“Rejection lurks around every corner in the arts world. In fact, for you, the creative or the performer, knowing how to tolerate, be with, and work with rejection is almost a career requirement!
As an artist, you need to access your emotions to make your art, perform, or accomplish your goals. Emotions are your creative power. Sometimes, your past emotional experiences can hijack your feelings in the present; thus, interfering with your creativity or performance.” – Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz
Our complex lives seem to demand multitasking to keep up. But can we be trying to balance too many plates in the air, doing too much at once to really express our creative talents, or to effectively achieve?
Actor Lily Collins notes in her book that “Different shouldn’t be considered confusing, negative, or something that divides us. It should be a quality we applaud and admire within ourselves and others.” Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz notes “In the ‘comparison trap’ you find yourself in a spiral of challenging emotions and thoughts."
"When you find your voice, doubts, insecurities don't interfere with that voice. No waiting for the right moment. You don’t need anyone’s permission." Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz
But many actors and other artists find themselves disconnected from their authentic creative voice at times, feeling insecure and self-critical.
"What would be truly surprising would be to find that sound could not suggest colour, that colours could not evoke the idea of a melody, and that sound and colour were unsuitable for the translation of ideas.” Charles Baudelaire
"The vastness of the unconscious capacity to process, associate and make meaning of ideas and experience is the life force of the creative process." Cheryl Arutt, Psy.D.
“You go to work, and sometimes what is demanded of you is that you break your heart.” Jurnee Smollett
“Then all the terrible things I’ve had to go through surfaced after we’d finished shooting.” Maggie Gyllenhaal
After one particularly violent scene, Summer Bishil remembers going back to her dressing room and “having a little emotional tantrum and crying. And being very sad…really tired too.”
“Lady Gaga also described the feeling of being out of touch with herself, feeling as if she was still on the set while taking a walk in the city.” Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz
Melora Hardin has wide-ranging passions as an artist, including acting, directing, dancing, writing and singing.She says of her multiple talents: “I’m always very very keen to keep my eyes and heart and ears open to opportunities to be creative.“That’s really my reason for being on this Earth
Topics in our interview relate to the creative mind and developing creativity, including the seven brain activation patterns she discusses in her book.
“Rejection lurks around every corner in the arts world. In fact, for you, the creative or the performer, knowing how to tolerate, be with, and work with rejection is almost a career requirement!
“So for me I think it’s not a question of sitting around wondering what I’m going to write; it’s a question of sitting around wondering which of the far-fetched and absurd ideas I’m actually going to try to tackle.” - Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale.
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