Commitment to your Creations

This past week I got the chance to embark on the journey of a mirror meditation during my 300 hour teacher training. The awakening that took place post staring into a mirror and looking at myself for 20 minutes was profound. After peeling back the layers of my inner critic and getting to the root of where she was sourced, I found myself deep in the midst of an Ah-ha moment! “My desire to create is greater than perceived criticism or praise.”

This was huge for me. As someone who has major resistance to feedback or criticism of any kind and is well aware of the where and the why for this trigger point it was quite frankly groundbreaking to come to this realization. I could go on and on about my inner child wounds, how criticism registers in the brain the same as physical pain, and why we shouldn’t do it, but that's not what this blog is about. This blog is about overcoming your fears, the stories in your head, and making a greater commitment to the work you label as your “dharma” or lifes purpose. So often we find ourselves in spirals of analysis paralysis that look and sound something like… “but what if they say this?” “but what if I fail” “but what if this-insert negative worst case scenario cognitive distortion here” you get the point. When if we took a breath, took a pause, and allowed ourself to shift our perspective to “but what if I succeed?” “but what if they love it?” “and why not me?”