“I used to think that self-care meant taking it easy, pampering myself, and avoiding things when stress hit. Now I know that doing the thing I'm most afraid to do is the best way to take care of myself.”
--Cory Fransway, from Judith Wright's More e-zine
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I’m a writer who dodged being a minister; I saw that my dharma, my calling, was instead to write about body and spirit, to explore in fiction my metaphysical questions. I’ve spent the past 35+ years as a freelancer, with 2 novels, 2 nonfiction books, magazine and newspaper articles from 25+ countries, a few seasons as a TV reporter, copy for ad agencies, a winter in India, and my manuscript and career consulting services for writers.
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It’s not because I’m naturally lion-hearted that I’ve chosen the topic of bold living and bold writing. It’s because I aspire to living and writing with courage. I wrestle with these matters; I even have a touch of an anxiety disorder, specifically obsessive-compulsive disorder. You probably know the saying: we teach what we need to learn.
I post here about daily fears and triumphs, about writing and, if I ever get my courage up, about mysticism, the ultimate brazen act: direct experience of God. I hope you’ll leap into the wide-ranging conversation here and come back often. I hope you’ll find the talk here encouraging for your own adventures.
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6 comments:
I will have to think about that one.
Opps, I hit the publish button twice.
Well, obviously this quote has thrown you into a tailspin of thought. I'll be interested in hearing where you come down on this fellow's stance.
This is hardly a new concept. Elanor Roosevelt once said, "Do one thing every day that scares you." In my experience, that frequently leads to learning just how un-scary that "thing" actually is. I still can't say I'm anywhere near 100% compliant with the philosophy, but it does enter into my thinking when it comes to decisions -- especially hard decisions.
That's my experience too, Mojo: finding out how unscary the thing is. But the learning doesn't seem to stick very well for me. It ought to have stuck by now.
Now that I think about it, I realize I've never done anything to assure that it does stick. One possibility: at the end of doing the non-scary thing I could remind myself (while I'm still entranced with that success) how easy it was.
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