No one is inherently bland. No one is without sparkle, color, brightness, and a certain shine that makes them different from anyone else out there banging their drum.
Which makes it all the harder when you wake up one day and realize that you’ve been bit by the blandness bug and have fallen into an instant-pudding sameness of personal expression.
There’s nothing wrong with this. It’s a choice.
But it’s a choice that causes our Inner Critics to hurl around confetti and streamers, honking on their kazoos.
(Are Inner Critics even allowed to have kazoos?)
The point is, it’s a choice pleases the parts of ourselves that want us to hold back.
Isn’t that interesting?
When you’re starting to take a few risks now and then, and I would venture to say that developing your intuition can feel like risky business, you need forms of expression that are broad and deep enough to allow you to communicate the amazing things you experience in your inner realm.
In intuitive reception, you may experience some wacky input that requires new vocabulary in order to describe it well.
You know, strange pictures that come to mind when you’re entering your intuitive connection.
Or smells that aren’t smells but are more like colors…
“No that’s not it… they’re more like textures, really. Okay, now I’m getting shapes, um…”
How in the world do you describe all this when your thermostat is set to “bland”?
And how do you dislodge the blandness bug from it’s death grip on your hiney long enough to do so?
First, recognize its purpose.
Blandness can keep you safe. We all like safe. Safety is a primary driving force in my life. (And in many other people’s lives as well.)
Second, consciously create an environment that honors the need for safety.
When practicing intuition, choose to work with partners who can hold the space of judgment-free curiosity and awareness for you.
If you’ve been playing intuition practice with someone who doesn’t feel safe, consider pressing pause on that experience. Connect with a person who is just right for you, right where you are.
Third, loosen up and laugh.
When you’re playing intuition games with a partner who feels great to you, let yourself loosen up and relax. Laugh a little.
Okay, laugh a lot.
It’ll help.
Your shoulders will come down from your ears. Your jaw will awaken from its little tension nap.
If your throat suddenly feels funny or blocked, just stay with it. That feeling might melt away as you continue to greet it with kindness.
Once you’ve loosened up and laughed, your own forms of original expression will come.
Whether you express your intuitive findings by using literal description…
Or metaphor…
Or color…
Or shape…
Or physical movement…
Or kazoo fugues…
Let it come.
The blandness bug only bites when we don’t honor its true desire.
To protect you, beloved and skilled and wildly original being that you are.
So honor it. Create safety. And let yourself play.