Creativity is like catching lightning in a bottle. At times, I feel like a boundless channel, overflowing with a flow-state faucet of ideas and manifestations. Other times, I feel like I’m clinging to the clouds, seeking answers from Source only to receive deafening silence in return.
Do you know your natural, creative rhythm? When to lean in? When to be still and listen?
It’s only been until recently that I’ve learned to trust my own creative cadence. When I feel resistance, I do my best to surrender to the stirrings within so I can reconnect post-incubation with bursts of clear, connected energy.
Everyone has their own process and rituals (mine includes palo santo with a side of citrus essential oil), but there are vast innominate cosmic cycles that interconnect all of our distinct creation modes.
“Kosmos” literally means “harmony” in Greek.
As Rick Rubin says in his latest book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, “We are all participating in a larger creative act we are not conducting. We are being conducted.”
We are all mere fractals of the cosmos, birthed from stardust. It’s only logical that Source has some greater pull over our energy — the ability to expand our creative channel if we’re open to it.
Whatever creative juices you’re trying to muster up, here’s a process that clicked for me.
↠ STEP 1: RAISE SELF AWARENESS
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