Sylvia Plath’s Creative Flow Pattern

* Sylvia Plath teaches a valuable lesson on Even Flow: open the channels for creativity, regardless of whether it is for poetry or not.

Sylvia Plath was a poet and that was her job and her life.

Every day, no matter what, as soon as he finished breakfast and no matter where in the world he was, he would sit down with his notebook and start writing, about absolutely anything.

As she explains, this was NOT to create a wonderful new poem, but JUST to keep the channels open, to keep the flow.

It wasn’t about practicing either, it was just a FLOW exercise, and she was very adamant about doing this, putting it before many, if not all, other things because she considered it so important.

Because if a good idea or an idea were to come along at any time of the day that would follow, the channels would be open and a super poem would just slide in and become, right there and then.

So he would write about anything, without restrictions: a shadow on the windowsill, a bit of lettuce, an old mushroom he had found on a walk and brought to his room. On the tablecloth, on your hands, on a small pool of light on the carpet, or on your feelings of not having anything new to say, and just letting it go from there for your “morning exercise”, there is no expectation other than knowing the ACT. doing so did the trick.

I read his biography and this really stuck with me. I got it right away and implemented it right away too. Turn on your computer, open a blank Word document, and just start typing.

Often, it began with the words “What will I write about today?” and sometimes she would go on like this, “I really don’t know, it all seems a bit far and hazy, jeez I wish I was somewhere else, somewhere cool and windy, with a wide blue sky…”

As you can imagine, from there it can and more importantly it automatically goes into all kinds of places, in all kinds of states and the flow really comes through, it just happens and Ms. Plath was absolutely right, it really opens up the channels. .

Now as to the application of this.

They are really endless.

Which channels are the most important to you, bring you the most rewards, carry the most important things like poetry was for Sylvia Plath and storytelling was for Silvia Hartmann in their respective times?

Creative music? Chart?

Love maybe?

Now that’s an interesting idea, isn’t it?

You could have breakfast and immediately after and as part of a routine like brushing your teeth, find something you like in your environment: a toy or a nic-nac, a shadow, a curtain, an indoor plant, a table, like in the original use of the pattern, it is NOT about the object or the result, but simply about opening the channels for FLOW.

It may be more urgent for you to *be loved MORE* and you may want to practice receiving with brushing your teeth instead: receiving energy from the same toy or nic-nac, from a shade, curtain or houseplant, anything in between. your environment and let it into your heart.

And since Sylvia Plath’s exercise was NOT about making a poem to sell later, it’s not about healing yourself, it’s just about opening the channels and practicing FLOW, because when it flows, it flows and you get all these other benefits. naturally and as a side effect of course.

This is a truly superb pattern to apply to anything that might be important to you at any particular moment; what makes it so great is the insistence on FLOW as opposed to PRODUCT.

Bringing the PRODUCT disturbs the flow, of course! – and that’s a fantastic reminder that there are certain things which, if done for their own purpose and goal, are the true building blocks and prerequisites for the products that can follow, whether it be paintings, stories, poems or our abilities to give and take this and that.

These products are the result of a well-established Even Flow and that’s something people tend to forget in their rush to focus on the “bottom line” – when the products are really nothing more than the wake of a ship. which in fact, contains all valuables.