For example, a product sales engineer wants to bid on a large project, and to ensure closing the deal, he needs to have an innovative design to under-bid his competition. The sales engineer is unaware that he has an internal conflict with women expressing anger. A woman who expresses anger reminds him of his critical mother, and he loses confidence in his own level of intelligence and completing tasks. As the engineer takes his new innovation into his manager’s office, he is confronted with her anger at his bottom line estimate. The engineer loses his confidence, and along with it, his ability to present his ideas to his boss. The engineer leaves her office in defeat.

His defeat builds on itself, and he has now reinforced his wounded pattern, which will make it more difficult to overcome and enact new possibilities in the future. When we are aware of our patterns, then we are able to take steps to release those limiting beliefs that prevent us from being fully present in the moment, open to new possibilities and new creative ways to manifest in our world.

Part III, will look at how to move beyond those fears and free up the mind to engage the creative moment.