Light Emerging by Barbara Brennan

Author:Barbara Brennan [Brennan, Barbara Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-78942-6
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-16T04:00:00+00:00

Exercise to Clear the Denial Under Your Reasons Why Not

You can use Figure 12-1 again to do the same exercise for any area of your life in which you have difficulty—be it your profession, relationship, or leisure time. The same principle works. In the first column, state your area of difficulty. In the second, describe what you want. Give your reasons why not, then find the other areas affected and the fear avoided. Once you find the fear, face it, and clear it by feeling it, you will no longer need your denial.

A woman named Pat has no leisure time for fun. Her reason why not is that she is too busy. Other areas are affected—she has very few intimate relationships and is lonely. Her underlying fears are those of being ostracized and of intimacy. As a young child, she was not allowed to play with the other children in the neighborhood. Pat felt ostracized since she never made friends with them. The same is true now. Once she learns what the fear is under her denial, she can face that fear by purposively and regularly initiating relationships. This will be very scary for her at first, and she will probably feel rejected and ostracized several times in the learning process. But practice makes perfect. A whole new area of her life will open up. She will find the kinds of people she likes and the kinds of interests that she likes to share with others. She will learn a great deal from others. She will begin to have great pleasure from relationships and will find plenty of time for them. Eventually, she will probably even create an intimate relationship.

In another example, George wants to paint, but he blocks himself from doing it with the excuse that he is not good enough or is just too lazy. Other areas of his life that are affected are many. He does not consider anything else as important as painting. Therefore anything else he accomplishes is not really satisfying because it lacks value, even if it is done well. George considers himself lazy in other areas of work. Underneath all this is his fear of failure and criticism and, more important, his fear of his deeper self that will come out during the creative act of painting.

In order to succeed in such a creative act, a free flow of energy must be attained. The only way to attain a free flow of energy is to let everything out, including all the negative consciousness that is held in the blocked energy of the auric field. This is why many artists and writers are considered to be eccentric or to have unacceptable behavior. They do not live in the mask self of socially acceptable behavior. It is not possible to be creative and do so. In the movie Amadeus, the composer Salieri was appalled at Mozart’s outrageous behavior and couldn’t reconcile it with the beauty of Mozart’s music. What Salieri didn’t understand was that Mozart’s way of keeping his creative force flowing was his outrageous behavior.

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