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Ushering Your Habits and Concepts into the Light
Completing the exercise that follows will be helpful in clueing you in to
some of the habits and concepts your gremlin may be using to confine you.
Simply relax, breathe, and enjoy yourself while you play within the context
of the following experiment. It is unnecessary to work at it or to strain.
YOUR EARLY DAZE
Allow yourself to remember for a moment a house in which you lived
between the ages 3 and 7. If you lived in more than one house during that
time, choose the one about which you have the warmest feeling. Create a
“houseplan”-style drawing of the dwelling (as if you were above it, looking
down). If phrases such as “I’m a terrible artist” or “I hate to draw” fly
through your head, notice them and then let them go. These are concepts
your gremlin is feeding you. He’s tricky. Simply relax and sketch your
house as you remember it. For goodness’ sake, don’t worry about precise
proportions or layout. Here as an example is a drawing of the house I grew
up in:
