When you feel empowered you see opportunity everywhere. Your creative sense of self is strong, confident and feels free to be curious, to follow the little flutters in your gut and trust your intuition. Life flows by and the bumps don’t matter; the heart truly understands these setbacks are temporary and you will make it through one way or another. However, at times when faith in yourself or path is shaken, and you feel anything but empowered, the quality of the … [Read more...]
Creative Confidence, Rejection and How they Inspire Each Other
September 21, 2015 By 1 Comment
At some point in your life, you’ve experienced the sting of rejection and the way it makes you question your path, focus, intentions or talents. The creative confidence you have in yourself can feel shaken and uprooted, like a tree upended in a fast-paced storm without a way to right itself again. The sense of equilibrium you had is no longer possible, and it’s not supposed to be. What’s waiting before you is the choice to be inspired or feel less than. When you … [Read more...]
The Power of Playing with your Seasonal Creative Muse
September 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment
I think the creative muse within each of us has two types of seasonal cycles. One falls in step with nature, bringing a new bundle of energy, sensations and weather conditions every three months. The other is more closely related to personal expansion and how your creativity and self expression change throughout your life. In a sense, you progress through “seasons” of challenge, growth, learning and embracing the “current you” while you allow the old one to fall … [Read more...]
Embracing the Sacred Act of Creative Integration
September 8, 2015 By 2 Comments
As a creative being you are always evolving towards a desire for creative integration, even if you aren’t fully aware of it. You build skills, likes and dislikes, creative desires, experiences (good and bad) and aspirations throughout your life, collecting them like actual objects in your mind and heart. Each separate feeling, experience, memory and skill is part of your personal development, and creates an “energetic hit” for you in some way. The sensation may be … [Read more...]
Nurturing the Creative Spirit in the Face of Criticism and Self-Judgment
August 31, 2015 By Leave a Comment
The essence of your creative spirit is eternal. It’s a natural flow that moves through you; an effortless presence that doesn’t require work...until you add in criticism and self-judgment. These emotional and/or mental blocks take away the power of the creative spirit and all it offers, leaving you with doubt and fear of what’s ahead and all the ways it may change you or your life. It starts as a seed that quickly spreads to your view of everything, leaving you feeling anxious or … [Read more...]
Tuning into the Energy of your Creative Path Each Day
August 24, 2015 By 2 Comments
The creative path is an alluring distraction, passion-igniter, personal development tool, friend and more, all wrapped into one. When you need a break from the pace of life your creative path is there, imagination sparked and ready. As a healthy distraction, it serves to replenish and balance your mind, body and spirit as you work hard and give to others. It also acts as an invitation to dream and embrace what’s possible by stepping away from what you’ve come to know as … [Read more...]
To Fulfill your True Purpose, Freely Share the Power of your Creative Light
August 17, 2015 By 1 Comment
The creative light within every person has a purpose. It’s a way to experience personal joy and fulfillment by fully expressing your unique traits in the world. The other essential aspect of your creative light is how it enables you to connect with others and share freely, so you may each directly experience gifts you don’t have personally. When you look at the big picture, often what divides us is what we think we do or do not have. Yet, if every single person had the … [Read more...]
The Active Balance of Striving for and Celebrating Creative Milestones
August 10, 2015 By Leave a Comment
How you set and work towards creative milestones can be an interesting little window into how you think and treat yourself. It’s also a way to get some insight on the cause of a recurring creative block in your life. Are you often making big grand plans that feel right, then focus on how fast they are (or aren’t) happening rather than the creative joy you are experiencing or the lessons you are learning? I’ve been there, done that. Is it hard for you to be … [Read more...]
Creative Simplicity Starts When you Break Free from the Known
August 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment
The idea of breaking free from the familiar can seem complicated and messy, but it’s how you move beyond the rules you create for yourself to connect with creative simplicity. Creative simplicity is a term I’ve come up with to describe what I strive for in my own life. It’s that sweet spot of being in the creative flow while freeing the mind, emotions and releasing judgments so I can be with what is. I see creative simplicity as practice not a goal, and it’s … [Read more...]
Savor the Moment to Enhance Creative Awareness
July 27, 2015 By 1 Comment
Creative awareness isn’t something you do as much as something you experience by being able to savor the moment you are in, right now. When you go about the day, your senses function on a basic level to help you survive, work, take care of family and fuel the body. If you also spend a lot of time at the computer or doing hands on work, only specific senses are required for focus and work tasks. In these situations, your realm of creative awareness is limited to survival, … [Read more...]