Gratitude for My Blocks?!? Uhmmm…And…Yet…

“Gratitude is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all virtues.” -Cicero

As of late, I have found myself being grateful for my creative resistance and blocks. Wait?!? What?!? That sounds like crazy talk to me as I have always fought against them over and over yet without ever winning or eliminating them. But, here I am, being grateful for them! WTF!?

Now, does that mean I do not feel frustration, rage, and, at times, a helplessness to take them on? No way! Those feelings absolutely bubble up.

BUT I now see them for what they are: a powerful distraction from diving into the unknown. My learned emotional storm is based on a fearful shame of not knowing and not knowing right now!

So what do I do?

I now do my best (read: make baby steps of progress) to expect those conditioned reactions from myself while not giving up on listening deeper and beyond them to my still-alive-within creative voice.

TRUTH:

It is hard to do and I fail often, but my gratitude comes from seeing the emotional game I play on myself and my struggle to get through to the other side. The more I see the game, the more I get to CHOOSING whether to keep playing or to untangle myself – over time.

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