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“Where Do I Get Inspiration?”
WAS JUST TALKING OPENLY TO
someone about creativity. Where does it
come from, my own inspiration? I
sometimes get confused when I am
asked to do things about myself, as in
writing about me, It is not rocket
science I here over and over again, when
asked to do writings on myself.
Over the years I have found it difficult to express myself via
paper, Why do you ask?
Is it because when I articulate it in words I use to get lost.
My analytical brain goes into over drive and tries to fix
things, it tries to be perfect!
Perfectionism is not inspiration. Perfectionism is not
intuition. Perfectionism is thinking from the left side of the
brain, or is it the right side of the brain?? Oh here we go, I
am even getting this confused! My point is, the analytical
side, which I have a lot of that going on, it is rigid to me,
but still practical.
Being spontaneous and feeling within myself to go to a
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different environment like a park, the pool and to swim. To
feel the water on my skin, to be in that moment of each
breathe as I do breast stroke, I literally feel at one with
myself.
The other day when I was swimming, I found myself
looking down into the bottom of the pool with my goggles
on breathing and imagining I was in an ocean full of
coloured coral, there was exotic fish, water species in differ-
ent shapes and forms, I literally was not at the pool.. I was
visualizing my own reality in that moment.
And from there when I walked back to my car, I felt like I
was awake, really awake and taking in everything around
me as a beautiful orchestrated poem. Upon leaving I was
pulled to go and sit under the majestic trees and experience
my own company.
I decided in that moment I will embrace all the beauty
around me. Just to be.
And out of that incredible events happened. I observed the
birds in their own terrain, the trees were sharing their
beauty with me, they were ancient with knowledge and I
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