What impact does the flow of energy throughout the year have on our creativity? How is our creativity and inspiration shifting as we reach the Spring Equinox? How can we harness this and use it to support our creativity flow?
In this second guest interview of a year-long series with Emily Tuck, we’ll be hearing how the festival of Ostara on 20th March can impact our creativity and what shifts it can create in our mindset and energy.
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Camilla Fellas Arnold
Welcome to Creative Power, a podcast designed to help you claim the full spectrum of your creative potential. I’m Camilla, fellas Arnold, and I’m passionate about discussing how we change the face of both the creative industries, and how we interact with creativity itself, so that it nourishes our soul, and helps us express ourselves with alignment, flow and authenticity. Let’s get started.
Welcome to Creative Power. This week, we are about six weeks on from Imbolc when I had the fabulous Emily touch, come talk to us about the impact of Imbolc on creativity. So because we’re six weeks on, we have another pagan festival. So the energy is going to shift we’ve got Ostara coming up on the 20th of March. So I have invited Emily Turk back to give us a bit of chat and explain what can we what shifts, are we looking at what is going to happen? What can we expect in terms of creativity for the next six weeks? So in 25 words, or less kind of way, Emily, welcome back, can you tell us a little bit about what you do?
Emily Tuck
Okay, so for those who hadn’t had the inbox episode, I, this is your first time of hearing from me. My name is Emily tuck, and I predominantly work with women and couples to understand the influence of Lilith, the goddess Lilith, and the influence that she can have over our creative projects, over our intimacy in our relationships, and over our business and a legacy to the world. And, yeah, I work, I work with that predominantly online. And I also blend it with my kinesiology practice so that your conscious and subconscious have both been dealt with and aligned at the same time. So that’s quite a unique sort of spin on things. And because of the creative element with limit, this is why I was invited to this podcast, it’s weekly for creative power. So thank you so much for having me back. Again, it’s a pleasure. And yesterday, we’re going to talk about Ostara. So we spoke about inbox six weeks ago. And if you want to find that episode, feel free so that you can see them as set that six weeks on, we’re in a slightly different energy. And feeling like spring has kind of sprung a little or is beginning to think about spring at least. So what that does is what we can get out of that time of year is changed, our energy levels are different. And therefore I believe how you would approach the creative process is now in its next phase. So here I am, again to talk about the changes that might be occurring now, compared to six weeks ago.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
Yeah, I think it’s really interesting because what for people who didn’t listen to the Imbolc episode, what Emily was saying, we could expect from that time, which was from the first of February, was a kind of time of incubation, the ideas that just like under the surface, the roots are growing, we may be consciously or not know what’s coming up. But it was definitely a still that wintering phase of creativity, there was definitely more of the ebb than the flow. So I’m really interested to see what you think, Emily, what is occurring now because although we’re not at a major festival yet, we’re off star is the spring equinox. So this is one of the minor festivals in the pagan Wheel of the Year. But I don’t know about you, I can definitely feel the shift, things are changing. So tell us about that.
Emily Tuck
So for me, I think they are definitely changing. I can feel people talking about the idea that spring, winter is now finished and spring is occurring. Equally I can see where we’re not quite in full stride yet. And I think part of the reason that happens so as a festival what happens is it’s the fertility festival. It sits around about Easter, because actually Easter is always the first full moon after the spring equinox. So after Ostara so this year, we just had we’re just having a full In the neck, and therefore, it’s another four weeks before we hit Easter. But sometimes when Easter is what they call early, it’s because the full moon is just after a star. So you get Easter and let happen earlier because it was built so that it was next door. And the reason it was next door was so that we would be distracted by the Christian festivals and therefore ignored payments.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
That’s fascinating. I didn’t know that at all.
