The Secret gift of the Big Bad Blank⠀

Who is afraid of their mind going blank? Of feeling just how much you don’t know in a moment when you would love to root in certainty?⠀
I hear your frustration. And worry:⠀
I don’t know what to say. I know I have a lot, but I go blank when I need to say it. And then I feel like I have nothing to say. I feel like I am blank. That’s all I am. I doubt my intelligence. I lose my value.⠀
Isn’t an expert meant to know things? I know nothing in that moment. I lose my confidence, my esteem. How can I sell this?⠀
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I’m excited when you find your blank.⠀
Because when you feel blank, I feel your possibility, creation, life.⠀
I am an artist, and I understand the potential of the canvas.⠀
You can’t create from a full canvas.⠀
Give me blank pages so I can write. Do not give me lines. They already limit what comes next.⠀
I am an artist - I appreciate the nothing as the beginning of the something.⠀
As an artist, I know that to create, you must be willing to go into the nothing from which it all comes.⠀
Let your preconception dissolve…⠀
The big blank is where your preconception ends and your truth, the formation of new creation, begins. ⠀
Fill up at the well of creativity.⠀
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The problem is not that you go blank⠀
The problem is you forgot that you are an artist.