Project Runway
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I watched Project Runway for one season, because the show
aired right before my scheduled time to play the piano and sing at a local
piano bar. The gay crowd often would ask me to wait to play, because the
program ran into my set. So, I ended up watching the program most of the time.
The title of the show sounds as if it would be about models, but it’s actually
about designers making fashionable clothes.
I once dated a man who designed clothes, and even knew a friend
who got on the show, but still, it’s not the kind of program that truly
interested me. I believe the reason lies in the idea that our deepest artistic
expressions are judged by people who want our authenticity to fit into the
Ego’s paradigm of art and fashion. I don’t believe most of us enjoy being
judged.
Life often is about showing our best, though, and parading
around until someone decides we have the goods for the job, the relationship,
or even the friendship. This kind of ego-driven life can lead us to desire to
exact what others want in our behavior, instead of acting upon our true, authentic
desires.
Assessing our good and bad qualities and working to achieve
our personal best is a good desire. If you had trouble expressing power in an
interview, I would suggest, as a life coach, that you practice with a friend
until you can overcome your fear and be able to shine, as children do. If your
teeth were crooked and brown from years of smoking and you had trouble finding
a date, who wouldn’t recommend fixing the problem the keeps people seeing your
beauty?
I once had a very good-looking friend who practiced
bodybuilding. He spent hours each day making every muscle ripple. He became
quite the athletic specimen. However, when he opened his mouth, every tooth was
crooked and brown, enough so that he appeared more like a bagman. I never
understood why he didn’t see that the reason he couldn’t get a date with a
pretty woman was because of his teeth, not his kind personality or great body.
Making a simple change like getting a goiter cut off your
face isn’t a bad thing, if all people notice is your goiter. I had a scar cut
off my eyeball, once, because every time I got a picture taken, my left eye
took all the focus. I figured soon that this wasn’t something I wanted to live
with, nor my two front teeth crossed. I got those fixed too. Neither operation
affected my authentic self. In all actuality, I felt more comfortable with
myself, if anything.
Last evening, I visited a new spiritual men’s group. When I
arrived, to my surprise two women led the group. As always, I sat back and waited
to see if this was the kind of group I would feel comfortable in participating.
An old client led the group, which helped a great deal in becoming vulnerable.
My greatest spiritual goal these days has been to create
room in my life for spirit to operate more powerfully. To do this, I feel as if
I have to clear space to be led into a different, more authentic path. What I
noticed about myself, as we were led through different spiritual exercises, was
that I had become an amalgam of attributes others expected of me, instead of being
my true spiritual self.
Case and point: when a new client comes into my office, the
first thing I assess: Is this the kind of person that would be afraid of my
true spiritual leading. If so, I act according to their needs instead of follow
my highest calling for them. That is not to say that I don’t try to find ways
to let each client know what I sense spiritually for them. I just have to use
different language for each new person. Some are more Christian, some are
atheists, some are Buddhists. With each person, I try to make him/her feel
comfortable, which isn’t a bad attribute.
The problems is that my greatest gifts as a healing
practitioner can only be utilized when a new client comes in with a spiritual acumen
that would include no laws about what spirituality must and must not be. When
that happens, I can use all my insight and intuitive spiritual nature to heal
completely.
So, in this spiritual group I attended, as we went through
the exercises, I realized that my entire body had become stuck, just like my
mind with new clients. Moving freely in space became uncomfortable and uniform,
instead of liquid, like living water. I noticed, then, that my greatest desire
to receive from the group is to unhook from my old behavior and give my body
and mind the opportunity to let my spirit flow more freely. We all need to have
a safe place to be all of our authentic self. Often, work is not that place.
So, finding a spiritual group that you attend frequently would give you the
opportunity to expand and grow and the security to be open with a group you get
to know and trust. I recommend it highly.
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The masses search outward for things that qualify them as a
person, but I always go inward for that which quantifies me for greatness. At
twenty-five I preached on street corners in NYC as an in-the-closet Pentecostal
minister. One day I heard a still small voice say, ‘God cannot be contained in a
book or a law or even in a religion. Dig deeper, reach further to find me, and
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