Have you ever tried practicing silence? Total silence as in not uttering a peep, completely ignoring the neighbor's yappy dog and disconnecting from the siren song of your endless mind chatter? Is there a part of you that loves the idea in theory, but find it hard to practice in every day life? Well, welcome to the club! We are all trying to find our own path to quality quiet time in the digital age. While practicing silence through a meditation … [Read more...]
Why Practicing Silence is a Super Ninja BFF for Creativity and Intuition
May 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Inspirational Power of Smell: Part 2 of Ways to Tap into Intuition and Spark Creativity
April 25, 2016 By Leave a Comment
The power smell has over us, our intuition and creativity is quite remarkable. It can evoke good and bad memories, feelings of fear or comfort, spark initial gut insights about someone or transport us to another time and place. What we “smell” can also lead us towards something or away from it, and draw our attention down a new and interesting path of creative exploration. While we often experience smells, we don’t always stop and think about all of the ways … [Read more...]
Simple Ways to Tap into Intuition and Spark Creativity Blog Series: Part 1
April 18, 2016 By 1 Comment
I believe creativity and intuition are different aspects of the same energy. They feed each other like an infinite loop, each sparking or calming one another as they play together. When creativity is low, our connection to intuition can be closed off. When our intuition feels strange or ungrounded, we get judgy about what we are creating, or have expectations about what it needs be. Of course there are many influences that tamper with our creativity or … [Read more...]
Learn to Spot Your Distraction Tactics and Transform them into Creative Gifts
April 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Every single one of us has personal distraction tactics; the little things we do intentionally take our attention away from the task or issue at hand. Harmless in intention, our go-to distraction tactics are just like personality traits - unique to every person. They also tell us more about ourselves than we think. In life there’s a time to focus on work and a time to relax, take in our surroundings, review what comes next and how to approach it. The more we focus, or beat … [Read more...]
Exercise and Expand the Senses to Fire Up Inspiration
April 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment
It's easy to get caught up in the space between over stimulation and routine, a weird middle ground found in daily life that does nothing to expand the senses. As we stretch ourselves to meet obligations, deadlines, and take care of personal needs, there’s little room left to focus on supporting our most human (and basic) creative tools we're given at birth. In a way, we can forget how to call on our basic senses to solve problems, fire up inspiration or create a new way … [Read more...]
Redirecting the Mind’s Relentless Review of What We Create
March 28, 2016 By 1 Comment
The mind is only one aspect of who we are, but it tends to run the show a lot of the time. Take the power of the mind and combine it with our “inner software” - fears, challenges, old patterns and varying levels of confidence and it runs off, rethinking, reworking and trapping us in a relentless review of what we create. Sometimes it can seem like the mind just loves to dig back into spots we thought were a clean slate, dragging us into a previous version of ourselves or … [Read more...]
Trust the Inner Muse to Lead the Way
March 21, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever taken the time to meet your inner muse? How does it speak to you? In zaps of energy, flashes of insight or through a craving you can’t explain? None or all of the above? The inner muse can be a slow, soft nudge or a bright beacon of instant clarity - it’s range is as diverse as the number of people on earth. The essence of what it wants to share goes beyond specifics, reaching into the deeper realms of the creative void we cannot yet see but feel called to explore. Rumblings of … [Read more...]
Creative Cycles are a Window to the True You
March 14, 2016 By 2 Comments
The waxing and waning of our creative cycles is a very powerful personal transformation tool that offers a window into the true self. Our inner creative force is tuned into what’s needed and what’s not being nourished. It illustrates what we are drawn to create, build or recharge within our own heart to feel whole and happy. This same creative energy flow is also tied to the cosmos, and guides us to express ourselves as an extension of the divine in countless ways. The … [Read more...]
Discovering the Core Needs of Your Creative Soul
March 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Creativity is the act of envisioning something new, taking tactical steps to build the vision you see, and listening to the intuitive guidance of your creative soul - all as one combined effort. The action aspect of creativity is often where people focus because it’s more results-oriented and tangible. We can see the fruits of our labor and receive feedback from the external world to validate or influence how we see our own creations and in some ways, measure our … [Read more...]
Release, Surrender and Opening Up to Creative Renewal
February 29, 2016 By 1 Comment
As we cycle through the seasons, a natural rhythm evolves in the external world related to the earth, as well as in our inner world through creative renewal. In spring it’s about planting seeds and taking care of them. When summer rolls around, we are surrounded by what’s grown ripe. In fall, harvest is in full swing, as we collect the bounty of what we’ve planted. In winter, the dormant earth reminds us to turn inward in order to release what’s not growing to begin again, guided by … [Read more...]