The Rhythms of Life Can Help Your Creativity

Embrace the cycle of days, weeks, months, seasons and years to sort out your creative priorities and get stuff done.

Image is The Four Seasons: Summer by Pieter van der Heyden. In the public domain, courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art

There are rhythms to life, the best of which are provided by nature:

• The earth turns on its axis and that’s our day
• The moon orbits the earth and that’s our month
• The earth’s axis is at a slight angle, changing our orientation to the sun as it orbits, giving us our four seasons
• The earth orbits the sun, giving us our year

We have celebrated these natural, celestial events since the dawn of human understanding.

Our creativity — part of our nature — celebrates these rhythms and feeds off of them.

There are darker rhythms we follow, as well. Unnatural rhythms that bind us and control us, unless we find a way to deal with them and integrate the unnatural rhythms into our life.

The First Unnatural Rhythm

The first unnatural rhythm is the week. It was invented by humans and they pretended it was from God herself, who created heaven and earth, yada-yada, over the course of six “days,” and then rested on the seventh.