Emily Tuck
first full moon after Star, two, because we have a formula next week, we got to wait another 28 days to get around to Easter. But sometimes, sometimes the next door so this is about the fertility festival, I suppose and about what are we have? What are we bringing into the world? So with that comes, what seeds are we planting now? That will yield when we get to harvest and kind of August to the harvest festival? When we get around to that one is the first of August. But what actions are we taking now? What changes are we making now? And what things are we doing now? That we’re going to harvest? Come August? So that’s the first way to look at it. The other way to think about it, if it’s a fertility is what are those? What are we making further? What are we starting to bring into the world. So where you’ve been incubating with invoke, he didn’t know what you were bringing to life, he was still so deep under the ground, and it was kind of hand got a shape yet, but it was in the corner of your eye. Now, slightly less in the corner of your eye. But you might only be going or who do I need to speak to about What class do I need to join in order to learn that language or take up that exercise. So I for example, in the last six weeks have gone from well, there’s no point doing a New Year’s resolution because I’m just not ready yet, which is very in bulky. To going. Actually I’m thinking about taking up an exercise routine. And I’ll be clear, so that we’re managing expectations of our listeners thinking about is as far as I’ve got. I whereas I wasn’t even allowing myself to think about it compresses in January, because it would have been a point that we didn’t have enough forward momentum. So I’ve purchased things for my yoga class that I haven’t found yet. And my intentions that I haven’t set up. But the fact that I’ve purchased it is a move forward is a step in the right direction. So creatively, you might be like, Oh, I fancied buying those art supplies. I fancy finding out if there’s a workshop about writing, but I’m not ready to sit and write my book yet. I just want to see if there’s anyone out there who might have a super canoes, or someone I can get support from. Because the other thing with this time of year is it’s the five elements of invite Chinato. It’s good. And good is about who you Being Well, what’s your new projects? And what are you birthing. So again, falling into alignment of star. But also, when you start something if you aren’t that person yet, or you’re making that change all the reasons why you can’t do it suddenly come to the surface. So following, for example, got my mat out with a plan A bit like we do when we got my yoga mat out in the way that we do on the first journey, right? Got to be a little off about two and a half minutes before. Yeah, we
Camilla Fellas Arnold
kind of throw ourselves into it with gusto. And then suddenly, all the reasons the 50 reasons why this is not going to sit right with us subconsciously, then throw up.
Emily Tuck
Because if I know myself to be someone who doesn’t exercise, if I suddenly start getting my yoga mat out or going to the gym, it lasts about three weeks before I go. That’s not who I am. But you see. And similarly if you’ve bought things for creative projects, or you’ve bought a nice box of stuff you can call off with or you’ve bought materials that you’re going to make into something and you’re going to dress me can you go I just bought a fabric and it’s sitting in the corner. Yeah, but I didn’t make the dress. So this is what I find is the beautiful thing about this phase is this is your opportunity instead of seeing it as odd and make it I didn’t do it. Another failed attempt to write my book another dress I didn’t make another painting I didn’t take a second. Go right. I’m going to use this time as the opposition comes up as the 27 reasons why I can’t be a painter or an artist or book writer or whatever it is. That is your creative flair. 27 reasons why I can’t get on my yoga mat because apparently I’m to this to that to the other. Take notes, acknowledge it, journal it because in knowing it, you can then do something about this. And in this six weeks, you can do something to change Your subconscious self image around it. So instead of fighting yourself with why can I do this, I’m a failure or variations on that imposter syndrome. Who am I to write that book? Who am I to do this? Okay. But use this time to transform that a bit. So that when we hit Beltane, which is the first of May, which was electrifying, I’ll be back if people still want me.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
Yeah, we were having you back.
Emily Tuck
By then you have enough change in your subconscious idea. But when the yoga mat comes out, or the canvas goes up, or you sit to write, it flows better. Because the opposition, subconscious opposition to who you’re attempting to be, has moved.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
That’s a really good point, I think it’s really hard, actually. Because we, and people will know what I mean by this, where you get this idea of, oh, I’m going to try this new project, I’m going to try a new craft, or whatever it is. And you start as Emily’s been saying, you start buying things. And it does bring up all those feelings of imposter syndrome. Who am I to do this? What if I’m going to be rubbish? And I think as creators, we often forget that we can use those clues and work on them. As you said, take notes. But I think this is where a lot of people will struggle. So I’m going to hand over to you and say, what do we do about that when we’ve taken these notes? How do we then use this time to work on changing who we be in the world, so that actually come Beltane we can get into action.
