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Description

Excerpt from \"The Artist's Way\" by Julia Cameron.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

British (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
dangers of the trail. Creativity is God energy flowing through us, shaped by us like light flowing through a crystal prism. When we are clear about who we are and what we are doing, the energy flows freely and we experience no strain. When we resist what that energy might show us or where it might take us, we often experience a shaky, out of control feeling. We want to shut down the flow and regain our sense of control. We slam on the psychic breaks. Every creative person has myriad ways to block creativity. Each of us favours one or two ways, particularly toxic to us, because they block us so effectively. For some people, food is a creativity issue. Eating sugar or fats or certain carbohydrates may leave them feeling dulled, hungover, unable to focus blurry. They use food to block energy and change as the shaky feeling comes over them that they are going too fast and God knows where that they are about to fly apart. These people reach for food a big bowl of ice cream, an evening of junk food and their system clogs. What was I thinking? What? Oh, never mind. For some people. Alcohol is the favourite block for others drugs. For many, work is the block of choice. Busy, busy, busy, they grab for tasks to numb themselves with. They can't take a half hour's walk. What a waste of time must dues and multiple projects are drawn to them like flies to a soda can. In the sun they go buzz, buzz, buzz, swat as they brush aside the stray thought That was the breakthrough insight for others. An obsession with painful love places, creative choice outside their hands, reaching for the painful thought. They become instant victims rather than feel their own considerable power. If only he or she would just love me. This obsessive thought drowns out the little voice that suggests rearranging the living room, taking a pottery class, trying a new top on that story that stymied the minute a creative thought raises its head. It is locked off by obsession, which blocks fear and prevents risk, going out dancing, redoing the whole play with an inner city theme. If only he or she would love me so much for West Side story. Sex is a great block for many, a mesmerising, titillating, hypnotic interest slides novel ****** possibilities. In front of the real novel, the new sex object becomes the focus for a creative approaches. Now note carefully that food, work and sex are all good in themselves. It is the abuse of them that makes them creativity issues. Knowing yourself as an artist means acknowledging which of these you abuse when you want to block yourself. If creativity is like a burst of the universe is breath through the straw that is, each of us. We pinch that straw. Whenever we pick up one of our blocks, we shut down our flow and we do it on purpose. We begin to sense are real potential and the wide range of possibilities open to us that scares us. So we all reach for blocks to slow our growth. If we are honest with ourselves, we all know which blocks are the toxic ones for us. Clue. This is the block we defend as our right line up the possibilities. Which one makes you angry to even think about giving up that explosive one is the one that has caused you the most derailment. Examine it when asked to name our poison. Most of us can has food sabotaged me? Has workaholism sabotaged me? Has sex or love obsession blocked my creativity Mix and match is a common recipe for using blocks. Use one. Add another mix in a third, Wear yourself out. The object of all this blocking is to alleviate fear. We turn to our drug of choice to block our creativity. Whenever we experience the anxiety of our inner emptiness, it is always fear, often disguised but always there that leads us to grabbing for a block. Usually we experience the choice to block. As a coincidence, she happened to call. I felt hungry and there was some ice cream. He dropped by with some killer dope. The choice to block always works in the short run and fails in the long run. The choice to block is a creative U turn. We turn our back on ourselves like water forced to a standstill. We turn stagnant. The self honesty lurking in us all always knows when we choose against our greater good. It marks a little jot on our spiritual blackboard. Did it again. It takes grace and courage to admit and surrender are blocking devices? Who wants to? Not while they're still working, Of course, long after they've stopped working, we hope against hope that this time they will work again. Blocking is essentially an issue of faith rather than trust our intuition, our talent or skill or desire, we fear where our creator is taking us with this creativity rather than paint right, dance, audition and see where it takes us, we pick up a block blocked. We know who and what we are unhappy people unblocked. We maybe something much more threatening. Happy for most of us, happy is terrifying, unfamiliar, out of control. Risky. Is it any wonder we take temporary U turns as we become aware of our blocking devices food, dizziness, alcohol, sex, other drugs, we can feel our U turns as we make them. The blocks will no longer work effectively. Over time, we will try, perhaps slowly at first and erratically to ride out the anxiety and see where we emerge. Anxiety is fuel. We can use it to write with paint with work with feel anxious, try using the anxiety feel. I just did it. I didn't block. I used the anxiety and moved ahead. Oh my God, I am excited