Ugh! I just can't think of anything creative to write! I think and think and think and nothing comes out! Actually stuff comes out but just not the stuff I want to think about! I want to think of creative stuff and witty stuff and cool stuff! I don't want to think of lame stuff like burritos and cat hair and sixth grade camp. -Ugh! there it goes again, uncool random thoughts when all I'm trying to do is write. I find myself in this comfy little rut quite often, not just when I want to be creative but anytime I want anything that doesn't come easy(ever really WANT a triple latte? Starbucks on every corner my ass!). Wanting to think, wanting to be creative, it seems as if every time I want to do something, or force the creative juices to flow I end up in that dry, dirty little furrow commonly known as a writer's block.
And what a perfect word for it, block. I really do feel blocked. Jammed. Hindered. But what is it that is doing all of this blocking, jamming up my creative flow? Could it be the very thing I think I have to do which is to think? But how would anything ever get created without me thinking of stuff? Everything that got created was thought about first right? The light bulb? The wheel? The clothes pen? Stairway to Heaven(oooh yeeaah!)? Well, funny you should ask(like how I included you?). Einstein, you know, Al, he was quoted as saying, "No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it". I suppose with that same line of thought one could say that nothing new can be created from an old way of thinking. Or a current consciousness can't be imagined by using stored memory or old creativity. Like the lightbulb couldn't have been created by thinking of the technology that invented the wheel. A whole new paradigm had to be opened up for the new creation. Speaking of the light bulb, Thomas Edison, and Einstein, along with many other creative people throughout the ages practiced some form of meditation that they credited as the spark for new ideas. So, it's actually a matter of NO thinking that will get us out of this self imposed jam, not more thinking!
Busy beaver, that's me! Busy with all of my thoughts, all my wonderful old ideas from the storeroom of my mind. I use these thought logs to dam up and block me from any sort of real creativity that is bouncing around in the universe, just waiting for an open mind to settle into. Light bulbs and wheels and Stairway to Heaven(oooh yeeeah!) can't share the stage in your mind with hairball, fabric softener, meatballs. My mind has to be an open receiver for fresh, new, creative ideas. Next time I'm all blocked up with my lame thoughts, I have to just walk away, literally. Walk through nature, go for a swim, take a break from whatever it is I am trying to think my way into creating. Meditate, take a nap even, anything but THINK. Wanting something would imply that I don't have something in the first place, and the universe loves nothing more than to affirm my beliefs. Just BE, be creative, or be the space where creativity can manifest within me. From this state I can crawl out of my little rut and create! I'm taking the burrito with me though.
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