Monday, December 03, 2012

Some time ago...resulting in my personal Reader's Block


The whole impetus behind my inspiration and intent for bibliotherapy is that creativity heals, is a healing process. But in reading Reader's Block with all the notes of creatives who have committed suicide or have been locked up in looney bins, I am reassessing and thinking it is not so simple.

Feeling deeply is dangerous even when those feelings are transmuted through an artistic medium. So therapeutically accessing feelings requires filters, thus art's structural confines and the importance of taking the time to develop skill sets related to the chosen medium.

Reading what someone else has written is a filtering by the author, i.e., the work has been done for the reader. It is only by fleshing out the work in relation to personal references that there is access and process occurring in any meaningful way for the reader. The most meaningful being to, in turn, become an author and make yet more meaning

Until my pain or pleasure or peace is looking back at me, I am not fully conscious of its worth or able to integrate the feeling in a healthy way, whether re-experiencing it or learning to move on.