The Creative Wanderer - Your Weekly Jaunt into Creative Inspiration
This week we encounter limitations on our creative journey. As we start to live more authentic lives, our creative expression yearns to spread its wings and take flight beyond the safety of our feathered nests. In order to do so we are required to leave behind our limited notions of what we are able to accomplish.
Our newly found creative expansion brings about the need to examine the rewards and pay-offs we get by staying stuck. It also asks us to stop using others as an excuse for our stunted career growth. We are reminded that the universe we live in and God, are infinitely abundant, bursting with limitless possibilities, and that all of their generosity is freely available to us for the taking. We are encouraged to trust and surrender to their guidance and be open to all help. No dream is crazy or impossible once we start removing the limitations we have set on our expectations of how much we can receive.
More and more our creative journey starts resembling the flow of a river. Smooth and serene or rapid and destructive – we embrace it all in the spirit of gentle exploration and a growing sense of adventure. Instead of hiding in the safety of our redundant limiting beliefs, we are becoming excited about the opportunities that await us at every turn of the river bend.
A close examination of the benefits we reap by remaining creatively stuck, uncovers quite an insidious creative block – The Virtue Trap. This is us depriving ourselves of much-needed creative solitude and rest, in the guise of sacrificing our time for the “greatest good” of our family, friends and society at large. We deny our authenticity and present to the world a false version of ourselves which meets the approval of others. Our constant depletion of our creative time in order to “serve” others might give our ego a temporary “virtue signalling” satisfaction, but in the long run it leads to self-destruction. By recovering our forbidden joys and wishes and by truly getting to know ourselves, we learn to balance the needs and demands of others with the needs and demands of our own creative life.
Jo and Emilija end their wander-ponder through the realm of possibility, understanding there truly is no limit to our creative expansion and that it all boils down to looking at ourselves through the lens of Love.
Don’t forget to tune into the next episode: Week 6 of The Artist’s Way - Recovering a Sense of Abundance.
Should you want a creative companion, The Creative Wanderers are very happy to be able to offer you their support in a number of ways: E-mail them to let them know what you are enjoying or indeed what you are struggling with (creative_wanderer@yahoo.com); follow them on Instagram (@cre8tive1derer) and share any pictures, quotes you have been inspired by or affirmations which resonate with you.
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