Jamna: How
can I motivate myself to be creative when I've been away from it
for a while?
Michael:
An easy one to answer but a possible struggle to perform.
So,
imagine I'm a dentist and you email me telling me you haven't cleaned
your teeth for a while and how can you get back to doing so. Uhm! I
would say, best thing to do would be to start cleaning your teeth;
the proper way, up and down and twice a day. Problem solved. Then,
being a dentist I would probably send you a bill for £300.
So,
doing by doing, making by making. If you do, it's done (and the world
is a brighter place). If you don't, it's not (and the world is a
little duller)
And
just as not cleaning your teeth makes you feel lousy, so does not
creating beyond yourself.
Got
it?
And
remember how painting makes you feel good, even though there are
initial struggles and mental knots to untie.
Well,
you may ask, what's stopping the action?
Answer;
the day to day mind, that's what.
It
hates anything new and just wants you to chug along on two cylinders,
always pulling you back to your default state because that's where it
can control you.
But
you know from your Italian venture that the you it assumes is
you is merely a construct which wants you to listen repeatedly to its
dull monotony.
The
creative Jamna whom you were thrilled to meet and who pulled aside
the veils of your hidden self, that's the real, everlastingly there
Jamna. Don't be hoodwinked.
Wake
up.
And
clean your teeth!
