The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration
It is week nine of the Artist’s Way and we are now sailing at a fast clip towards the finishing line. Emboldened by our discoveries and a sense of newly found freedom we may start feeling impatient. We may even want to rush our journey by cutting it short. This is where recovering our sense of Compassion enters and we are finally ready to face the biggest creative block of all – Fear.
We learn the importance of naming things by their proper names, especially when it comes to our inability to create art. Very often we call ourselves lazy or we feel guilty for procrastinating, whereas the fundamental reason for our creative stagnation is fear. The remedy lies in taking small creative steps, in deep compassion towards ourselves and in a profusion of self-love.
Another ego-stroking monster that loves to draw admiring glances in our creative routine is insistence on clockwork-precision discipline. Easier said than done, such harsh discipline drains us of our creative joy and energy. We step away from grounding our creative process in discipline and we anchor it in Enthusiasm, instead. Rigidity is replaced with the flow of life itself when we are in theos (‘filled with God’).
Fear wears many disguises in our creative life. It also derails us into taking last minute Creative U-turns, which sabotage our creative growth. Instead of running for the hills, we learn to recognise the warning signs and keep moving forward on the “straight and narrow”.
We wind down our journey by equipping ourselves with an invaluable tool to Blast Through Blocks. Our sense of creative dread has been well and truly dismantled.
Jo & Emilija would like to leave you with the following words by Julia Cameron: “For our purposes, “the journey is always the only arrival” may be interpreted to mean that our creative work is actually our creativity itself at play in the field of time. At the heart of this play is the mystery of joy.”
Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week Ten of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection.
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