there aren’t too many exercises in creative regeneration. Exercises are designed to provoke reactions. However valuable reactions might be, ultimately they just distract you from the source. The source is a well of energy to draw on not necessarily physical. On the material level you might be exhausted, or ill. But the energy that normally gets pushed into objections to the situation, escaping, fearing or controlling it can always be, to some degree, released. Sometimes that release only goes as far as acceptance of the pain or the low energy condition. But lack of resistance makes a crucial difference. The primary concern during the creative regeneration process is letting go of identifying with things’.

‘When you don’t have most of your attention pulled into identifying with things, judging, comparing, etc etc, it’s a whole different way of living, making and doing. You access the whole complexity of interactions and interrelations between everything in the world that has ever been, that is or is yet to be, and take just what’s appropriate for the task in hand, no more no less. That might sound abstract, but it’s really the most natural thing in the world. It’s how birds build their nests. They don’t discuss nest-building or go to workshops to facilitate or optimise the nest-building process. We humans can obviously do much more that act on instinct, and the creation of rules, structures and frameworks to move us forward are brilliant ways of developing human potential. But have you thrown the baby out with the bathwater and forgotten that you do actually know how to build your nest?

Creative Regeneration, Sarah Luczaj (Wayward Publications, 2019) – you can buy it wherever books are sold online, or direct from me