Your Own Personal Renaissance
Dave Worthen
I'm a marriage and relationship coach with 40+ years experience. I help couples rebuild their marriage, re-establish trust, or move on if their relationship is toxic, without their lives falling apart.
When you are creating you will sometimes meet up with a feeling of tiredness, opposition, or counter-create.
You will stir up unfinished paintings. Unfinished writing. A drawing left in a sketchbook. A watercolor memory from your favorite artists pad from the fifth grade.
What is this mysterious force you push up against?
The Underworld & You:
Society and Hollywood have painted their own picture of the Underworld.
They’ve made movies to convince us how sinister and evil it is.
What if the underworld was simply the world under yours where creativity died because your efforts to create met with so much resistance or counter-create?
Would not your paintings fade to black?
What if your finger paintings died not because of age but because they were no longer admired? That the Wall Street Journal garnered more attention from your father at breakfast than your finger-color painting of you and your family at the beach?
What if the underworld was not something so dark and sinister?
What if it the underworld was the accumulation of all the undone paintings, drawings, piano recitals, unfinished pictures and sketches that have piled up from your past creating an enormous feeling of overwhelm?
What if this feeling of overwhelm became so daunting that every time you picked up your pencil to sketch or your paintbrush to paint, you could not overcome that inertia, that counter-create?
Would this not be “good vs. evil?” That you felt your purpose to create blunted because of this “dark side” of overwhelm?
What if you misassigned all of your own creative efforts to this "opposition?"
The feeling of too many loses, too much criticism or invalidation, and this feeling of overwhelm?
Then you would be fighting something that you actually created.
And the reason why you’re tired when you pick up your pen, pencil or paintbrush to begin anew, is because you’re fighting yourself.
What if the underworld is just a pseudonym for the world where you went under from the overwhelm of your own undone and unfinished masterpieces of creativity?
The Rebirth of Creativity:
The only way back to that creator or artist in you, would be to create with such flourish in a new unit of time, that all past undone works would disappear by the mere presence and affluence of your new work.
And this is what is referred to as a Renaissance.
There is no underworld.
There is only your world and worlds you bring alive with your creativity.
Grab your chisel, your paintbrush, and your sketchbook.
The world awaits your own Personal Renaissance.
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