Finding Your Balance: Creative Inspiration Without Comparison or Isolation

Finding / having creative inspiration, in my experience, is a balance.

I know that in the past I have been on one end of the pendulum where I am intaking a lot of things that inspire me but that can then cross into either comparison or a freeze response because there is an imbalance of input vs. output (i.e I am ingesting a lot of inspirational content but then I am not necessarily doing anything with it around my own creativity).

On the other end of the spectrum, I have relied so much on my own creativity and imagination - which of course can be really beautiful - that when I feel stuck, I can spin in circles in my own mind because I am too "in" or too self-reliant on my own experience and ideas.

For me, the balance - or maybe harmony is a better word - is knowing when I need to focus on my own experience and ideas and when I want / need other inspiration.

So that I am rooted in my own creative energy and not getting sucked into comparison but not so much so that I can't allow it to grow, evolve, expand and be contributed to in a healthy way from outside experiences, ideas, perspectives, etc.

So for this week, we might ask ourselves:

• What is my relationship to creative inspiration?

• If I struggle with finding or receiving inspiration, why? What do I tell myself?

• If I feel blocked, where do I feel that block in my body? What does it remind me of?

• What does balance (or harmony) around inspiration look like for me?

• What is one action step I could take right now, today, or this week?

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