Think•Do•Be the MVP in Your Own Creative Life, inside the MINDFUL VICTUS PLAYSCAPE w Marisa Victus

🤔 What if F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real) is easier to combat than you think? 🔮 Part 1 of 4

In our STUDY, SAVOR, & SUPPORT Each Other CHAT☕️🍵, we’re doing Part 1 of 4 in our deep-dive into conquering Fear, inspired by Chapter 8 of REWIRED: The Breakthrough Tapping Method to Stop Overthinking, Calm Your Body, and Finally Feel at Ease by Nick, Jessica, & Alex Ortner.

As I said last week, Chapter 8 — 🤔 When Fear Stops You Cold — is such a critical concept that we’re going to take concrete actions to battle our greatest challenge: F.E.A.R. — False Evidence Appearing Real. In this series, we explore what we can do together, to stop thinking and actually take action to combat it this month.

Think•Do•Be the MVP in Your Own Creative Life, inside the MINDFUL VICTUS PLAYSCAPE!

I strongly believe that taking action together — in community with other people who “get it” — makes a tremendous difference. It takes the sting out of doing anything new. It’s fun. And we can keep each other accountable.

Full Recordings are posted in my FREE Private Skool Community: The Mindful VICTUS Playscape, so please join me there. You can overcome one of your own F.E.A.R.s, but there’s no pressure to post a Recording of your own. Simply post what you feel comfortable posting. Even if it’s a simple comment to document what you did to move past your own fear that week. It’s the perfect opportunity to see & imagine what’s possible if you join us, to conquer your own fear. Whatever you decide, my complete Recordings will be posted there, and you can see me succeed or flop 🤣, as I battle the 4 F.E.A.R.s described here.

This week we’re battling (1) Stage Fright.

My goal: To combat the fear of posting myself playing piano, after not taking any piano lessons for years.

I meant what I said: despite the jitters I kept feeling in my body, I forced myself to post my first piano Recording in my FREE Private Skool Community: The Mindful VICTUS Playscape.

I upheld my promise: to show myself taking the smallest step, as I’ve encouraged us to do in my Video Poem, “The Littlest Shift,” that’s posted there, too.

In addition to the EFT Tapping Script I created below, whenever Fear whispered doubts in my ear, watching this Video Poem helped my Highest Self to remember: Some of the mightiest, most powerful personal transformations can happen in the Littlest Shifts.

Can you guess the song?

I’ve posted a snippet of the piano song here on Substack and, at the last minute, I decided to record & post this Video to go along with it!

I chose this song, deliberately. The name of the song says it all.

aaAnd the key of the song — C — has no sharps or flats, signifying how quickly and easily it helps me to root myself, not only in who I am now, but also who I want to grow into, to be:

I am someone who lost my way, who abandoned formal piano lessons as a child, but who wants, more than anything, to honor the Musician inside of me. Rooted in the belief that now is the perfect time, to rediscover what moves me, what enlivens me, what brings me joy.

Sure, it is only one song. One teeny, tiny step.

But this EFT Experiment means the world to me.

It may seem small, but its effect is profound.

It’s the Littlest Shift on my journey to bypass thinking — to UNLOCK Courage in my body.

Because it’s never too late for me. And it’s never too late for you, either.

Now, let’s go on this journey together, battling one F.E.A.R. at a time…

MY MINDFUL REFLECTION:

As I prepared this 1^st recording, F.E.A.R. used all of its dirty tricks, telling me:

“You’re safer doing nothing.”

“Keep doing nothing. It won’t hurt that way.”

“Just watch: you won’t be able to do it. You don’t have a clue how to record anything!”

“Who are you kidding? You’re not a musician.”

“They’re going to laugh at you.”

So, of course, the logical, Left Hemisphere of my brain tried to take over, telling me I just needed more time to think about it, to plan and prepare and research.

Wasn’t Fear right, after all? I don’t know that much about recording equipment or recording programs.

And I did struggle to learn the logistics. The software. The wires connecting everywhere. The inputs and outputs. The mic — that’s still not ironed out. (Good thing singing’s up for next week, not this one.)

Overall, my mind was in a place called “Ughhh….”

There were so many excuses to not post. To postpone instead.

