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If you are exhausted, you are safe to feel exhausted, and you do not need a retreat or a holiday to recover, you need to remember your Art.
We heal when we let ourselves completely feel.
It’s only when I let my whole body genuinely feel the fragility and exhaustion, that the freeze can move, and all that armour energy can be liberated again into generosity, creativity and inspiration.
Yesterday I was so exhausted.
My entire spirit was fatigued.
Despite walking, eating well, exercising and getting lots done, my vitality was on the floor.
I’d been running on action and interaction for over a month, getting so much done, with quiet time but no time for poetry, open ended creative space that’s quiet enough for me to hear my heart again.
I don’t know what ‘most people’ need. But I know what I need, and what so many sensitive, intuitive artistic people need. We need our art, we need the medicine of diving into the ocean of imagination, sensuality and the undefined. Possibility that’s unknown, exciting, beautiful.
What’s always fascinated me is how energy moves when I recover from overextended interaction.
What took a month to get out of balance and overexerted can be genuinely reinvigorated in a few hours.
Sometimes we need to feel really unwell to remember the medicine we need.
Vitality slowly creeps away until we feel unrecognisable to ourselves, energetically impotent.
Art heals this, and if your an artist you’ll know this medicine. Restoring sumptuous energy throughout the entire system. The tangible body and the intangible vibe we emit.
We’re in a poetically illiterate over culture, modernity is beige and predictable, the poet is starving, and so we must know how to feed ourselves. Sometimes we eat a bit each day, other times we forget to eat for so long.
Art is medicine.
Maybe it’s a song you listen to with your entire body on the drive home, feeling it fully for the first time.
Maybe it’s truly dancing with closed eyes so you can feel your body from the inside out.
A cry, some connection, the generosity of beauty.
Our ancient bodies are primed for this medicine which is why reconnection can happen so easily if we know how to treat ourselves.
When we trust our deepest ability to reinvigorate dehydrated psychic soil, we don’t fear feeling disconnected.
If you know you can eat, you don’t fear hunger.
As Artists, knowing how to reinvigorate our creative river means we always have the tools to heal.
Art is the free movement of healing energy in the body.
