Escape the swarm

dear creative soul is a series of letters from my creative heart to yours Dear Creative Soul, Have you ever been hit by a swarm of gnats on a warm summer day? If you have, you know they buzz around your head in great numbers, and all you can think of is, “I need to get away from them as soon as humanly possible!” Every day you are surrounded by this noise that keeps you from creating. Every moment of every day, you are hit by a swarm. It’s not gnats, though. It’s thoughts. Every negative thing you think of yourself, every moment where you blush thinking back to something stupid you have done in the past, every fear for something that might happen to you in the future, it’s not you thinking it. It’s the swarm. The swarm isn’t personal. It just is there. And it can go away, too. You can either stand in it and let it hit you over the head, or you can step out and just be still. Just imagine what you can create without the swarm interfering in your work. Let the swarm go! The fastest way?…