How Fear Blocks Creativity | by Madisyn Taylor To understand how fear blocks creativity, take a moment to imagine yourself telling a story. First, imagine telling the story to someone you love and who loves you. You probably feel warmth and energy as you fill in the details of your tale to your friend's delight. Now, imagine telling the same story to someone who, for whatever reason, makes you uncomfortable. The wonderful twists and turns, the fine points and colorful images that unfolded in your mind for your friend probably won't present themselves. Instead of warmth, energy, and creativity, you will probably feel opposite sensations and a desire to close down. When we feel unsafe, whether we fear being judged, disliked, or misunderstood, our creative flow stops. Alternately, when we feel safe, our creativity unfolds like a beautiful flower, without conscious effort. Knowing this, we can maximize our creative potential by creating the conditions that inspire our creativity. In order to really be in the flow, we need to feel safe and unrestricted. However, achieving this is not as simple as avoiding people who make us feel uncomfortable. Sometimes we can be alone in a room and still feel totally blocked. When this happens, we know we have come up against elements in our own psyches that are making us feel fearful. Perhaps we are afraid that in expressing ourselves we will discover something we don't want to know, or unleash emotions or ideas that we don't want to be responsible for. Or maybe we're afraid we'll fail to produce something worthy. When you're up against fear, internal or external, ritual can be a powerful--and creative--antidote. Before you sit down to be creative, try casting a circle of protection around yourself. Visualize yourself inside a ring of light, protective fire, or angels. Imagine that this protective energy emanates unconditional love for you and wants to hear, see, and feel everything you have to express. Take a moment to bathe in the warmth of this feeling and then fearlessly surrender yourself to the power that flows through you. | DailyOM Course Spotlight by Eric Maisel Are you creating less often than you would like? Are you avoiding your creative work altogether? Anxiety may be the culprit. Anxiety regularly stops creative people in their tracks and makes their experience of creating more painful than pleasurable. It stops would-be creative people entirely, preventing them from realizing their dreams. Anxiety is the number one problem that creative people face--and yet few know about it. Do you procrastinate? That's anxiety. Do you resist getting to your work or marketing your work? That's anxiety. Do you have trouble deciding which creative project to tackle? That's anxiety. Do you find completing work hard? That's anxiety. Anxiety is everywhere in the creative process. Learn what to do about it! In this course you will learn how to identify the sources of your anxiety and develop tools and techniques to manage it so that you can create regularly and deeply. Top 10 DailyOM Courses 1. Release Yourself from Family Karma 2. Fit and Fierce Over 40 3. Clear Your Home, Clear Your Life 4. Chair Yoga for Healing, Strength and Mobility 5. How to Communicate Like a Buddhist 6. Find True Love in 27 Days 7. 21 Day Plant-Based Plan for a Lighter, Happier YOU! 8. 21 Day Tabata Yoga Body Challenge 9. 15 Minute Yoga for Aches and Pains 10. 21 Day Booty Core
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