Dear God/ess, As we embark on completing the steps needed to have a
spiritual retreat center, with painting and sanding and cleaning and
decluttering, I look to the unseen forces to provide strength and
perseverance to see the efforts to the end, and beyond.
Our efforts need not be derailed by crazy making and crazy makers
who bear gifts if you look hard enough for them. What are the gifts of
the crazy makers in your life? They help you stand your ground, stay
firm within your own boundaries, and as people act out their own dramas,
you calmly realize they are projecting their own pain and suffering
right into your lap with fragments from their past, fear of the future
and even of their own mortality.
I first heard the term "Crazy Maker" in "The Artists Way" by Julia
Cameron. Since that time, my antennae are always on the alert for chaos
and dysfunction that take me away from focus and from the daily writing
of these prayers.
According to Julia Cameron: "Crazy makers are those personalities
that create storm centers. They are often charismatic, frequently
charming, highly inventive and powerfully persuasive. And for the
creative person in their vicinity, they are enormously destructive.
"Crazy makers create dramas--but seldom where they belong. Crazy
makers are often blocked creatives themselves. Afraid to effectively
tap their own creativity, they loath to allow that same creativity in
others. It makes them jealous. It makes them threatened. It makes them
threatened at your expense."
Ah yes, you are entitled to your opinions, judgments and
reactions but do not expect me to save you from yourself, says I.
I have an appointment with the clean blank white page.
You don't have to like what I write.
You don't have to read what I write.
But I am happy to say, I will keep on writing no matter what.
And as Julia Cameron also says, "I practice what I preach: If you
dump drama into my life, I will put it, and you, onto the page."
Why would I do this? because Crazy makers don't have to cause us
to question our motives, our art or our integrity as a person.
I have an appointment with the moment at hand that leads me to
pick up the fountain pen of choice, and to joyfully write exactly what
inspires me at that time.
This is my unwavering commitment: with the pen, the paper, the
text editor and keyboard.
Synchronistically, I picked up a book on the subject: "Dealing
With the Crazy Makers In Your Life," by Dr. David Hawkins.
Crazy makers can "hook" you if you are unaware. Awareness and
alert consciousness will help to shorten the time you are effected by
this venom.
The following 10 keys will help you deal with the Crazy Makers in
your life:
1) Realize that by reacting negatively to the Crazy Makers you
strengthen that negativity within yourself.
2) If you condemn the Crazy Maker, you are displacing negativity
onto the Crazy Maker which she/he has already done to you.
3) Labeling a Crazy Maker a Crazy Maker may help at first to
identify the upsetting situation but to successfully detach and unhook
from the situation, you need to move beyond the labels by grounding
yourself in the breath and the here and now.
4) By detaching from the label of Crazy Maker and from the Crazy
Maker herself, you allow yourself to settle into your core, your
essence and gain peace of mind in the situation.
5) If you feel hurt or even crazy by the situation, realize that
you have created a mental image of yourself and a story about yourself
that now wants to defend against perceived accusation.
6) When you realize that you are reacting with your egoic mind
(based upon past conditioning), you naturally begin the process of
forgiveness of yourself (because you reacted) and also for the Crazy
Maker, who was doing the best she knew how to do in that moment.
7) Disidentify with the need to be right within the situation.
Whatever you are engaged in, whatever makes you feel more alive, get
back to that project.
8) After becoming conscious about how you've been hooked by the
Crazy Maker, sit with yourself in silence and feel the inner spaces,
the stillness, and reconnect with the consciousness that heals all
wounds.
9) Walk in nature, write in your journal, unhook from the guilt
and from the need to defend.
10) Lastly, you have an appointment with the Joy of Living; find
that joy; elevate your vibrations, turn off the TV.
Be alive to the happiness that already exists, and when you do,
you have come home to your True Self.
Om Peace Amen
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