It's not a slump.  It's not a block.  It's akin to a field lying fallow and it's part of the normal cycle of creativity, just like normal respiration, breathing in and breathing out.  It doesn't mean that nothing is going on when we are not in a fever of production with external proof of ourselves every day and hour.  Sometimes we are actually gestating quetly, without activity and that blank feeling is actually part of the creative state. Accepting it is important.

Creativity has seasons of development and dormancy just like the phsyical world.  I used to mistake that apparent dormancy for depression and assume that nothing was happening but that was just a problem of vanity/narcissism on my part, an inability to let myself sit and be receptive and even accept some moments of . . .gasp . . .boredom . . .so that something new might come into the empty space.

I now embrace those blank spaces I used to consider "down" periods and just sit with my thumb in my mouth, staring into the middle distance as long as necessary stroking my dogs or some such thing. . . and I find they are inevitably followed by the most amazing reawakenings and powerful, prolific, productive periods.

I call these period Lying Fallow.  All fertile fields need fallow periods for a full harvest.

Yoda Jaguarwoman LOL

Dana Sitarzewski
Jaguarwoman Designs
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