The inner critic can block creativity (by Shakti Gawain)

There are several daily affirmations on creativity.  This one is the first out of five that I chose to post.  Dated for August 7th, she writes.

The inner critic can block creativity.

As adults, the major block to our creativity is our inner critic, that part of us that internally criticizes what we do.  Our inner critic has standards of perfection incorporated from the world around us, ways that it thinks things should be done.  The critic’s job is to criticize us when we are not doing things the way it feels they should be done.  For most of us, this inner critic is what stops us from taking the kinds of risks that need to be taken to be creative.  Those of us who have allowed our creativity to flow in our lives have managed in one way or another to set our critic aside long enough to let the energy come through spontaneously.

I let my creative energy flow in my life.