There is one other significant antidote for fear--creativity. If you can accept the deep well of creativity within you and remember that you carry that with you, as an essential aspect of Life's Intelligence and your innate instincts, then you have reassurance that you can adapt to change. Creativity expresses in infinite forms. Often our idea of what creativity means restricts the full force of it's expression. What could be more creative than the process of having to adapt to the immediacy of the Pandemic? It is creativity that carries problem solving beyond the known into new possibilities, on a global scale, national scale, local community and within your own home.
Whether you are reckoning with protective measures like masks, or supplies and food shortages, or possibilities of earning income at home, or learning to handle new software to stay in touch with others, or navigating changes in your health care, or al the other routines that have been upended, sweeping changes or minor but still important to you--the creative well lays within you.
Dive in. (Susan Nettleton)
For for thoughts on anxiety and creativity, follow the link below to Larry Morris' article
(April 29, 2003) on "Turn Anxiety into Creativity" from our website. In 2003, the world focus was on the Middle East. Today of course, we face the Global Pandemic.