Creative energy, anxiety, and perpetual bliss!

I've recently been thinking a lot about creativity. As a woman, being that we have the ability to grow life inside of us, I have especially been feeling this natural, instinctual desire to constantly be creating something.

Anxiety is something I've struggled with, for which, I believe I have discovered my own cure...creating. Some mornings I wake up with my heart beating out of my chest and thoughts running back and forth between my ears. On these mornings, if I'm in tune with my body, I begin to recognize the urge to make something. That is all my anxiety was pushing me to do...to create! Sometimes this anxiety is strong and the message is clear. Other times, if I don't start to create something, the anxiety clouds my brain and I miss its desperate call, "Create!!"

This was a simple but transformational discovery for my own life. No longer would I sit and ruminate or sabotage my life; Instead, just make something! And all will be alright.

This discovery has helped me a lot -- I am a wired and anxious individual, but that's just because I am a highly creative individual! Nature's call to entice me to constantly create throughout the day is booming! So I have flipped the script here. Anxiety is no longer something I run from, but instead, a spiritual call to creativity that I am so grateful to be able to hear! If you've experienced anxiety in your lifetime, I would highly recommend making something, anything, the next time you're anxious and see how much better you feel.

In the book, The Artist's Way, which I have mentioned on my blog before, the author discusses this idea of the "crazy-maker." She explains this concept as a person in your life who can sometimes drain your creative energy by creating drama -- However, I translated this idea as being more applicable to myself -- I may not have a "crazy-maker" in my life, but if I neglect my own creativity and block myself by giving into anxiety, procrastinating, or not creating when I start to feel the urge, the "crazy-maker" becomes my own mind. It's hard to recognize in the moment while it's happening, but after the fact, it is clear to me that resisting the urge to create actually creates this "crazy-maker" inside of me. The pent up creative energy creates crazy, drama, and anxiety!

This is why creatives are dramatic and will often sabotage and create drama in their own lives. Us creatives are the drama. The answer to curing your anxiety, ending self-sabotage, and adding bliss to your life is to just be the drama you were put on this earth to be. Follow your crazy! Follow through with that crazy idea, create something every time you start to experience anxiety, and watch how the "crazy" becomes your creative superpower.

I truly hope this post was helpful. Please comment and leave your feedback if it was.

Thank you for being here, I appreciate you!

Ciao,

Isabel