How to get back to your creative work, a trick

When you fall out of your creative practice, time goes by and it gets hard to get the juices flowing again.

We have all been there and it can seem foolish because you know it will make life better to get in there again, but the internal critics get going and it is hard to get past them.

So I want to share my trick with you, a way to slide past those critical voices. I call it doodles- you might have another name for it. 

The thing is that the internal critic is there to make sure that you are not going to be ridiculed and thrown out of the collective- this is important! and besides you do want to make work that is valuable and worth while. 

But if, for whatever reason you have not been making in a while, it is hard to get back in the flow if you are trying to do good work, respectable and valuable and deep work. 

And you know that making work will nourish your soul and make life a lot easier once you are doing it. 

So tell the critic that you are just making a doodle, throw away art, a little nothing, and she does not need to worry- you won't show anyone. That should calm her down. And then really get some material in your hands and play for a short amount of time without any direct purpose. 

Why make throw away art? really? I know you are busy- we all are- it is hard to make the time to do anything, if you are going to make time for art, you want it to matter.... Yeah I know.

But this is just to get the juices flowing past the log jam that is your internal critic. You will find after doing this a few times you start to trust yourself a bit again and as the critic starts to feel how yummy it all is, she may let you dream a little bigger... if not, lets talk!

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