Eric Maisel on the creative value of calming
Creativity coach and author Eric Maisel, PhD says “When you free neurons from their usual grip on small thoughts — ten worries, fifteen errands, and so on — and get to reclaim them.. you experience a ‘pregnant emptiness’ which is actually your whole mind, now recovered, readying itself to create.
“The ‘quieting’ serves the ‘exploding’ of the creative encounter that follows.
“You want enthusiasm, passion, love, curiosity, interest, and so on to inform your work and to exist right in the moment, in the performance moment or the creative moment, while at the same reducing (or eliminating) your fears, worries, anxieties, and so on.
“Creating is not an energy-neutral state: it is a high energy state, with, at its healthiest, enthusiasm and not anxiety driving its engine.”
From our interview [about his new book]: Ten Zen Seconds for Purpose, Power and Calm
