If you don't give inspiration an opportunity it will never arrive.'
Ethan Hawke, actor and writer.
Maintaining a connection to your creative imagination and inner child is one of the greatest tools for living a fulfilled and spiritually connected life.
Art and any kind of creative living is gorgeous for our souls for it can transform what feels familiar and humdrum into something infinite and enticing, instantly shifting our emotional frequency to a place of unlimited magic and expanding our heart energy - a tremendous source of personal power.
Then a grey stodgy day by the beach becomes a walk through a storm temple.
School children rolling in giggles down the beach become ninja teams of bees in lemon-bright school jackets. A man with an extortionately long grey silky beard walks past like a wizard in the rain, a Neptunian spell caster gone undercover in denim.
Another world of magic hiding in plain sight...if you're open to imagining it!
And yet it can be a part of us we ruthlessly judge and fear the most, bringing the ancestral weight of the ages crashing down with all its social conditioning and self doubt.
As someone who has been writing on and off for years (and learnt a lot about myself through the continuous attempt) I’ve come to realise how acts of self sabotage have multiple layers to them.
Creativity can bring us back to times when we didn't feel safe or encouraged to create, when our willingness to 'think big' triggered the fears and insecurities of others around us.
Often suppressing our unlimited playful selves as adults is a way to temporarily assuage this fear, to be socially accepted and conditionally loved.
And this is why opening to a creative practice is truly brave for it ignites inner permission - to dream, be raw and not make a damn web of sense.
To receive the treasure map of beauty as it messily unfolds and like a child learning to walk, we enter into who we are in each moment of truthful opening - clumsy and slow and bolder and taller than anything gone before.
'Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.'
Albert Einstein
But whereas art may be perceived by some as a panacea or balm for the 'hard realities' of life quantum physics reveals that life is in fact art.
We are always creating whether we're conscious or not from the frequency of who we are on all levels - mind, body and spirit - and this power has been deliberately kept hidden from us through the ages.
The fascinating philosophical implications of quantum developments in science - such as the Collapse Of The Wave Function experiment which revealed the power of the observer effect on 3D physical reality - is how it dissolves who we perceive ourselves to be.
In precious moments of creativity we go beyond the matrix of time and space and playfully surrender to being imperfect (whatever that means!) whilst at one with everything.
We quit chasing the result and step inside the playful flow state of who we are on the deepest cellular level - perpetual atoms in motion waiting for a creative conscious chef (clue - you!) to design our reality.
I find it fascinating to witness children in the timeless moments of their creativity. Fresh from the 'other side' of the life/death transition they embody our god-self in action.
What struck me when I read Neal Donald Walsch's powerful channelled book 'Conversations With God' was how the divine creator really wasn't some judgemental patriarch looking down at us but a loving benevolent force wishing for us to realise how incredibly important our willingness to imagine and choose every moment anew was.
Each time we believe we cannot invite in the 'right' words or deny a ten minute dance around the living room or refuse to allow space for that music practice we unconsciously anchor in a centuries old belief system in perfectionism and ruthless hierarchy.
"Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy. Pure creative energy."
Julia Cameron, author 'The Artists Way'
Ironically for me it was only when I stepped into psychic channelling on behalf of others as an energy healer that I learnt how to really show up for my own creativity.
Because even though I excel at this guardian co-creative role on behalf of others I struggled to offer the same thing for myself through my own playfulness and writing.
One of the most effective ways to climb out of this is to become the guardian/parent of your own inner child and to learn to support them with kindness and encouragement.
Seeing how important a safe container and kind intention was during a healing session and how interconnected magic and surrender truly are gave me the courage to keep showing up even when I didn't feel like it.
And that willingness always delivers something because the true joy of creativity is that no matter what happens the courage to begin again and again ignites you from within.
To steadfastly know that this part of you isn't 'indulgent' or 'irrelevant' but is in fact building the psychic muscle of the divine within you who can bend the laws of physical reality to attract synchronous occurrences and intuitive downloads that light the path ahead.
Reflecting back the truth within that how we perceive reality can change within seconds and thus affect the emotional template of our day - and even the trajectories of our lives.
Your inner creative child is your outer revolutionary!
Thanks for reading ✨