46 - Creativity Loves Constraint.

But it feels so important that it's almost too big and we don't know where to start.

And it feels like the visual I get is like a container with the lid on.

So I really love the idea or the visual of the body being... a container but not the physical body alone know that the the physical body houses so many different dimensions within it we have our emotional experience we have our beautiful conceptual mind that thinks its way to try and keep us safe thinking all the time thinking thinking thinking i'll think about this i'll think about that then we have the feeling body you know the animal body the primal body then we have the hungry body and the food needs and all of that and the physical body is the place where all of these things meet and it is a vessel you know it's it's the natural state our body things come in they're digested they go out the womb fills then it releases it does this every month it fills and it releases and And our systems fill and they release.

Our systems fill with inspiration.

And then if we either channel that inspiration or it just naturally passes.

So there's this constant state of emptying and filling and emptying and filling.

And sometimes it feels like it's so full.

There's just so much fullness and we can't empty.

Or there's some kind of lid or people talk about it as feeling like a block with how to actually get the thing out.

And if we talk about it within the context of actually creative practice, practice, my Bristolian roots coming out, creative practice.

If we talk about it actually in the sense of I want to create something, I want to birth something into the world.

But it just feels blocked.

It feels like we can't, you know, it's like the genie in the bottle.

When that lid has been on there for a long time, that genie can't really come out.

And it's in there sometimes for eons, right? Mythologically speaking.

And then sometimes when that genie comes out, it's pissed.

It's angry.

It's like, why did you keep me locked up for so long? And that can feel triggering and painful when we actually do decide to sit down and go about doing our work.

And then it's not how we want it to be or the beginnings aren't how we want it to be.

And so we get this experience of like the genie being pissed off.

You know, you've let the genie out the bottle.

Well, now what? And I was just reflecting on it, just sitting with some tea.

I think it's really helpful if we normalise the creative path as there being acute phases of all different experiences.

What I aim for in my health on a bodily level, on an emotional level, and a creative level, what I aim for is to feel things acutely and fully, and then they move.

What I...