Inspiration
What is inspiration?
The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially when it comes to creativity. Today I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to write about all day. Normally I wake up and after I start my routine I’m like, “Hot dignity, I got it.” Then I just get to it. However today I found myself pondering about exactly what to write. My brain just didn’t feel inspired. It wasn’t until I was speaking with my significant other about what to write about when finally, boom, inspiration struck. How about I write about Inspiration? How do we find inspiration when we feel mentally blocked?
Allow yourself space to sort through the wall. It’s there for a reason. Perhaps in that moment you needed to experience something else. Maybe you just needed time to allow the inner process to bubble to the surface. When in doubt, wait. Allow time without judgement or criticism. Give yourself a timeline for it though. This will allow your brain, space to work within those parameters. Slow and steady always wins the race.
Instead of writing something I wasn’t feeling I just said wait, allow it to come to you. In the beginning of the day I thought, by the end of this day I will have my idea. I put a timeline on it. This was my priority and knowing this allowed me to just let it come. Sometimes we are all in a rush to get words to paper, to get that instant gratification, that sense of accomplishment. But today, not knowing what I was going to write about allowed me to really enjoy each moment. I sat outside in my lounge chair laptop on, ready to seize the day. Starting to write, the words felt wrong. As if they were a jumbled mess and I couldn’t understand the language. I deleted it, and closed the laptop. Instead of forcing it, I sat out there staring at the scenery. Listening to the insects and animals make joyous noises. I closed my eyes when the wind fell upon my face and just experienced it’s cool touch. I allowed my senses to be present, in the moment. I felt bliss for the first time in days. Sitting there with that warm sunshine kissing my cheeks I felt peace. And I knew all the anxiety, all the depression, all the nervousness, the worrying, was exhausting. I had spent so much time scared and in constant fight or flight mode I forgot what it felt like to relax. It was like someone put the mute button on all my worries. I was free in that moment, and it gave me space to be grateful again. It gave me room to smile. And I felt that optimism wiggle its way into my heart, where I was able to just allow myself down time. Not rushing, not hungering for the call to action, but to just respect my journey and the process. By not knowing I got to know myself, and what I needed. By giving myself time to wait, I opened up my perspective to see my inner truth. I needed to rest and reset.
When you feel writers block, or a form of it that clouds your inspiration process, what is a way you can sit with it? I allowed myself the peace of the outdoors and to be present in the moment. That allowed me to be inspired later. Is there something knawing away at you? Do you have such a harsh inner critic that it crushes your creativity with its demands? What can you do to help build yourself up instead? Are there small steps you can do in the moment to allow yourself time? From my own experience when my creativity gets blocked it’s usually because of the stress and demands I am facing in my life. Try asking yourself what can you release in order to free up space for your creative genius. I challenge you to get to know that creativity, to understand its inner workings. Does it make you feel joy? Anger? Nervous? Happy? What happens when you think about being creative? Do road blocks come up? If so I want you to own them. Grab that road block and play with it. Find out why its there. By understanding your road blocks, you understand how to become inspired again. This will be a judgement free zone, so allow time to explore without criticism. You are a beautiful creative genius. Each one of us was born this way. Look inside and start owning that power, and your imaginations the limit.