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Yes, yes, I know you’ve heard it before – how important it is to create intentions - but now is the time to get crystal clear about what you want to create for yourself in 2010. Don’t wait until New Year’s Eve to do it – I urge you to really feel into how you want your life to be now. Next week on Dec 16th we have a New Moon, which is the time for new beginnings, so let that be the “due date” for you to claim your 2010 intentions. Be willing to step out of the box and think BIG!
Reminder: You can’t create your new life with your old thinking!
When you think about your intentions, are you envisioning what you really want or what you think that you can reasonably achieve? You want to choose something that’s a stretch beyond your comfort zone, without it being so outrageous that it’s unattainable.
When you aim high enough and step out of the box - the pursuit of your goals will change your life!
This is the time when it’s more important than ever to find your teachers – and they are everywhere. Do you think you can learn new techniques, new processes, clear old non-working patterns to access your greatest creativity and productivity all by yourself? Granted, you can make progress – maybe even great progress, but you never know what may be possible for you with the right and perfect teacher’s input.
There are those of you who are “DIY-types” (Do It Yourself), but I always wonder why you would want to do it all by yourself? It is a personal choice to learn from books, the Internet, TV or home-study courses but there is a wonderful magic that happens via interacting with a teacher, coach, mentor, class or even a colleague to learn to create something new. We are human, after all, and we need one another for love and connection – creating is not just an intellectual and spiritual exercise that we have to do alone.
If no one helped you when you were growing up, you may not expect other people to help you – you may not be oriented to receiving guidance and support. If that’s the case, please let this be the time when you shift that old paradigm and allow your helpers to come in and provide you with a new experience. What a gift you will give to yourself if you do!
Do you recognize your teachers? Be on the lookout, because they may not come in the package that you expect. Being able to identify your teachers and mentors is a skill that if developed, will serve you well.
I urge you to find someone who inspires you and who you resonate with - who you see operating in a way and at a level that you want to emulate or learn from. If you are ready to evolve in a significant way reach out, take an action and make a commitment to yourself.
Be willing to step out of your familiar “box” and do something different regarding that which needs to change in your life.
Your old thinking created your life as it is now. If you’re ready for an upgrade, set your intentions and then be willing to be innovative when choosing the path that will take you there. You deserve to be happy, fulfilled and well cared for, so examine what is lacking in your life and resolve to evolve this year!
Intention: I upgrade my life by stepping out of the box to find new, innovative solutions that support my evolution.
Check in
- What areas of your life are ready for an upgrade? Identify what you want to focus on.
- Create intentions for each area that you want to change.
- Find your teachers and mentors, and commit to working with them to evolve your life!
© Lisa Zimmerman 2009. All rights reserved.
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Posted 9 months ago at 5:16 pm. 4 comments
With Thanksgiving upon us, ’tis the season to be grateful. If you are on a conscious spiritual path, you are aware of this year round, but this is the official “be grateful” holiday!
Do you stop to think of the many blessings in your life – either those you have now or those you have experienced in the past? I urge you to think about the different areas of your life and the gifts you have received. Are you functional, do you have a home, an education, a significant other, loving supportive friends, beloved furry friends (pets), community, can you walk/talk/breathe and care for yourself with relative ease, are you mentally capable, do you have food to eat? These are basic needs and it can be humbling to take inventory and focus on the extraordinary gifts in your life, some of which you may take for granted.
Aside from the gifts you have received, I invite you to think about what your innate talents or skills are – what are you good at? What do you offer to others, either formally via your work or informally via casual, random interactions?
How are you – or how can you be – a blessing to the world?
Every person has things they’re good at. You may be the best organizer ever (nobody can clean out a closet like you!) or you may be able to sit with a child and help them practice reading. Very often the things you’re good at come so naturally to you that you don’t even realize it’s a “thing” until someone else points it out because you figure that everyone can do it.
If you aren’t clear about what your talents are, ask a few close friends or co-workers to give you feedback. You need to know so that you can offer your gifts to the world – and there are plenty of people and organizations in need.
Your offering can be formal or you can do your thing when you’re inspired to, in the moment – it’s up to you. Don’t create a picture of what you think helping means that keeps you from participating in offering your contribution. It will change your life when you become a conscious “giver.”
When you do for another you gift yourself because we are all One. We have a spiritual need for connection.
