How to Get Unstuck: Move
Remember, your body is real
When we live inside our heads, fretting about this or that, focusing on one project or the other, it’s rather easy to forget that nature gave us a bunch of other parts besides our worried brains. In fact, those parts — when taken as a whole — make up an entire body. Did you forget? It’s cool — we all do, until something hurts. But today, our creative task is to remember our bodies before they yell at us.
Look, I’ve got exercise tools that I ignore much of the time, just like you do. I love my Peloton when I use it — and I’m paying off that 0% APR loan until the death of the sun, probably — but I don’t use it very often. I’m embarrassed by how little I use it, considering what I’m paying for it and how great a piece of equipment it is and how cool Ally Love is, and…okay, I’m feeling motivated again.
I’ve got a couple of hand weights that are very nice pieces of decor, and a yoga mat that comes out once in awhile for its intended purpose — which, as it turns out, is not just “being occasionally chewed by my cat.”
But I do actually move my body for reasons other than attempts to meet my basic needs or to perform simple tasks. And I’ve found that conscious movement absolutely helps me get unstuck when I’m troubled by a creative task — or, quite frankly, an emotional conundrum.
