{"id":6488,"date":"2017-03-09T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:11:52","slug":"6488","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/6488\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Go And Create"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Guest Blogger Suzanne Murray writes about how surrender can help creativity:<\/h3>\n

We can\u2019t force creativity. We know this intuitively. If we told a painter that we wanted a masterpiece by five o\u2019clock tomorrow, he or she would look at us like we were crazy, that we clearly didn\u2019t understand what being creative was all about.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>An important part of being creative is learning to surrender to the flow of the universe, allowing something greater than our everyday self to move through us. It\u2019s not something we can figure out with our linear mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, if we want to paint we need to learn how to work with our chosen medium and studying the work of the masters can help. If we want to write it\u2019s really valuable to read widely and deeply, to show up daily to put pen to paper and perhaps take a workshop on form we want to work with.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet at the heart of being creative is letting go and allowing the ideas, the inspiration to move through us. This is where practice comes in. As Flannery O\u2019Connor said of her writing experience, \u201cI show up at my office everyday between 8 am and noon. I\u2019m not sure that anything is going to happen but I want to be there if it does.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I recently sat next to a young man in Starbucks who had a set of watercolors laid out and quickly produced a couple of small paintings that were quite lovely. We spoke of creativity and how so many people think you either have it or you don\u2019t. \u201cYeah,\u201d he said, \u201creally it\u2019s a muscle, you\u2019ve got to use.\u201d He went on to say \u201cNo matter how lousy I feel, if I do even a couple of little paintings I instantly feel better<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel the same way about writing, even if it\u2019s just a page of free writing where I just let the words flow out of the pen. Being creative feels good and lightens our mood because we become more present to the moment, quiet our chattering minds, and allow for the awareness of our heart and knowing to do the work. In the surrender we find ourselves in an expanded state of consciousness were we can do things we didn\u2019t think we could.<\/span><\/p>\n

Originally posted\u00a0on Suzanne Murray’s Blog<\/a>, \u00a0March 2017<\/p>\n

Suzanne Murray<\/a> is a gifted creativity and writing coach, soul-based life coach, writer, poet, EFT practitioner and intuitive healer committed to empowering others\u00a0to find the freedom to ignite their creative fire, unleash their imagination and engage their creative expression in every area of their lives. She works with simple, powerful techniques to help clear whatever gets in the way and creates a safe and sacred space for your creative and soulful life to blossom. She provides an experience of the joy and beauty that comes from embracing your gifts and expressing them in the world. With a lifelong connection to the natural world, she enjoys sharing the grace and wonder that Nature can bring to your life and creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogger Suzanne Murray writes about how surrender can help creativity: We can\u2019t force creativity. We know this intuitively. If we told a painter that we wanted a masterpiece by five o\u2019clock tomorrow, he or she would look at us like we were crazy, that we clearly didn\u2019t understand what being creative was all about. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104],"tags":[105,160],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-bloggers","tag-just-write","tag-suzanne-murray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s43Dj8-6488","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}