A Practice to End Self-Sabotage as a Creative.
You want to be more creative, yet you sabotage every idea before you begin.
I see you.
It’s f*cking scary to bridge the gap between what is and what you want.
But it’s only the path to the creative fulfillment you don’t currently feel.
We’ve normalized:
self-sabotage
anxiety and stress
lack of fulfillment
But what is normal is not natural.
And changing your relationship to these symptoms of dysregulation is going to feel WILDLY unnatural.
Here’s the thing:
Creativity is your birthright.
But sometimes we have to lose something to re-discover the joy of finding it again.
Vedic philosophy has a beautiful way of summarizing the journey of life - the path to wholeness.
“The one became two for the joy of becoming one again.”
I wholeheartedly believe that represents so many personal relationships to creativity.
The reunion with our creative self will have qualities of “this feels so much more me,” at the same time as it will feel clunky, difficult, and awkward.
It brings up all the fears we haven’t reconciled, and you can’t unsee them.
We self-sabotage creative ideas because it feels safer to stay separate from them.
We constantly perfect our creations without ever feeling good enough to share them.
We overthink how the world is going to receive our work so we hide our gifts.
Every time you choose to stay in the small idea of yourself, you re-inforce your reasoning of self-sabotage.
You choose to be right about your own beliefs of separation at the cost of abandoning your creative connection.
You don’t need to fight for your limitations anymore.
Next time your pattern of self-sabotage arises, practice this experiment:
What emotion am I avoiding right now?
How might this avoidance be informing my belief of separation/inadequacy?
What would it take to release 10% of my resistance to this emotion today?
This will only work if you fully acknowledge what is happening in your body.
For a facilitated journey into re-connecting with your creativity, I’m leading a creative cohort starting May 3rd apply below!
go with love
-kev.