Worry, Creativity, Thresholds,
Success and Tapping

Some random but related thoughts about thresholds:

Have you been feeling like you are on the threshold of something new that scares you a little?

Or, do you feel yourself drawn to step over a threshold into something unknown, and you worry about that?

Here is an interesting conclusion about worry that is often attributed to American writer Mark Twain. Studying his chronic fears, he found they fell into five fairly distinct classifications:

1. Worries about disasters which, as later events proved, never happened. About 40% of my anxieties.

2. Worries about decisions I had made in the past, decisions about which I could now of course do nothing. About 30% of my anxieties.

3. Worries about possible sickness and a possible nervous breakdown, neither of which materialized. About 12% of my worries.

4. Worries about my children and my friends, worries arising from the fact I forgot these people have an ordinary amount of common sense. About 10% of my worries.

5. Worries that have a real foundation. Possibly 8% of the total.

He concluded that if he eliminated the “What If?” worries, he would free up 92% of his mental and emotional space. Think of the inner spaciousness that you would have available for creativity!

Here is a totally different kind of threshold. This is something I often experience. It feels like a threshold of spirituality and creativity. I will notice that there are a lot of thoughts, insights, ideas, possibilities popping up in my awareness that want to be connected. They are widely divergent, but they could be related, and I haven’t quite gotten the intuition about how to connect the dots yet.

Suddenly one day the missing link occurs to me, and the dots all fall into a shape, and I find myself suddenly on the other side of a threshold. It is the logical next step, but usually I hadn’t seen it coming. Everything in my life changes then, and it is a little overwhelming! Ever had that happen?