I am intriqued to take the challenge of adventuring into my studio and capturing a little spark to send out each week. Funny that this week's topic would be fear because I could easily procrastinate doing this out of ....yes, fear. But I won't because life is short and I have things to express no matter how anxiety producing that is at times.
Fear shows up in its rigid way and throws up its hands.... STOP it says......tumbling down all over my good intentions to show up in my studio and create.
I saw this week's topic and immediately thought of David Bayles and Ted Orlands book Art and Fear. It's a great book that I've nibbled at but really need to take the time to read and digest it fully. I find that anxiety or fear often stops me. It does it in subtle ways so that in the moment it might look like procrastination or suddenly I feel like I just absolutely no matter what must clean the grout in the bathroom instead of sitting down to face a blank page...or in my case an unformed lump of clay.
I'm learning how to identify the fear, see it saying to me stop, and then choosing to ignore it. To make, create, express something anyway. I'm beginning to whole heartedly believe that what we focus our attention on expands and so I give Fear a quick glance and tell it it cannot steal my energy. I'm learning to choose to focus all my attention on seeing myself as a vibrant productive creator of her life.
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