The Inner Studio - Riverside Architectural Press

our need to control, if we acknowledge that we are capable of
acting this way, then it becomes easy to decide what we would like
to do about it. Sometimes the issue is that our ego is not strong and
we don’t have the strength to control our own emotions, so we
become controlling and critical of others. Why do we need to
sometimes control our environment as though it is a life or death
issue? Why is every situation so stressful? When we are willing to
investigate our shadow we will stop projecting it onto others. The
energy that has gone into projecting our shadow can now begin to
strengthen ourselves and allow our creativity to emerge.
Similarly, if we are genuinely not able to relate to other people
because we live too much in our own heads, then we need to
become aware of it. How does it make us feel? Is this what we
want? How did we become so cut off from our feelings? What
caused us to decide that feelings are not a legitimate source of
truth? Again, if we become aware, we can make a decision to do
something about it. We may decide that is time to learn what it
would be like to be living in our bodies. As we do this, we may run
up against our judgments about our bodies or feelings. We may
experience how difficult it is for us to trust anything or anyone. We
may only know how to trust our thoughts! We may never have felt
any compassion for our bodies though all the years that they have
served us faithfully. We may never have bothered to relate with our
bodies’ symptoms and desires. We may be complete strangers to
our own feelings. We can use an awareness of living in our heads
to lead us to a richer experience of what it means to be a human
being.
Getting Stuck
THE INNER STUDIO
Getting stuck is the darkness that is inevitable and even necessary
to every inspiring journey.
How is it that something we worry about and fear can actually
help us? Because you can use everything–every experience, every
circumstance, everything around you–to learn something about
yourself and your creative instincts. As I discussed earlier, Carl
Jung argued that whatever we ignore will happen to us as fate. We
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