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Today I did number 12 – feeling inspired – an energy I already have, and I thought I had it in abundance. But I realised during the activation that I was being a bit passive and limited with inspiration – waiting for it to strike, like it was lightning – fickle and unpredictable.
Ok, I give inspiration every chance.
I meditate and give myself space to be inspired.
I do morning pages every day (often in the evening) and give myself space to be inspired.
I make time to write to give inspiration a chance to come through. (How can inspiration come through if you don’t have the blank page at the ready?)
I make sure my self-care, joy, energy and self-love are good (if I’m worn out, fed up and criticising myself, it’s hard to tune into inspiration).
But then I wait and hope to be inspired. I cross my fingers that the spark of inspiration will come to me. I still feel like inspiration is something I need to open the door for, and maybe it will come in, if I’m lucky.
I know that there is an infinite creative well that I merely need to tap into, in any way I can, to access creativity. Inspiration is the same.
There is infinite inspiration available to us. Yes, we need to open up to it, we need to create space for it, we need to give it a place to flow…but it is always there.
We need to be less passive about it.
We need to believe it’s there.
We need to not panic if the next word doesn’t appear to be coming.
We need to be patient with it.
We need to trust in it.
We need to learn to pause and breathe and practice patience.
Some days we turn on the inspiration tap and inspiration pours out (yay, good days).
Some days there is a trickle that we want to hustle to make it fill up the page.
Some days there are mere drips and drops, making us frustrated and irritated.
Some days it looks like there’s nothing there – no flow (shudder).
If it’s anything other than full flow, we tense up and get stressed and feel agitated, like we’re trying to catch a will’o the wisp.
But inspiration is always there – infinite, enduring, limitless.
If you are open and ready for inspiration and it doesn’t appear to be flowing, pause, breathe and be patient.
Keep your peace.
When tension and frustration and irritation arise, refuse to engage…just let them subside.
Don’t run off to social media.
Don’t rush away to the next task.
Stay.
Poised and ready.
Because inspiration is there. If you’re tuned it, it will flow.
But you need to let it.
You need to wait for it.
You need to trust that it is there.
What we normally do is panic! (Or is this just me?)
Like: I’ve waited for 3 whole seconds for inspiration and IT’S NOT COMING!
Or I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE.
Or OH GOD THE FLOW HAS STOPPED MID-SENTENCE…SHIT!
Or WHERE IS THIS IDEA GOING?
I had all of these glorious thoughts today as I was writing this.
None of them were helpful.
All of them threatened to send me off in search of distraction.
All of them made me wonder if this would turn into an article at all.
All of them distracted me from my main task today.
Which was to be patient and poised, ready for inspiration to flow.
Today, it did, and easily…once I rejected those shouty, fearful, fretful thoughts. Once I decided to keep my hands on the keyboard and wait patiently.
And of course, I’m sure there will be days when I just cannot tap in. Maybe because I’m tired or my mind is too busy, or maybe even because something needs to bubble up from a deep place. But if I trust the inspiration is there, waiting for me, I can just come back tomorrow to the blank page.
Inspiration is there. It is infinite. So if I’m open and ready, it will flow. If it doesn’t seem to be flowing, either I’m not open, or ready, or patient, or poised.
The knowledge that I am not at the mercy of capricious inspiration is…inspiring. Inspiration is at the mercy of capricious me…so it’s in my hands. Not only that, I can practice turning that tap on more fully, unclogging the pipe, enlarging the vessel inspiration can flow into.
I’m not going to run out, the tap won’t run dry (unless I block it somehow), I can trust that inspiration will always be there for me. Waiting patiently for me to turn on the tap and trust it to flow.
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