Virgin Aire: Glen Helgeson
Fertile Crescent: Suzanne Teng
The Dance of Life: Steve Yeager
A Wedding on Venus: Glen Helgeson
Espiritus: Soulfood & Ra Music
Play is essential to creation. These songs will tickle you, nudge you, and tease you, to play and loosen up your body-mind-spirit. I chose these songs in particular for those times when we need to take a deep breath, let it out with some noise and shake everything out. I use them often for the InterPlay warm-up that is part of all my workshops.
These songs have their own sense of rhythm and story. They are here as playmates. Go with the music or push against it.
Listen to what YOUR body wants and let your body lead. If you are moving, keep moving ’til your body says it wants stillness. If you are still, stay with that stillness until your body breaks out of it in its own way.
Take up space. It is enormously important for Intuitive Entrepreneurs to take up space. Especially if you’ve been at a computer or behind the wheel of a vehicle, you need to open up that great imagination of yours that resides in your entire central nervous system. Unfold your limbs and swing them around. Noodle yourself around and see how much room you can take up. Move right off your spot.
This is a great time to interact with your muses. You get to be surprised about what your body wants, to find yourself doing moves you didn’t know you had. Maybe you get to finally indulge in that long awaited cat stretch and notice the little bubble of an idea that pops in at the end of it. Maybe you get to just remember how fun it is to move like a kid and flop on the floor, to wander around aimlessly, playing with whatever catches your fancy. Get lost in your imagination for a while and have fun with the characters you meet there.
How does this help productivity? The truth about the natural creative process is that it is wild and organic. It’s about as far away from grinding your teeth as you can get. If we wait until we’ve got a stiff back, bleary eyes or mild headache, we’ve already been losing productivity. We think with our entire central nervous system. I am utterly convinced that creative thought does not confine itself to the blobby end of that network of electricity.
So, think of it this way. When we focus steadily and intently on something for a length of time, we feel a building concentration, that seems productive. We’re busy right? And so busy because we’re really concentrating, and that makes the task feel really important. Right?
Busy + Important = Productive, right?
You know it’s all an illusion. I’m sure you’ve worked really hard on something for a while and then, suddenly it falls apart or you get interrupted, and then what happens? Sometimes there’s frustration and anger. And sometimes there’s a giggle of recognition that the illusion bubble has just burst.
And then what happens? (this is the juicy part) We get away from it and let go. Go see what our body wants. Potty break? Snack? Play with the dog? Take a deep breath and shake it out one way or another. We take a break and when we return, the situation has changed. We solve the problem in record time — even if it means calling for help. Something that was taking hours to do, is suddenly fixed or rebuilt in minutes. What was hard a short time ago, now seems easy and obvious.
Now you tell me. What’s more productive? Play or hard, hard work?
Oh, I can hear you. “What about engineering? And those more technical tasks that take intense focus?” I come from a family of engineers and artists. We know the process is the same. Both engineers and artists do their best work by oscillating between hard and soft focus, stepping in close and stepping back. This oscillation, this swinging in and out, is a form of play. It is our dance with the thing, much like a kitten with a toy on a string.
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