Trusting Your Creative Inspiration
All over the world composers, painters, sculptures, dancers, playwrights and other artists sequester themselves alone in rooms or with like-minded folks to call on this voice. They sit at pianos, stand in front of blank canvas and balance on Marley to draft an artistic impulse and impression. Something they saw in their head, felt in their heart or heard in their mind.
From the upcoming “Lost & Found: Finding The Power In Your Voice”
It’s easy to witness beautiful art, groundbreaking dance or soul stirring music and think “I’ll never be able to do that”. But that’s because we’re often faced with the end result. Rarely do we get to see the beginning, middle or even initial flashes of inspiration that propelled a creative project into being born. So much of what helps to complete or generate paintings, scores and plays begins with an abundance of ideas, ideas that may even seem to be competing with one another. When you were young it was probably much easier to give yourself creative leeway but as you got older expectations, pressure, comparison got higher.
When I think back on being a little kid I don’t even remember the difference between creative ideas versus other ideas. We were always inspired to manifest our visions, whatever they were. Like “How are we gonna get enough money to get some biscuits from KFC?” or “Let's have a songwriting contest!” to “Oooo! lets redo your room!” As a vocalist/composer and voice and movement teacher a large portion of what I teach is actually guiding students to let their creative ideas flow and actually trust them. We’ve been adulting for a good while now and some of those “adult” skills can have an adverse effect on a highly captivating and successful project.
But what is inspiration? What makes it valid? And who gets to sing or write a song or make a film? The best barometer in my opinion is the level of joy, engagement or excitement it brings you. I didn’t plan on writing a book at this point in my life but writing just felt good, just like when I was a kid (and there have been a lot of things happening these last few years that didn’t feel good). So I followed the good feeling. I let it lead. And now as it turns out I’m in the midst of completing my first hybrid memoir!
How do you tap into your creative voice and trust the flow? I invite you to take note of the ideas that bring you happiness and come join me for my book launch this November 2022! Lets celebrate with like minded folks who too want to unleash the power in their voices. To be a part of the festivities please make sure to email us here!