37: inviting ease and pleasure into the creative process
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in this episode we are calling in ease, flow, pleasure, and love in the experience of creating, rather than as a reward. i talk about releasing the tension i've been carrying, the love i am feeling from all of YOU, the magical masterclass experience I had this Sunday with some of you, and end off with reflective questions that can assist us as we create with more pleasure and ease in 2024. <3
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Key quotes from episode:
âThe people you make art for donât want you to sufferâ
âWe embody the codes that weâve learned from the systems that made usâ
âThe invitation for you is knowing that you are worthy of ease, of pleasure, of flow. NOW. Not when the project is done.â
âPleasure is a measure of our freedomâ â adrienne maree brown
Time stamps
(01:31): MasterClass reflections
(05:15): The Love Dimension
(05:56): From perfectionism to ease
(15:00): Your invitation to ease
(20:39) Experimentation
(22:53): Tension & release
(30:44): Pleasure activism by Adrienne Maree Brown
(41:47): Abundant love
(48:44): Pleasure & imagination
(54:27): Reflection questions
(01:00:00): Gratitude & affirmation
Sources mentioned:
Book: â Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Goodâ by adrienne maree brown
Essay: What Plants Are Saying About Us
YouTube Channel: Sadhguru
Show: The Brothers Sun on Netflix
Poem: I Put The Coffin Out To Sea by by Lisa Marie Basile
Offering: My MasterClass experience
Other resources:
YouTube: The Perfect Bedtime Sound bath by Sleeping Vibrations
YouTube: Yoga Nidra
Questions to reflect on:
- What would make me feel more loved right now?
- What pleasure are you denying yourself of in this moment?
- How could it be easier? How can I find the release without taking on the tension?
- How can you EMBODY the wisdom of ease, pleasure, rest?
- How can we be Pleasure Activists for others in our lives?
- If you become your fullest expansion creatively â what could that unlock for the collective?
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Other quotes from me in this episode:
- âLove can flow through us much more easily if we choose to channel that love through the notion that we are worthy of ease; we are worthy of pleasure. We donât only get to celebrate ourselves once the job is done. We donât have to squeeze our creativity into the constrictive structures, rigidity, and hierarchies weâve been givenâ
- âIf you become your fullest expansion creatively â what could that unlock for the collective? If we all expand, expansion is contagious. Expansion is something we are designed to give and receive from one another. I cannot listen to an expanded person and not expand. That is the nature of art: Art that is expansive will expand. And the Artist that is expansive and expanding will create expansive art. What are we willing to expand into for the sake of collective healing, collective imagination, collective pleasure, and collective ease?â
- âIf we want to experience work that feels more free, we also need to become the kind of person who can experience more freedom while workingâ
- âIf we let life surprise us, sometimes the part we fear most is exactly where we experience the most magicâ
- âIn this moment, what I am really calling in, what I am inviting myself into ease. Pleasure. Flow. The words that came to my heart are: The people you make art for donât want you to sufferâ
- âThe thing about toxic perfectionism is itâs a self-worth invitation. We donât feel WORTHY of imperfect action. We know what the steps that imperfect action would ask us to take, but we donât feel worthy of taking them.â
- âLove is unfolding for you in this momentâ
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