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Mark David Gerson
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The Book of Messages
Religion & Spirituality
Author Insight
Is Your Greatest Fear Your Greatest Power?
I never wanted to be a writer. In fact, I never thought I was creative. Yet here I am, author of nearly two dozen books, creator of four screenplays and someone who helps people around the world as a coach and workshop facilitator to awaken, access, experience and express their creativity. I share that not to brag about my accomplishments but because, at least in my life, those accomplishments are eloquent proof of the truth of this excerpt: Where I was most self-conscious for so many years turned out to be my greatest gift, not only to myself but to others. Of course, if my creativity is no longer what I'm most self-conscious, this message reminds me that something else is! So it's once again time for me to do what this message urges: peer into the dark closest of my reluctance and the clammy cellars of my fear and own the power I am reluctant to acknowledge.
Book Excerpt
The Book of Messages
What in your life are you self-conscious about? What about yourself do you fear or refuse to experience or express out in the world? Let a few responses bubble up into your conscious awareness — without judgment and without censorship. Allow yourself to open. Allow yourself to be surprised.
Do you know why you are self-conscious? It is the same reason that anyone is self-conscious about anything: fear of your power.
Look into all those places in your life where you are self-conscious. Peer into the dark closets of your reluctance, the dust-filled attics of your concealment, the clammy cellars of your fear.
Are you self-conscious about your looks? Then perhaps you mask through your self-consciousness a beauty, inner and outer, that is so magnificent it frightens you.
Are you self-conscious about the words you craft on the page? Then perhaps that self-consciousness masks the immense power of your creative spirit.
Are you self-conscious about letting your voice ring out with your truth? Then know that what you fear is not another’s reaction. What you fear is your power.
Self-consciousness is your ego-mind’s protection against the very force and beauty of your power.
Again:
Self-consciousness is your ego-mind’s protection
against the very force and beauty of your power.
So look at those areas in your life where you carry self-consciousness and know that in those areas have you the greatest power.
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