Читать книгу The Way of Nowhere: Eight Questions to Release Our Creative Potential - Nick Udall - Страница 60

Most of our subconscious memories cost us energy because they are based on fear. This fear can take many forms – fear of failure, fear of isolation, fear of not deserving love. And at the bottom of all these fears is the fear that something will happen that will threaten our survival.

Yet all living things have an innate affinity with their creative life force. The more that we learn to control our fear, the more we can begin to access and trust this force.

When we are in touch with our creative life force, we are happy, confident and seemingly tireless, as we access an infinite source of energy. This optimism and confidence then affects others. They in turn become more confident and more willing to see what we can create together, as well as more enthusiastic about the adventure we are on and the difference we can make.

All of this may sound easy, but in reality it is tremendously difficult. Patterns of thought, and the emotions they engender, have a very powerful influence over us. For much of the time our positive emotions are in conflict with irritation, disillusionment, jealousy – any of the large number of negative emotional reactions that sap our energy and compromise our relationships with others.

Trusting life's growth therefore requires us to seek congruence, authenticity and discipline (see page 98) in the way we walk in the world. As self-leaders, we need to be continuously on guard for the emotions that threaten our connection to our creative life force and intervene before they take hold. If we are not quick and skilful, these emotions become the lens through which we see the world and we can spend years looking at life from a distorted perspective. The allied energy in the South asks us to accept only moments like this and to have the courage and discipline to move on, trusting in life's growth.