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All of us has had experiences of
pain, hurt, disappointments, unfilled expectations, doubt,
fears, betrayals, controls on our freedom and a myriad of other
things we dislike about life and don’t want to experience again. But
the future is unknown. We really don’t know what the next moment is
going to give us. Because we don’t know what the future holds, our
past tends to haunt the present. Hence, we fear that the unknown of
life will give us more of the same unpleasantness. We fear the
unknown and are anxious about what an unknown has to offer.
To avoid the anxiety that can come with the unknown, we retreat to a
habit of the mind that gives us a
warm fuzzy feeling about the future that allows us to think we
have life under control. In doing so, we continue to recreate the
past and fail to fully embrace the possibilities of the future. This
is the illusion of control.
When we live in our habits. We think we are controlling the unknown
of the future. Yet, any creative endeavor by its very nature has to
take us into the unknown. We can fully expect that we will
experience fear. Yet, only when we face our fear and look to the
past as to why our particular fear arises (as opposed to any other
fear) will we be able to move through it and face the
anxiety of the unknown and the
chaos of the creation process. In doing so, we step into our
true creative power.
One problem we face is that any response pattern of the mind and
mental habit that we use to escape to avoid anxiety of the unknown
or give rise to our fears is that they are extremely strong and
quick. Also many of these habits go back to very early in life to a
time before you developed a conscious mind and could become
consciously aware of the habits that you formed. It is not like we
can go back and consciously retrieve a memory as to why we are
responding the way we do. Often we just have a vague feeling and
don’t really know why we feel the way we do.
If we sometimes feel we are stuck in habits of our childhood, we are
completely correct. But most of the habits go back to the first 2 or
3 years of life if not earlier before many of have conscious
memories of this life. Remember, we are talking about a specific set
of habits concerning how you learned to respond to the anxiety of
the unknown and uncertainty of life. Being in life more than two or
three years is more than sufficient time to develop such habits. We
only need to think about how many times we have to do something as
an adult before we develop the habit and remember that a young child
is open to readily mold itself to whatever experience it has because
it has less interference of the past.
What this means is that to address our fears we will have to go back
and explore our past. We will have to make the subconscious
conscious where possible. When that is not possible because the
memories lie within our being rather than our mind, then we will
have to work with our feelings and in a realm where mind is ill
equipped to help us. It is here the
internal compass is most useful.
Calibrating our internal compass to know what
serves us and gives us a fullness of being and a feeling full of
life, we can use our internal compass to guide us where we only have
feeling with which to work. We can use our internal compass to guide
us to the
freedom of our own being and
honor our intuitive guidance as to exactly what we need to do to
enter that place of freedom.
No one can do this for us. Since we enter the unknown must of
fear doing the journey alone and we think another can guide us
better than ourselves. However, nothing can be farther from the
truth. We are unique
infinitely creative beings and
our creative spirit is confided in
a cage of our own making. We are the only one’s who have the
key. We may use the
lessons learned of others and capitalize on their advice, wisdom
and experience. However, only we can free our own being.
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“Curing” the anxiety of the unknown
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