Bone Pile

CREATIVITY
By creativity I don't just mean artistic expression, though it can certainly include that. Creativity involves being open to new ideas, unusual combinations, threads of curiosity that weave into a unique perspective or approach.

Your creative brilliance is a natural expression of your authenticity. There's no need to force yourself to be brilliant or creative - it emerges organically from following what makes you feel alive. It is part of your unique contribution to the flow of Life.

SENSITIVITY
Sensitivity is a doorway to deep attunement with subtle dimensions of your Being, and the origination point of your creative impulse. It is also a doorway to sensing the broader field of life, and being able to respond to and support the creative emergence in collective settings.

Your subtle sensing, attunement, and responsiveness are a much-needed counterpoint to the drivenness of our Western, logic- and control-oriented culture.

While there can be many challenges to being sensitively wired in a social environment that generally doesn't "get" it, we can learn to create a life that fits and allows us to contribute.

Delight in Your Creativity

Do you have a creative talent or dream that you've put on hold for too long?

Do you tend to sabotage your creative process by not getting started, not working consistently on your project, or not completing something?

All of us are naturally inventive beings, and as such, creativity is our birthright. As a species, we are intelligent, curious, and adaptive. Our amazing imagination keeps us moving forward towards an infinite horizon of possibilities.

When you watch children at play, you'll see this spontaneous creativity in action. Each child expresses it differently according to their abilities, interests, and temperament.

Somehow, most of us lose much of this imaginative interplay with each other and with our environment as we get older. We get stuck in habits and are weighed down by responsibilities and expectations.

Life becomes work. Time becomes crunched. We focus on efficiency, productivity, and taking care of business. Our creative dreams and impulses get relegated to the 'back burner.'

And one day, if we're lucky, we notice that the clock is ticking, that our soul is drying up, and that life has lost some color and feels more like shades of grey.

We become jealous of people who are living creative, colorful lives, and think to ourselves that "we should be more creative." We take an evening class in drawing or guitar.

This temporarily gives us a little life-juice, but we're still trying to add yet another "To Do" to our already overflowing list.

The problem is that we already ARE a vast fountain of creativity, and trying to make ourselves be more creative is a dead-end street. We'll exhaust ourselves trying.

Instead, we need to look closely at what prevents us from accessing and expressing our imagination, and living a creative life... including giving birth to and completing creative projects.

If we can recognize how we block our natural genius and creative impulses, then it becomes possible to liberate them!

As blocks soften, heal, and dissolve, you become more free to express your creativity in your favorite artistic medium(s).

But equally important, you become more free to live a creative life - spontaneously responding to events and situations in new ways, and opening to curiosity and play.

Creative flow becomes a way of life!

Many of us feel moved to respond to the suffering in the world, whether it is for the planet itself or for its various systems and/or inhabitants, including us humans.

However, in our urgency to make a difference, it can be easy to forego our own needs and rhythms, and end up wearing ourselves out. Other side-effects of over-zealous activism can include loss of joy, health problems, chronic frustration and resentment, and polarized relationships with mates, family, friends or colleagues.

Luckily, there other ways to relate to service that allow for a healthier and more effective outcome, for ourselves and for those we aim to serve.

I offer both group and one-on-one coaching to support people in relaxing into the core tensions at the heart of activist work, and allowing a healthier, more creative, and life-giving way of serving to evolve naturally from their compassionate hearts. In this way, I aim to support activism that is sustainable for the individual, as well as for the collective and for the planet.

For more information about this work, check my Awakened Activism website!