Art & Fear goodies

by David Bayles

The hardest part of artmaking is living your life in such a way that your work gets done, over and over - and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful. A piece of art is the surface expression of a life lived within productive patterns. They allow confidence and concentration. They allow not knowing. They allow the automatic and unarticulated to remain so. Once you have found the work you are meant to do, the particulars of any single piece don't matter all that much.

The 15 Commitments

For Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer

1. I commit to taking full responsibility for the circumstances of my life, and my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. I commit to support others to take full responsibility for their lives. 

2. I commit to growing in self-awareness. I commit to regarding every interaction as an opportunity to learn. I commit to curiosity as a path to rapid learning. 

3. I commit to feeling my feelings all the way through to completion. They come, and I locate them in my body then move, breathe and vocalize them so they release all the way through. 

4. I commit to saying what is true for me. I commit to being a person to whom others can express themselves with candor. 

5. I commit to ending gossip, talking directly to people with whom I have an issue or concern, and encouraging others to talk directly to people with whom they have an issue or concern. 

6. I commit to the masterful practice of integrity, including acknowledging all authentic feelings, expressing the unarguable truth and keeping my agreements. 

7. I commit to living in appreciation, fully opening to both receiving and giving appreciation. 

8. I commit to expressing my full magnificence, and to supporting and inspiring others to fully express their creativity and live in their zone of genius. 

9. I commit to creating a life of play, improvisation, and laughter. I commit to seeing all of life unfold easefully and effortlessly. I commit to maximizing my energy by honoring rest, renewal and rhythm. 

10. I commit to seeing that the opposite of my story is as true or truer than my original story. I recognize that I interpret the world around me and give my stories meaning. 

11. I commit to being the source of my security, control and approval.  

12. I commit to experiencing that I have enough of everything… including time, money, love, energy, space, resources, etc. 

13. I commit to seeing all people and circumstances as allies that are perfectly suited to help me learn the most important things for my growth. 

14. I commit to creating win for all solutions (win for me, win for the other person, win for the organization, and win for the whole) for whatever issues, problems, concerns, or opportunities life gives me.  

15. I commit to being the resolution or solution that is needed: seeing what is missing in the world as an invitation to become that which is required. 

Release A Belief

A "meditation" to release a belief no longer serving you,

by Amy Scher.

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Even though I have this belief
that I'm unable to heal / I'm undeserving of healing, **
I acknowledge it's no longer working for me.

I give my subconscious full permission to help me clear it

From all of my cells, in all of my body,

permanently and completely.

I am now free to thank this old belief

for serving me in the past, when I really needed it.

I am now free to release all resistance to letting it go.

I am now free to release all ideas 

that I need this belief in order to stay safe

I am now free to release all ideas

that I need it for any reason at all.

I am now free to release all feelings

that I don't deserve to let it go.

I am now free to release all conscious

and subconscious causes for this belief.

I am now free to release all conscious 

and subconscious reasons for holding onto it.

I am now free to release all harmful patterns,

emotions and memories,

connected to this old outdated belief.

I am now free to release all generational or 

past life energies keeping it stuck.

All of my being is healing and clearing this energy NOW,

including any stress response stored in my cells.

Healing, healing, healing.

Clearing, clearing, clearing.

It is now time to install the new belief:

I can heal. I deserve to heal.

Installing, installing, installing.

Installing, installing, installing.

And so, it is done.