I’m still learning to speak and share my truth—despite any fear that comes along with the process of change.
This project is scary AND exciting.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.
And sometimes fear wins.
Sharing any new idea, unique perspective, or earnest truth is a terrifying process.
Whether it’s online, with a new project launch or a social media post… Or offline, especially, with our frustrated friends and family… Navigating our differing perspectives and beliefs feels like THE most challenging thing ever.
And, even when we DO feel like we fit in with our surroundings, it’s not always easy to speak-up and stand firm in our truth.
We ALL know it’s not easy.
I’m not actually sure it’s supposed to be.
I mean, friction is necessary to create new things…
New ideas. New art or music. New beliefs… New humans…
Our discomfort in that friction is fuels for the process of change, itself.
BUT I don’t think creation & transformation PROCESSES HAVE to suck.
And we don’t have to feel like victims to those outside pressures and stressors and depressors.
They exist to rub up against us and give us that (necessary?) friction we need to create something new—or to change.
We do have another choice—beyond suffering from discomforts, diseases and injustices.
What if we chose to use our negative emotions as catalysts for change?
What if we can learn how to redirect our fears and frictions into fuel for our creative fires?
What if we learned to use the darkest feelings of shame, guilt, and frustration as pivot points for change?
What if we to shift and heal our hurt towards something better?
We can create something new and improved from our old pain?
That’s what this project is for me…
Transmanifesto is my own attempt at this sort of creative change and healing…
Because I know, there’s nothing “healing” about reeling in emotion without action.
I know, the on-going and perpetual examination of a problem will never create anything new…
I call it, mental-masturbation to problem-porn…
Sure, it might be a decent (and healthy?) outlet to blow-off steam (sometimes)—unless we get stuck there. Then, like most habits that are out of balance, it can be an epic waste of our creative time and energy.
Destructive emotions can move us into constructive/creative motion.
They can inspire us into action to create something else.
making new choices + taking new actions = creating something new
When the negative emotions stir in us a desire for something new, we must choose to create/change.
Inspiration gifts us with a sudden burst of energy and moves us to the edge of motion. Then, it’s up to us to take action on that creative impulse.
e-motion = energy in motion
Once we learn to take positive/creative action on our negative, destructive emotions—rage can move towards relief…
Heaviness, towards humor…
Depression can even inch itself towards elevation…
I’m still learning about our very human processes of transformation and creation…
I’m learning how to let my own emotions inspire new desires and fire me up for change.
And I’m learning to move and take action to actually create something new and improved.
I’m still learning to show up and share my work and my truths, anyway—especially when the fear and friction-fuels don’t completely dissolve into the fires of the transformation or creation process…
Sometimes, I know must create and change, anyway.