Beta stay focused
One of the things that I find difficult is working creatively with others. I am ashamed to say that, so I am being brave! When you work with others, you are forced to rationalise your artistic decisions :
If I am working creatively on stage with another actor, I can sustain my creative autonomy while at the same time drawing on the energetic directions of that collaborator. If I work on a creative object on my own, I can work intuitively, so I am happy. BUT, if I am constructing an art object with another (or others), it forces me to articulate cognitively that which I just know – tacitly (or instinctively or intuitively or unconsciously – AND each of these adjectives, commonly interchanged as synonyms, actually mean something slightly different.)
A more neuroscientific way of explaining this phenomenon might be to say that I am ripped out of my blissful alpha-theta brainwave state, and launched back into the beta of everyday bother.
This link (below) says that staring at a TV (or computer) screen lowers the brainwaves and that one can become addicted to this induced state of creative calm. I have lived for long periods without a TV, and never missed it. I have never found cannabis useful or impressive. Hmm. Maybe I am no good at technology because I have enough down-in alpha/theta time naturally and consequently do not “need” the states of bliss induced by screen-based technology?
And maybe I selfishly covert my own creative space so that I do not need to surface too often into Beta? So maybe if I just watched TV and smoked marijuana I would be able to work more creatively with others? I’ll daydream on that for a bit…
