The Madness of Creativity - How Jumping Rabbit Holes can Concern Those who Never Leap

I am made acutely aware by some, with good intentions no doubt... of the madness or the insanity that some people reflect in art, or visual exploration - the dynamics of exploring themes or diving into that so called rabbit hole, in order to bring back something of light.

I personally delve into that rabbit hole often, not through the use of any psychedelics or drugs, but with a mind that not only encourages the need to explore, it drags me kicking and screaming there if I refuse. What I see, sense and find, when I express it can give the world a wonderful insight, but also give them a glimpse of things they do not like to acknowledge.

In life, I use this great analogy - I recently heard a powerful spiritual woman speak of all the constant fears and torture we can afflict ourselves with, daily. Almost a daily worry - when we have mastered the innate pleasure of not worrying about the things that crippled us once. 

She related the fear of spiritual people who are concerned with dark energy - or evil forces - and I think the general conceptual principle of her theory can relate to all of life.

She says some are fearful of this, but if you are in the kitchen cooking a great recipe - that ingredient may be in the pantry right? Yes.
But, in all truth - are you cooking with it?
Do you plan to put it in the cooking?

This is what many simply cannot understand - they get almost upset - BUT it's THERE!
She replies - I understand - we know it's There - But - again - Why worry?

Because IT MIGHT GET IN MY COOKING!

She answers - are you going to put it IN there?
The person answers Of course not.

She answers - why worry about it then?
But I do not like it there - it should not be there!
And I paid for it once perhaps but - the reasoning lacks the purpose to continue - you get it?

The person, or the ego, or the standard human mind just keeps questioning this logic.

There are things in our houses or homes we know of, I have some things from when I was 16 years old, I am 38 now - I have not cooked with them or even need to bother worrying about if they have been sitting in the pantry for all these years.

In my mind I threw that poison away - I need not concern myself with wasting energy on it.

But for some the simple fact something is in the cupboard haunts them, or should impact on the great pleasure of cooking.

If you are creating a magical meal - it gets soured by negative emotion and thought.

So, this is my meal of nutrition served to you, and I love the fact we all love to eat healthy these days, well most of us - some are slowly waking up to the fact poor nutrition can detriment our minds and bodies.

This is a great blog post a quick brief succinct addressing of the same ideal:

http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/2011/03/24/the-people-who-are-crazy-enough-to-think-they-can-change-the-world-are-the-ones-who-do/

I feel too many people are too quick to Judge a book by it's cover - I walked into a food shop recently and the owner has been well aware of my fitness journey. He started to give me some well meaning advice with good intent - on how athletes who excessively train risk burn out - and that he assumed fitness was my life 24/7 - I literally blew his mind when I said, that I also create art, music, poetry visual media and have many other passions and purpose than the solitary one he was concerned with.
That cover was mis-read - you can avoid a book because the cover looks a contrast to what you seek.

I am so happy, Anne - understands - we spoke last night of the fact the madness or insane creative output is lost on the world if the magicians who cast it are subjected to such thoughts and constant projection from a society that demands we always try and bounce within the walls.

If you spend your life worrying about the contents of anyone else's pantry it's a strong indication you are not enjoying the cooking process - you can of course want the best, and want to make sure all people are not at risk of poisoning their food perhaps - but we all are aware of health and safety standards - most of us.

I know the inner workings of my mind, I know when to disengage and seek solitude or nature - I can balance and ground my emotions when needed and often. And I do. I put the feet up and relax and say life is a petal that blooms, but opens and closes - you cannot remain open or expect anything to remain constant - balance is reflective in Mother nature - you should also reflect it within your mind.
Night - day - seasons - spirit - regrowth, destruction - it all takes place in the world, but it takes place in our minds as much. How we learn to walk the paths, and overcome the obstacles, or navigate the destruction, or abound from regrowth - to create the magic - is within us.

I have spent many hours upon hours reading about neuroscience, psychology, self-actualisation the brain function and cognitive concepts - It is a passion. Do not be concerned about how I personally navigate a ship that may look erratic to some, at times. It never sinks. Even in the unlikely event it did, my ship would resurface faster than most.

I have two choices - I can listen to my heart - that sings - and continue making art and being a little bat-shit crazy to some at times - 

or listen to the concern of another - 

and retreat into the shell I once was - and go back to being an unhappy - tortured person that had no life. The person that felt caged and that suffered accordingly.

I learned it's wise to listen to yourself in life.
The more you ask, the varying answers start to conflict. The heart never lies.

I think my choice is clear.

Safe Cooking and happy meals ! (not McDonalds)

Enjoy this quick video - it covers the concepts I just addressed well.

Mindset Growth and Development a Powerful Tool and Skill to Encompass

When I was 16 I was leaning toward the idea of thinking outside the square, or not like most other 16 year olds would choose to think, I delved into elements of Shamanism and Dream Meanings and Spiritual themes I joined a group at the time called The Circle of Destiny, well, I did not join it was a small group of older adult like minded people that shared insight.

