what lies beneath :self portrait october

i have been preparing this blog post for quite some time now, months in fact.

yet, even as i sit down to right this, all cozy on a perfectly 'lazy' Sunday afternoon, "Resistance" is trying it's best to keep me from it. despite the incredible urging feeling within ALL of me that is saying, yelling at the top of it's lungs,

"WRITE. LET IT ALL OUT. PAINT. CREATE. NOW, just DO IT!!! Do what is upon your HEART."

i hear this voice, i know it, & i know it to be true, but yet i so easily allow my brain & ego to convince myself that 'there isn't enough time for it'. that 'other things' are more important. that it WILL happen,,, another day. another time. maybe even tomorrow.

does any of this sound somewhat familiar to you?

i recently re-picked up a book that has been on my pile of books-to-read for quite some time now, called The War of Art. truth be told, this isn't my first time reading this book -- it is one of those beauts that should be read from time to time. on top of that, it is honestly one of the easiest reads ever. always a bonus when you 'never have the time', right?

so why am i telling you about this book?
because i felt i needed to. because i feel that everyone, yes EVERYONE, can benefit from this book.
especially one who needs to 'break through the blocks and win his/her inner creative battles.'

Steven Pressfield, the author, focuses on the incredible power of Resistance... i like to think of Resistance as 'Fear', but you will get a much better understanding of it when you read the book. page after page, it is like a 'a-ha' moment after moment! ...and this is NOT my first time reading this book!!!

it made me feel alive again, for the first time in the longest time, in a different way. i felt the inner creative in me literally having a yahoo dance party within my belly! it was like getting butterflies times a hundred.

...& it reminded me how much we ALL need the reminder,
and how much we ALL need to pause more, resist less & take more time for ourselves.