You're listening to the savvy painter podcast episode number 276.

Hello savvy painters, how are you doing?

I am really well this week. I'm feeling so much better and I have my energy back so things are really, really good over here.

Today I wanted to share with you some thoughts about creating ease in the studio.

For those of you in the savvy painter community who join me for Mindset Mondays, we do that

every week, by the way, at at noon eastern you can join us by going to savvypainer.com and

clicking on the join the community tab and it also gets live stream to the savvy painter Facebook page and to the YouTube channel.

But anyway, if you were with me live this past Monday in this episode,

I am expanding on some of the thoughts that I shared with you live on Monday.

So many artists that I work with, my what-on-one clients and in Growth Studio, one of the topics that comes up really often is how to create a sense of ease in the studio.

And you might remember in an earlier episode of the podcast I talked about getting into the state of flow.

If you haven't heard the episode on flow, that was episode number 261.

I can link to it in the show notes so that you have it handy.

If you haven't heard it yet or if you want a refresher, it'll be there for you. But I think that this idea of wanting a sense of ease in the studio is parallel to getting into that flow state.

In my mind, they are very much related.

When we bring ease into the studio, to me that describes a level of comfort.

When I feel at ease, I am grounded and have a sense of certainty. I am confident, meaning I trust my capabilities. I may not have all of the answers. In fact, I know I don't, but I do know that I am able to figure it out somehow, or at least I know

where to look or know where to get help.

So when I have that sense of ease in the studio, I feel self-reliant, I know that I can trust myself to do my best, I have

created safety for myself, I feel secure, and I feel present in the moment, all of that allows me to bring this ease into the studio.

And what is equally important is what is absent.

This is sometimes hard to measure or notice. It's a little bit like that Sherlock Holmes story where the key of solving the mystery was that the dog did not bark.

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