JANUARY 22, 2010. This is the third article in a series about my coaching/consulting work with private clients.
In that work, I find that blocks to creative power are the single most important issue.
There is nothing more important.
As a very rough analogy, consider a painter who goes into his studio, sits in front of the blank canvas, and can’t put paint on it. He just sits there.
Or, he comes in and he sits down and he starts to paint.
It’s that black and white. He either paints or he doesn’t.
After 15 years of working with clients, I’ve come to the following conclusion: ultimately, the person knows what is blocking him.
He may not be able to articulate it at first, and the answer may be buried under pounds of thoughts and ideas, but the answer is there.
He can find it.
With enough dialogue, I’ve discovered the answer comes.
And it is surrounded with debris from education, family life, and other indoctrination. That indoctrination is really a pile of distraction from CREATING WITH POWER. It’s a diversion, like a candy counter can be a distraction to a person who is seeking to lose weight and eat healthy.
In other words, all our lives we are taught to veer away from creative power and do something else. The “something else” becomes a habit, a reflex. We become used to doing all sorts of things, none of which is creating with power.
It would be like this: you are taught to crawl; every time it occurs to you that you might want to stand up and walk, along comes someone with a lesson about crawling—how to crawl better, more effectively, more quickly, with more focus. And THAT is a distraction, a diversion.
With enough diversions, you begin to believe that walking is a fantasy and it can’t really happen. It was an aimless dream you once had, and it didn’t mean anything.
But it’s there. Walking is there.
My work with private clients achieves several objectives. It tilts the see-saw in the direction of the person’s true and powerful desire to be creative. And with that desire operating, the person is able to do many things he once thought were beyond his grasp.
Two, my sessions with clients (all of which I do by telephone) teach and practice techniques that separate old mental habits from new imaginative exploration. In other words, the person is no longer the victim of his old uncreative thought patterns.
Three, these techniques enlist the imagination to work, like a new engine, and turn out energy. The person feels that energy and realizes he can live on a different and better level.
None of this work is dry and mechanical. It’s all about being able to understand and sense the level at which the person is operating and bringing new imagination into that arena. It’s a great adventure.
JON RAPPOPORT
(To contact me about becoming a private client: jonrappoport@nomorefakenews.com