Emily Tuck
So I think, I think way of looking at it is first of all, don’t beat yourself up. Because the first thing to acknowledge is that this when your brain has a gap between who you know yourself to be so let’s use going to be a writer. If you think of yourself as someone who isn’t a writer, maybe once upon a time somebody said you’re gonna be rubbish, or that maybe it’s as simple as it’s just not something you’ve cultivated. Either way, you don’t think of yourself as a writer. So that subconscious self image must be maintained at all costs, because otherwise we go crazy. That’s the short version. However, when we take up an activity, or habit, or a new thing that is not in line with that behaviour. So for example, I’m not a writer. And now I’m sitting down to write, I don’t see myself as an artist. But now I’m standing at a canvas with paints. Because again, that gap can be maintained by your sub conference for about four or five weeks, maybe six or push. And then you’ll stop doing it, you don’t sit down to do it, you lessons, kale or whatever. Because you’re trying to go back to your original subconscious self image. But here’s the thing, if you take this opportunity to change the beliefs, the gap closes, but it closes in the opposite direction. So now you’re someone who knows yourself to be a writer, even if that’s just an emerging concept, or an emerging writer. And now sitting down to the table to do the right thing, sitting standing at the canvas is something that is natural and in line. So I would turn up to my yoga classes with ease rather than totally find something else to do on a Wednesday, whatever it looks like. So we’re closing the gap, but we’re closing in the opposite direction. So you’re in line with the activity and therefore you can take it forward. So I think the first thing I would do is just introducing my free to practice made me feel like I’ve got power. So I’m making a powerful choice. Now, what can I do to maintain that? So where I work with my clients, we look at what strategies can we use? What tools can we use? So I’m going to list a couple, just so that you’ve got an idea what I’m talking about, like, one of my kinesiology tools is called Emotional stress relief. And I think what we’ll do for this episode actually is I’m gonna get you to put it in the show notes as a gift to listeners, we can do that emotion, emotional stress relief technique, because all it is, is placing your hands on the top of your forehead and just lightly putting your finger down. And what it does is you are encouraging the blood flow away from the parts of your brain that are all emotional or I can’t do this or I’m scared or I’m afraid and into it. Maybe if I approach it this way. It’s called Emotional stress relief and we’ll put a little handout in the show notes. Yes, I will make sure that’s there. So you guys can access the technique but what it does If you can imagine yourself as someone who can’t write, I don’t know myself as a writer, oh my god. So you’re taking your current self image, and you are releasing the stress that it creates around it. What that then does is you can now be in free flow around that. So I don’t need to see myself as not a writer, that’s more stressful and more. Equally, if we did the positive version, I’m seeing myself as a writer, and I can do this, oh, my god, I’d be a writer immediately surfaces. So now imagine yourself as the writer, and whole, apply this technique, suddenly, the stress around the success now falls away. So now the imposter syndrome can’t hit because I’m not stressed by a success. I’m not stressed by its failure. And it could even do a portrait like just imagining, try and find an hour in a day to sit and write, you could do around that. But by taking the stress out of all of the pieces, your subconscious self image can close around your activity. That’s fantastic. And my programmes have multiple techniques that do it in different ways and dig a bit deeper and take bigger steps and whatever. But that’s a real beginner’s technique. something practical, you can do around allowing that change to occur.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
But even though it is a beginner’s technique, as you say, actually, I’ve used it myself multiple times, and I find it so incredibly powerful. Because, you know, I’m one of those people who gets the worrying mind, and it’s just racism, racism, oh, it’s very stressful. And it just, you know, you have to sit there for a few minutes, 10 minutes, maybe 15. And what I found, just so my listeners do understand, it does bring up all the thoughts. You know, when you first start, you’ll be thinking, maybe it is I’m not a writer for me, I would probably go away and use it on whether I can do yoga or not, because I can’t really, I’ve got some issues around that. And every four to five, maybe six weeks, I’ll get into the habit. And then my tendinitis injury from when I was at school plays up to maintain them, nope, you don’t do yoga, you’re not an exercise person, you’re healthy, blah, blah, blah. But what happens in other in other situations, when I’ve used it is, I’ll think about, I wasn’t, didn’t think of myself as a writer, hold these points on my forehead. And it brings up all the different reasons and you just listen, you just follow that train of thought, just let it go, wherever it’s going, it will bring all of those things up. And then as you just let it occur, it just starts to quiet, it starts to slow down. And then it does become less stressful. And if you try again later, you can’t always find those thoughts. Again, it’s just ASR is so powerful, I love it.
