Monday, October 24, 2022
There may be times in your life when you have to let go and start from zero. You might need a clean slate with no backup plan, no map – just you and emptiness. You may have to be without desire for a while, without a future, without a sense of self, intertwined in any external label – CEO, neighbor, business owner, partner, etc. No external identity – what a scary thought! But is a blank page that scary? If you just put the pen on the paper, and wait a while, it will begin to move. The answer will come, but often you have to start from zero.
You may have to shed before you can gain. You may need to create space before you can breathe – to clear your head. You may need to start writing before you know exactly what you want to say. You may need to give things up before you know where you’re going. You may need to release all of the old before the new can take root. Roots need clean soil, room to breathe, and space to stretch out. Your current life might not allow for that.
Creativity will blossom into a more obvious form if you give it the nurturing that it needs. When you decide to release what once meant “everything” to you, it may kick up a sense of grief. But that’s just your outer shell “dying.” That so-called death is what creates space for new birth, new seedlings have to start from clean, spacious soil. Once the debris is cleared, you can make way for what is being birthed within you – authenticity. Reducing yourself to “nothing” is actually everything, and it is often the exact path towards what you really want – to be free from what no longer serves you, and keeps your true identity trapped beneath the surface.