Being creative, there is almost no better experience than being completely engrossed in the creative process. Such is the case when there are plenty of ideas and words flow freely through our thoughts and out into the world. And yet, like any exciting pursuit, there isn’t an unlimited supply of creative inspiration within the everyday entrepreneur. Now and again inspiration will slip out of grasp and there is nothing that can be done to retrieve it. Some of us produce countless ideas, and once we hit rock bottom, it becomes frustrating to sit and look at a paper or a computer monitor waiting for inspiration to hit. But if one just steps back for a moment and changes the perspective on such drip-feed creative slumps, anyone can learn to woo their muse back in the right direction and return to sprinkling its magic again.

Any fine artist, writer, or musician can tell the difference between the rhythm of inspiration and motivation. Problems occur where ideas previously considered brilliant or ways previously clear become unclear. It is the ebb and flow of travel, that has to occur without fail. However, maintaining productivity during these occasional low rising segments is very important towards achieving long-term satisfaction in our work. As I spent the years exploring the dark and wonderful world of writing, I realized that slumps cannot be fought by being frustrated over them, but it is essential to have some of patience, presence and flexibility, when facing them. Every hiatus harbours chances of setting new seeds if one lets a new foliage have enough space for its seeds to grow deep.

This is why the source of creativity’s current does not cease to flow, that broader strategies are the primary lessons I have acquired when facing such changes in pace. Having this done in order to temporarily remove oneself from that which already seems unattainable opens up different perspectives to address when one feels ready to do so all over again. Whether it be through social connection or the sensual awakening of the physical world or playful exploration or mere appreciation of life, inspiration requires the acceptance not criticism. The creative flame needs supreme nourishment as well as, breath, and time as each fire wants to glow once more.

By a day and attractive care of inner self, thought and physical and spiritual persons our muse continuously visits alive. And is that not what holds us up? A sustained illumination, not just flares for a second on our work as it turns to its societal mission? Ideally in sharing things learned throughout the journey, creative cultures out there get to find feed on renewal every time darkness seems to overshadow them. For in supporting each other through ebb and flow, they sang with a rhythm lending our works Communion only living creativi