Letting in the Creative Spirit
Day 26: Being inspired to create from our hearts can happen every day
Listening to an orchestra of birdsong, I walked along the familiar path of our back garden this morning. I heart faint little tweets of small birds, and then the loud “caw” of a crow. They seemed to be speaking to me, telling me to march forward, to create, and to become. This journey of exploring the book The Infinite Self by Stuart Wilde for 100 days has helped me learn so many valuable lessons that I love to share with all of you.
This challenge of writing every day has been one of the best things that I have decided to do. This practice creates momentum, creates community, creates joy. I do believe we all create together as a collective. It is one of the most sacred, most beautiful daily practices, to create every day.
Creativity is often uncomfortable, as it requires you to go deep within. However, as you embrace the Infinite Self, you touch not only your inner subconscious self, but, I believe, you tap into the deep collective mind of humanity. There you will find yourself in touch with all the creativity that there has ever been. -Stuart Wilde
We do not have to search for inspiration. It is within us at every moment. It is like a tiny spark of light that grows and grows every time we sit down to create something from deep within our hearts. Our daily practice says to reality: “I am ready to create. I know I have inspiration at every moment.” Every day that we practice, we create from a slightly different place. We draw upon new facets of our understanding.
I believe that when we decide to create daily, we invite others along to help us. We may not directly speak to them, but they are there waiting to guide us. I have experienced this firsthand. I love writing for the publication of Illumination. Everyone here believes in lifting each other up. I have received great advice, helpful hints, and fantastic suggestions to improve my writing. I am so grateful for this collective that surprises and delights me every day. We do not create our masterpieces alone. We are all one creative and beautiful family.
Real creativity is an inner thing. Once you go past your resistance to creativity, past the natural laziness the mind has — you get settled and ready to create, and it’s amazing how prolific and original you can become. The ego-mind will slow you down; it will make excuses. It will worry about how others might react. Worst of all, it is lazy and disorganized. But your feelings, your infinity, isn’t worried or lazy — it flows endlessly; it’s original. -Stuart Wilde
I used to worry about what others would think all of the time. I used to not be as disciplined in my daily practices. I used to think that I wasn’t a writer, I wasn’t an online teacher, I wasn’t someone who could guide people and help them discover amazing things about themselves. I thought I had to do things a certain way, the way I had picked up from society or what I had been taught a long time ago. Now I know that I have my infinite creativity within me, at all times. That creative heart will always be beating. It will walk beside me on every step of this path.
If you want to create, get the tools around you that you need. Lay out your paintbrushes in order, in a sacred way. Bless your paintbrushes. Give thanks for your paintbrushes. Give thanks for the colors. Put your paintbrushes in a special place. If you say, “I’m going to paint at eight o’clock because my word is law,” then go and sit there, settle, center within, and feel the painting complete and finished. Up from your feelings will come a painting that is unusual, strange, different and complete. -Stuart Wilde
It is paramount that we treat our tools with respect, and honor our word when we create. I always write my daily article every day after breakfast, without fail. I am always here at the dining room table, on my laptop with my coffee cup, my water glass, and my kindle near me. It is my sacred, creative time and I honor it by always being here. I know that if I sit down to create, the words will flow, the ideas will come to me and I will come out with something to share with the world that day.
My prayer and my intention for you today is that you take a look at how you set up your daily creative practice. Do you decide on a specific time to create every day? Do you take good care of your creative tools? Do you settle into your work with joy? These are all questions here to help guide and support you in your creation. You were meant to create something that touches someone’s heart today. Someone needs to hear your message today. Someone needs to see your art. Someone needs to be uplifted by your poem today. There is someone waiting to experience what you are about to create!
What is your daily creative practice?
I am tagging my fellow writers here who are following along on this journey so that I may share this path with them: Rasheed Hooda, Aurora Eliam, CMP, Art Bram, Michele Thill, Charlotte Zobeir Ali, Gurpreet Dhariwal, Dr John Rose, Taha Abbas, Suntonu Bhadra, Chowa Sekai, Amy Marley, Terry Mansfield, Henery X (long), Sumera Rizwan, KeepingItRealWithAnnick and many more! Thank you Illumination Family!
Trista Signe Ainsworth is a professional organizer with Joyful Minimalism. She helps working women clear the clutter, overwhelm, and shame from their homes and lives so that they can truly live in joy.
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