I would love to go into The New Moon Book Store in the city and a newsreader at the time Tom Payne (or Paine) owned it, a staff member at times was a well known Hobart Psychic and enlightened lady I learned a few lessons and gained wisdom from her, and also from the regulars who mingled at the shop.

I lost focus of all of this for far too many years and turned my back on it and more importantly turned my back on myself. How you might ask do you turn your back on yourself?
You just become a person full of fear and driven to lead a mediocre existence that you are not happy with.  Until something, or rather the choice to change - turns the back which was turned around, and places a mirror before your face, and your heart tells you softly you need to look deep within.
I saw a Louise L. Hay doco or movie where a man with chronic life threatening illnesses lost and devoid of answers asked her in a large group of men, I do not know what to do? who to turn to? who to ask for help?
I found her next act quite profound she picked up a small vanity mirror took it up to him, placed it in front of his face and quizzed him do you really want to know who to turn to?
I do not need to explain or elaborate.

The last year has seen substantial changes in both body and mind.
Too much to detail and go into but I wanted to share a theme or thought on one thing I always struggled with. I think everyone struggles with this, and some people are profoundly hurt and crippled by it.
Ever since I was a boy, I had a dream, not a dream but a wish I thought would never come true.
It may seem odd - I wished I had thicker skin.
Thicker skin to handle the life and the people in it.
Thick skin to brush off negative comments and situations.
It would dominate me and got worse in adulthood when anxiety fuelled it.
The people pleaser or person in me that expected a life where I could be happy and not upset people, just cruise through and cause no trouble be a nice good hearted human and live life.
Does that really happen?
You know the answer.

To give an example of the magnitude of my "thin skin" so to speak, if someone, even a stranger, made a negative remark to me - I would allow myself to absorb it and then like a casserole - mix it in with all the other stuff - but we are talking one made by Ronald McDonald - so this casserole had basically lard and copious amounts of salt and refined sugar... some drainage from the McDonalds fat trays after a full days making delightful meals to help mankind and plenty of white carbohydrates... with some classic iced coca-cola mixed with diet coca-cola added for taste (sarcasm).
It enlarged my waistline but exploded my mind into this lethargic dying thing that was infected with so much garbage it was toxic enough to be giving me physical symptoms.
For a long time I was on heartburn or reflux meds and vomiting from anxiety and stress, and a mess of a weak human with no hope anything would ever fix it.
An Endoscopy didn't show much just a stomach lining under pressure.
Anyway lots of that led me to change.
Nutrition was the key that changed the ballgame completely.
Improve the body the mind follows is a mantra I love to use.

The stronger I became physically the stronger the mental growth began to develop.
Only because I allowed it.
You can gain confidence but to push things forward you can never stop at that.
To cut a long story short, this video I found contains the elements I discovered largely myself recently, but this person Leo has added a whole new dimension to it.
I knew the moment I saw his first video recently he was speaking like an enlightened intelligent man that has massive mind growth and awareness.
This is a YouTube Video on How To Stop Caring What People Think Of You, I will include the link to the video from his main website as well; because I was most pleased to find out the benefits of joining and I am not promoting this person at all for any other reason than this - he has the desire to help encourage people to consider positive change. I contacted him and asked if I could share this video, and outlined my intentions why, he agreed today and said okay.
I joined for free and cannot stop downloading the mp3 audio versions and listening to them on bus journeys for added insight, and learning so much I never thought was even possible.

Like he says in another video - do not think just watching and applying this one step will count and solve life and all it's problems you need to grow substantially. 
He explains himself he is barely at the level he wants to obtain and that staggered me - I thought isn't this enough? You are a powerhouse and I quickly realised No it is never enough. The moment you shut yourself off from further growth or development is the moment you raise a white flag - life flows and you never stop learning and growing with it.

You need to be open and ready to apply the concepts in the video it is very very long, in fact over 50 minutes, but in all honesty - how could he cut short a topic that requires so much depth?
Be mindful that life is not dictating terms to you, you are not controlled by any factors or trapped and hopeless.
You might think there is no hope or no way out, you may be unhappy, please always know - if you want anything badly enough - you can draw it to you and manifest whatever you choose.
That includes the people, success, happiness, wealth, abundance, career, family, relationships - peace of mind you name it you can have it.
I just made one more wise decision if you enjoyed the concept of this video I will add another profound slightly shorter one by a man who I discovered through Louise Hay.
Gregg Braden.
I only found this a few days ago when a female who decided to follow me on Twitter had this video linked to her profile description; in the simple words This video changed my life.
Enjoy any of this content be sure to plus or reshare and retweet to your heart's content - and when I say Heart I do mean the real HEART.



link to website: http://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-stop-caring-what-people-think-of-you