Relax and Let it Out…

Listen, I know you like to work hard at things. It's what our parents/teachers/mentors told us — over and over — "Work hard and you'll be successful."

You love (or hate) racking your brain, searching your mind, struggling to come up with the perfect idea, concept or turn of phrase… and it just seems to be just out of reach, on the tip of your mind. Very frustrating.

You might even have started talking to yourself. (I do and I highly recommend it for keeping unsavory characters away from you…)

If you try too hard, you will just stay in our own way. In fact if you try at all, you're just in your own way.

If someone says, "OK, I'll try and come over on Saturday night", you know they are not coming! So stop trying.

Just do it.

All creativity comes from your unconscious mind, so let it produce.

Relax first… then write. Here's some options:

1. Do a relaxation or meditation session.

2. Do some conscious breathing — just breathe in for a count of five and out for five. Do it over and over for ten minutes or so.

3. Take a long hot shower, until the water runs cold.

4. Sit in front of the fireplace, stare at the fire and de-stress. Then go straight to the keyboard (or paper) and fly at it. Let your unconscious mind just express.

Relaxation and releasing stress will aid you in whole brain thinking. That will allow the inspiration to begin to work it's way out onto the paper.

A famous story of relaxation then realization, is of the chemist Friedrich Kekule. While gazing into his fireplace, he saw snakes, biting their own tails which revealed the structure of the benzene ring molecule.