The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65725   Message #1085876
Posted By: wysiwyg
04-Jan-04 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Black room is getting me
Subject: RE: BS: Black room is getting me
Creative Types-- sometimes we just need to drift, in between passionate inspirations. It can be easy to mistake this for depression, or the early part of the black room cycle... it can feel very odd to "lose" the passion, especially if you have been using it (abusing it) to get energy for running everything else. But sometimes a little nesting is in order, and if the inner tapes tell you that you are slacking, they may need to be reassured to shut up thankyouverymuch. It's important to be able to distinguish between the inner voice of moving forward and the inner voice of beating yourself up or being scared unnecessarily. A pattern of trusting your gut and acting on what it tells you soon results in useful hindsight for guidance.

Sometimes we are already doing exactly what we most need to do, and it just doesn't feel like that.

~Susan