Creativity

I was running on the downs the other day as I like to do. It’s more of a meditative exercise for me and it enables me to mull over things whilst I run and process thoughts and feelings whilst also focusing on my breathing and throwing one foot in front of the other!

So a thought came to me this time, that the best gift we could give ourselves right now is allowing. Perhaps it’s something some do naturally, but certainly for me as a creative person who’s learned to be self motivated and needs to be actively creating, the thought that maybe taking more breaks and allowing the creative flow to happen over a greater period of time is perhaps a healthier way to operate. 

I guess I’ve learned to focus myself over the years and having had an art school education, I seem to have absorbed this quote from Picasso “Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” So the concept of formulating new ideas but only because you’ve turned up with the mindset that you’re in work mode, has kind if functioned over the years, and I’m not paralysed by the idea of starting a new project. 

However, I’m trying to explore this notion of allowing, that actually taking your eye off the ball so to speak, might bare more creative fruit over time and that this slightly obsessive approach to staying in the moment and ‘pushing’ to get inspired is not serving the bigger picture.

But also bringing this new mindset to a broader sense of living might be a good thing too. Perhaps allowing in other aspects of life might be a healthier approach as well? 

I think I’ve been guilty of over thinking situations, using intellect and reason as the correct and logical perspective and I’m starting to realise that maybe holding off with a response, letting a situation or series of events unfold before I decide to have an input could be a much healthier way of operating.

Maybe the universe has a flow and intellect will often interrupt that process and maybe I should be slower within my operating than I’ve previously been, that allowing is a kind of ‘oil’ that greases our modus operandi and when we get the motion just right, the allowing lubricates our methodology to enable insight and inspiration………maybe?

We allow by simply pausing with the intention to relax our resistance and let the experience be just as it is.