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3 • Emotional Blocks - Part 2

Pressure, in the sense of a very real pressure originating outside yourself, is something else that can emotionally block you from finding creative solutions to problems. There are people who believe that pressure is the key to getting more work out of others; there are whole businesses where fear is the prod to production. Like the manager who brags, "My men don't give me ulcers—/ give them ulcers!"

What actually happens is that under pressure your mind sets up a feedback effect: your thoughts begin to go round and round in a tight, closed circuit—nothing new or different can get in; nothing unusual or original can get out. What you do then is to strike blindly for the easy way out: the simplest, most logical solution to the problem you can find—one that is safe, tried, and true, and that you will be able to defend against all challenges. In a pressure situation, there will be challenges—you know that before you start. And it is almost certain that any answer or idea that is safe, tried, and true will not be original, creative, or even worth the time it took you to get it!

Other causes of temporary emotional blocks can be laid to such factors as health and personal habits. If you are overly tired, or have to put up with the prolonged mental drain of a serious family illness, or are physically ill yourself, your own mental nervous system begins to feel the drain of the static. Your ability to organize thoughts and problem parts into logical patterns or theories begins to be affected. This, in turn, may cause a sub­conscious frustration which, in its turn, adds still more confusion to the nervous system. Finding the cure for this type of emotional upset, of course, requires getting at the causes. Physical and emotional health and well-being are prerequisites to maximum mental efficiency.

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