If you’re having a bad day – you can get out of your head by helping someone who is in need. In 12-Step programs, this is called a “mood-changer,” and it does change your perspective. Maybe you can invite someone who has no place to go to your Thanksgiving celebration – that would be such a beautiful gift! Loneliness is epidemic in our culture – check to see that those you know are connected somewhere.
I wish you a peaceful heart-centered Thanksgiving. You are a blessing in my life and I am most grateful for your presence.
Intention: I count my blessings, knowing that we are all One and I consciously create opportunities to help others.
Check in
• What are 3 gifts in your life that most appreciate?
• What are 3 strengths you have that can benefit others? Who can you offer any of these to? Do it!
• Make a list of your blessings and offerings and share them with a trusted advisor.
© Lisa Zimmerman 2009. All rights reserved.
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Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 2:05 pm. Add a comment
What kind of experience are you having in your life? Do you attract helpful people or critical people – is your life flowing or do you experience a sense of struggle, do you attract opportunities or do you encounter obstacles? How do you see the world – is it a friendly place overflowing with goodness or is it dangerous and forbodeing where you must fight for everything you get.
Whatever is happening in your life externally is a mirror of what is going on within you.
You form beliefs about yourself and the world at a young age and then spend the rest of your life seeing “evidence” to support what you believe is true. If you believe that people are basically good, then you will see good people almost everywhere you go – and when you don’t, you may either be surprised or disappointed, but it probably won’t change your basic belief - not at first. However, if you experience repeated episodes of hostility you may become hardened from the hurt. No one is more cynical than a disappointed idealist.
On the other hand, if you were betrayed early on, you may have that experience over and over to varying degrees throughout your life until you heal that wound. It’s fascinating how your beliefs dictate your experience, as you view life through your own personal filter. That’s how two people can be in the same environment and have completely different perceptions of an experience – and each can respond to it in their own unique way.
Use the world as your mirror to gain information about what’s going on within you, as you then have the power to change whatever isn’t working.
Your beliefs may be conscious – and you can choose new ways of seeing life/issues to shift your conceptual framework, thereby empowering yourself, or they may be unconscious, which means you don’t know they exist. In that case, you need help from someone or a program that can help you go beneath the surface to discover the limiting beliefs that are running the show.
For non-working conscious beliefs a reframe is helpful - where you are presented with a new way of looking at an old belief that shifts your perception, thereby empowering you.
Here’s an example of a reframe in my life: When I was 40 years old I discovered that I didn’t know who I was or what I wanted to be. So I went on a mission to discover my “thing,” and with each new interest I pursued I desperately wanted the latest thing to be “it.” Well, thing after thing wasn’t it and I felt like a failure until my wise, nurturing therapist told me, “this is how children learn – by exploring and trying things.” My belief was that if I pursued something that wasn’t “it” I had failed and she reframed my situation, allowing me the grace of feeling that my actions were productive and positive. It was monumental for me because, at that time, I couldn’t let myself off the hook.
For non-working unconscious beliefs you need help to go into within to discover the hidden beliefs and then find alternatives that you can choose for greater empowerment. There are different methods and helpers available for this kind of work, so talk with a trusted professional if you seek this kind of support.
There are a variety of therapies, some of which are cognitive (talk) therapy, core energetics (body-based therapy), Neuro-Linguistic Programming and I do Avatar work, which is all about freeing fixed attention and discreating non-working beliefs. Whatever you find that works for you is great!
The point is, the world is mirroring your beliefs back to you and I urge you to receive the information with the intention of utilizing it for your evolution. This is the way to avoid feeling like a victim and the best news is that you have the power to change your life, whatever your circumstances!
I wish you a peaceful, expansive, fulfilling life in which you experience deep love and appreciation.
Intention: I see my beliefs mirrored back to me by my life and use the information to make adjustments and find healing wherever necessary in order to create the life of my dreams!
Check in
- What limiting beliefs are being mirrored back to you over and over?
- What is really working in your life? What comes to you with ease?
- Make a list of things you’d like to change and share your list with a trusted advisor.
© Lisa Zimmerman 2009. All rights reserved.
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Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 10:22 pm. Add a comment
How busy is your daily life? Think about all your responsibilities, whether you have a career, take care of children, are in a relationship, are attending school, participate in community activities or experience some combination of all of these things. In addition, you also have your health and well being to attend to, as well as the care of your home and personal life, and even leisure/play has to be scheduled. Lots to do and lots to accomplish.
