Sparking Creativity
After a long, treacherous, never ending winter there are
signs that Spring is emerging! The smell of dampness, rain and an ache in the
bones that is hard to shake…but you don’t care because you know there are
better days to come.
What to do when Winter has drained all your creative
energy? When sparks left over from the
past are non-existent, put out intentionally or unintentionally. No sparks. Not
even the small signs of Spring are enough.
The idea of ‘Spring Cleansing’, of ‘Spring Cleaning’ comes
to mind. Getting rid of ‘stuff’. If your mind, your heart, your home are filled
with ideas, people & things that no longer have a place in your heart its
hard to let anything new in. Empty & let go. Be brutal. Clean house on all
levels. Let go of dust covered mementos that no longer have meaning, let go of
people that drain or take rather then feed you, let go of old ideas and plans
you will never get to. Do it for everything: clothes, books, projects, people.
If it doesn’t bring you joy anymore let it go. If its
something “you may get to someday’ or you are holding on to hopes that
‘something may happen one day’..let it go. If it’s meant to happen it will.
Bigger, brighter and better.
They are all things that take up space in your psyche and
your environment. Clutter.
Creativity needs
‘new’. It needs space to develop. Like a fire needs to breathe so does
creativity. So do you.
Give yourself the gift of ‘letting go’ and emptying out. As
hard as letting go can be holding on can be much harder. Happy Spring..and
getting some creativity sparked!
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