I had learned this lesson once before-years ago-in the work of Dr. Martin Seligman. I learned the lesson but forgot it as I became swept away by egoic pursuits. Dr. Seligman proved in his research (chronicled in his book Learned Optimism) that pessimism could be disputed-on the spot-by anyone, and optimism could be thoroughly learned and practiced.
The past couple years have been exciting to walk myself and my clients out of the dark regions of fear (imagining a future) and into the light (present moment opportunity).
In my book FEARLESS I give you many anecdotal case histories of fear being lifted and fearless creativity being expressed. The stories in the book add up to one conclusion: your past history does not have to own you. You are free. Yes. It is possible (and I know because I now see it happen every day) to have this day be fearless.
