When Trying To Do "Good" Becomes Destructive

 One of the most Destructive Forces: Trying too hard to feel good about oneself. Even more destructive when unaware of what one is doing. Self-righteousness a most common expression, thinking one's own perspective is the only right one.... Assuming "if only others were more like me"... Assuming that volition and free will are more pure than they really are and not accounting for predisposition and environmental influences.

Some type of more moderate version of trying to feel good about oneself seems to be more helpful for the collective.

Musical Mental Framework

The chosen key, mode, and/or scale, affects the pattern the brain latches onto and the paths it tries to follow toward some conclusion. 

The Meaning of Creative Content to me:

 Creative Content that lands can potentially become a source of Culture, Community, Connection, and Comfort. As humans, our ability to create and subsequently learn from each other... along with our ability to participate, reproduce, and engage in shared work...  gives us the ability to connect outside of our immediate physical space and time. The content we hold in our hearts has the ability to reach and connect far and wide in all directions.

The Uncomfortable Emotions as Sources of Motivation

 From what I have seen and experienced, uncomfortable emotions can be used as motivation to go in the direction we wish, as a means to meet some of our needs. It seems like there is an avoidance approach, proactively seeking ways of attaining the opposite emotion. There also exists the delving approach, going deeper or sitting with an uncomfortable emotion and using the discomfort as a driving force for change.

Anger... Fear... Loneliness... Sadness... These can inspire one to act in accordance with one's own needs or values. Anger can drive one to help others, pushing one to act when one normally wouldn't. Anger can help drive one to help oneself, often by taking a kind of oppositional rebelling mindset similar to "I will show them." Fear, loneliness, and sadness can drive one to seek external means of decreasing these things, trying to connect to what will help alleviate these things. If one sits with these uncomfortable emotions, it might inspire compassion and more compassionate behavior in oneself in relationship to others.

Uncomfortable emotions when used to help connect to others can help drive change in a manner that helps meet the needs of many, not just of oneself. Or it could have the opposite impact, making one fall into the mindset of feeling isolated and disconnected, thus less inclined to meet the needs of others as one feels starved. Different approaches and mindsets to our discomfort can have many varied results... And it seems each person has a tendency with one approach or mindset over another as a means of coping, as well as what seems to work best for the individual.

Expressing One's Own Truth Can Help to Clarify Hidden Truth in Others

 Expressing one's own truth, the workings of one's own mind... Letting our Voice be heard, it can serve as food for those looking clarify and solidify their own truths, especially when finding areas of similarity. By recognizing ourselves in the words of another, our voice becomes clearer. When our Voice becomes clearer, we can reach those who long to be reached.

Inclusion Magic

 Related to my previous post... it seems like some people have the ability to take material that has the huge potential to create feelings of Exclusion, but present them in a manner that creates Inclusion instead. To me it seems like magic. Perhaps it's because they are linking to a more general story that everyone can relate to on some level or perspective.

Open and Easily Revealed

 There is a quality in others I am discovering I admire greatly... It's one of being very openly honest about experience, from what might be considered uncomfortable, even embarrassing... And somehow combining it with the other side of the spectrum, sharing in a manner that is enlightening, inspiring, and uplifting for others... sharing insights and observations that may be readily apparent but are covered by a thick haze. From fear, doubt, and sorrow... to hope, dreams, and joy... Revealing both sides of the coin that try to move us towards Life itself... The parts that make us quintessentially Human... Our warts, our Beauty...

By being revealing, casting a light onto the darkest of dark... Making what feels uncomfortable seem more okay... These people allow others to free themselves from some of the chains of fear, embarrassment, shame, and guilt: the binding emotions that can keep people from being their best selves in relationship towards each other. At the core of their openness is a strong willingness to try to help bring other people up along side with them... There is a sense that we are all in this journey together. Sharing in this manner helps to connect what feels like separate parts, revealing a more complete picture, the wholeness of a person... the wholeness of All Persons... Making sacred those things we may wish to keep hidden and secret... Creating a sense of Okayness for who we are as Human Beings, wherever we may be for a given moment. We are all living, and trying to live as best as we know how, as best as we are able, as best as we can.