Corey’s Story Journey – Resistance
July 21, 2009
- resistance
One of the things I love most about creative work is that you can literally use every part of your life to create from.
No matter what is going on – whether you’re in a good mood or a bad mood, whether you feel like creating or not, you can use it all. In fact you should.
Year’s ago, I had an amazing mentor Alice who I trained with in the expressive arts. Boy was I a tempest to work with! I had moods of all kinds. But she always found a way to work with me wherever I was. And I could never quite believe how she could do it. That really taught me a huge lesson – that life is art and art is life. And now I do use everything. I like to think of life as one giant story.
I say all of this because Corey had the idea this morning that he was resistant to working and yet I didn’t find him so at all. My experience of him was delightful as always. Maybe because he always dives in no matter what.
But I did notice that he seemed to brush right past a few important things that I was pointing out and so, since he’s hired me to kick a little creative (you know what) with him, I gave him the task of listening to our session and finding the spots that he missed! :>)
I knew he’d love that because he’s a very meticulous guy with his creativity and he really wouldn’t want to miss anything. So now let’s hear from the ever fantastic and creative Corey Blake:
Just got off the phone with Annie Hart and boy was I resistant today. I kept our conversation very surfacey (if that’s a word). You could say that my center remained in my head today instead of my heart. Sometimes creative resistance comes in the form of intellect instead of letting your body really experience the depth of feeling and today was such a day for me.
We did investigate my need to be needed and that my identity is so strongly rooted in supporting other people’s dreams that the idea of supporting my own artistic expression is terrifying. I know there is some real meat there. It’s part of unlocking my own artistic voice. I’m excited to get there, but on the lower end of the creative roller coaster today.
My assignment from Annie is to go back and listen to our conversation and find three places where I blew right by her. How embarrassing to be completely unavailable! Fuck. Part of creativity is also giving yourself a break and letting the down cycles be what they are. So I’m going to sit in my stew today and see what comes of it.
Annie’s note: Love this!
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