Emily Tuck
And that’s the difference between worrying about something or letting it turn. And when you have your hands on these points, you’re diffusing the stress on the situation. So if you have your hands off your points, you’re just worrying. If you’re going to be worrying, you might as well have your hands on if points of view diffusing. Very true. What happens is inside your head, you run the ideas, you run the thoughts you just let them come up and come through. But eventually your brain can’t hold on to the concept. Sometimes in that process your brain find a solution like, Oh, I didn’t think about doing it on a Monday night instead of a Wednesday morning. It could be that you just go sort of disappear. That doesn’t positively deal. Now. Whatever happens, it’s just doing whatever it needs to do to diffuse the stress. But the beautiful thing about it is if you think about when you’re stressed out, a lot of people do this intuitively, they go, Oh my god, they put the hand on the forehead, oh my god, the nightmare. But what happens when we do that intuitively, if we’re instinctively going to the space that would help us progress. But what we do also, if we slam our hands on our forehead, then we put pressure on it. And pressure doesn’t decrease the stress. That’s why it’s things like that. So the difference of the application of this, instinctively we do it and yet because we put too much pressure through, we don’t get the result. But actually our bodies know the answers to it has kind of done that. So that’s something that we use, and then when I’m working with people to go okay, now I’ve realised there’s a whole pattern here around a limiting belief. I would use different tools in different orders for the person. But ultimately you’re starting to step into i reducing the stress out of it and stepping into what I like. And I remember somebody explaining a few years ago and saying the best way to use this tourney so when we’re talking about use the creative person imagine In your worst case scenario, imagine your best case scenario. And imagine you’re sort of middle of the road scenario. So you’ve decided you’re a writer. So now you write prolifically, and nobody buys a damn thing. Then you write prolifically. And now you’re like JK Rowling and you go. And then you sort of, probably what’ll happen is you write on the right people will find the book. And maybe we’ll have an incredible success. But you’ve allowed for the reasonable option, the catastrophic version, and the massively successful version. So now you’re not, you’re not undercutting yourself, either by its success, or by its failure, or by incremental. And he described it once that it was it was matching his GCSE results, or his A levels or his final degree, what would happen is either he’d walk into the example. And he wouldn’t have studied the right syllabus, and it’s the wrong questions. And then his whole life fell apart, and now we’d be destitute living on the street. And then the next version was easy to write, and he got into uni. And then the next version is that somebody writing goes, Oh, my God, we’ve never seen results like it. We want you to join them. If you’re like, you’ve got a superpower, and like, Oh, my God, all that do, I have to cut off my family, but also, then I’ll be written and will want my money. And then I’m doing all three versions.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
So this is actually quite helpful in a way to work through those best worst case, and just any old case scenario. I mean, you can even do that. Going back a couple of episodes, if you want to listen, I did one on journaling. So you can actually journal through what is the best case scenario? What is the worst case? What is that, you know, this is kind of the average, most likely to happen. And just see what comes up, see how you feel over the journal through the feelings. And it can be really surprising what you can actually let go of even with these really simple techniques.