During free time your cell phone may be ringing or a text message/email/ incoming, resulting in non-stop info! Or perhaps you have emails to answer, a class to study for or other tasks on your “to do” list. With each phone call or email received, you decide in that moment whether or not to answer it now and if not, it goes on the “to do” list that sits in the back of your mind. Do you know that one of the biggest energy drains is the multitude of decisions you make each day?
Which leads me to a solution to create balance in your life: with all that’s going on, it’s more important than ever to create sacred space in your life.
The intention is to create sacred space that rejuvenates you and restores your energy.
What restores your vitality, what brings you back to yourself, what relaxes you? Think of spaciousness – the very idea of creating space, literally or figuratively, implies room to move, breathing space, stretching out.
Imagine that and see if your energy shifts by envisioning lots of space around you. Space is an energetic detox – that’s one of the reasons that communing with nature is so healing.
It doesn’t matter whether your sacred space is a few minutes of quiet time meditating, a relaxing bath with epsom salts and essential oils or a more ambitious plan to a specific location or planned activity. What matters is that you create this space as a gift to yourself.
“Sacred” means that it is precious to you and connects you with your spirit, so find a way to create that. Allow your system to recoup energy by feeding it and know that creating sacred space for yourself is an act of self-love!
Intention: I regularly create sacred space for myself that restores my energy and connection to myself in joyful, peaceful ways!
Check in
- List ways that you’ve experienced to restore/relax/expand.
- List ways to restore/relax/expand that you haven’t yet tried, but want to.
- Create sacred space for yourself each week by choosing an experience from one of your lists.
© Lisa Zimmerman 2009. All rights reserved.
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Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago at 12:39 pm. Add a comment
Are you willing to look at how you handle discomfort and pain, whether it is event-related or a general feeling of dis-ease? There is valuable information awaiting you when you are willing to reflect on your feelings and your reaction to them.
When you’re stressed, emotionally upset, or tired – maybe from lack of sleep or just feeling drained by life circumstances, what do you normally do? Do you stop and rest, do you go outside and take a walk for a change of scenery, do you work out to shift your energy or do you do shift into an addiction? Let me explain what I mean by that.
When you’re engaging in addictive behavior, you are using a “substance” – which can be anything from alcohol to drugs, food, shopping, TV, surfing the web, sex, fantasy, love, etc. – to escape from some form of anxiety, whether it’s conscious or unconscious. Addictions are driven by discomfort (often unconscious), so you may not even be sure what’s wrong – which can create even more distress.
How do you go unconscious? What do you do or use to calm yourself down when you become stressed?
At first you may choose a behavior, but when you’re addicted you have a compulsion to repeat the behavior even when you know it’s not good for you.
Have you eaten too much, knowing when you should have said “enough” but kept going? Have you ever had the TV on and couldn’t tear yourself away even when you had other things that required your attention? Have you gone shopping when you knew you shouldn’t be spending money, but just felt like buying something? Is your attention always on others and their needs, excluding your own regularly – even when you are in need? These are but a few examples of ways you might be in addiction if you use any of these behaviors regularly to check out.
When you are engaged in addictive behavior you have gone unconscious.
Once you identify the “substance(s)” you use to check out, think about how great the effect is on your life. You can journal and list the various ways in which you check out. Then for each addiction, list the consequences for doing that.
For instance, if sugar is one of my addictions I might write:
Addiction Affects Consequences
Sugar Weight Embarrassed, self-judgment
Energy Less productive, guilt, giving up
Relationships Erratic behavior – conflicts
The point is to really make the connection between the behavior and the effects it has on your life – a wake-up call of sorts.
As Dr. Phil says, “You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge,” and I agree with him.
Energetically, addiction is “hiding.” In other words, your authentic self is actually hiding while the false self is engaging in the addiction. Addiction is also a form of self-abandonment because you are neglecting your own self-care.
When you are ready to take responsibility for the behaviors that block you from being who you came here to be, you will arrive at a new level of consciousness that will serve you well.
If what you call “”your addiction” is just a bad habit you’ve picked up along the way, you may be able to correct it with discipline and commitment to your Self. If you have an addiction that requires outside help, there are many wonderful places you can go to get help and direction.
Intention: I am willing to awaken from hiding and get the support I need to successfully move beyond any addiction(s).
Check in
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What circumstances initiate addiction(s) for you?
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What are some healthy behaviors you can replace the addictive ones with?
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Where can you get help for your issue? Find at least one place to start and if you don’t know you can contact me and I will help you.
