My favorite abstract creation of 2022 is one I did not try to create.
It is on the sheet of plastic that I hung to protect my wall from paint and where I wipe excess paint off my brushes- with gestural strokes created by my body and not my mind, in flow and not in thought, in the now and not the future, with no problem to solve, no attachment to outcome and no desire to control.
When we want to create something new, we often need to forget what we know.
My mind seeks a predictable cause and effect, it craves proof and certainty. it gives itself a job by seeing problems to solve, it sees EVERYTHING as a problem to solve- my art, my relationships, my life- and tries to solve what I want to experience in the future with what in knows from the past.
"The mind is a great servant, but a terrible master." -Robin Sharma
And nothing new can be created using the templates of the past.
So what is the true GREAT master? One of the greatest minds in history tells us this:
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift” – Einstein
Our biggest blocks are our fears of who we what might be, what we might do, where we may go, if we made our minds the servant of what we LOVE, what we DESIRE, what we KNOW is true for us.
And our biggest blocks to creating what we want is are our fear of WHO WE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE if we let go of our need for comfort and certainty.
Because creation is always seeking to expand our boundaries and take us into the unknown. Creation IS the realm of the unknown, of all things possible, and where we create what we love and desire.
But we can stay in the comfort of our current dissatisfaction because we know how to live with it, even as we complain about it, because the unknown can feel scary as AF. And in our fear we put our problem-seeker/problem solver mind in the driver seat, and not our DESIRE for what we would LOVE to create, not our true identity of WHO WE REALLY ARE: Powerful co-creators with the Ultimate Creator.
I leave you with this beauty from the Marianne Williamson:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.”
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