How much of our ego creates resistance to our art?

Yes, there is the “I can’t make enough money at my art to show the world that I am a success” because so many of us hinge our self worth on our possessions and standard of living. Many people are more willing to work a profession they don’t like to have all of these things, than to work at something they love where they have a different quality of life while still having the possibility of making good money.

But I’m also talking about how ego can cut off the flow of inspiration to us. There is a saying that EGO “Edges God Out”. I think God is an overused word with many interpretations, but for me it means that energy flow that comes from “who knows where’ that creates the inspired art. The essence. Worrying that your stuff isn’t good enough, as good as the next persons or good enough to make money will cut off the flow. That’s resistance.  But also, if you are successful, ( because you are working out of the flow) the ego can step in and start taking credit for it and “pop”, the inspired flow gets shut down. You can no longer service the work with a swelled head full of ego.

How do we get rid of it? Feel that you are at the service of something else. When we were doing Rocko, we felt that we were helping ( as other shows were as well) to pull TV animation out of the uninspired dark ages. We were on a mission. But ego did start creeping in to our work, and that’s one of the reasons I shut it down.

I can look back at the work I felt was done in an state of flow, and others that were produced from ego. There is a connection that more people make to something that comes from that tether to inspiration.

We all need to reconnect. In many areas of our lives. It’s available for the asking, and costs less than a big screen TV.