{"id":8239,"date":"2019-06-06T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=8239"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T22:59:21","slug":"cross-new-thresholds-into-being-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/cross-new-thresholds-into-being-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross new thresholds into being creative."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today\u2019s Guest Blogger, Creativity Coach, Suzanne Murray,\nasks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DO YOU RESIST ENGAGING YOUR\u00a0CREATIVITY?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzanne\u2019s thoughtful answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I got a note from one of my writing students saying\nthat she was really enjoying writing when she managed to find the time. The\nthree top reasons that people give for not being able to fully show up, move\nforward or change some area of their life are, “I don’t have enough time,\nI don’t have enough money or my health isn’t good enough.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the surface these excuses appear valid and hard to argue\nwith. In truth they always cover up some deeper resistance. When we really want\nto do something and commit to it we can always manage to find the time, the\nresources and a way to work around any physical limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Olen Butler who won the Pulitzer Prize for his\ncollection of short stories A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain worked\nfull time and had a difficult home life so he wrote everyday on the train\ncomputing into New York City. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books,\nwas a single mother struggling on state aid in Edinburgh Scotland where she sat\nevery day in a local cafe writing the first book in the series that would turn\nher into a multi-millionaire. These stories point to the reality that you don’t\nhave to have everything together or know exactly what you are doing or how you\nare going to make something work to begin whatever it is you want to create.\nBeginning opens you up to new possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With my writing coaching clients, I start by asking for a\ncommitment to write a minimum of ten minutes a day. It would seem like everyone\ncould find ten minutes, but if there are some unconscious beliefs and fears\naround expressing yourself or being creative then you will put it off until the\nend of the day and then say you are too tired. This is what resistance looks\nlike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are having trouble showing up to your writing,\npainting, music or exploring your creativity in some way, stop and get quiet.\nTake some deep breaths. Ask your deeper or higher self:  what’s in the way? Then just see what comes\nto you. It may be a memory of your third grade teacher humiliating you in front\nof the class by criticizing a drawing you did or your father’s refusal to let\nyou take the dance class you so much wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such events really can impact the tender, vulnerable, innocent part of us that is our creative self and years later have us not wanting to risk being creative. If something comes up for you, honor your feelings around it. If you feel sad or angry feel those feelings as a way of allowing them to shift and release their hold on you. Then send love to that part of you.\u00a0

We also resist our creativity because it can take us into unknown territory and our mind, which is committed to keeping us safe, will put the brakes on when we veer from the routine.\u00a0Becoming aware of what’s in the way of your desire to create and being mindful and patience and kind with your self will help you cross new thresholds into being creative and finding time to show up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out Suzanne’s new website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work with Suzanne Murray:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creativity Coaching<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0Creative Life Coaching<\/a>, Writing Process Coaching<\/a> & EFT Sessions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EFT\n(Emotional Freedom Techniques)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combining Western psychology with Chinese acupressure work together to rewrite subconscious patterns and limiting beliefs that keep us stuck.\u00a0I’ve had miraculous results and have\u00a0been working with EFT in new ways that allow us to laser in on the issue and shift it at the core and change your life from the inside out. We often make significant shifts in a single session.
Sessions are available by phone and Skype.

CREATIVE LIFE COACHING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you like to live from an expanded place of grace, ease\nand flow? Would you like to tap the wisdom and power of your heart and\nsoul? We work with soul based ways to let go of limitation and\ngain clarity of the next steps to living a more joyful, authentic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Suzanne Murray.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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