Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
Ah here we are stepping into a brand new day.
How much of what we do is based on muscle memory?
My master in martial arts didn't believe in such a theory,
this thing called muscle memory. He claimed, muscles have no
way of recognizing a memory. Yet other experts claim that
muscle memory occurs because when you first build muscles, your
body adds new cells. Now when you lose those muscles,
here's the thing, the cells don't disappear. But wait, we're
using the term muscle memory in a wrong way. Then
maybe I should be saying, through daily habit we begin
this brand new day, or through routine, we are pushing
our way into another twenty four hour period. Through personal experience.
We are here, So what's next? And does it get old?
Playing out the same cycle? Which is why it's so
difficult to remember the days of the week. Nothing truly
changes because so many of us are caught up in
our personal comfort and security zones. Hey zero, this is
the daily mess, a chronological walk through in everyday world.
I am a daily writer. That's part of my daily cycle.
I go into the writing area, this big beautiful window
overlooking this beautiful forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina, and
I begin to feel what is in the atmosphere. In fact,
I was just with Martin McDowell just a few minutes ago,
and she's got a brand new book out and it's
called Gardening Ken Murder. And I laughed at that because
I mean, in a really weird way. I am a
tree gardener. I've got trees all around me, and I
listen to these trees. So I asked her that question.
Do you listen to the plants that you put in
your garden? Oh? She totally agrees. So what does this
have to do with muscle memory? Then? When I sit
down to write, am I using muscle memory to put
words on a page? Because maybe something is blocking your
habit or your ritual. That daily thing that you do
when you know inside your heart that writing is that
moment that will help bring peace to your traveling soul.
This is the daily mess, locating that place when your
entire body is consumed by peace. Ooh, can you imagine?
Can you imagine going back to that place all the time,
that moment where peace just consumes your body. The sad
news is it doesn't last very long, maybe a few
seconds or so. And the reason why is because the
rest of you begins to catch up. It starts thinking
about all the things that bring on the weight of
the world. That thinking process of yours, which gets in
the way of your emotions by way of giving yourself
permission to process the outside world. The mind, the body,
and the soul it has to prepare for the world
at war, robbery, murder, workplace abuse. Suddenly that place of
peace has been consumed by the strength of fear, doubt, shame, guilt.
How do we get back to that moment of peace?
And the reason why I bring it up like that
is because about seven minutes before I climbed out of
bed this morning, I felt a moment of peace. My
face buried in that pillow, a blanket over my body,
forty two degrees outside. I felt something that I can
say was peace. And it lasted just a couple of seconds.
That was it, because then I started worrying about the
rest of the world. What happened in Russia, what's going
on in Israel. What is going on with businesses these days?
Will we make it through another financial crunch? How do
we get back to that piece? You know they say
that about the mother's womb. It's impossible unless you're able
to meditate and or escape reality through the concentration and patience.
That writing or something that gives you a place of
peace is presented. But do you allow yourself to step
in there while ignoring the rest of the planet. That's
not being selfish. What that is is that's giving you
the moment of self love. You've got to be able
to have that strength to say the rest of the
world can wait. I ain't going to be here forever. Therefore,
I need to take care of this shell that I
am right now and give it a place of peace.
One thing I've learned about meditation is that it's extremely
difficult because you can't turn off the outside world being
in that moment of you, just you, no digital devices on,
maybe the window open, a light breeze coming through, maybe
a blanket over you, with your face planted in a pillow,
just you, And that would be a tough question too.
Do I always have to find my peace while I'm
in bed? No? There are many times when I am
in public, I've got people all around me that I
go into that moment of peace. And the way you
do it is you listen to the way you're breathing.
You feel your body take in that air, and you
can literally, with patience and time, feel that air moved
through you. It sounds quacky, doesn't it, But when you
find that path of peace, the world can be going
to hell. It doesn't matter because you are with you.
I'm Errol and that's a daily mess.