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...]
To Fulfill your True Purpose, Freely Share the Power of your Creative Light
August 17, 2015 By 1 Comment
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...]
Falling Down Can Be the Best Creative Learning
July 20, 2015 By Leave a Comment
The most potent creative learning comes through when you are challenged in unexpected ways. The times when what was easy becomes hard, more complicated or seems near impossible, it takes determination to see past the loss of what you’ve come to know; to embrace a way to do life differently and still feel creative. More importantly, it can be hard to feel like you deserve to still pursue your desires. Sudden shifts in life can also help you easily slide you into “maintenance mode”, as you take … [Read more...]
You’ve Set Personal Boundaries, but are you Enforcing Them?
July 16, 2015 By 2 Comments
The topic of mindfulness is becoming more mainstream as a growing number of people take control of their own well being. There’s also an expanding awareness of how important it is to disconnect from what doesn’t serve you and set personal boundaries to define what kind of experiences and energy you want in your life. According to Wikipedia, "Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify for themselves what are reasonable, safe and permissible … [Read more...]
Creativity Flows Once you Let Go of Perfect
July 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Your creativity is not a static experience. It flows according to your thoughts, desires, interests, expectations and passions as well as your frustrations and disappointments. When you are stuck on a particular thought (positive or negative) it sets the stage, and focus, on whatever keeps running through your mind and heart, limiting or expanding creativity. However, that doesn’t mean that you have to think positive thoughts at every waking moment (unless you want to). It does mean … [Read more...]
Creative Barriers and Self-Perception
July 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Your self-perception is the most powerful tool you have to work through creative barriers. What you think of yourself cracks open your heart or shrinks it - empowers you or defeats you before you even start your day. How you interpret your strengths, weaknesses, good deeds or failures also influence your ability to see clearly, hear the truth about yourself and act in alignment with your natural essence. When there’s a disconnect between what you … [Read more...]
Creative Illumination Sparks in the Heart First
July 6, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Time away from the computer always clears my perspective and hits a deep, inner reset button, allowing me to crack open new perspectives on creative illumination and settle into a new, refreshed pace. We all need time to be quiet, tune in and transition into something bigger than our own, well-traveled ways of thinking that can unintentionally trap us into a limiting routine. It’s also easy to turn a blind eye to the walls that slide up around how we justify our ability to … [Read more...]
Creative Inspiration is Sparked by your Attitude
June 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Creative inspiration, or lack there of, has everything to do with your attitude in the moment. When you remain open minded and keep reaching toward what aligns with your inner guidance, you create space to be surprised and heart-inspired. Any nuance can be the spark that gets you into a playful state of mind. The more you play, the more you notice a playful thread in everything around you and find cool ways to connect the dots into something tangible. If you … [Read more...]