As a highly sensitive person who writes, putting myself out there hasn’t been easy for me. I am also an INFP, so criticism cuts me quick. When I started this blog, I was scared of receiving criticism, scared of making mistakes. One of my weaknesses is over-thinking, so I tried to control the future with my mind. But after I decided to just do it and see what happens, I have sometimes easily and sometimes, just about hobbled through writing this blog. […]
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Highly Sensitive and Creative? How Cracking an Egg can Help Your Creativity
Here’s an exercise to practice for breaking through resistance as a sensitive creative. Whenever I have done it, I have felt slightly heretical, as if I am doing something that I don’t have permission for. It is from Eric Maisel’s book Creativity for Life. All you need to do, before you start your creative work for the day — your writing or painting or software designing — is to crack an egg! […]