Fear

Here it is again. Fear breeds in a good imagination. In my head it likes the morning, the first thoughts, nice and fresh. Creeps in and starts to multiply. I have been painting wild and beautiful head paintings of an empty Puppet Theatre on July 12th and a windy Berlin with shaking heads, no I can't help you. Your book is boring and pointless. So what if the image is a different picture? What if I make a different picture of the Puppet Theatre and Berlin. I watched a Ted Lecture on Fear and this was the premise....a vivid imagination can make fear, so recognise it and change it. I have been practicing making new images in my head of forthcoming events, supplanting the easy to find 'failure images' with relaxed enjoyable engaged in the task images. It feels odd, this is not what I normally do, but it feels great. If one can remove the noise and energy of the failure images then it leaves more head space to have ideas, inspiration and thought connections. If you do the work, then things are more likely to be a success. If you sit imagining the worst having a panic, then , well it's pretty obvious. So rather than paralyse oneself with fear...I'm gonna do the work. Take a deep breath and get on with it.