You have a creative spirit inside of you. It wants to shine, express itself, and make your life an amazing experience. Can you feel it wanting to get out? Creative energy adds spark to your life, along with purpose, and new direction. You feel “alive” when you look inside and discover new ways of breaking out of old habits. Creative energy is how your passion comes out, along with your true love of life. Indeed, inviting more of your creative spirit into your life is a powerful act of self-love.
Your creative spirit is your infinite capacity to search for – and find – imaginative solutions for your challenges and your life. Instead of going about things in the same old tried and true ways, creativity gets you into considering fresh approaches and new ways of doing things. Tapping into your creative intelligence, you feel renewed passion for living returning as you explore creative potentials for manifesting desired outcomes.
Even if you have not been accustomed to listening to your creative spirit, or acting in creative ways, you already have this amazing ability within you! Here’s why creativity matters – and how to bring more of it back into your everyday world.
1. Pay Attention
Creative insight is your higher perspective and guidance. Since it is your higher self, the god within you, creativity holds your best interests for generating a fulfilling and meaningful life. To get your inspiration flowing, first make a decision to allow your creative spirit to get involved in your life. Then pay attention to the many different ways your creative mind communicates with you. You may hear actual words, see a clear image, or have a deep inner knowingness. Your creative spirit may communicate with you in the form of hunches, insights, Aha! moments, a feeling, a sixth sense, or various types of body sensations. You may also experience creative insight by noticing synchronicities. Begin paying attention and your creativity will rise exponentially!
2. Embrace Quietness
Creative inspiration is initially often a quiet, gentle nudge. It generally does not shout loud enough to be heard over your stress, upset, frustration, anger, or judgment. Spending some quiet contemplative time each day is good way to strengthen your creative ability. Simply sit in a quiet place every day for about 1 to 20 minutes. There are no hard and fast rules about how to sit, how long to sit, or what specific steps to take. Simply take a deep breath, and ask, “What is it I need to know about this situation?” or, “What will move me one step closer to a more fulfilling and meaningful life.” Then be willing to trust that yourself and open to receiving the quiet guidance of your own creative spirit.
3. Open to New Possibilities
Try this experiment. When something is troubling you, just sit with it. Don’t do anything to logically fix or solve the problem. Instead, just sit, place your intention on allowing the best possible outcome, and breathe. See if you can step away from the negative thoughts circling with frenzy within your head. Allow your creative self to offer new insights and potential solutions to your situation. Your job is to stop fretting and stressing with the problem, and instead place your focus on being open to amazing new possibilities.
4. Ask Positive Outcome Questions
“What can I do to move forward into my desired outcome?” “What is the best step for the level of energy I have right now?” “What action will allow me to feel full, satisfied, and more confident?” One of the best ways to get your creative juices flowing is by asking these types of forward moving, outcome focused, searching questions. Ask questions that lead you forward into positive solutions. Ask clearly formed questions that allow clear answers. For example, instead of asking, “Why me? What have I done wrong to deserve this?” you might ask, “What is the next step I could take that would bring a positive outcome to this situation?”
5. Be Open to New Ideas
Creativity is by its very definition inventive and full of new possibilities. It can bring you down paths you hadn’t considered before. This means that you won’t know ahead of time if a creative solution will work. Be aware that your logical self won’t want to experiment with new ideas because logic desires safety and assurance of success. Your creative spirit is different because it is willing to risk failure to gain knowledge and wisdom through direct experience.
6. Trust Your Creative Insights
Once you get a creative idea, write it down, make a note of it, and decide to take action. Most creative inspirations do not involve any immediate drastic life changing actions. Instead, creative insights are typically one small, comfortable step in the direction of your desired outcome. They allow you to open up to feeling more joy, more confident, more fulfilled, on a day-to-day basis. Decide to allow your creative self to play a bigger role in your life. If you have a sense to take a left turn instead of a right turn, follow through and go left. If you are grocery shopping and the broccoli somehow calls to you instead of the carrots you had intended to purchase, buy the broccoli. You don’t need to logically question “why” you turned left or bought broccoli. Your goal is to create a bond of trust between your logical self and your creative self.
7. Strengthen Your Creative Spirit
All of us have had the experience of failing to listen to, or follow through, with our creative spirit. We know when that happens we often feel heavy, disappointed, and realize we “should” have listened. It’s easy to get mad and be critical of ourselves for not paying better attention.
However, if you truly want to increase the amount of creative guidance in your life, then a failed opportunity is the perfect time to strengthen your overall desire. For instance, if you “heard” your creative intuition, but failed to follow your creative ideas, hunches and gut feelings, talk to your creative side. Tell it that it did a fine job of providing useful information. Let it know that yes, it would have been wise to follow through with the creative suggestions or actions, but this time you choose not to. However, let your creative self know that you’re in a process of developing trust, and that this experience showed you something important. Let your creativity know that you appreciate the input even though you might not always listen.
Creativity is your urge to play with life, to see what is possible, to create your most fulfilling and meaningful life, and enjoy all that is good and beautiful. Utilize these seven suggestions to awaken and sharpen your creative spirit and you will be surprised at how often it will give you a short cut to the life and outcomes you want.
Create a beautiful day!
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Play with life and view distractions for what they really are….distractions! A lot of people believe that the more money they acquire, the happier they will be. I view money as a means to pay bills…..a necessity. However, it is not the means to a happier life.
Credit card fever is on the rise, which is sad. I know people who use their credit card to buy groceries……thre is something wrong with our society when this happens. Further more, to use one card to make a payment on another should be a red flag!
This is not logical, so get creative, people. Wake up and smell the roses!
Kathleen
Hi Kathleen,
You have fiery passion when it comes to credit cards! Your heart is well intentioned as you notice the larger perspective of money, debt, and joy. Perhaps you and I can combine our efforts to breathe greater balance into our own lives – balance with mind, body, and spirit – which correlates to balance with joy, purpose and fulfillment, and abundance. As we allow ourselves to create what we most want to see in the world, we bring into this world a new potential of divine balance and joy.
Love,
Annette
Most often than not, people find it hard to venture into new things and adventures most probably because of fear of trying and delving into what is new. Most people are scared of doing what is not conventional due to fear of failure. This is contrary to the possibility of achieving greatness in mustering confidence and bravery in doing new ideas and making them real. This is creativity. A thing that can root from simple to complex imagination and making it real.
Thank you so much for this great article! I’ve been teaching myself to stop and breathe more often – and it’s helping me get in touch with my creative side. Your ideas ideas remind me to relax and unwind when I’m stressed out, and emphasize the importance of getting in touch with my imagnination to seek new creative solutions.