Creative Block and the Ego’s Death

Have you ever noticed that creativity may not come naturally --- or as a friend of mine says, “through the front door”?  For example, why is it when I have an open hour or two (or occasionally, longer) to compose new music (a lifelong hobby) that I oftentimes will find myself resorting to mundane or repetitive tasks instead; which cut into my available time for creative projects?  I’ve even mentioned to friends, with befuddlement: “It’s amazing how interesting vacuuming all the floors can be when faced with wide-open time for creative purposes?”

Recovery from Addiction: Body, Mind, & Spirit

Recovery from Addiction: Body, Mind, & Spirit « Dr. Bob Weathers

Why Not Just Say No (Video Blog)

Dr. Robert Weathers challenging too-simple notions of addiction and willpower, by incorporating current evidence from neuroscience. Click below to watch Dr. Robert Weathers...

The Labels We Use (Video Blog)

Dr. Bob Weathers helping us to pay a bit closer attention to the labels we use to describe others and ourselves, particularly regarding the experience of "intoxication."

Tips for Transformative Learning (Video Blog)

Dr. Bob Weathers discussing some helpful tips for learning in a way that changes YOU, the active learner practicing "beginner's mind."

Just Say "Yes"

One rule of improvisational theater is to mentally say "Yes" to any creative impulse. This allows for stories to develop, for life to bloom. In relationships, similarly open-minded imagination allows for love to bloom. (The Center for Healthy Sex)

Creativity and "Unknowing" by Dr. Robert Weathers

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well. (Meister Eckhart)