Barbara Bowen: Putting your Inner Critic to Work

The Creative Voice is infinitely more powerful than the Critical Voice.

If your Critical Voice is overwhelmingly loud, that may be hard to absorb.

But our intuitive center is always urging us toward healthy new risk, like a lighthouse beacon calling us to reach our full potential. And when creativity calls, we had best surrender, or experience far worse anxiety in the refusal.

Listen more clearly to your Creative Voice, truly listen. Then trust it enough to act upon it. When you act, your creative power emerges organically. You grow closer to yourself, your creative potential, and who you’re meant to be.

Then recognize that at its core the Critical Voice contains something essential to creativity:  the power to assess, to review, to re-arrange and improve. Before it went astray, the Critical Voice was the Helpful Editor.

Fighting with it won’t help.  Trying to get rid of it won’t help. Instead, embrace it, hear it, get underneath its bullying jabs. When you do, you recover its positive attributes and reposition it in its true role as a servant to the Creative Voice and your creative process.

This is a joyful discovery. Time and again, clients are amazed by the power of their Critical Voice, repositioned as a Helpful Editor, to inspire, enhance, transform, empower, and deepen their creative process.

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If you want to hear more from Barbara Bowen, she will be presenting “Bring it on! How Resistance Can Wake Up Your Creative Process” on January 29th at the smARTist Telesummit 2010. Click here for all the details.