Rebooting Your Brain
Everybody needs a good rest periodically and for the Inspired Creative, we often find the rest phase of the creative cycle annoying. We want to be in a constant state of flow with ideas and excitement about our projects, but it’s impossible to sustain that long term. Even nature has to rest — which is why we have winter.
When your “winter” moments of life come along, sink into them and embrace them. Take a break, a vacation even. In July I was in a major rest phase of my creative cycle. I couldn’t come up with an idea if my life depended upon it. The thought of having to brainstorm or do anything business-related made me want to run screaming in the opposite direction. So I knew I was in the rest phase and decided to just embrace it. I did the bare minimum in my business and took time to read, watch movies, play the piano and veg around the house.
But it didn’t really help because in the back of my mind I resented that my brain wasn’t working. At a gut level I felt unproductive and lazy. Then, the 3rd week of August, my family and I went to Seacrest Beach, Florida and spent a week building sand castles and playing lots of Go Fish. I got up early and took solitary walks along the beach and often took a walk in the evening alone as well. It was wonderful! The subconsious guilt program shut down. I felt no need to accomplish anything. I didn’t feel like I “should be working” or “should be coming up with ideas.”
I relaxed into the ocean scenery and enjoyed my family and the gorgeous nature setting. I took lots of pictures and just had fun. The interesting thing was, the morning we were to leave to come home, I woke up from a business-related dream with several ideas popping to mind. It was as if my brain got a system reboot. Since I’ve been back, the ideas have begun to flow again. I’ve been working on a new project for Inspired Creatives at an easy, natural pace.
So, when you’re feeling that boredom and apathy with your projects and the idea channel has shut down for you, take a break! A real break! Step away from your environment so you can come back with clarity. I put together a video of one of my favorite piano pieces along with my photos of the beach. It’ll give you a feel for the kind of break I’m talking about.
About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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Hi Marnie, Thank you for sharing this message. It was just what I needed today. I really liked the piano piece and your photos of the beach. Blessings for a wonderful Fall season! Joseph
Love your music, Marnie! Glad you had a healing break!
Applause! Applause! Applause!
From one fellow pianist to another, allow me to say …
Bravissimo, Marnie! 🙂
The words, the music, the photos, the message — a collective, power-packed and wondrous piece.
Thank you,
Melanie
Thanks Melanie! I appreciate your kind words. 🙂 Thanks for sharing it with your SoloMompreneurs on FB!
Thank you for this Marnie what a wonderful reminder and help to me at this time. I am also feeling bored and apathetic towards my projects and needed this permission to take a much needed break
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Thank you for the reminder, that we need to take time just to enjoy what God has to offer us. If we are always so busy our head becomes to full and cloudy that we can tend to loose focus on what truly matters in this life. To busy to appreciate Gods many blessings for us and His beautiful and magnificent creations. As we allow ourselves to just breathe what God has to offer us. We become clearer in our mind, with a new sense of direction and a newer perspective of life. Thanks again for sharing… It really inspiring and so lovely…