Incubation versus Procrastination

Sometimes we feel a lot of pressure to create.

I try to see it as a cycle because it is

but try this...

I tell myself keep the pilot light lit or milk the cow. I try to do this with with my spittoon journal.

It's like dripping the faucet so the pipes don't freeze. I think it makes me a better listener and able to harvest from my everyday life. 

Allow for incubation but aim for the intention. Call it incubation rather than procrastination...nourish yourself with the intent to keep on creating. I try to keep the notebook running. Try to see everything as feeding your creativity...what you overhear, what you read, the weather, your commute, frustrations at work, cleaning your house, cooking....incubation!!

A teacher in college once asked us which is more important breathing in or breathing out? of course we jumped in with "in" "out" "in" and the answer is they are equally important.

 

“If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz

 

One of the most wicked destructive forces psychologically speaking, is unused creative power. If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness or for some other reason doesn’t use it, the psychic energy turns into sheer poison. That’s why we often diagnose neurosis and psychotic diseases as not lived higher possibilities.
― Marie-Louise von Franz

“I believe that if you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.”― Joy Harjo