CREATION AND BLOCKAGE

Life is an endless story of creation and dynamism, encompassing destruction on both macro and micro levels.

Creativity is a multidimensional subject, and whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly creating in different forms and at various levels. However, what we call inspiration, motivation, and creative blockages—especially those related to professional or artistic creation—can sometimes cause great panic. They can also affect our lives on multiple levels, triggering negative consequences in areas such as our joy for life, health, work, relationships, perspectives, and even abundance.

Just as there are different types of intelligence—spiritual intelligence, emotional intelligence, and analytical intelligence—there are also different types and tools of creativity. I would like to begin by emphasizing that originality, curiosity, desire, playfulness, self-expression, and freedom are the most powerful mechanisms in the creative process. The channeling of sexual and libidinal energy, which holds immense creative power, can take creativity to entirely different dimensions. Thus, the expression of creative power takes on a unique form in each of our energy centers. Next month, in the second part of this article, I will discuss this topic further and explore how we can nourish our energy centers with creative energy.

For now, however, let’s focus on one of our most common frustrations—creative blockages. Acknowledging that these blockages are normal and natural from time to time, what aspects should we examine when they impact us significantly? What questions should we ask ourselves? What should we check first? The points listed below are all factors that we have direct influence over and can change.

Perfection, idealism, professionalism, templates, and rigid patterns do not foster creativity. Am I relying too much on these?
Fundamental factors can sometimes inhibit creativity. (Societal, familial, cultural, relational influences, as well as constraints related to time, space, identity, and fragmentation.) Where do I stand in these areas?
Am I getting stuck in details, repetitions, corrections, obsessions, or excessive thought processes? These can block creative energy.
Are there other urgent needs that I should be prioritizing but have been ignoring or postponing? (If so, my energy will flow there. I recommend reviewing the hierarchy of needs and not delaying them. Sometimes, the desire to be creative serves as an escape from these needs, but in the end, we neither create nor escape.)
Internally and externally—how much do my needs, desires, fears, anxieties, beliefs, and attachments contribute to this blockage or confusion? (For example, the need for validation, acceptance, attention, love, appreciation, or concerns about the past or future.)
Am I no longer dedicating as much time or space to certain things as I used to? What has changed in my routine? (This could relate to the things that nourish me, my connection with myself and my nature, my relationship with boredom, or the things I negatively associate with.)
Am I holding onto something with excessive force, imbalance, or resistance? Am I insisting too much on focus, willpower, control, or determination? Holding on too tightly, whether on a material or spiritual level, can block inspiration and creativity.
Am I merely waiting for creativity to come to me naturally, without taking any action? Or, on the contrary, am I doing too much? (Excessive action driven by masculine doing energy can also block creativity.)
What do I understand by creativity, inspiration, and production? Could my perception of these concepts have changed without my noticing, causing me to cling to old patterns and assumptions, leading to confusion?
Is my sympathetic nervous system overloaded and constantly active? (Fight, flight, freeze, collapse.) Creativity, like many things, does not open up easily without shifting into the parasympathetic state.
Am I using my masculine and feminine energies in balance and in harmony with communication and cooperation?
Creation generally occurs in the transitions between contraction and expansion energies. If I feel blocked, could it be that I am stuck in one extreme of this polarity or swinging too much between them?