As a Writer
Change is hard especially when you work out of your comfort zone. How do you begin to step outside the box we built around yourself and understand how to achieve your dreams?
I’ve found that writing in a journal daily; listing my short term goals is a good beginning. I would write the same goals each morning for a continuous fifteen minutes. Reconfirming, in my awareness, that what I desired - I would continue to work toward these goals daily. With each smaller goal, I would become closer to the over all dream that I had envisioned.
The more your subconscious is aware that you are going to change and that it will be safe. The easier it will be to shift the frequency to become what you desire around you. Actually, the subconscious needs to see it repeatedly before it will accept the frequency change as a truth.
As a writer, your chosen profession is a hard path to tread. You receive criticism from your writing partner, your critique partner or critique group, rejection from publishing houses, small and large alike. Along with receiving one rejection, you probably received more if you are actively writing and submitting your articles, stories, and novels. It’s very easy for the subconscious to turn that around on you making you believe you are not a good writer, you aren’t worthy of publication or no body likes you.
How did you go from writing to no body likes you? That is an extreme case and it can happen. You’re subconscious interpreted the despair you developed when you received the third rejection form letter in one week to mean that you felt no one like you instead of no one liked your work. This is a corner stone for writers block to take hold. Is it valid? Consciously, no it wouldn’t be. Nonetheless, to the subconscious whose desire is to protect you from hurt, it is something you need protected from.
My experience with this sneaking up on me happened when I had been writing for a year. First off, my family and friends loved my stuff. That gave me the confidence I needed to move forward. I joined a critique group. My heart sank. The only good thing said, “I’m sure there is a story in there some where.” Other members told me to keep trying and to learn grammar, especially my tenses. I spoke daily, people understood me. I wrote like I spoke and that was the disaster. I stayed with this group for several months. Continuously, I was told the same thing repeatedly. I’d been studying Strunk and White, carried that little book around with me for fun reading. Boring, yet I acquired better grammar skills. I had become determined. One week my turn arrived to submit another chapter. I received my critique sheets from everyone, when I noticed two members had exampled the work to the exact way I had presented it in the prior session. It was time to move on to another group.
This time I partnered with only one person. We were both beginning our careers in novel writing. We developed the habit of writing a few pages every day and critiquing it for the other. Our stories were forming and our confidence levels began to rise again. Beliefs in ourselves allow us the courage to invite a couple more to join us. We were shattered again and later suspicion set in once again.
I’d been doing my EFT exercises and decided to take my first chapter and turn it into a short story. I submitted it to the group and it was dashed down. Not changing anything I submitted the short story to a couple of magazines. Two sent me contracts for it immediately; the other three said it was well written but not what they were looking for.
During this time my subconscious played the hero and tried to protect me or what I like to call sabotage me. The voices in my head would tell me different things: you’re silly you can’t write; you have nothing to say that anyone wants to hear; other people are smarter than you, you should give up. That is when I developed the habit of doing EFT regularly, to help build my neurons into super highways.
Building a new habit takes twenty one days. The subconscious needs to be continually programmed to accept the new frequency of that habit. If your passion is writing, you should build the neutrons for excelling at the level of writing you desire to be.
Let’s begin with a round of EFT directed toward you accepting that you deserve. Go to: www.ustreamtv.com/manifestinggoals to tap and follow along with me.