© Lisa Zimmerman 2009. All rights reserved.
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Posted 11 months ago at 5:39 pm. Add a comment
If you are committed to a path of consciousness you may have decided to live in a positive way by focusing on what’s right rather than what’s wrong and by being grateful for all the blessings in your life. This is a beautiful consciousness to live by as long as you are willing to experience the full range of your feelings in order to process and integrate them.
Did you come from a family in which the unspoken message was, “We are happy,” (especially in front of the neighbors or other people)? Or maybe Mom or Dad was allowed to have dark emotions, but not you. If so, this means that as a child you may not have been allowed to be angry, disappointed, or to feel sorry for yourself without receiving a negative response from a parent or parent figure. You may have had to suppress feelings, which ultimately affects you in unexpected ways that can be physical, emotional, mental or all of the above in the moment, or later in life.
Or maybe you came from a family in which there was a lot of pain so as an adult you decided you were going to be positive to create a different experience. That’s a noble idea and to rise above your early circumstances is a victory.
The school of “We are happy” can translate in the New Age to “We are positive” or “We are compassionate.” Positivity and compassion are wonderful qualities but not if they’re used to avoid dealing with uncomfortable feelings when you have them.
A “Spiritual bypass” is skipping the pain to go into the higher realms, to be “in the Light,” where All are One and all is in Divine Order.
This may be true, but you still need to process your feelings of discomfort, pain, sorrow, disappointment, anger, rage and whatever else is within you. If you think that by choosing the high road you get to avoid feeling the pain, you are fooling yourself and it will show up in your life.
When you arrive at difficult feelings what do you do? Do you have a place to go or someone to process them with? Understanding why you feel the way you do doesn’t mean you’ve processed your feelings. This requires tools, skills and often therapeutic help for deep or old pain. Be courageous when you encounter feelings that are painful and seek out qualified, caring helpers to walk you through pain. This may be a therapist, a healer, a minister or other trained helper of some kind.
You can choose your attitude, but you don’t choose your feelings. You feel how you feel.
I just completed my second 9-day Avatar course, which is consciousness training, and got great relief from doing that as I have from doing years of other work, so I’m always discovering new tools and methods to evolve into my authentic self. I wish the same for you and if you need suggestions, you may contact me and I’ll help however I can.
Intention: I feel all my feelings and find the right ways, for me, to work through anything challenging with comfort, care, compassion and grace.
Check in
- What feeling is most difficult for you to experience?
- Where can you go for support with that?
- Who can you ask for help when you experience painful feelings?
© Lisa Zimmerman 2009. All rights reserved.
If you forward this message or reproduce any portion of it, the author must be credited.
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago at 2:51 pm. Add a comment
Do you sometimes take people in your life for granted or do you think positive thoughts about others without telling them how you feel? Letting someone know how their presence has enhanced your life is not only a wonderful offering to another – it can literally shift you energetically just by sharing your spirit of generosity!
If you have had negative thoughts about someone, finding something about them that you truly appreciate – and then telling them can lift you beyond your resentment and open your heart in amazing ways. The love you send will not only inspire happiness in the recipient, they will likely be delightfully surprised, too!
To “appreciate” is to recognize the value in something and enjoy it.
Is there anyone you’ve been out of touch with who would love to hear from you? It would be wonderful to call, send a card or email, telling them how much you value and appreciate them. It is the simplest, most uplifting way to reconnect, and you offer a gift and receive one in return by taking the action.
If you need a “mood changer,” contacting people to tell them how much you appreciate their presence in your life can do it!
If you have a resentment toward someone, find some quality about them that you appreciate and tell them. See what happens for them – and for you!
Life is too short for us to be disconnected from one another. Appreciating others is a simple yet effective way to break through the ego and come back into you heart – and you can’t go wrong when you’re in your heart!
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Intention
I appreciate the wonderful people in my life and I express my thoughts/ feelings to them joyfully and lovingly.
Check in
- Which 3 people you do you need to reconnect with? Call, email or send a card to express how you appreciate them.
- Is there anyone you are upset with? If it feels right, send them a message sharing something you appreciate about them. Consider it a “science experiment.”
© Lisa Zimmerman 2009. All rights reserved.
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Posted 11 months, 1 week ago at 6:25 am. Add a comment
My first Tip for Transformation was Find Your Tribe back in Jan ’09. It’s time for a check-in – how are you doing with that? Have you found a community that you can comfortably be part of, where you feel seen, heard, understood and appreciated exactly as you are? I hope so. If you don’t know how to find your tribe, look for others with a common purpose or interests, who value and enjoy the things you do.
