Artistic Energy
Where is it? What is it? Why is it? How is it?
All the questions, because you know, I love my questions.
Energy ebbs and flows. It may feel exhausted right now. It may feel nonexistent right now. Trust me, it hasn’t dissolved. It hasn’t disappeared. It could just be latent and hibernating and resting and building up its reservoir again.
You may be putting your artistic energy in other forms right now without truly realizing how important that is.
Maybe you are making masks; maybe you are cooking regularly for the first time in ages; maybe you are creating recipes or baking; maybe you are doing that with your kids or your significant other. Maybe you are exploring new ways to exercise or to meditate or to be still.
Whatever you are doing - including the non-doing - your artistic energy resides there.
You live your life leading with your artistic energy. It is the energy that creates, that figures things out, that absorbs, that reflects, that is curious, that gives permission, that welcomes. It is the energy that adapts, that is pliable, that morphs. It is the energy that allows, that feels, that contemplates.
Artistic energy is open. When it is met by sudden shock, it often absorbs the shock and then is felt in after-effect. The after effect means you can take any idea and make it move. Maybe not right away, maybe not very far, but you can and will have that power.
Ask the questions. One at a time, with permission to be still and let the answer come to you. Don’t rush that process either. You can’t know where you putting that energy if you aren’t sure where it is currently.
I don’t know is a legit answer. When you are ready to allow it to reveal itself to you, it will. You will.
Take time to just sit with it, even if you can’t feel it. Observe your actions, even if you don’t feel it.
Artistic Energy is another behavior in action. It just is. It’s yours and only yours. It’s absorbing and reflecting as a part of you.
Be still. Give permission. Be observant. Recognize every movement and every moment. Energize into that. There you will find your artistry begin to blossom.
With fondness & fierceness,
Susan
