7 Ways to Keep Fear from Stopping Creativity

The process of creating something from nothing can be terrifying, especially when thinking you have to do it all by yourself. Knowing how to be open and permeated by the world you are living in helps, because then everything around you becomes material for your creation. The world around starts to look like a friendly collaborator — with the design to inspire and inform you. All of a sudden the woman talking too loudly in the coffee shop is dropping lines that work their way into the character you are writing about, the jerk who stepped in front of you in the elevator has a saying on his t-shirt that becomes the title to your next chapter, and that smell you notice while walking past the bakery has cardamom in it, the missing ingredient you have been searching for. But there is a process between throwing up your antennae to the heavens for inspiration, grounding to the earth for the energy, and opening your system to be permeated by the universe so that the act of creation becomes a wild collaborative act with everything around you. Because fear can get in the way. Fear is, without doubt, an enemy of the creative process — until you know how to channel it. What’s worse, if you don’t know how to listen to fear, and hear it as something separate from yourself, you might actually believe that what it is saying is true. When fear comes to me, it often says things like, “There is someone out there who could do this better. You won’t finish, why should you w...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Anxiety and Panic Creativity Habits Publishers Self-Help Spirituality & Health Fear Inspiration Leah Lamb Truth Worry Source Type: blogs