{"id":37274,"date":"2017-07-07T06:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37274"},"modified":"2017-07-08T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T14:31:22","slug":"creative-spark-15-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/creative-spark-15-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Spark #15: Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the Crazies in Spark #4<\/a>? I think Doubt is related, but the Crazies prevents us from doing things while Doubt makes **me** think I can’t do something and should just continue on as I am. Doubt prevents me from taking risks. Not knowing the outcome is scary.<\/p>\n

Bloomston says we have to trust the process. She says to “befriend your doubt…. Maybe even nicely ask your doubt to leave.” (pg.65). Hhmm. I have never tried this. She says that “When we are trying to get rid of something, we expend a lot of energy and we are unwittingly feeding it.” (pg.65). This is interesting and really makes me stop and think. If I have doubts, are they creating other doubts – inviting their friends to the party?<\/p>\n

Bloomston has four ways of removing doubt: Rituals, Music, Affirmations and Talismans. Rituals spoke to me most. We do not “…have enough rituals in our modern culture…” (pg.65). To each his own, but I feel this is true for myself. I have created some quiltmaking rituals:<\/p>\n