I worked recently with an amazing man who is up to big things. Bigger than he even sees right now because he has a pattern of guilt that keeps him being just – “semi amazing”.
Some of my clients are people that come to me after trying to create their life by looking deeply into their the past. Sometimes this means they go to therapy.
Shallow, flatland reductionist psychology lets you study your childhood and adolescent history of wounds and negative beliefs, but that’s all. They don’t realize that although we can’t change the past, we can change our relationship to the past.
In my opinion, one of the reasons that skillful coaches sometimes succeed where psychologists have failed is because of a coach’s effectively enthusiastic approach to creating his client’s future. This is why I left the mental health counseling field long ago to become a coach.
I say, let’s create a surge in your life!
But our mind still thinks spirit lives beyond the mind and the body.
That we have to call on it. Or pray for it. Or earn it. Or feel guilty about it. Be good enough for it.
We desperately “call on the light” or ask that prayers be “answered” not knowing we are made of light.
Isn’t spirit already always infusing both mind and body with the life force? But we “reach out,” calling for better fortune, for more light, as Steve Chandler (www.clubfearless.com) says, “like the sun asking to borrow light from a candle”.
Fearless creativity is already in us, waiting. Just waiting. It’s waiting for us to take action, because that’s how it gets released. Steven Pressfield, in his masterpiece The War of Art asks, “How many of us have become drunks and drug addicts, developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply because we don’t do that thing, that our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to?”
Loving, Kendall
