“Letting it happen is not making it happen. It is not trying hard.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
“Source makes available. The filter distills. The vessel receives. And often this happens beyond our control.” -Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
Every useful training method, system, trick, process, exercise, prompt, etc…boils down to this:
How do I bypass the conscious (or ego) mind and allow the subconscious to take over?
Whatever works. (Maybe it’s meditation or doing the Artist Way morning pages or primal screaming or Tibetan dream yoga or going for a run or doing nothing at all.) Whatever allows you to access that subconscious state and stay in it for as long as possible. Use it.
Let it happen.
The Subconscious is the Way to great and lasting art. The only Way.
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