How To Catch Inspiration Without Waiting For The Muse?

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

One of the most painful performance problems is creativity.

Many sincerely consider themselves gifted and creative, but the last time they did something creative was in kindergarten, when they made Easter cakes from plasticine.

Many, on the contrary, have given up on themselves and consider their past hobbies for music and poetry as teenage bad habits that only interfere with earning money.

Many are in an almost addictive dependence on bouts of inspiration and, with the stubbornness of a maniac, wait for the Muse, postponing things that require a creative mood.

And only harsh psychiatrists believe that "creativity is a schizoid sign", and therefore readily admit their lack of talent: "I am normal, therefore I do not indulge in any creativity.":)

Many people are attached to the feeling of inspiration, just as teenagers are attached to the dizzy feeling of being in love. Creative personalities often become dependent on the experienced sense of courage, when the work argues on its own, without effort and boredom, with enthusiasm and excitement.

Having experienced a fit of inspiration once, it can be difficult to get down to work, since any actions outside the flow begin to seem like a routine and a duty. It can be difficult to exert will (and inspiration allows you to do anything without effort). Thus, having fallen into dependence on inspiration, people tend to postpone work, procrastinate in anticipation of the moment when that magical state of creative upsurge will arise by itself.

Post illustration - portrait of the creative part my subconscious (the subpersonality responsible for creative inspiration).

Using the methods of art therapy, I, together with the client, create parts of his unconscious, the so-called subpersonalities.

Subpersonality is a metaphorical designation for the individual parts of our self that are responsible for automatic behavioral responses, patterns and scripts. For example, the subpersonality of the Driver is responsible for the skills of automatic driving of a car, which allows unloading the mind for listening to audio books or talking with a fellow traveler.

But the Driver is a simple program, a set of motor skills, and there are complex subpersonalities, for example, the Critic-pessimist. This part of our personality constantly fixes attention on our mistakes, undermines self-confidence, sabotages attempts to get out of our comfort zone.

When we create a portrait of our subpersonality, we have the opportunity to establish contact with this part of our personality, to find out its ulterior motives, to enter into diplomatic negotiations. For example, you can agree with the inner Critic so that his comments do not cause feelings of guilt and powerlessness, but, on the contrary, stimulate development, move on, without stepping on the same rake

Portrait of the creative part- the most popular request when working with subpersonalities.. Meditation on such a portrait allows you to tune in to a creative wave and enter a state of creative flow, without waiting for the coming of the Muse.

Thus, we have a "magic button" with which you can start creating at will, at any convenient time. It often happens that creative people do not sleep all night, because they are afraid that the inspiration will go away and never return. Having learned how to turn on such a state, you will not be afraid to lose it or spill it out.

The skill of attunement with our creative part gives rise to the confidence that the realization of creative potential depends entirely on us, that we can mobilize creative activity and our inspiration of our own free will and do not depend on the accidents and whims of the Muse.

Anyone who is interested - write in a personal, help to create a portrait of your creative part!