How To Overcome Creative Blocks With This Powerful Ritual

Sílvia Bastos
10 min readJan 18, 2018

What is the difference between your most successful pieces of work, and the ones that no one even bothers to read until the end?

When I feel inspired, the content I produce is genuine and unique: I can feel every word as I write it, as if I was living that story right there and then. I laugh and cry and nothing can distract me from sharing those thoughts that come straight from my heart. My most successful articles — such as this one — are a perfect example of that state of inspiration.

However, there are times when this doesn’t happen. Very often I feel that I have to force each sentence out of my keyboard, and after hours of intense work I end up with some empty article that seems to have been written by an unconscious robot.

Luckily, I have recently discovered a solution that has has transformed my arbitrary bursts of creativity into a reliable source of precious insight.

The Part of Your Mind You Have Been Neglecting

Surrealist artist Salvador Dali used to purposely fall asleep with a heavy and loud object in his hand.

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