I am also feeling very sorry for myself.
And I am having a flare of up my health stuff, due to the heat, and I have another month to wait to see a specialist and… it’s so hot and just getting hotter.
Like, can I just be put to sleep somehow and woken up in 1 month?
And then this other part of me is like… well yeah you can't really go out but you could stay in and spend this month making art. And she points to this closet full of ideas of things I want to do and I just… blech.
My creative magic feels so far away.
I’ve had several weeks of breakthroughs and that palpable feeling like “things are coming together” in my creative dream process lately. Everything was going SOOOOO GOOD! That makes it especially suck to feel so blocked.
So I was distracting myself by cleaning, meal prepping, laundry….
And while putting away the last of the laundry it hit me.
What would I say if someone in the membership told me they had this problem?
Can't I coach myself through this?
So, if any of you said this to me, the first thing I would do is legitimize how much my situation SUCKS. To have a health issue that is aggravated by heat, and to have to wait to get help, during the hottest part of the year, is especially frustrating. And the health thing on it's own is enough to make it harder to have the energy to create.
I would wonder if this is a good time to be gentler with yourself and your goals.
And then I would wonder… can we re-vision or re-relate to this time period of 1 month while waiting to see the doctor? Could this be a 30 day project? Could it be a kind of temporary magic bubble?
But I don't want to do any of that. I want to do the stuff I want to do and NOT be creatively blocked.
Well then, unfortunately, my coach/mentor self would say "So have you taken that to the Un-Sticking Station?" and no I hadn't.
I hadn't even thought about it even though I always say... the step you are on is the only step you can take! Do not JUDGE where you are, just figure out how to be with what is actually there! If you're on a step where all there is is a creative block - work with the block.
A creative block needs Un-Sticking.
And guess what?
That was instant magic.
I saw right away that I was holding the creative block TOO FAR AWAY. Like holding it at arm's length instead of really being with it.
When I could be with it, I understood...
My creative block wants to heal me and give me everything.
Which felt like... whoa this is TOO trippy. I have taken this alchemy meditation stuff TOO far.
But I sat with that a while and then I could see how all of our creative blocks really do want to heal us and give us what we want.
A creative block is a signal to look deeper.
A creative block demands that you step off the path you were on and dig deeper.
Digging deeper always creates a BETTER way through.
So... my creative block isn't the problem.
My relationship with the block is the problem, all of the resistance and distraction I am bringing to the situation is the problem.
Which feels especially funny/aggravating since one of the projects I wanted to finish this week is the Anti-Doomscroll Alchemy Meditation + Journaling Kit. But here I am doomscrolling to distract myself from the pain of my creative block!
That happened last night, so I didn't do anything more with it. And here I am this morning, still feeling blocked but understanding that the work is to BE WITH the block and all of the feelings and thoughts it brings up, and to keep digging deeper.
Here I am, understanding and accepting that THIS IS THE PATH. These are my next steps. I am not "off track" I am in the process.
I don't know how I am working through this. But I am showing up.
I do know that when I saw the block in my meditation, it looked like this papier-mâché thing that I do want to make for my home. And I was thinking if I can't get myself un-blocked to do my projects, I will start the papier-mâché project instead of scrolling today - as a way of "being with" the creative block.
And I know that I need another Un-Sticking meditation, so I will start there.
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