Quiet Creatives

Brief, Narrative, & Metaphor

Brief. 
"Life is short" (adapted from the sayings of Robert Brault).  So you struggle to find the time to do all that needs done; to make time for the important things in life; too much time--to little time.  What is important can happen in a moment while misery is strung out over years dripping slowly like a kind of torture.  Your expectations of the problem and what solutions are possible will be challenged while lasting change may happen without discovering you're making it.  


Narrative. 
Once upon a time . . .  Story--the bedtime kind; the summer beach kind; and your life's story are all narrative--and yours is how you explain what has happened to you.  These "stories" or explanations have been written--you may assume--by things outside yourself--your fate, parents, place in life; but stories can be rewritten and looking at your story it may be asking to be rewritten by you. 

 

Metaphor.

Like story, seeing life as if something else can help you move in valued directions.  Life is like . . . a storm; a merry-go-round; a great adventure; a mystery, a pain, or a gift.  All of these metaphors help you shape your life.  Not from a rational but rather emotional place.  An important assets when struggling to make sense of things.  You may hear interesting stories from me about things that don't have anything to do with what you're dealing with, unless . . .
 

 

 

Interested?  Here's More:
 
Therapeutic Concepts: Cognitive, Behavioral & Acceptance
 

Therapeutic Concepts: Mindfulness, Commintment, Fulfillment, & Systemic 

 

The Unbearable Weight of Choosing

flickr: gianni

 

It’s 5:30 am and I’m up, with scratchy eyes and yawning.  Trying to write, why?  Its about the unbearable weight of choosing.

 

IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

No one cares if you ‘re up or rollover in bed.  No one’s marking down if you’ve fudged on the commitments you've made to yourself. 

Just because you happened to scribble down in a moment of clarity about where you want your life, or creative project to be in a week, or month, or year, doesn’t mean you have to do it, does it?

YOU'LL HAVE TO CARE

The universe isn’t going to tell you to get up, get going, and get it done.  It’s 37 billion years old for goodness sake (give or take 37 millions years)!  Way past needing to be impressed, so don’t expect a lot of feedback.

It’s really up to you, your creative project is important because you say it is.  Your art, and act of creating it, is meaningful because your creating it makes it so.  Creating in the face of a blank page or an empty stage is the moment before your big bang.  The moment of your creation.  And when you create you make sense of your world.

 

What are the ways you face up to the unbearable weight of choosing?  What kinds of community do you scrabble together in the face of this weight?