Why human creativity matters now more than ever before
Why human creativity matters now more than ever before
Your spirit cannot be bought and sold, not for any price.
Nothing outside of you can replace your unique and creative human spirit.
Especially when you care for it, feed it, and give it room to play, your creative spirit will reward you time and time again with a deepening knowing, trust, and certainty. One of the things I’ve learned from being an artist is that I can trust that I’ll find my way to the next steps or an answer in my creative process, because even in the darkest of times I’ve done so before. I know that if I show up, I’ll get there eventually.
Trusting this process is the key. Sometimes I have to show up a lot, trusting that it will come despite all evidence to the contrary. I have to ignore those nasty little fears that tell me I’ve lost my way.
Simply allowing myself to create without being ruled by the demand to ‘produce something of value’, helps me find my way out of what feels like a dead end creatively.
I’ve learned that all of this is part of the process of creating, and going beyond what I’ve done before.
New paths sometimes look a bit bleak or dark before one steps onto them. An important part of creating is destroying, it’s essential to create space for the new.
As an artist and creative who’s made money for many years selling my original work, I’ve found I’ve had to deprogram out the notion that every time I show up to make art I have to spend my time wisely and produce something good. Time is money, blah blah. Except.
We need time, as creatives, to experiment, play, and invent.
We need to give ourselves permission to not make sense, to make ugly art and mistakes and a huge mess. To ‘waste’ expensive art supplies, and feel invalidated in the midst of it all, can sometimes be part of the next creative breakthrough.
The best way to shut it all down is to judge the mess that it takes to get there. This is an important part of the process, and none of it is a waste. If I show up, that is success.
I don’t know any artists of any kind who simply show up daily and everything is perfect. Our deepest selves are being called on in our creations - we are not machines producing one perfect work after another. Some art works take years to show up, others suddenly appear out of the blue, nearly complete.
The trick is to be present enough, to have been playing and feeding one’s creativity and caring for all of it, to allow the space needed for that new creation to appear.
It’s messy, but that’s what it is, sometimes emotionally messy, sometimes in other ways.
Messy is not wrong, it’s the healing here. Being human is not a perfectly neat experience, and we do ourselves a disservice when we expect our creativity to be perfect in some way.
Creativity comes with the spirit - you were creative enough to figure out a way to get here, after all. Having my creativity is one of the top reasons why I wanted to be here in this lifetime. In the 21st century, the opportunities to create and grow are greater than ever, even in this time of brutal capitalism with all of its demands to put a price tag on everything. Meanwhile, the contribution of human beings is being devalued by some.
But there is nothing that can replace the human spirit, nothing as powerful. Your spirit cannot be bought and sold, not for any price.
Being psychic is one of my favorite arts to practice.
One of many reasons to become a conscious healer and psychic is that it’s every bit as creative as being an artist of any other medium. Like every other art form I’ve studied and practiced, it takes good instruction, and lots of practice, experimentation, trial and error, to learn a new form.
In any art form, you must have the space and time to play, to experiment, in order to grow. It’s important to feel safe enough to fail, and then try again. This is absolutely true when studying the art of being psychic.
One reason why so many people shut down or don’t work with their own abilities is that it doesn’t feel safe to do so. Maybe they’ve had a bad experience along the way, and don’t want to go there again.
Also, if you are very sensitive to energy and tend to pick up a lot from others, you already know it’s not fun or comfortable in the least. Having control over your abilities is the gift to give yourself. Take a class that will show you how to make it more enjoyable to have your sensitivities for yourself. So rather than being a problem to solve, they become a strength to enjoy, an art to practice and create yourself with.
Becoming a conscious psychic and healer has helped me have more of my artistry in every other aspect of my life.
As I learned how to have more of my space, I found the energy to start letting go of the need to control everything. I started to experience a freedom I haven’t had my entire adult life. Being safe enough to release control is a very handy skill to develop in this time of constant change and challenging energies, all of which are out of our control. But just because the outside world feels out of control so often, doesn’t mean I have to also feel that way.
An added advantage to knowing how to set your own energy, and being able to move out the energies you don’t want to carry, is that you can choose your own vibration. This makes it a lot easier to be the artist of your own life, rather than have other outside energies decide for you what you are.
As a painter, I choose which colors to put on my palette for any given work, and as a conscious psychic, I choose the tone I want to have running through my space, and me. The more I work at my painting, the more skilled I become at choosing and mixing color. The more I practice my energy tools, the easier it is to discern which energies work for me, and which don’t, plus I have the tools to release the ones that don’t.
I’m choosing to create the art that is myself, and that is helping me to have more of the art I practice in my life. There is no finish line, no end goal here - it’s about growth, and becoming myself as I see me.
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna
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More than ever, we need to have each other’s backs around the value of our creativity. In a world fueled by capitalist games, even one person’s creativity and gifts being devalued affects us all.
We have seen this with education and teachers, devalued jobs and salaries, with the value of art in our society, and now with the Writer’s Guild of America being joined by the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in their strike for a fair contract.
Many friends and family members are either in these guilds, or will be affected and out of work during this strike. Many many more I don’t know at all will also be affected by this. The ramifications of a long term strike on many industries and workers is huge.
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