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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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Ah here we are stepping into a brand new day.

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How much of what we do is based on muscle memory?

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My master in martial arts didn't believe in such a theory,

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this thing called muscle memory. He claimed, muscles have no

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way of recognizing a memory. Yet other experts claim that

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muscle memory occurs because when you first build muscles, your

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body adds new cells. Now when you lose those muscles,

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here's the thing, the cells don't disappear. But wait, we're

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using the term muscle memory in a wrong way. Then

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maybe I should be saying, through daily habit we begin

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this brand new day, or through routine, we are pushing

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our way into another twenty four hour period. Through personal experience.

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We are here, So what's next? And does it get old?

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Playing out the same cycle? Which is why it's so

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difficult to remember the days of the week. Nothing truly

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changes because so many of us are caught up in

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our personal comfort and security zones. Hey zero, this is

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the daily mess, a chronological walk through in everyday world.

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I am a daily writer. That's part of my daily cycle.

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I go into the writing area, this big beautiful window

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overlooking this beautiful forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina, and

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I begin to feel what is in the atmosphere. In fact,

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I was just with Martin McDowell just a few minutes ago,

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and she's got a brand new book out and it's

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called Gardening Ken Murder. And I laughed at that because

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I mean, in a really weird way. I am a

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tree gardener. I've got trees all around me, and I

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listen to these trees. So I asked her that question.

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Do you listen to the plants that you put in

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your garden? Oh? She totally agrees. So what does this

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have to do with muscle memory? Then? When I sit

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down to write, am I using muscle memory to put

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words on a page? Because maybe something is blocking your

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habit or your ritual. That daily thing that you do

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when you know inside your heart that writing is that

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moment that will help bring peace to your traveling soul.

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This is the daily mess, locating that place when your

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entire body is consumed by peace. Ooh, can you imagine?

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Can you imagine going back to that place all the time,

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that moment where peace just consumes your body. The sad

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news is it doesn't last very long, maybe a few

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seconds or so. And the reason why is because the

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rest of you begins to catch up. It starts thinking

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about all the things that bring on the weight of

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the world. That thinking process of yours, which gets in

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the way of your emotions by way of giving yourself

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permission to process the outside world. The mind, the body,

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and the soul it has to prepare for the world

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at war, robbery, murder, workplace abuse. Suddenly that place of

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peace has been consumed by the strength of fear, doubt, shame, guilt.

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How do we get back to that moment of peace?

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And the reason why I bring it up like that

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is because about seven minutes before I climbed out of

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bed this morning, I felt a moment of peace. My

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face buried in that pillow, a blanket over my body,

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forty two degrees outside. I felt something that I can

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say was peace. And it lasted just a couple of seconds.

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That was it, because then I started worrying about the

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rest of the world. What happened in Russia, what's going

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on in Israel. What is going on with businesses these days?

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Will we make it through another financial crunch? How do

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we get back to that piece? You know they say

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that about the mother's womb. It's impossible unless you're able

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to meditate and or escape reality through the concentration and patience.

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That writing or something that gives you a place of

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peace is presented. But do you allow yourself to step

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in there while ignoring the rest of the planet. That's

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not being selfish. What that is is that's giving you

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the moment of self love. You've got to be able

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to have that strength to say the rest of the

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world can wait. I ain't going to be here forever. Therefore,

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I need to take care of this shell that I

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am right now and give it a place of peace.

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One thing I've learned about meditation is that it's extremely

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difficult because you can't turn off the outside world being

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in that moment of you, just you, no digital devices on,

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maybe the window open, a light breeze coming through, maybe

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a blanket over you, with your face planted in a pillow,

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just you, And that would be a tough question too.

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Do I always have to find my peace while I'm

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in bed? No? There are many times when I am

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in public, I've got people all around me that I

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go into that moment of peace. And the way you

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do it is you listen to the way you're breathing.

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You feel your body take in that air, and you

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can literally, with patience and time, feel that air moved

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through you. It sounds quacky, doesn't it, But when you

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find that path of peace, the world can be going

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to hell. It doesn't matter because you are with you.

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I'm Errol and that's a daily mess.