The Creative mind I kept smothering

For years, I believed my sense of creativity was something that came and went, and I didn't have much say over how much of it I'd enjoy.

Some days I'd feel that spark you get when an idea appears out of nowhere, and you know it's good. Other days, I'd sit down to write, and nothing would come.

I blamed lack of sleep or having too much to do. That I wasn’t ‘creative’ enough.

I eventually realised the real problem was that I never gave my mind room to breathe.

I filled every gap with input, like playing podcasts on walks, watching the news with breakfast, and scrolling through emails between tasks. My attention was always occupied by something external.

The Creative mind (yes, that big ‘C’ mind that feeds you creative insights without effort) needs space to appear. And I was continually smothering it.

Sydney Banks once said, "All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought." I didn't understand what he meant until I started noticing what happened when I let my mind rest without feeding it more information.

I could see that I had a choice.

I could be consumed by painful thoughts, or I could see beyond them.

When I let go, ideas came, solutions arrived without effort, and my writing got easier.

I also noticed that most of what I called "thinking" was just noise. Overthinking, ruminating, and replaying. None of it was useful, and all of it was blocking access to the clearer, more creative part of my mind underneath.

When I understood that my thoughts were creating my experience, and not the other way around, overthinking started to seem pointless. I wasn't solving problems by chewing on them endlessly. I was just generating stress.

This isn't a practice or a technique. It's an understanding.

When you see that your thoughts define your experience, you stop taking every thought so seriously. You relax. And in that relaxation, clarity appears.

That's where the Creative mind lives.

It’s by connecting with the Creative mind that you gain a huge unfair advantage in a distracted world.

If you want to cement this understanding so you overthink less and access your creative mind more, my Untethered Mind course will take you there.

It's a new way of seeing how your mind works that stays with you, which hundreds of students have enjoyed.

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Peace out,

Alex