Ava Semerau author of And God Was Pleased: Biblical Principles for Creating Christian Success

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Loved it.

You accurately described the “Writer’s Block” I’ve been suffering for literally years. A plethora of ideas and enthusiasm to write, the ability, the energy… but an inability to stick to one concept, one story, one idea due to a lack of heart-centredness.

I’ve given myself a self-proscribed prohibition on creative writing until February next year… sick of starting and never finishing. Instead I’m focusing on chopping away that thicket.

Agree with you about living in fear - it puts us all in our own private hell and we don’t even know it until we switch to living in love and feel the difference.

Lovely to be on your blog!

I agree that a misused mind is a dangerous thing. I might add that arriving at logical, reasoned choices is quite useful when working in realms where those answers work, such as solving a computer programming task. Use the mind for tasks appropriate to it.

Moving into a healthy heart centered awareness is what it takes to trust our knowing and ability to perceive.

I suspect living in fear is actually the biggest trap on this planet.
Lexi

What if there was another way? What if “thinking” was the biggest trap perpetrated on this planet? Where does great inspiration, art or ideas spring from? Not usually thinking!

What would it take for us to trust our “knowing” and ability to “perceive” as opposed to attempting to “figure everything out”.

Brendan
What else is possible?

I agree that keeping a healthy skepticism is useful. Keyword being healthy in that sentence.

There are more ways of reality testing than the defined scientific method. I am big on testing in my own experience those less tangible matters science often overlooks due to the difficulty of quantifying them.

After all, a sunset is beautiful, and even though that beauty may be difficult to quantify, it is there in our experience nonetheless.

Lexi

From the second I hit the “publish” button on my original post, things have been churning yet again, not at all in a bad way. As you see from the comments, I considered and then rejected another idea, because I eventually found it absent that spark I’m looking for, though I came away with knowledge about a creative tool I may use soon.

Yes, this isn’t the first time I’ve been observed overthinking a problem. And it’s an odd situation to be an artist who has — I won’t say trouble emoting, but I’ll admit I make decisions with my brain way more often than my heart. A year or two ago, I self-declared my atheism, and embraced and came to terms with a skeptical life attitude. Lately I’ve realized that there’s some sort of middle ground between the magical and scientific, which is the artist’s playground. It’s a realm of the human experience that even the most rational of us can’t deny, but that a skeptic runs the risk of turning his back on.

I’m going to go find it.