Fear just got louder, and more insidious in its tactics, whispering, “Sure, you said you’d do it, but would anyone blame you if you didn’t?”

It reminded me, “You even have a good excuse: that medical procedure you had to undergo, smack-dab in the middle of your week.”

Yup. That’s precisely how Fear was trying to keep me from…

What I actually needed: to simply DO IT.

To take action.

To stop planning or preparing.

To just press Record.

To post it, despite any mistakes.

To do the 1^st rep, knowing that it would be just one of many reps on what I intend to be a lifelong journey to explore my love for music, to find joy, and fully express my Creative Self.

What I learned: Action really is the best option.

Not because my F.E.A.R. disappeared.

But precisely because it didn’t.

And, my doing it anyway — even imperfectly — was and is the fastest way for me to actually change how I see my own identity.

But, the most interesting part was, I was able to take concrete, transformative Action before I even played even 1 piano note:

The beat began when my Monkey Mind would not shut up.

It was playing a drum beat of war, at an increasingly frightening pace, and I could feel my amygdala flooding my body with stress hormones.

I wanted to freeze.

I wanted to run.

I wanted to flop.

Then, I remembered:

EFT is the perfect way to take back control:

In the privacy of my own home.

In the couple of minutes before I placed my hand on the keys.

In the precise moment that I opened the musical score and felt that resistance.

And I did it at the same tempo as my Monkey Mind’s percussive beats, in time with the crescendo beating on my amygdala’s drum.

As I said each and every fear that I was feeling with the setup statement (“Even though I feel X, I completely love and accept myself”) while tapping on the Meridian acupressure points, I addressing my fear on a somatic level. Inside my body. That was the fastest and easiest way to disrupt my Reactive Loop of planning-researching-endlessly-preparing-and-ruminating-on-the-what ifs.

And the best part?

That EFT tapping sent a powerful message to my mind: it was an Act of Self-Love, right now.

That settled the fear, because it showed my rational brain, “I’ve got my own back.”

Fear was trying to scare me, but those were simply thoughts. Fleeting. Changeable. Malleable. And, I reminded myself, You can choose which thoughts you listen to.

YESSS! EFT Lets Us Take Control, as an earlier Action point!

And, you know me: I love to use humor to make any change happen, so I came up with this fun Acronym. I playfully call this method:

S.Q.U.E.E. in the Face of Fear!

So we can take Action, before we do “The Do” we need to do:

🔮 Safely — use the Somatic practice of EFT to soothe your nervous system to embody a felt sense of Safety that’s real at the physiological level: switching us to the Parasympathetic Nervous System’s well-regulated state of “rest and digest,” physiologically, chemically, and emotionally.

🔮 Quit — quit the Fear Loop in the present moment, right here, RIGHT NOW!

🔮 Understand — take time to give thanks and acknowledge this as the ACTION that it is: an Act of Self-Love! And bask in the loving-kindness you are actively giving your body, mind, and spirit!

🔮 Escape — like a dove you’re releasing from a cage, bring mindful awareness to YOURSELF by imagining your Highest Self opening the cage and allowing your Current Self to Escape the tyranny of this F.E.A.R. — not only right now, but FOREVER MORE! Because EFT tapping actually rewires your default, physiologically, chemically, and emotionally.

🔮 Excite! — use the power of your Ideation & Imagination to excite yourself! IMAGINE how amazing you’ll look & feel embodying the NEW Brave YOU!

🔮 In the Face of Fear — acknowledge that you’re taking action, not because Fear’s disappeared completely, but precisely because Fear is right here, knocking on your door, but you’re storming right past it. You close the door behind you, so it can’t get inside now or ever. Now you’re running fast, along the Path to Progress that YOU MINDFULLY CHOOSE, to reach the Destination of YOUR DREAMS—not anyone else’s!

Now, Take a Mindful Moment, to ask yourself:

⭐️ What F.E.A.R.s have been holding YOU back?

⭐️ Have you been stuck in an Anxiety Loop of thinking-studying-preparing-and-ruminating?

⭐️ Do you hear your own Monkey Mind, beating on your amygdala’s drum?

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🤔 Are YOU ready to SQUEE in the face of Fear?

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