Emily Tuck
And if you blend it with the journaling, it could be that you journal beforehand, and then you held your points about what your journal, it could be that in holding your points about the stressful thing, suddenly, is a freedom. And now you can journal? Oh, well, I can work in both directions. Because also once we reduce the stress, now you’re writing. Yeah. So when you’re journaling? What’s to stop you being wants to stop you being on fire?
Camilla Fellas Arnold
I think actually, that’s a really good point. Yeah, it’s a really good point, actually, people but definitely, I know I have in the past separate the idea of journaling from writing we see writing is something very formal that we sit down to do. And it’s quite serious. And it’s got the intention of being published. But if you look at someone like Anne Frank, for example, she was she’s a writer, we look at that book, and we read it, and it’s amazing. But she was just writing in her diary every day. So actually, you can even reframe the idea. So you do write in a diary, or you do journaling. Occasionally, if you’re struggling with the idea of EMI writer, maybe you wrote blog posts, social media posts, they’re all writing.
Emily Tuck
It’s just about how we look at it. And that’s where I’ll star is an excellent opportunity, because you might find that the ways in which you write change, oh, I didn’t write my own magnum opus, no. But you know, what you did do is you wrote something that was a blob, but one day that will become part of your process. So again, you’re planting seeds that will harvest, what’s the writing seeds that you’re planting? Now? That becomes something that you harvest later. And one of my favourite writers is in Iceland. And the niacin in a nice name did both. She has books that she wrote, but things like delta and or Hemudu. So they are books that she made. But equally, she has had diaries. Yes. So she allowed within the market, there’s both.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
So selecting that, I think at this time of year, it’s allowing the flexibility to see what the possibilities aren’t that’s, that’s a feeling. That’s what I’m hearing from you about Austar it’s just seeing what seeds are starting to sprout. And you can kind of it’s almost like panning for gold sifting through what have we got? I mean, I mean, you were talking earlier about the idea that you’ve been incubating all of these ideas and things are gonna start surfacing and trying to work out what we’re taking forward. What ideas are having a reshape what things we’re letting go of. There’s a lot of momentum that’s starting to build right now. And it’s how do we work out what to do with that?
Emily Tuck
Some of the audience won’t have minded some of these ideas who’ve been incubating. They won’t have minded, and they’ll just have, but it’s the grace to allow them to die. Equally, they may have moment, but they won’t harvest yet. So we talked about the idea that sometimes the return on a project is a couple of weeks. So for example, if you are planting seeds, and what that looks like, is a load of activity around an exhibition that you then put on in three months time. It’s had a short return time. But equally, if you’re doing something that doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere, but actually 12 months from now, there’s a whole thing around it. So it’s allowing the seeds to have different germination times the seeds that we plant now can have different germination times even harvest times. But they’re not dying.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
When I used to work as a freelance designer, it was about any time from January to around now, we would be working on things like greeting cards for Christmas calendars, but not for this year, we were actually designing these for 18 months time release. So not this Christmas, but the next one. So it’s it’s allowing all of these ideas to come up. And yes, I know, as a creative person, it’s super exciting when they do and you want to do all the things and Oh, my goodness, I just want to get started. But equally, it’s about and this is something I’m learning for myself. It’s about looking at them and seeing how long is the return window on this? Is it something that’s really long term? Is it something short term? Is it something medium, you know, who knows, but these ideas are all going to start surfacing now. And then we can work out how we’re prioritising because the real action will be starting, come belting.
Emily Tuck
And I think that’s a really important thing to realise when you’re looking at these projects, because you’re not actively on them now, all the time doesn’t mean the guide. Because sometimes that can be a frustration in emerging creatives is, well, I haven’t done my cross stitch today, therefore I must be losing it. Well know what happens if it’s only meant to be in that phase. But it doesn’t mean it’s died, it means you alternate your creative outlets, because they have different bits in different times and phases. And the other thing that then comes from that is I’m planting a seed now or I’m choosing a seed from the from Imbolc. I’m coming around this one spotlight right now. And I’m going to do a certain amount with it. And then I don’t know what to do with it. Next, I’m going to move on to the next thing. But that hasn’t died. It’s now waiting for something else to come and eat it later on in the year that you may be doing next. So what you’re doing is by allowing the rotation and the different germination periods on different projects, you’re not sitting there going, I feel of her failed in 27 ways you’re varying. That’s not ready yet. That’s still percolating. This I’ve done but I’m waiting for something and sometimes nine times out of 10. I don’t always know what I’m waiting for.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
Well, yes, exactly.
