Skip to main content

Featured

What Are the Pitfalls During Transformation

What are all the pitfalls during transformation? What are the hidden or unsuspected difficulties during the journey of transformation?   Have you received a "calling"? If you have, what have you done to make it come into fruition? A lot of people don't understand what I am about to say. When a calling happens, there's resistance. We may be excitement to get started, and, perhaps, we may take some steps. But soon enough, many of us get overwhelmed, lost, inundated with ideas or none at all, or simply allow life to take over and nothing happens.  Receiving a calling is a challenge. A calling is about stepping into the unknown which can be one of the scariest things for a human to do.  Why is this so scary? Because the majority of us are living in survival. We would rather feel a sense of comfort and safety than walk into the unknown. The problem with this is that we're compromising our core values which will eventually erode our self-concepts. For example, we don...

Unconsciousness Controls Us

Unconsciousness Controls Us
Wake Up to Live with Desiree Leigh

"A surprising number of us would just as soon avoid starting down the slippery slope that uncomfortable feelings can present if we give them full expression on paper. Better to ignore or suppress them, lest they start to make our lives more complicated than we can handle...

We often make the mistake of thinking there is safety in unconsciousness and danger in awareness. But the reverse is actually true. As writers, awareness of our thoughts gives us control over our material, where as unconsciousness controls us."

Excerpted from Writing the Mind Alive.

Wake Up to Live with Desiree Leigh

Comments

  1. "As writers, awareness of our thought gives us control over our material, whereas unconsciousness controls us"

    That said, I find that writing down those things that are bothering me allows me to face them, reduce them to manageable sizes, and even realize which are not really an issue.

    Being aware of the issues means taking control of the issues, and I have always found that writing about them first makes them clearer and more manageable.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment