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THE POWER OF YOUR CREATIVE VOICE Tempering the Inner Critic The Creative Voice is infinitely more powerful than the Critical Voice. This statement is often hard for artists and other creatives to absorb, especially if their Critic has been in the lead, either consciously or unconsciously. But our intuitive center is always urging us toward healthy new risk, like a lighthouse beacon calling us to reach our creative potential. On the creative path, anxieties will coexist with the joys, to be sure. But when we are called, we best surrender, or experience far worse anxieties in the refusal. Many of us must listen more clearly to our Creative Voice, truly listen. Then we must trust it enough to act upon it. If we do act, our journeys will begin to unfold organically. We will grow closer to who we are, who we are meant to be, in closer alignment with our potential. |
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attribute this unfolding to the notion that the Creative
Voice is the true voice. Moreover, I designate the Critical
Voice as a false voice. Fighting with it won't help.
Trying to get rid of it won't help. That's because at
its core, it contains something essential that we must
recover. That is, it contains the power to assess, to
review, to re-arrange, to improve. It was designed to
be in support of the Creative Voice, before it "went
wrong," In other words, the Critical Voice is the "Helpful Editor" in disguise. Contrary to the impulse to push it away, we need to embrace it, hear it, get underneath its bullying jabs. When we do, we recover its positive attributes and re-position it in its true role, as a servant to the Creative Voice. This discovery is a joyful experience. Time and again, clients are amazed by the power of their Creative Voice, and delighted to discover it even plays a leading role in this transformation. (C) 2002 Barbara Bowen |
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