Creativity and Spirituality: the Enduring Path

The other day, I suggested you list three ways to nurture your happiness. Have you done that?

This morning, my husband and I talked about that very idea by exploring what had made us happy yesterday. This is not something we usually do and it was fascinating. The conversation that made us both more conscious of the happiness we had experienced that we hadn't taken note of and appreciated.

Talk About Happiness, You Might Be Surprised by What You Say...

Artwork by The Soul Connection Network.

How do you explore the mystery of you?
What does intuition have to do with creativity?
How can you give birth to the true Self whose visions of possibility and becoming are beyond the mind's horizons?

INNER VISION IS THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN THE WORLDS...

Creativity is a force that gathers its energy in the mysterious inner worlds and gradually moves toward definition and completion in the outer world. The problem, especially in Western culture, is that we are educated to focus on the outer world, which demands us to get it right, get it done and be successful!

When the mind-rage takes over
The other day I was in a meeting with my husband and son about a business we have been developing for a very long time. I was interested, listening, participating, and all of a sudden my mind took me to "fear." It shouted, "This is the same old, same old!" "This business will never open!"  "This so-called business is going to put us in the poor house."

Listening to my mind-raging fear scenario, I felt my anger rising at an exponential rate.. It was all I could do not to say something to my husband and son, something which would have been bitter and destructive. I didn't want to do that. And then I remembered "happiness."

Happiness is __________
I will find happiness when __________
I will never find true happiness because ________
To be happy I need __________

In emptiness my heart is still,
waiting on the precipice of desire.
For what?
To fill?
To love?
To feel life trembling into tenderness
waiting on the edge of desire.

Over the past thirty years, I have coached hundreds of women and men on a creative journey that led them to viscerally experience the creative process as a template for a living a more fulfilling, aware and meaningful life. This became the wellspring of my work as a Life Coach for creative women and men. Here I with people who sense the call of creativity and the spiritual journey. When relating to creativity, most people fall into three categories:

Right brain dominant people who actively express their creativity
Right brain dominant people who are not expressing their creativity. 
Left brain dominant people who yearn to express their creativity

Creativity is a path from which the journey of life is explored and its fullness embraced.
In all aspects of Creative Soul Works, whether it be through private coaching, workshops, teleSeminars or retreats, the template of the creative process becomes a unique structure for this journey. The fire of your creativity is its source.

"Working with Emily opened places inside of me I had not realized were still closed. Parts long hidden are now accessible and have an active role in my creative life. Emily's heart warming life affirming style comes through clearly though we are many hundreds of miles apart."
~ Patresa Rollinger

Explore Emily's Life Coaching Program. Call her at 014.962.4432
 

Although at its core, creativity is a mystery, the creative process is knowable, and we can use it as a template for living a more fulfilling, aware, meaningful life. If allowed, the cycles of creativity become the enduring flow of our lives, bringing with them the freedom to live life sourced from your passions instead of your fears – from your life’s true purpose rather than from your ego’s vision of security and prosperity.

The initial spark of inspiration is creativity’s calling card. It can be an idea for a poem, sculpture, dance or concerto, a new garden, business or invention, a Halloween costume, a party or a gift; it can be a vision of you in a new relationship to others and to Self. Inspiration is non-verbal; it is the life-enhancing “Wow!” moment when the vision of what can be –of who you can be – carries you into thr unchartered territory and the land of possibility.

I was in the garden, taking in its early August glory as I went about aimlessly pinching off the dead daylilies. Although I love all flowers, daylilies hold my heart. I have perhaps thirty different colors, sizes and shapes. I wait for their blooming each year and wander most mornings to see which beauty is offering herself to me this day. Sometimes I gasp in joy at the subtleness of colors as tender petals open and curl backwards, showing me their hearts. I talk to them.

“Oh, you are so beautiful,” I tell them. “And you and you! You are all amazingly gorgeous.” As I admire their profuse abandon, I try not to think that tomorrow morning each of today’s perfect flowers will have folded in on itself and begun to shrivel. Tomorrow I will be pinching off the very ones that bring me such joy today. I don’t, however, linger on the thought. The daylily has no patience for such morbidity. She blooms with all her heart, perfect for a day.

As I walk, the rosebushes suddenly claim my attention. They are blooming again and, as I near, I see that in between the shimmering red clusters are heretofore unnoticed brittle, brown dead flowers. How had I missed them?