It cannot be forced.


Some people call it the Universe and some their spirit guide, I often refer to it as, that still small voice within.

It is knowing that you know or maybe being in the zone, it is allowing the genius within to do the work.

It is that time when the hours fly by like minutes and you see that you have produced a wonderful piece of Art.

How often have you looked at your finished painting and wondered to yourself, did I do that?

It’s like looking at a painting for the first time and knowing that you did it, but you wonder how?

That is when you know the Muse has been at work, releasing the genius within you, your genius and it works with you and through you.

But in the hustle bustle of our lives this is not so easy and it will take practise and preparation to allow the Muse to flow through us.

It takes quiet, it takes calming down, it takes shutting out the world, it’s waiting for the butterfly to land on your hand, it takes patience and being calm and an attitude of humility and gratefulness to allow the Muse to speak and flow through us.

If you try and force the Muse, it will not come, the Muse is not to be commanded, it is to be enticed gently to speak to us, to inspire us in it’s own gentle way.

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