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Nurturing our creative spirit
- developing an intimate relationship
with our creative spirit
Need for an intimate
relationship
What is
intimacy
Intimacy with our
creative spirit
Need for
an intimate relationship
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This creative spirit is what
allows life to come forth within our being and what gives us the
passion and energy to engage life to create the experiences we
desire.
Without meeting the needs of this creative spirit and unless this
creative spirit is free to unfold true to its nature, joy and
satisfaction in life will be elusive. It does not matter what
success criteria we use and strive to achieve, or how successful we
are in the eyes of the world or in the eye of the mind. Joy and
inner satisfaction depends on the free unfoldment of this
creative spirit. If the needs of this inner creative spirit are not
met, there will be an
inner longing if not outright physical
pain and/or nonphysical pain that one may be lead to somehow
suppress. Yet, suppression of this pain, without addressing the
origins and source of the pain, can lead to addictions and/or
addictive behavior.
To have a flourishing and dynamic creative ability when needed,
and/or to begin to access the full depth and breadth of our creative
power, we need to nourish its creative needs. Unless you become
intimate with the creative spirit you will be unable to discern its
needs. But what exactly do we mean when we say one needs to have an
intimate relationship with our creative spirit?
What
is intimacy (Top)
To become intimate with something,
you need to focus your attention and awareness on it. You need to
study it and explore its features in detail. Intimacy results from a
close study and familiarity with a matter. It is to explore the
inner most nature or being of the object. It is to discover and
understand what is essential and intrinsic to its nature and being.
To become intimate with another individual you need to both explore
their features in detail but also communicate with them at each and
every level of their being. Intimacy with an individual is
characterized by pronounced closeness in friendship, relationship or
association. But it is more than that. Intimacy is usually about
being free to express those things that are deeply personal and
private. It is about revealing to another those things one is not
free to share in public or even with a small group of individuals.
For many, intimacy is only about sexual relations for only in our
sexuality do we begin to reveal some of our most deepest and private
needs and desires. For some, intimacy means having illicit sexual
relations . It is illicit because they are unable to express their
sexual needs to a chosen spouse or those in their life so they go
else where. For many, sexuality is the only time they are exposed
and seen naked by another. As intimacy get associated with
sexuality. However, one does not have to become sexual to become
intimate with someone. True intimacy is about being fully naked in
our truth before another at each and every level of our being
without the need for any masks covering our truth. In this regard,
true intimacy makes one very vulnerable for one is totally revealed.
True intimacy is not about standing up and exposing your truth in
nakedness. Rather, intimacy comes from or results from a close or
familiarity with another. Yet, being close or familiar with
something does not guarantee an intimacy will exist. Becoming
intimate takes one to the deepest levels of being. It is about going
to the heart - where life and the essence of life originates. For some,
there is great fear in doing that. For some, they become too
vulnerable and they need assurances of a safe and secure space to go
there.
Intimacy is about going to the heart of another. The heart is seen
as that place where firmness of will or courage are seen to reside.
In going to our heart we are seen going to our innermost thoughts or
feelings. We are seen as going to that vital, essential part or the
essence of our being. To become intimate with oneself or another we
are seen going to the heart for the heart is seen as the central or
inner part of anything. In meeting a person in the heart we move to
become intimate with them. Although there is spiritual, mental,
emotional and physical intimacy that is possible with an individual,
it is when we go to their heart and meet them in the heart at their
essence are we able to see and experience real intimacy at each level
of being.
Intimacy
with our creative spirit (Top)
To become intimate with our
creative spirit we become intimate with both a spirit and an energy.
As an energy, you will need to explore your creative power and
creative ability. You will have to do your own experiments to see
what does or doesn’t allow you to create what you desire and what
excites you and makes you passionate in life and for life.
As a creative spirit you will have to become very familiar with what
is needed to address the four characteristics of this spirit. You will
need to explore its
creativity and creative desires, its
vulnerabilities, its
play and its
wisdom about life. Each of these four characteristics will give
rise to unique issues/problems if the characteristic is denied or
somehow suppressed. To become intimate with your creative spirit is
to explore and come to know how each of these characteristic come
together in your life and in your creative endeavors.
Becoming intimate with the creative spirit is to realize the body is
the creation of our creative spirit. The body is the chosen vehicle
for the experiences the creative spirit desires to have. It is to
realize the body is actually sensing the unfoldment of
this creative spirit and the flow of energy it represents. As such,
to become intimate with our creative spirit requires us to become
intimately aware of what we feel in our body and within our being.
We need to become extremely familiar what we feel and where and
when. It is about being very mindful and aware of what we think and
feel and the subtle changes in what we feel as our internal and/or
external environment change.
The intimate relationship you develop with your creative spirit can
be conscious or subconscious. A conscious relationship is where you
consciously provided the opportunities for your creative spirit to
create and to play. It is to routinely seek its wisdom and to become
aware of when it is vulnerable and why. It is to routinely address
and provide for the needs of the body. One can even develop a daily
practice of nourishing the creative spirit. However, one can also
develop a subconscious relationship with the creative spirit. Here
one routinely utilizes their intuitive guidance to lead their life
and look to see if they are maintaining themselves in a fullness of
being. One simply looks to see what they need to do, or the
direction they need to travel, to maintain the fullness of being. It
is much easier to live this way but one does need to be more
mindful and aware of the
inner language and the unique ways their creative spirit prefers
to communicate.
The recommended first step to take in becoming intimate with your
creative spirit is to
calibrate your internal compass and begin using it in your life
and then read the
four characteristics of the creative spirit and look to see how
effectively you are addressing each of them in your life. Ask your
intuitive guidance what you need to do to nourish your creative
spirit and then
honor the intuitive guidance you get.
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