Take Back Your Life!

“Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings on the way down.”
~ Ray Bradbury

I’m sure you’ve heard over and over that you need to be mindful, you need to be aware of this moment, you need to somehow focus on it and then the it after it and the it after that. And anything that falls short of that is that terrible mindlessness.

As a challenger of assumptions, that makes no sense to me.

Sure, you can be mindful at times and it makes sense. But to be mindful 24/7 means you are not in the flow because you are too busy trying to focus on the flow.

That is not good advice for creatives. Much of the creative time, you do want to be mindless, to be in the flow, to drop into your subconscious, to not be fixated on this moment that no one ever defines.When I’m on a creative roll, I am all out mindless and I love it! My mind is roaming all over the place grabbing and taking what it needs from everything I have ever been exposed to.

I do not want to be standing on an X focusing in on myself. I want to forget myself and birth this creation and to do that I need to be free in mind, body and spirit.

We need a blend of mindfulness and mindlessness. Some people will be more adept at mindfulness and others at mindlessness and no one is better than the other. Nor should anyone be castigated for not wanting to be all mindful or all mindless.

Everything in moderation, as they say. (more…)