Nurturing the inner, yin stages of creation as a sensitive, creative woman

I’m sure many of you who have been in the world of sharing your heart led work and creative projects, understand the feeling of truly having nothing that you feel drawn to create and share ‘out there.’

And you may also have felt a sense of guilt or wrongness around this- because most of us in the modern online business/creation world have at some level internalised the belief that we should always be creating new things and producing outwardly- or at the very least we should have a very consistent cycle where our ebbs and flows are clearly mapped out in advance.

Yet I know that often there is no way of pre-empting our deeper rhythms. For some of us these quiet periods can go on for a while, whereas for others there may be shorter patterns of ebbs in what we outwardly create.

We may have times when we have so much to create, so much newness, so many things that are asking to bubble over from our inner world into tangible form.

And we may have times where it seems that very little is happening.

Sometimes, there may be a sense of so much running through you, yet not being able to, or not feeling ready to translate any of it into actual words, or things that you can tangibly share with others. (an indication that things are coming to the surface, and moving into natural coherence, but are not quite ready yet).

There may also be the feeling that you have completely emptied yourself for the time being, and anything you create at this point will be forced from a place that is not true to you (an indication that it is deeply necessary to receive and replenish)

A third feeling is when you feel completely full and ready to burst, yet something seems to be holding you back from actually crystallising your creations (an indication that there is something deeper occuring in the subconscious that is asking to be acknowledged and tended to).

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I think I’ve spoken about this before in one of my courses, how often the actual external creation (writing the content, creating the course, building the offering), only happens once all of the unseen ‘work’ has gone in to gestating the project- the receiving, the collating, the agendaless simmering of ideas, the allowing things to settle, the natural siphoning down of vast concepts into what feels most important/timely. (This has actually been the process of every single one of my blog posts- over a hundred of them over the years, none of them scheduled or forced).

This gestation time is also a time where I believe the body is allowing us to establish a greater sense of safety around creating and sharing our work. For many of us in solopreneurship, the type of work we offer/share, is not necessarily conventional, and can bring up a lot of subconscious fears around what might happen as we move deeper into our more intuitive, heart-led paths and soul expression.

Yet what often happens, is that because this external creation is deemed as the most important part of our business (and the part that is seen to create the money..) we are constantly trying to figure out the ‘how to’s’ around making our ideas tangible, overcoming procrastination, or developing discipline around creating our work. 

However, I believe that actually, our external creations are a very natural thing and will come about exactly as needed- as long as we feel supported and nourished through the inner gestation process that naturally encompasses any creation.

The problem is, we live in a culture that has not set us up well to allow ourselves this nourishment during our inner processes, instead modelling a constant rush-produce- achieve-mentality.   

As a result, what tends to happen during this gestation process, is that we spend most of our time berating ourselves for not ‘creating’, and trying to force and contort things into tangibility. This leads to cycles of never truly allowing the receptive, yin process of creation to take place- which at some point leads to our creative energy feeling sludgy, exhausted or blocked.

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If you’d like to read on, the full piece of writing now lives in the Gentle Creation ebook.

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