Time Off Is Not Just A Nicety, It's a Nice-essity

Ahhhh, the power of rest and nothingness.  Through my creative retreat I found the It's because they need the intensity of inspiration that only deep time, big space and nothingness can provide.  Who would have thought that 8 days of blessed rest could provide so much?

I have learned so much on my retreat and am producing a very exciting creative project at the same time.  I really wanted to know why certain things just never got off the ground and now I now.  One of the biggest killers of inspiration is incessant busyness.  Did you hear that or were you just multi-tasking as you read this? 

Ahhhh CAUGHT YOU!

Stop now and just breathe.  That's better.  It may not seem important because when we are going going going, it is addicted.  Our brain habituates to it like candy and wants more.  I realized on my retreat that it is really a swim upstream like a salmon to get yourself to really let go.  It takes more than one or two days, I did 8 and it was a mere beginning.

The wonderful glorious irony is that I produced more in the last 16 days since I've been on retreat than I had in many previous months.  Yay, woo-hoo, woopie - the power of rest to provide a font of renewal and everflowing inspiration.  I tapped into the secret that the mystics have always known - that to go off into the desert, even though I was at home, is a powerful life-changing experience.

Ready for this?  I'm writing a book about it.  That's one of my projects that are coming out of my tapping the realm of inspiration.  And my little dog Miss Sweetie and I got some good bonding time in our daily naps.

Even though I'm back into the world (mostly), I'm still trying to stay aware of how to stay connected to the inspiration and not to the busyness.  This morning creativity came first and emails second.

Now that is a FIRST!

Before you click off, breathe again and think about how creative inspiration really does come from that quiet, calm place and how can you add more of that to your life and less of the other - the incessant busyness?

It's worth the effort, I promise.

Thanks to everyone for the wonderful quotes and inspirations you sent me.  I appreciate all the love and support.

Yours in sharing a world of inspiration,

Annie