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"Someone Who Knows" by Pearl Buck Add to this cruelly
delicate organism the over -powering necessity to create, create, create, so
that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something
of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out
creations. By some strange inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is
creating."
Getting Creative By Joy Gabbard Do you struggle with being overwhelmed and don't want to do ANYTHING? There are a few things I can suggest. One time, a doctor told me that there are three kinds of people. emotional, physical and mental. We all have tendencies towards all three, but one always stands out more than the others. He said that we are born this way and we will die this way. There is nothing we can do to change it. The only thing we can do is work with it to the best of our abilities. The physical person has to be DOING something all the time. The mental people are like computer geeks, they only think, don't like to do much physical things, and are not athletic at all. Emotional people are all creative in some sense of the word, if it be with people, places or things. They are the glue that keeps the world worth living. The physical people are the ones that construct it all and the mental people are the ones that keep us going forward. I believe that the emotional person's mind is always actively creating; that is their natural make up. But when our minds aren't doing what we expect them to do, then we are discourage. Maybe a better way to look at it is like writer's block. Creativeness comes like a spirit, when it wants to. If we force it, then we are doing our own will; if we allow it to happen, then I believe that we are doing God's will. So it is O.K. if you are not feeling right about painting, or drawing, or writing right now... maybe do a little drawing just to see if the "juices" start flowing. Don't think BIG, think small so that you won't get overwhelmed. The physical person lives in the NOW naturally. An emotional person lives in the past, present and future, seeing the whole picture. A physical person has a hard time understanding that kind of thinking, and they wonder why you do this to yourself, but we can't help it unless we take action to make it tolerable for ourselves. The physical person will say "take one thing at a time." That is easy for them to say that because they are a physical person. So I have to come up with something that works for me when my mind "won't stop". I have learned that Yes it can! Being emotional creative people, our minds are not concrete like other people's. We have to allow the flow to move us. If it doesn't, then we feel like we have failed because we have expected ourselves to perform like other people. But other people's minds are concrete (settled, done, right now, etc.) and we are not like that but we continue to compare ourselves to them and we shouldn't because we are not like that. Our deep understandings, I believe, come from being creative. But it takes a lot of energy to create. That can cause you to be tired and unable to get started. You can see the past. (how much work it takes), the present (how much work you have to do now), and future (how much work it will take to finish what you have started). So after all that thinking it is jus too much work. See, a physical person would probably not ever paint a picture. That would take too much thinking (now), planning (future) and pondering (could be past, present or future). They are usually not creative. They can't do what we do. We think they are kind of stale, careless, narrow minded, whatever... But we ache to be like them.. (Or should we?) because our society puts them on a pedestal, but often puts creative/emotional people on the bottom. We want to be noticed too, but some of us have figured out that our rewards come from God. So if we will never change, then we need to accept what we are and learn to live with it. It's the hardest personality of the three to do, too. Emotional men can usually do it better than women, but emotional women sometimes, do more than most people anywhere, period! Creating is performing, and performing takes physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy. That is a lot of energy! We are multitalented and that makes us VERY special. Many HSPs go through this kind of thing all of the time. The first thing to do is to ponder what to do first. Expose yourself to your project a little. Then later, slowly start looking at what you "plan" to do. Don't put any pressure on yourself. The first sign of pressure, get away from it again.. maybe try again another day. Then when you go back to it, it starts the creative juices flowing just by being around something you love to do. Then take ONE thing out and feel how you feel about it. For example you might get your pencil and paper out and make some marks, that is it for the day or until later. Lay it down; don't think of the finished work or even what you are going to draw. If you feel the pressure, stop it again! What you are doing is exposing your creative juices to the item without SEEING TOO much. This is a one step program. What this is actually doing is keeping you from becoming overwhelmed and destroying the creativity that is inside you. Because you think past, present, and future, you tend to overload your mind with all of that, instead of just loving what you do. It's like taking baby steps with NO PRESSURE! You need to pace yourself so you don't squish the flow. to be continued
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If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves and it creates. Those are its primary acts." ~ Sue Monk Kidd
"The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting
from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it
loves."
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