The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration
Land ahoy fellow Wanderers, you’ve made it! What a life changing adventure we’ve had! Thank you so much for packing your knapsack and wandering with us through The Artist’s Way, we hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have.
We Creative Wanderers have managed to cover some serious ground. We’ve changed so much from the crumpled shells of our creative selves that we were when we embarked on this journey. We have emerged from our blocked artist chrysalises, our wings still wet, but ready to take our test flight.
In this penultimate episode, we explore recovering a sense of Faith in our creative selves, by Trusting the creative process, relinquishing control to the Life-force and surrendering to Synchronicity.
We get out our torches and go cave diving as we discuss the power Mystery has in the creative process. Our ideas need time to unfurl in the safety of a womb-like darkness, keeping them under wraps until they are fully formed and ready for all to see.
We arrive at the world’s largest toy box - our Imagination - where we revel in the importance of allowing ourselves to play, to try things out. The incessant societal nagging makes us believe that even when we are just giving something a go, if we do not execute it with absolute perfection, we have somehow failed. This is simply not true. We refuse to get bogged down. Instead we play, try, fail, start again. Build a fort, knock it down and build a castle from it’s ruins.
As we hit the accelerator to reach Escape Velocity, we are reminded of the final block, which sneaks in at the very last minute in the form of Doubt. This pesky beast wears many disguises, so we must be vigilant. Do not be fooled, not everyone wants you to succeed, and we all have a few Wet Blankets who are more than ready with ‘well-meaning advice’ to dampen our creative fire. Throw the blankets overboard like the ballast they are and soar high.
Endings are new beginnings and we are not quite ready to hang up our walking boots just yet. We round off Series One with an exciting ‘What Next?’ as we continue our creative journey and take all that we have learned out into the ‘real’ world.
Don’t forget to tune in to the final episode: Epilogue: The Journey Forward
Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.
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Music: Copyright - Shane Darrall / Twitter: @superflare
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