One of the ways to contact your Inner Shaming voices is to try to do something you have never done before, or to try to make something original.
Self Doubt can increase as we expand. So it’s terribly important to keep being in charge of who is talking to you inside your head.
We need to recognize the inner critic and how it tries to suppress our creativity and productivity. It can show up as a voice in your head, or a feeling that communicates, “I’m too old, too young, too poor, too rich to deserve, too unoriginal, too original to be understood, too hyper, too exhausted, too isolated, too connected with family & friends, too untrained, too squashed by previous training,” yada yada yada. It let’s you feel too little or too much. And certainly not worthy or able to make art.
I found some photos of old artwork from 1986-’87. Here’s one of The Critical Parent. (To see a more complete description of the show these were in, go to http://sn.im/rwv55 [culvercityartistswaygroup_wordpress_com] )
The Critical Parent has no eyes, so can’t really see the real person in front of him/her. His/her head is filled with judgments (3 little figures) about what “woulda, coulda, shoulda” be happening. The mouth spits out ugly venomous statements. When he/she is talking to you, you get to feel “not good enough” and “too much.”
