Inspiration requires a host with the ability to connect to Regulated Awareness- The ability to connect to the calm within their body and regulate the nervous system. The ability to be open and pay attention to the subtle feelings of ease, flow, and delight within the body, despite actively creating within the present moment.
The most accessible likeness I can describe is the feeling of the endorphin rush while running. The ‘runners high.’ It’s a place where hard work is being done, but it doesn’t equate to suffering. It is a strange place of calm and ease that allows for an experience of ecstatic delight in the ability to have accomplished something so difficult so easily. The effect lasts for hours.
While the runners high is a biological experience, there is a magical feeling to it that transcends the biochemical cocktail that flows through your veins. A similar feeling can be felt when time disappears while writing, or drawing, or rocking a child to sleep. You show up as simply as possible and almost lose yourself completely in the act of doing what you are doing.
Inspiration finds you and flows through you.
Nobody can tell anyone exactly what to do in order to connect with flow, but there are ways of making it easier for inspiration to find you. To experience a runners high you need to run. In order to lose yourself in writing, it’s crucial to show up and write. There are obstacles that can be removed easily, and others that are more internal and invisible- the walls that keep us separated from the moments that would allow us to feel this delight.
It’s worth the effort to shift the occlusions in order to make yourself available to harness inspiration.