Let’s think about support – in community you develop relationships with various people so that when you’re in need, you can call on the group or various people you’ve connected with for solace/guidance. Without community it’s easy to become dependent on one person who you turn to when you feel blue. That’s a dangerous scenario because what happens if that person isn’t available? Are you alone then?
The power of the group will lift you up when you are down and will provide opportunities for you to be of service to others as well.
What matters to you is a wonderful GPS in tracking down “your people,” and know that it can take a little time to acclimate into a new group, so be patient with yourself and them!
A feeling of belonging is important in order to thrive in our culture. Treasure your community!
Here’s the original post from January 6, 2009: Your tribe is comprised of the people who feel just right for you, when you are your authentic Self, regardless of their background, age, or other external characteristics. You will recognize them by the way you feel in their presence – your energy is expanded, you feel relaxed and joyfully stimulated, understood, accepted, appreciated and it feels completely natural and effortless. You don’t have to hide parts of yourself, try to please them, or work to “fit in” – it’s as if you come from the same place and speak the same language (and you do!).
When you’re connected to your tribe it’s like putting on a shoe that fits perfectly – there’s no struggle involved. The benefits of belonging have far-reaching, positive effects that support your personal evolution. It’s much easier to grow in an atmosphere of love and support with people who accept you completely as you are and truly recognize your magnificence!
With all the changes occurring in our world right now, community is more important than ever. We need to know that we belong and that we’re in this together. We need one another to create pockets of inspiration, love, positive energy, vision, support, and comfort where we can share our gifts, strengths and talents to create in greater ways than we ever could have alone. If you’ve found your tribe then you know the comfort I’m talking about and if you haven’t yet, be open and creative in your search.
Intention I discover my tribe in a smooth, non-dual way that is effortless and joyful!
Check In
• Are there people in your life who bring you down? Why?
• If you are in the presence of others and you feel bad about yourself, something is wrong. There may be a communication problem, or perhaps you feel unworthy/less than, or you may have called people in who mirror back to you a negative belief you have about yourself from your childhood family dynamic.
• If a wound is triggered, please seek help to move through it so you don’t have to live there any longer!
• If you don’t know where to go for help, you can contact me for direction.
© Lisa Zimmerman 2009. All rights reserved. If you forward this message or reproduce any portion of it, the author must be credited.
Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago at 8:30 am. Add a comment
If you find that you become overly involved with others on a regular basis, whether you know them or not, you might want to ask yourself why. Is it easier or more enjoyable for you to take care of others than yourself? When you hear about a healer, a modality, or helpful book/program/teacher, do you automatically think of others who you think could benefit from it before considering yourself?
Focusing on other people’s problems/issues rather than your own is a way to direct your energy outward and possibly ignore your own needs and personal development. There are good reasons to give as long as it’s your choice and you’re not in sacrifice mode. It can be a self-esteem booster because giving is validated in our culture and it truly does help you feel good about yourself.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against giving – giving is an act of love unless you use it as a defense against focusing on your own needs and feelings.
It’s also easy to watch others and get caught up in their process, either to offer support, encouragement or to judge them and think/say how “it” could be done differently. Or you may analyze their motivations/actions under the pretense of trying to understand, which may be true, but can also be a disguise for judgment.
When you want to judge another, think about it and ask yourself, “Have I ever done this before?” It can be humbling to recognize that you do, or have done, exactly what you’re judging them for doing.
If you are in someone else’s business in inappropriate ways, you are making their business your business!
Standing in judgment of others is the ego’s way of fooling yourself into thinking you’re superior when really, a low opinion of yourself deep inside is the fuel for your judgment. When you are tempted to criticize someone, bring the focus back to yourself. Will you feel good about yourself if you do/say this? Are you in need of love and care right now? These are important inquiries if you find yourself stuck in this pattern of behavior.
When you’re about to take care of someone else, think about whether your needs are being met in that area, just as a check in. It’s easy to forget your own needs when you’re focused on someone else.
Here’s a joke:
Q: How do you know when a codependent dies?
A: Someone else’s life flashes before their eyes!
It is a spiritual practice to keep the focus on yourself when it comes to taking responsibility for your own well being. This includes your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs.
Your care is your responsibility, so take inventory of how you are in all areas of life to see which elements of your care are working and which could use attention and improvement.
