How to Overcome a Creative Crisis and Regain Inspiration for Self-Development

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekCreative crisisPersonal development and inner supportLove, help, and rescuing othersAcceptanceLove

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Introduction
• 00:43What is this video about?
• 01:35What is happening to us?
• 04:18The practice of observation and idleness
• 05:54Two points of support
• 08:02Acceptance and external circumstances
• 09:56Rest

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• 00:37

  In today's video, we'll look at the steps to take, not so the crisis disappears for a month and then returns, as it usually does. We'll explore how, year by year, to approach this crisis as an observer, so inspiration keeps arising and becomes…

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• 01:27

  Any completely healthy person understands that people die, but puts that thought off when it comes to themselves.

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• 04:19

  I recently led a session in my V100 group. When we were discussing observation and this state of not rushing, someone wrote in a comment, “Alexander, not rushing and observing is so easy.

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• 05:01

  Simply learning to do it takes an enormous, an incredibly large amount of energy, because people today in our social environment don't know how.

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• 06:06

  When we want to move beyond a crisis, into creativity, into true growth and expansion, the first thing we need to do is stop rushing.

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• 06:48

  That's what's so important when we say you mustn't rush.

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• 07:49

  Please don't confuse true love for yourself with the euphoria of changing your state for the better and moving toward a better life.

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• 08:00

  It's so wonderful to love yourself, not rush, and remain in a state of acceptance when everything is only getting worse. “Everything is getting worse” is a description we've invented.

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• 11:20

  Very often, a creative crisis and the search for inspiration are entirely the ego living within us, the ego shouting, “You're doing the wrong thing! You deserve so much more.

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• 11:44

  At that moment, you need to love yourself and press that ego down.

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