Emily Tuck
I just know that it doesn’t feel right. Please strike whatever, in the corner of my call in the corner of my eye, in the corner of my eye just out of my periphery, I can’t see what it is I’m waiting for. And then I’ll have a conversation with somebody or I’ll do something or I’ll listen to a podcast or I’ll be reading a book. And that’s what I was waiting on. So I’ll come to somebody and I’ll say that project that we’ve looked like we pop for like eight months ago, come
Camilla Fellas Arnold
back around. Yeah, come on, we’re ready to work on it.
Emily Tuck
Can we talk about that now again, because I think if we put this in, in fact, let’s get on it. I can give you an excellent example that you and I worked last year on a project. We lived in Greece it and changed our subconscious self image, as I’ve been describing and sharing with you in this episode. We did that in February of last year. And it went right the way through. And what was fascinating about it was when we got to Beltane this was the first time that you and I both said, exhausted. And it wasn’t that we were bored of our projects or we didn’t love what we’re doing. But we couldn’t run on the energy of that time of year into the next season. We had to stop, take a breath, let ourselves regroup and then
Camilla Fellas Arnold
we went to bed for the entire weekend.
Emily Tuck
On Monday, I’m out and we came back on Monday with fresh eyes, but also the energy of that season. So if we’re in listening to this episode you like I was feeling a bit fatigued last week. That’s okay because actually you were letting go of the last of the Invoke energy if you looked at it with the eyes of the Ostara planting season Do we breathe new life into it? Maybe it would. But the other thing that we did with that was we built a programme. You know, we built the coaching programme, and that was beautiful. But I said, I remember saying to you go by then I said, is this piece this extra tool that we haven’t played with you? Yeah. So remember, almost, from your point of view, you said to me, I didn’t even know did that I didn’t even know that was in your toolkit. I said, I don’t know why. And I haven’t thought about this particular tool very, for a few years, I have a funny feeling this sits somewhere in it. And what we’ve found over the last three, four months, is not only does it live, maybe in there somewhere, it actually is the first step. So now we realised we’d started on step two, but we didn’t know what step one was, because we were waiting for it to show up. So now we’ve got a whole new breath of life into the project. But we have to wait 12 months for that final piece to show up. Now, some people out there who are you know, emerging or trying to step into their feet of power might have gone down the road. Forget it, I’m obviously rubbish at this can’t do it. Or I feel like it’s not a full project for a filmic. It’s not the full potency. You know what that seed was planted, however long ago, or 1000s of lifetimes, but this particular tool that we’ve put in just to give it some proper germination context, I came across that tool in 2017. And it sat in my wardrobe. I used it in a specific context. But it sat in a box waiting to be used. And I come back to the person who’s made the tool and said, Look, I want to breathe new life into the tool. But in turn, it has breathed new life into our project. Yeah, really has, if I decided that was like the equivalent of creative abortion or creative termination or creative, I’m not going to see what happens to that. I would never had a fresh look at it. So that had a really longer term time.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
Yeah, I think that’s really important. Because like, when I look at what I do, and how I coach people now, I’m bringing together 10 years worth of various and very wide ranging experiences. And there’s been times where I’ve sat there thinking, I have a qualification, or I have a specific piece of knowledge that I didn’t quite know what to do with it. And it’s not that I’m discarding them, I just kind of leave them sitting in the side and just say, Oh, well, one day it will come back around. I don’t know when I don’t know where I don’t know how or why. But it does. I mean, I’ve got projects that I’m in the process of they will be out soon, like my creative