Also, if you have a victim story, it’s time to release your attachment to it and take charge of your life. You are the creator of your experience and you have more power than you can imagine. I offer this knowing that healing and evolution is possible if you are willing to take responsibility for your life. If you need suggestions for resources, referrals or guidance, email me and I’ll gladly help however I can.
Here’s a quote by Malikka Chopra, Deepak’s daughter:
Intentions – Malikka Chopra
I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience.
I set the goals that I achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for and receive as I have asked.
Intention
I joyfully and lovingly keep the focus on myself and create my life from a place of wholeness and balance.
Check in
- Which areas of your life could use more attention? Make a list.
- Create 3 actions that you can take to upgrade your care.
- Write 5 things that you judge in others and think about how those things show up in your life.
Posted 12 months ago at 7:37 am. 2 comments
When you step into your authentic self, the way you used to do things – and the things you used to do may change. As a matter of fact, they probably will – it goes with the territory. That’s why it takes courage to leave the old familiar ways to become who you came here to be!
Your self-image was largely shaped by your role in the family and your relationships with family members growing up. You may have come to believe things about yourself that aren’t true – for instance, that you aren’t creative, or smart, or that you don’t have a head for business. Or you may have heard that you’re too loud, too sensitive, or selfish. Even positive labels (the pretty one, so helpful, athletic) may focus on one aspect of your being while other aspects go unappreciated, if noticed at all.
Whatever was mirrored back to you by your loved ones was your “brand,” so to speak. You may have been branded the funny one, the bookworm or the rebel, and it’s not to say that you didn’t have that quality in you – it’s just not all of you (if it’s really you at all!).
When you begin to awaken to your true self, you will likely discover that you are not who you thought you were – that your self-image was skewed. As Marianne Williamson said, “You’re not who you think you are – aren’t you glad?!” She was referring to the negative thoughts we have about ourselves in relation to our true magnificence.
As you awaken you connect with what is true for you – even if it’s inconvenient in your life setup, which it often is. You discover what you resonate with and what you don’t – and this is how you discover who you really are! It’s a process that is ever-changing and flowing, especially if you’re committed to growing.
You may have had a dream for yourself all your life (or maybe not), but as you begin to evolve and blossom you may discover a new dream.
Be mindful of who you share your dream with when it’s in its infancy!
When you’re just discovering yourself you may be very vulnerable and it’s imperative that you treat yourself with impeccable care. You must hold your new dream, your vision, whatever it is that’s an expression of your authentic self with the utmost care! Stepping into new territory is an emotional risk of sorts and you need encouragement and support from those you care about and those whose judgment you respect.
You need to protect your dream!
When you’re in creative mode you need emotional safety and self-acceptance. Critical people or those who make fun of others will interfere with your process, so keep away from toxic people who are anything other than supportive of your creation – and of the creative process in general. Also, you don’t need anyone telling you what to do unless you ask for their guidance.
The goal is to trust yourself and nurture your budding manifestation.
If you’re experienced at creating, then you know what you need in order to tap into your creative channel and express yourself effectively. Treat yourself like you would a child – with tenderness, playfulness, and curiosity.
Create a list of “safe” people to share with when you are in creation mode, and it doesn’t matter how short the list is!
Anything you create is a sacred expression of you. Treasure it, whether anyone ever sees it or not – it is yours and no one can ever take that away from you. If you are ready to share your creation with others, choose your audience members carefully until you feel strong and confident enough to project it out to a wider group, if that’s your desire. Create a support system of those who are “for” you and your creation.
I honor your creation. I hope that you honor your creation as well and never speak disparaging about yourself or your creativity. To speak negatively about yourself is not an act of self-love and only acts of self-love help you grow!
Here’s a poem by Julia Cameron, author of Heart Steps and The Artist’s Way.
I Am an Instrument of Divine Creation
I offer myself as a channel for higher creativity.
I allow the Universe to work through me.
I give over my ideas of limitations and potential.
I accept an expanded sense of self.
I accept an expanded sense of service.
I am guided to grow and I accept that growth freely and without reservation.
I allow the pattern of Spirit within me to express its fullest form.
Intention
I create joyfully, nurturing myself and my creation by thoughtfully choosing who to share my dream with!
Check In
- Get the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and read through it. Go on an artist’s date and have fun!
- Make a list of anything creative you used to do that you loved or would like to try. Take a baby step and explore it.
- Make a list of “safe” people for support of your creative self.
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