Kick-Ass Creativity - Energy Works

I've been reading the above titled book and within are some useful tips, recommendations and exercises to improve energy and remove any blocks.

One of the first of the exercises was to look at your current energy flow, the before shot so to speak with the aim that at the end of the book your energy picture will look very different.

We're asked to draw an outline of ourselves and describe in patterns, shapes, texture, etc where we feel our blockages are and where our energy is flowing.

I used this as a way to make a start on my art journal and finally 'dirty' the pristine and unused Moleskine.

Pictured is my result and I won't deny I was more than a little depressed afterwards.

It's a lot to confront your aches and pains like this, mental or physical, even if you're already aware of them.

The red and lightening is the physical pain I experience on a daily basis. I have an old ballet injury and my knees can get very painful, more so when it's damp and especially in the evening. I struggle with stairs and find even short walks leave me limping.

After years of using computers I now get RSI in my wrists (from my elbow to my wrist on my right arm), so I try and use the computer less these days so as to minimise the pain. These are my physical blocks.

My wellbeing blocks, as described in black reside of course with my mental health; my depression.

What I've described is the rainbow within, that the energy is there, but it is surrounded by a block preventing me from using it. I know the potential is there, but that the depression is my cloud, my wall so this is what you are seeing here.

It's never easy coming to terms with your mental wellbeing especially after many years of being misdiagnosed, mocked and generally treated like you're a fake, impeding your ability to face that you are ill and attempt to move forward.

Only then can you start to treat the illness with the aim of either getting better or managing to live with it and adapting.

Honesty with yourself can go a long way to some inner healing and learning to live with and, adapt to your condition.

This is what I am trying to do by using this book as a tool to break down some blocks and hopefully find some inner peace from the experience.

I recommend this book to anyone, not just artists or creatives.