Post summary (for those who like to know what they’re getting into): I’ve shared some thoughts here on letting go of the need to learn how to enhance creative work and to start to focus on embodying creativity. This will be especially resonant for anyone who shares my somewhat irritating need to Impress Teacher and prove myself worthy of praise and titles like ‘writer’. We are working on SCRAPPING all that Clever Girl stuff! Onwards. x
Hello lovers! Firstly, apologies for the absence of an update last Friday. Some of you may know I’m dealing with a human shaped parasite currently, and last week they decided to start sending details of where I live to people with ill intentions. It will all be okay, but malignant narcissism is a fairly intense thing to be subjected to and sometimes the best thing to do is to just switch off from the online world for a bit.
In more exciting news, I spent the weekend being initiated into Reiki I! I did it with the Om Reiki Centre here in Naarm/Melbourne, and I highly recommend it. To reassure you once again, I am NOT headed down the wellness/woo path. There will be no ‘spread love, not vaccines’ garbage from me. I knew that already, but according to the aura reading I took at the end of the Reiki I course, I have a YELLOW personality and am very good at balancing my connection to spirituality with science. Phew!
ANYHOO. I decided to begin training in Reiki because:
I think any kind of energetic work is essential to creative expression, as it helps us to be more connected to our feelings and the different sensations they produce in our body.
The use of meditation in energy work is brilliant for directing our thoughts in different ways, and “unlocking” creative portals we didn’t realise we had access to.
Work that involves us tuning into other people’s energy fields and being with them in stillness is excellent for fine tuning our intuition and empathy, both things that I consider necessary for enhancing our creative capacity.
Additionally - and this is a confession I’m willing to make here - being torn between my desire for spiritual connection and my need to understand everything logically (not to mention my extremely ADHD Clever Girl need to be the best at all the things I care about) is a wonderful ego check. I personally believe having a healthy ego is necessary to foster creativity, but there’s a fine line between ‘healthy’ and ‘oppressive’.
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