Creative Avoidance: Liminal Doorway?

It's been suggested that this blog – and other sorts of ostensibly unproductive activities--- is an act of creative avoidance. Is that just a nicer term for procrastination?

Well, yes. And no. I'm good at avoidance, so I learned years ago to make that work for me. Why argue with what you're good at, right?

In developing skills in various forms of creativity, I've made avoidance into productive learning curve time. Learning new forms of self expression such as beading, clayworking, woodburning, and blogging --- and whatever it might be for you, too --- stimulates the life force and expands consciousness into previously undiscovered territories.

Inevitably, self expressions indulged in during creative avoidance time prompt deeper self awareness, if one is paying attention, and open the flow of thoughts to all sorts of creative connections that often have something to do with some other, more conventional "work." Then the challenge becomes capturing that creative inspiration for the work project before it recedes back into the ethers of transformational potentiality.

Perhaps, then, this type of avoidance isn't as pathological as it sounds. Perhaps it's a brief journey into a liminal realm between obligatory tasks and liberated attention.

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