archetypes. I fell in love with archetypes years and years and years ago. And then Emily, you introduced me to them again in another outfit two years ago. And I was like, oh, there’s something with this. I love it. I want to do something with it. It’s it’s gonna be a thing. But I didn’t know what. And I remember having conversations with you so many times, like, oh, we can’t discard this. We don’t know what to do with it, how to use it, but it’s going to be a thing. So when it finally came back round, and I literally woke up with Oh, my goodness, I see it now just kind of dropped into my head as this perfectly finally formed thing. Suddenly, it’s like, oh, it was worth just hanging on to that. You know how like, I mean, I have loads and loads of craft materials, scraps of paper, buttons, all kinds of things in my home office. But I’m just keeping because you know what one day might be useful. And there’s always this part where I think people start to feel a bit. They berate themselves a little bit. Because it’s like, oh, well, why do I keep normally says, I haven’t looked in my box of ribbons for 15 million years? Surely I don’t need them anymore. But actually, I think what we’re trying to say is, it’s okay to just let them sit there if it feels like maybe they do have a point, but you don’t know when or where or why or how. Just let it be there. I think there’s there’s something to be said for knowing when something is really dead. And it’s time to let it go. And actually sitting there and being able to say this idea isn’t finished. I don’t know where it’s going. But it’s not finished. So I’m gonna just leave it in the corner.
Emily Tuck
And I think that’s a really interesting point about knowing what is dead because this wasn’t a response to Ostara this was a response this happened in the last week for me. I sudden I had shifted enough of my subconscious self image with working in my case I work with a Hypnotherapist. Anyway, something shifted enough and I went off because time I said But without my workspace. Well, a week later, I was still clearing out all paperwork. And there were things that you have to keep, like your tax returns, your client files and things like this for various reasons. But I found a different way to file them and get them out of my space. For example, my old tax returns no longer live actually in the office. They’re archived in the garage. But now they’re not in my workspace. So there’s room and room for things to breathe. And so this is where the idea of the spring cleaning comes from. But actually, it’s very good to go. That said, Let It Die. Yeah, it’ll come up with something up late or it won’t. But you know, what, I was looking at old notes that I had made around plans for my business. And I read them, look, this isn’t me anymore. This is not me at all. It’s not even a seed of something I can use. Eventually, this is just dead dead. So entire folders on the entire folder from in the bin. Wow. Equally, I’ve found something that was a note that I made to myself five years before. So maybe even longer that teachers, unfortunately, is that five, six years. And I’d said go and investigate this qualification. But I put it in a post it our, you know, put it in a plastic wallet. And I forgot what was even in the folder. You know what I’m currently doing that qualification. Six years later, five years later, whatever it is, and currently doing that qualification. So let’s see didn’t die just took a while to germinate? Yeah, but I can now throw away the note, because it’s no longer a forward planning from five years ago, it’s been occurring now. But it’s about allowing that spring clean, and then go right, that’s dead. And then I found other notes. And I went, Oh, that that note is the pre version of the thing that belongs over here. For example, you and I have talked about transactional analysis as a concept. We’ve talked about it in the context of my favourite book we’ve talked about we bought ourselves to death with this concept. I found the original notes I was given by an employer in 2014, when they use it as an HR strategy for conflict resolution. Oh, wow. So we may or may not use those. But you know what, I put them in the pile? Because when we come to look at that project, another outfit
Camilla Fellas Arnold
that if the seeds were planted long ago, yeah.
