Inspiration gets you out of bed, but what if she doesn’t come?

I imagine inspiration as an inner spirit that awakes in my body, and almost kicks me out of bed,  usually the early morning times. She appears like a spark inside the body around the chest area, which makes the breathing process deeper. It is like an instant moment of happiness, a huge appetite to create, an inner push, a drive, an effortless momentum, an awakening of an idea, a strong will, a specific intention, a precious moment when you know that an opportunity has appeared, and the moment is just right. Like there is a wave of creativity coming your way, and you are certain that if you ride it, its flow and force will take you on a mission you cannot resist. Right now, it is exactly one of those times. It is 5.30 am and I felt a momentum of almost being pushed out of bed because my intention to work on a project was stronger than my desire to stay in bed.

But what if she doesn’t come?

I deal with her absence in three ways:

1.     I discipline myself to work on projects anyway. The beginning is hard but then if you begin the body gets used to it and after around five minutes of work you are into it and doing it. The hard thing is to make yourself begin. This action doesn’t need a lot of thinking, it needs an almost robotic action to make yourself begin even if you tell yourself: I will just do it for five minutes. During those five minutes your energy will have already shifted and you will most probably continue doing it.

2.     I let her (inspiration) not come and instead of expecting her, I just go to the places and do the things that bring me joy and pleasure. Usually it looks like taking myself on a walk to nature, watching a movie, meeting a friend. In a sense I make a decision to spend my time and energy with another wonderful fairy called JOY.

3.     To bring inspiration back I will take myself to experience things that are new. A new art work or performance or movie, a new place, a new circumstance. This way myself will experience its own self experiencing something new and this contact with unknown information will create inside me a sweet clash. It is a a situation where  I will be witnessing in me new reactions and this means that my palette of emotions or of information is growing. The growth in me triggers me to want to explore this unexplored side of me further and usually that comes in the form of new ideas which make me get out of bed.

              She is back !

Have a lovely inspiring day

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