Creativity Requires Feeling

Creative inspiration is not the work of the intellect. It's something that moves through you when there is nothing to obstruct it. To truly be creative is the work of the heart. When we suppress our feelings, we also suppress our creativity.

Transcript

Your tendency to rely very heavily on your intellect is going to prevent you from revealing to yourself what your creative expression needs to be.

And it could be very,

Very valuable for you to actually become active in nothingness for a time.

Meditate,

Go on long walks,

Learn something,

Learn a new skill,

Do something that really forces you to be in your beginner's mindset,

A place where there's no expectation for you to have everything under control.

Because that has been put on you and also you have self-imposed that,

You've put it on yourself.

You need to take that off of the table in order for you to feel fulfilled in your profession.

You are not going to access your creative expression through your brain.

The only way is to get your brain out of the way and allow your creative expression to come up to the surface.

You have to strip away the layers and you have to start feeling.

You need to be in active pursuit of becoming masterful at feeling your body because that is where your creativity lives.

It's not in your brain.

You might have inspiring ideas,

But to know that you're really behind them,

Body,

Mind,

Spirit,

Soul,

However you want to say that,

You need to be able to feel.

And so you have to catch yourself every time you place logic on top of it or pragmatism because there's a way in which you're invalidating yourself and there's a part of you that is a little too tender for that level of pragmatism.

That part is where your creativity lives and you need to nurture that part of you.

And that part doesn't work on a timeline.

Reviews

This really resonated with me this morning. Really interesting and thought provoking (or should I say feeling provoking?) It's shifted my understanding. What more could you ask from a meditation? Thanks so much 🙏

Very important to remember about stillness before starting on any journey, creative too. Thank you 🙏🏾🌞💚