Emily Tuck
So I was able to pull out the bits that were relevant to the seeds I needed, and know what was dead. So it’s about what seeds are we planting? What do we need as part of that. And actually, these ones aren’t seeds that have any life anymore. Let go. It’s okay to let them go. And this is where invoke is often seen as the invoke the previous phase of just bidding is often seen as the death. And it is, but equally it’s life death life. So what comes back and brings life back in. So the incubating pieces that then have life before the mentum. These are the ones we take forward in a star. And as we take them forward, it goes, Oh, hang on, you can’t take that forward while you still think of yourself like this cable from you do about that. But we continue to take them forward. Give it another six weeks when we hit Beltane. But we’ll have proper forward momentum. Because you’re in the summer, it’s spring has definitely sprung, you’ve taken off those new habits. So six weeks on, but there are things that were there in the choosing and in the selection in incubating that didn’t make the car and maybe they died. Maybe they’re going into a longer germination period. So you’re not beating yourself up on some of these ideas come forward and Sunday. And I find that quite exciting.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
It is it’s it’s the funnel bit, isn’t it? I think that’s one of the things that I love about really being aware of the pagan wheel and how it affects creativity because it’s really embracing that ebb and flow and it’s it’s not flying blind entirely, but it has got that kind of adventurous. Oh, I don’t know where I’m going next to it sometimes. And that’s really fun. So actually embrace this shifting gear. And and have fun with it. Because you know what? Creativity? Yeah, I know we pour our heart and souls into it. It can. It can get serious business when you are putting so much of you into what you do. But I think what I have feeling right now is there’s a lightness of touch to a star. So allow yourself to embrace that
Emily Tuck
and allow you have a lightness that involves a little bit in the descent a little bit in the winter. So there is a lightness now. So just see where it takes you and I think the big take homes are this is an opportunity to look at what’s standing in the way of who you need to be. I think another way to remove allowing what’s dead to die, but also allowing things to have a longer incubation. So they don’t need to be dead, you can cut off, there’s a part of you that’s been judging yourself because you haven’t created yet and you haven’t allow it to go with the flow, a lot more of these ideas will harvest than I previously thought. And it’s a real opportunity just to breathe new life in it. What means a breath of fresh,
Camilla Fellas Arnold
exciting, it really is.
Emily Tuck
And maybe what other what are the new seeds that have never seen the light of day and then proper, new new, they’re not new because I did them five years ago, they got a new face. They’re new new, what’s the inspiration that’s popping in that needs a life leader breath of fresh air? You know, we talked her then if we talked about in involving you and I talked about that idea that creative ideas have their own energy and their their physical entities in the universe? Well, what new creative ideas are suddenly about to land that you then you can pop into the list?
Camilla Fellas Arnold
Well, it’s exciting. Wow. So what I’m going to do at the end of when I upload the episode is I will make sure that we put the ESR emotional stress release handout in the show notes. So if you do want to start to work on who you be in the world, and get rid of some of that stress and imposter syndrome around whatever’s coming up for you, then you can find that if you would like to ask us any questions, and also Emily is going to be coming back at Beltane. So you can ask some questions in advance. You can also send me a voice message on SpeakPipe. I’ll leave a link for that in the show notes as well. Emily, if anyone wants to work with you and find out a bit more about what you do, where can they find you.
Emily Tuck
So I predominantly hang out on LinkedIn. So feel free to find me there. Like I’m, I’m the woman with the top hat when you’re looking at the photograph, or the Emily Tux on LinkedIn. I’m the one with the top hat. You can also find me on my website, which is anytime.com. Look at my offerings. You might want to look into self record, not specifically because you want one of the programmes that said that you are like, I feel like this is something I want to talk about, can we find a way to work together? Please feel free because I’d rather have the conversation. And we can find a way to make something fit than Oh, this is the box that lives in. Because as I’ve just proven for the last however long we’ve been talking, I have plenty of creative ideas. What happens if you become a beta tester for something that isn’t on the website yet? So feel free to get in touch there to do this by me that I will put all those links in the show notes. And of course, feel free to get in touch via command and and I heard on your podcast ministry where can I find out what we can also be put in Poshmark. And I will make
Camilla Fellas Arnold
sure that you are all put in touch if you want to work with Emily and like I said she will be back again for Beltane if not before, which is the first of May. So thank you so much, Emily for being here again. It’s always a pleasure. And we will see you in about six weeks time.
Emily Tuck
See you in about six weeks. It’s been a pleasure.
Camilla Fellas Arnold
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