Why do we cast looks over our shoulder? Afraid of being seen, judged, and rattled out of our creative and curios spirits. We live in this hunched and scared feelings, worried people will give the wrong kind of fuck of what we're about.
All this does is grate our output to a halt. Or make us put out non-authentic works. In such an effort to push out and keep at bay anyone else's opinions we also forgo the chance for someone to love our work we do.
And we end up ostracizing ourselves in the process, the community gets further away, we understand other humans less leading to less empathy for others' struggles and our own.
This is something I've struggled with my entire life. How do we even start by putting a stop to it? Is it affirmations? Hypnosis? A bubble bath?
I think it starts with practice. Practice being vulnerable with others especially creatively. Practice easing up on how tight your muscles are when you do your art. Being okay with being a beginner. Aiming for the love of the process, not the end of it.
Fall in love with your process and how messy things can get in your creative pursuits. Try a releasing meditation before you begin and end with gratitude.
I'm speaking to the choir here. This is something that is no easy task. Always feeling like you're not good enough, and sometimes it's something that isn't just in the creative parts of our lives but is deeply ingrained in our pasts and other aspects of our lives like relationships or school.
But embrace yourself as you are now.
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