03-11-2015, 03:29 PM
Really great thread.
I'm pretty new here, this is my first post aside from the intro post, but Amit suggested I check this post out, and I definitely relate to everyone's thoughts. It's surely a universal experience.
I've been thinking a lot about resistance and blocks recently. Mainly because I've been working on shifting some, and trying to understand what has kept me from doing what I know I should be.
My story is that, after being entirely convinced I'd be an artist all the way up to the age of 17, I ended up running from it, going in every direction but art. I did marketing, bits of graphic design, studied fashion design, bursts of fashion illustration, but would never let myself do 'pure' art.
The walls have started coming down recently, and have spurred me to learn and consciously shift other unconscious BS that might be holding me back.
An example of the random stuff that comes through - I have a risk of retinal detachment due to astigmatism, and I realised the other day that one of the reasons I have avoided art is that I feared that I might become so attached and fed by it, that if something were to happen with my eyes, and I were to go blind, I wouldn't be able to cope.
Once you start digging, it's amazing what you find.
Also, for anyone that hasn't read it, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield has many incredibly valuable insights about resistance. I highly highly recommend every single one of you read it. If I could I'd make it required reading for every human!
This has been so ridiculously true for me recently.
The answers are all so damn obvious!
I'm pretty new here, this is my first post aside from the intro post, but Amit suggested I check this post out, and I definitely relate to everyone's thoughts. It's surely a universal experience.
I've been thinking a lot about resistance and blocks recently. Mainly because I've been working on shifting some, and trying to understand what has kept me from doing what I know I should be.
My story is that, after being entirely convinced I'd be an artist all the way up to the age of 17, I ended up running from it, going in every direction but art. I did marketing, bits of graphic design, studied fashion design, bursts of fashion illustration, but would never let myself do 'pure' art.
The walls have started coming down recently, and have spurred me to learn and consciously shift other unconscious BS that might be holding me back.
An example of the random stuff that comes through - I have a risk of retinal detachment due to astigmatism, and I realised the other day that one of the reasons I have avoided art is that I feared that I might become so attached and fed by it, that if something were to happen with my eyes, and I were to go blind, I wouldn't be able to cope.
Once you start digging, it's amazing what you find.
Also, for anyone that hasn't read it, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield has many incredibly valuable insights about resistance. I highly highly recommend every single one of you read it. If I could I'd make it required reading for every human!
(11-19-2014, 04:20 AM)Amit Dutta Wrote: It's actually quite amusing (and you have to find it amusing or you might have to cry) that we can spend so much time searching for the answers out there, only to realise that the answers are almost always to be found within us.
This has been so ridiculously true for me recently.
The answers are all so damn obvious!