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Mark David Gerson
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Writer's Block Unblocked
Self-Help
Author Insight
Getting Past My Writer's Block
From some untouchable moment in my childhood until my 30s, I refused to see myself as creative. In reality, I was blocked. Why? There are many reasons why we hold back from expressing ourselves, as the writing exercise in this excerpt will reveal. In my case, I was so terrified of being judged that it felt safer to stifle myself. So, my answer to the question posed in the exercise would be "safety." My unconscious belief was that not writing kept me safe. Once I began to recognize my fear of judgment for what it was, the walls that had blocked me from my creativity began to dissolve.
Book Excerpt
Writer's Block Unblocked
Often, even if at an unconscious level, we are invested in whatever is holding us back. Sometimes, it’s a fear of success that can be even more debilitating than a fear of failure. Sometimes, we’re afraid that whatever we are engaged in will change us so radically that it will render us unrecognizable, as much to ourselves as to others. How are you invested in your inability to move forward with your writing?
Get comfortable, close your eyes, breathe into a relaxed meditative state and focus on that question — not from your mind but from your heart. Then open your eyes and write on the Muse Stream from this phrase, “My writer’s block helps me to...”
Write until you feel complete, then keep writing for a further 15 or 20 minutes in order to go deeper.
Were you surprised? Whatever it was that emerged will assist you in the next chapter, as you “Talk to Your Block.”
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