How Many Bars For Functional Creative Pressure?
It begins because of breath, and then seemingly also out of 'thin air'.
I was considering the feeling of creative pressure I have been generating over the past week, to really get down to the final stages of creating content for the online hub I’m in the process of opening up to the world. The feeling is a bit like not being able to see clearly, when all you need to do is put on a pair of reading glasses. In this case, all I need to do is just keep going with what I’ve started. These thoughts began to tempt me into creator’s block terrors but I was watching myself too closely to be swept away by them. What is more interesting about the thought is that I am commissioning myself to create content, to organise and texturise ideas into some kind of material nature to thread into a fabric that others might find useful to sew something of value with into their own lives.
Essentially, this material begins as thin air.
How this thought has only now appeared to me in this primitive minded way, after creating and distributing all sorts of products and businesses into the world thus far, I’m not quite sure. But I realise that the thought is not primitive because it is negative - it feels primitive because it is as it is. The concept of what creating is, has been the same since the beginning of time. We can overlay the concept with additional theories and metaphors for the purpose of understanding, but the basic steps are the same:
Thinking, deciding, doing.
Every time we do these things - with emphasis on the do (while thinking alone does also result in a more subtle form of creation), we create something, in some form.
Interacting with these incoming thoughts, while driving along the highway, became a reassurance to myself that of course I might be feeling a bit of creative pressure even though I really enjoy the process of creating and I’m feeling excited about what’s to come. The magnificence of giving life to projects that begin as thoughts and must be transformed into reality, suddenly appearing more tangibly existential than usual, I realise is a required positive creative pressure. And perhaps that’s why the deep intake of breath around the thought inspired its way through me in that moment.
There are layers and layers to understanding and living this diverse life, and it’s the most beautiful thing when we find ourselves another layer down, or is it another layer in, or is it up? Perhaps it is a breath in all three directions and so it’s a kind of expansion rather, into the limitless…