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How to Overcome a Creative Crisis and Regain Inspiration? Today, we’ll explore actions that not only help eliminate a crisis temporarily, but provide a long-term solution. We’ll look at how to approach this crisis with a state of observation, so that inspiration becomes a constant part of your life.
What Happens to Us?
First of all, understand that the crisis can last your entire life—that’s the first point you need to recognize and calmly accept.
Many people live without truly understanding that they will inevitably die. Any healthy person knows that people die, but they somehow "postpone" this realization for themselves. They don’t live with the clear sense that they will die. Here, you need to form a clear sense that the crisis might always be there. It sounds strange, but this is the key to incredible progress. You need to calmly enter the mindset that inspiration, creativity, those driving impulses may no longer come, and the crisis could worsen over time. I’m not encouraging this way of life.
It’s no coincidence that I mentioned early on that our goal is to reach a state where inspiration is constant. But I’m urging you to form a very clear understanding: the crisis can always be there, becoming an integral part of your life.
At the same time, you must clearly realize that your life trajectory could drastically change. Surprisingly, people who find themselves in a crisis (feeling self-doubt, insecurity) are often told that it won’t last forever. But no one really considers that their life path might completely change. This is an egotistical trap. Just as the crisis might be endless, your life’s direction can completely turn around. You could find yourself in a different country, with a new family (you didn’t have one, and now you do), your big business could disappear, or you could become the owner of a company employing 50,000 people. The trajectory can fully reshape. You might start painting or singing, when you hadn’t done so before. You may have seen life narrowly, but now you’re a completely different person—something entirely new might awaken in you.
Remember: your current crisis could be a paradise compared to what’s ahead.
On the Practice of Observation and Idleness
I recently led a session in my V100 group. When we were discussing observation and this unhurried state, one person asked: "Alexander, isn’t it easy to not rush and just observe? How do I avoid falling into idleness in such a state?"
Not rushing, being in a state of observation is incredibly hard work; it requires a tremendous amount of energy to learn how to do it. In our modern social environment, people simply don’t know how to do this. Don’t ever confuse the words "not rushing" or "observing" with laziness: lying on the couch, drinking beer, playing cards, watching movies; or being idle for an entire year lying on the couch. Being in a state of observation, trusting that things will happen in due time, even when circumstances seem to worsen—that is a tremendous effort. But it’s what leads to true, incredible growth and expansion in the life of any person.
Points of Support
Moving forward from these two points, you must always observe that you’re not rushing. When we want to transition out of the crisis and move toward creativity, true growth, and expansion, the first step is to stop rushing.
There’s a wonderful phrase in spiritual literature by Rudolf Steiner. It essentially means that you should perform the right actions, uphold the right values, and the spiritual forces of the world will choose the right moment for you to experience growth and expansion. In other words, it’s crucial not to rush—a fundamental principle. It’s surprising how much people want specific events to happen immediately, in 3 or 4 months. When you tell someone they have another 20, 30, 40, 50, or even 10 years of life ahead of them, they agree, but still, they want that change to happen now. This is an internal trap of egoism! So remember: your current crisis could very well be your future paradise.
On Acceptance and External Circumstances
To stop rushing, you need to start loving yourself.
Please don’t confuse real self-love with the euphoria of wanting to improve yourself and lead a better life. It’s a fantastic feeling to be in love with yourself, to stop rushing, and to embrace acceptance, even when things only seem to get worse.
About Rest
Because "everything is getting worse" is just a label we create. Although life can indeed bring incredibly bad, difficult circumstances that are hard to imagine – when people around are dying, and something terrible is happening. But what, if not love for yourself, can preserve incredible feelings within life? And, of course, love for other people. It’s about how you treat others, what you feel and do for them when interacting with anyone.
Surprisingly, your attitude, compassion, love for others, helping without expecting anything in return – this is what leads not just to resolving a crisis, but to an explosion of growth, to a scaling up of your development and transition to a new point where you have so much inspiration you don’t even know what to do with it.
There must be a natural process of daily work, monotonous daily actions. And love for others must become routine – it should turn into a habit. It shouldn't be something exalted but rather natural and real. True monotonous work means we don’t seek rest.
I’m not referring to physical rest, especially if you've been digging all day, walking around, standing behind a cash register, or talking a lot. I mean the kind of rest people seek from themselves, from those around them, from the current space, state, and life – when they want to run away from reality, go on vacation to Turkey, lie on the beach, thinking it will change something.
How do you make the ocean, the sea, nature, and hikes part of your inner self, a constant part of your life? It’s important to reach a state where you stop dividing your day and tasks into “interesting” ones, where there’s inspiration, and “boring” ones, where there’s routine. Often, a creative crisis and the search for inspiration come from the ego screaming, “You’re not doing what you should be! You deserve so much more! It used to be better!” And it eats away at the system from the inside.
At that moment, you need to love yourself and suppress the ego, notice it. And where a strong hand isn’t enough to suppress it, just observe it, acknowledge its presence. But never let it seep into your interactions with others, because it’s through love and helping others that you will find that incredible point of growth and development in your life. The kind of growth where the crisis becomes meaningless, just a word; where inspiration is born every second of your life and existence. It’s always there. How much are you willing to give and pay for that?