When you have a big dream it’s not always easy to buckle down and focus on a single aspect of it, one creative step at a time. The rush of emotions and excitement you feel when connecting with your vision can feel intoxicating and delicious, like it alone can feed you for months to come. The haze of excitement is a great kick-off fuel that motivates you to go all in, but what about the little actions that make a creative project a reality? What about the grounding steps … [Read more...]
Ditch Energetic Scatter and Root Down with One Creative Step Forward
October 19, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Creative Zen: Releasing Attachment to How your Creativity Pays Off
October 12, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Creative zen can encompass many things. A sense of peace and calm as you create from the heart. Blending the powers of body and mind in the present moment to create with your whole sense of self. Tuning in and staying aware of your own thoughts to really “be” in the flow. All of these things (and so many more) enable you to tap into the essence of what you feel drawn to create and the ways you want to express yourself. Yet, this maybe a bit trickier to manage when making a … [Read more...]
Boost your Creative Process by Embracing the “Cracks”
October 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment
At it’s core, the creative process is the ability to take ideas or concepts you are drawn to and combine them into a way to do anything. You can inspire, teach, heal, grow, play, connect with your purpose - the list is as long as the possibilities. The creative process is also the ability to take disconnected ideas, frustrating situations and challenging relationships and turn them into something that does the exact - same - things. How you use your gifts … [Read more...]
Feeling Empowered and Cultivating your Creative Sense-of-Self
September 28, 2015 By 3 Comments
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...]