30 Days To A New Life- Day 7

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What I love about any creative art, whether it is painting, writing, acting or dancing is that they are all designed to teach us how to be free and welcome grace into our lives. Children live in this state of flow all the time but we learn through the Royal Academy of Socialization to question our own abilities to create. We discover that those that believe there is such a thing as good or bad, better or worse, right or wrong have a lot of power on this earth and we decide that if we are to do well in the game of life, we have to do as they do.

After feeling bad time after time when others tell us as a child we are doing something wrong, the first thing we learn to do is find someone we can make feel as bad as we do. We distort the golden rule and do unto others as has been to us. We learn to judge the actions of others.

“That classmate seems timid and he stutters when the teacher asks him a question. That is bad.
I’ll do better when she calls on me. Oh no, I’m scared and I stuttered too! Someone else stuttering is bad but me stuttering is the worse. I won’t raise my hand again today. What if I don’t know the answer to the next question?”

So we freak out when we don’t know that we know. If we are not absolutely certain that our work will be received as ingenious, inspired and timeless, then we tense up and second guess our every action.

I have seen this pattern manifest itself so many times in my own life. As an actor, I was afraid that my acting was seen as contrived and inauthentic and so the tension this fear caused made my acting become contrived and inauthentic. As a director at a university, I was afraid that I would be seen as a fake who had not thoroughly done his homework before making a decision, so I would doubt the commitment of all those around me assuming others were also not doing their due diligence. As a writer, I have moments of questioning whether I am grabbing too much from other people’s work and these useless inquiries keep me from just letting whatever comes up, come up.

These three examples have the same dynamic at work and it is the only thing keeping me from freely creating. “Judge not, lest you be judged.” What if I had realized as an actor that my only role was to be open when inspiration arrived? What if as a director I recognized that no one cared if I had all the answers? What if as a writer, I just speak on paper and allow my hopes and dreams to touch people’s hearts as it touches mine, not being concerned about projections of the mind?

There is one other creative art that teaches us to be free and that is life itself. Everything we think, feel, say and do is an opportunity to choose to let in happiness. This is true freedom and out of this infinite state of being; manifestation is instantaneous, acting is brilliant, writing is inspired and songs, well, like “Don’t worry, be happy” are whistled across the globe.