Life coaching through Nina Simone’s eyes.

Nina Simone

Being a Nina Simone fan, I have been listening to her music for just under 10 years and I have found her to be authentic and living in freedom. Present, active, and never settling are some of the virtues that come to mind when I ponder on her music and existence. I thought, well, maybe we need to do a “Life coaching through Nina Simone’s eyes” series. There is always something to learn from everybody if we are open enough to learning. Even in war, great battles were won by studying the enemy’s strategies, even when it was knowing the basics.

“I will tell you what freedom is to me, NO FEAR” Nina Simone

I want you to think of the things you would do if you were not afraid. Have you questioned yourself about why you are afraid to do the things that you want to do? Nina Simone was found to be living a truly authentic life, living freely, being her true self. Most of us are not the people we should be and we have tarried on what is just available for us. We are happy with the crumbs that fall from the master’s table when we should be dining at the master’s table because we are masters ourselves. Most of us live in the closet, we are not our authentic selves. We live in the closet called fear. Somebody once said, “fear is a dark room where all negativity is born”, and I call that room a fear closet.

Being stuck in the fear closet limits your movement, it is dark in there and you cannot see a way forward. Imagine yourself being free from all the opinions of other people.

Do not be ashamed

Shame and guilt are a by-product of fear. Yes, fear brings shame and guilt. When we are content with the people that we are, we will not be ashamed of where and how we are. Shame causes us to hide our faces, shame causes us to hang our heads instead of looking forward to the journey ahead. The shame of where we currently are instead of where we wish we could have been at has robbed us of dreaming again. Why are you ashamed of where you are right now? Nothing is liberating about living in shame. Where you are is not your destination but living in shame will cause where you are to be your destination.

Shame, guilt, and fear are imprisonment

We need to start recognizing the source of how we feel, recognizing the source of how we feel will help us establish prisons from freedom. There are probably moments when your mind takes you back to what happened 2 years ago, and you start feeling guilty and shameful all over again as if that incident had just happened. We need to deal with challenges and issues as and when they happen. When we postpone confronting challenges and issues as they happen, we postpone the feelings associated with that incident.  Nina Simone was one lady who dealt with issues head-on. Maybe we need to learn that from her, only we need to find tactics that will work best for us.

We need to refuse to live in prisons. Take this time to think of the things that have kept you in prison and list them. Consider how long you have been kept in prison because of these things. How long have they kept you from living your best life?

I believe you too need to live in liberty. Liberty within yourself.

Fear cripples us, blinds us, and imprisons us.

Feeling Good  -Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Y11hwjMNs

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