I’ve never done this before in my life: 240 pages, written,
rewritten, edited and polished in a little over 6 weeks. Georg F. Handel did his Messiah in about that
long, but he was a genius. Oh. My.
God. The newborn 101 Stress Busters for Energy, Joy and Healthy Longevity is on its
way now to bookstores, Amazon and me. As
I contemplate this blank page, I feel like a battery that is completely devoid
of charge. Yet, thinking about this
amazing experience, I can feel psychic energy sparkling through my exhausted
soul, and suddenly I’m a bit less exhausted.
Just enough to pick up my fingers and pour my soul out on the page.
Two hundred and forty pages, most of which is about
creativity. There are preliminary
chapters about fun ways to breathe and meditate and walk and exercise, and
there is a chapter on making plans and making sure that you execute on them –
so important! - but the bulk of the tome is page after page, tool after tool,
that takes you out of your worry mind, away from the tunnel-vision that stress
creates and into the realms of divinity.
After all, in the beliefs of most faith traditions, there is a deity who
creates the world from the raw materials at hand. The Bible creation story, and the Babylonian
Tiamat story that it cribbed from, involves breath and clay soil and the
transformation of dead nothingness into glorious somethingness. God is God because he, she or it brings forth
life. God is the Creator in Judaism,
Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, the Norse pantheon and most animisms. [Buddhism is the only major faith that doesn’t
have a creator being.] There is nothing
that so closely mimics the divine as this simple path of creating something
with your own hands and your own soul.
What flows through your mind and what frisson of excitement
flows through your body when you first behold the works of YOUR hand? Regardless of how imperfect it may be – and
when you do anything for the first time, it won’t be the Pieta, so if you are
perennially in the humor to tear yourself down, plenty of scope for it – it is
creation. It is beautiful in the same
way that all newborn babies are beautiful.
The awe that overcomes you when you see the results of your work, the
vision and the execution of your heart, your soul and your spirit resembles
nothing else on Earth. Even the
transcendence you experience on the mountain top, or sitting on the rim of the
Grand Canyon, or driving down a road three feet away from a live bison isn’t
the same awe as the awe of true creation.
Creation of any kind, whether it is a vegetable bed or an
oil painting, puts you in a mental and emotional place that transforms your
physical body as well. The adrenal
stress cascade stops or slows. Your
heart stops laboring. Neurons remain
intact and new ones are created from neural stem cells; your memory improves
and the clarity of logic sharpens. Your
kidneys stop laboring; your immune system, especially the T-attack cells and
the Natural Killer cells that go after cancer as well as outside invaders,
generates its full complement of soldiers, ready to protect you from killers
within and without. Chronic inflammation
quietens. The chemicals that scratch
the walls of your arteries and allow plaque to attach become fewer and far
between. All over your body, from your
skin to your bones and everywhere in between, the deadly effects of stress are
muted.
Time spent in a creative fog is time that exists outside of
the normal minute-by-minute “real time” that we are all used to. The first time you can put aside your OMG,
I’m Doing It Wrong, I Know I’m Doing It Wrong thoughts and really deep-end in
the process, narrow your thoughts and focus to simply what you are doing, you
will sink deep into the Time Without Time.
Time simply ceases to exist as a reality.
And the act of creation doesn’t seem to even involve
you. People have reported feeling as if
a power took control of their voice, their typing hands or the hand holding the
brush or the glue pot while the Real Me just watched. They are absolutely right, if the Real You is
your thinking, planning, analyzing Pre-Frontal Cortex, the part of you most
active when you are consciously, logically trying to “figure something out.” In order to create, you need to let your PFC
step back [“take a nap,” in a hypnotherapy journey] and let the part of you
that knows how to play and that knows the real agendas and the real goals of
your heart take over. This is the part
of you that passionately wants to express those agendas and goals – dreams – in
whatever medium you allow. Let the real
Real You come out to play, and to express to you what is truly Real, and you
will have a gold mine of Truth about yourself and how you truly perceive your
world and your life.
I’m not immune from the glorious results of allowing Truth
to flow. I thought my new book 101 Stress Busters for Energy, Joy and
Healthy Longevity was about health through blunting the deadly ravages of
stress, and it is. But if you look at
the page count, and at the chapters that flowed out of me like a mighty stream,
it is the power and glory of a life spent creating that the book is really
about. My subconscious was so insistent
on this book that I bumped my planned 2017 releases to accommodate it, and I
worked at a fever pitch to finish it, rewrite it, polish it, edit it and
produce it in 6 exhausted weeks. I mean,
stress causes a lot of the problems that my work erases, but still – why? Now, looking at the finished product in
printed form, I know why. My soul wanted
your soul to create, and it produced a 240-page how-to guide to all the forms
of joy that would fit into 101 tools, and still leave some space for breathing,
meditation and the importance of moving.
Want to learn more?
Come visit me at www.soaringdragon.biz
or check out my Facebook group Healing Minds, Healing Bodies and join my
monthly (or whenever I get around to it) newsletter. I offer free and low-cost classes on
Learnitlive.com as well as a free Getting Unstuck session (not a sales pitch)
for entrepreneurs who want to wake up every morning, do their self-care and
then execute, execute, execute all day long, no wasted time, for the maximum
income and greatest joy. I also invite anyone
who thinks they’re “not creative” to call me or buy 101 Stress Busters, and I
invite people who’ve had traumas in their lives, to know that the impact on
their lives today can be ended - permanently.
