There is always movement; nature is always moving. Even when we feel stuckness. Even when we feel resistance, there is a part of us wanting to go forward whilst another pulls back. In order to move forwards we need to address what’s holding us back, attend to what needs attention and feel our fears. We need to allow ourselves to connect to and acknowledge what matters to us. We need to own up to where we are procrastinating or what we are avoiding and questioning, know our motivations and take self responsibility. We also need to allow ourselves joy and give ourselves permission to do what we want. Ultimately we need confidence and courage.
On Being Into Something
I disappeared this summer. I lost myself in a creative project. I let myself be taken over by it; let it be the most important thing in my life. It became my focus, the source of my energy and the distraction of it. It was a joyful and challenging immersion. It was all I thought about and all I wanted to think about it. There was little space for anything else in my life. This kind of creative immersion is often described as flow (Csikszentmihalyi). It was both exhausting and exhilarating to be so caught up and in something. Invested and…
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