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Overcoming Obstacles to Creating
A series of podcasts by Eric Maisel, PhD Episode
6: Minding Your Emotions It is
necessary that a creative person have and
express her emotions, but that is a very different thing from being led
around by the nose by her fear, anger, envy, or sadness. What can we do
to break free of the grip of our emotions?
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Summaries
of other podcasts in the
series
Overcoming Obstacles to Creating [text from the site]: Episode 5: Responding Defensively In the fifth episode of the “creative obstacles” series, we look at how our psychological defenses can get in the way of authentic creating. Why do we deny–to ourselves and to others–that we are having difficulties with our current painting or our current novel, when if we admitted that truth we might open up to our good solutions? Episode 4: Chasing Ghosts This week’s show is the fourth in a series called “Overcoming Obstacles to Creating,” a series about how our personality can get in the way of our creating. Today, in a show adapted from an essay in my book A Writer’s Paris, we look at the negative effects of looking too ardently to the past for models. Episode 3: On Being Too Nice Today’s episode is the third in our series about overcoming obstacles to creativity. In today’s show I focus on the problem of self-censorship and how too many people, wanting to be “nice,” fail to find the internal permission to say, in their life or in their art, what’s really on their mind. This lack of internal permission is a great blocker and a great silencer–which is why we need to take a careful look at the problem. Episode 2: Fearing Difficulty In today’s episode on the Joy of Living Creatively, the second in a nine-part series on “creative obstacles,” I chat about how writers who take my nonfiction book proposal writing workshops start with such enthusiasm and quickly lose that enthusiasm as the largeness of the task in front of them becomes all too abundantly clear. The episode, called “Fearing Difficulty,” focuses on our natural desire that the creative work in front of us might be just a little bit easier to accomplish than it is–and the courage we have to muster in the face of the ordinary difficulties that come with creative effort. Episode 1: Doubting Process Creative people start each project hoping to do excellent work. That makes perfect sense; and yet, side by side with that hope and wish, needs to be the deep and real understanding that only a percentage of their output (maybe a large percentage, maybe a modest percentage) will actually turn out to be excellent. This means that they will need to take “the bad with the good” in their creative life. In the first episode of the “creative obstacles” series, we learn what happens when you don’t allow yourself to take the bad with the good. 
Hear the above podcasts on the Personal Life Media page The Joy of Living Creatively: Tapping Your Innovation and Imagination.  Eric
Maisel, Ph.D. holds Master's
degrees in Creative Writing and Counseling, and a Doctorate in
Counseling Psychology. He is a
California licensed marriage and family
therapist, a creativity
coach and trainer of
creativity coaches, and teaches through lectures, workshops, and
teleseminars. Dr. Maisel is
widely regarded
as America's foremost creativity coach and has taught thousands of
creative and performing artists how to incorporate Ten Zen Second
mindfulness techniques into their creativity practice. He is the author of more than thirty books - some titles at right: See his site EricMaisel.com for ebooks and more information on his work. Related
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