When our spiritual labels get in our way.
You have a choice.
Often people who identify a spiritual are surprised to find out that I am deeply spiritual person. I just don’t wear it on my sleeve, or outwardly in any meaningful way. I don’t wear flowy skirts or big earrings, I’m pretty basic actually. LOL. Save for a couple of tattoos and a small beaded bracelet, I look more like a soccer mom than Goddess.
A lesson I learned a long time ago was that when I start to identify with a label, it begins to hold me prisoner, I am forced to start living by the rules of that label, and I am locked in a pattern that often times holds me back from experiencing new things and creating successfully.
Recently, a client contacted me because she was stuck, her mind was flooded with wonderful ideas for books and products she wanted to create to support families going through a health crisis. Really wonderful things that could help many people. She had purchased the intro course to Creative Intuitive Writing, and ironically hadn’t finished it, but still booked a private with me. She enjoyed the powerful meditation created by Jennifer McClean (My co-creator in the course) which supports us in connecting directly to our soul and offered a tool for deep listening and communication. She explained she was an empath and already had a deep connection with her soul yet couldn’t figure out which project to start first or where to start.
That explanation, that she was an empath and already “knew how to connect to her cosmic partner/spirit guides - what have you” was the first red flag if you will. Well, actually the second, the first was, she hadn’t finished watching the 1.5 hour course. Her “already knowing” and her resistance to going all the way had locked her in her pattern of confusion about how to move forward. Just because you are an empath, doesn’t mean you have the skills to actually listen with clarity. Which was exactly what she was experiencing. It was why her mind was filled with a cacophony of ideas with nowhere to go.
There are multiple steps in the creative process. The “ideas” part is the easiest. It's in the execution where our ability to listen to our cosmic guides with clarity and our willingness to take those ideas and ground them into mass can get tricky without the skills needed to make it happen in 3D, reality, mass to mass.
I am often reminded of a catch phrase I helped make popular. “We create our reality”. We do! But its important to remember the reality we play in. It requires action, time and movement of mass.
This is the part that many “spiritual” people feel as if it isn’t very “guided” or “spiritual”. Because it’s the work done on the “ground” in the here and now. It’s the planning, the budgeting, the organizing. It’s a dance between the left and right brain, or a walk in both the ethereal world and this reality. One cannot exist without the other and when we focus too much on one, the other suffers.
Many creatives struggle with the practical steps required to bring our ideas forth and into the world because these parts of the process aren’t usually done while communing with the trees or meditating. It probably feels like the opposite of meditation when you’re making a list and checking it twice. Until you actually and truly develop a relationship with your cosmic buddy. It’s only then that you awaken a whole new conversation, where your connection and conversation doesn’t go silent when you get up from the mat that you can finally begin to experience a continuous connection and relationship with your soul.
For me, I work on my patio, with my birds and my squirrels and marvelous trees and nature all around me. My cosmic co-writer is always seated next to me, like a personal assistant just waiting for me to ask for help. Bob is my ride or die no matter where I am, in my car, an elevator, the grocery store. We have no boundaries. We are truly connected all the time. (That doesn’t mean I always listen BTW) We have developed a silent language. And most importantly, my BoB (as I have named it), trusts that whatever wild idea it shares with me, I have the skills and the tools to execute it. I am not afraid or unwilling to drop into this reality to make it happen. Because there is no separation between here and there. It’s all connected. I have developed an ability to know the “Who, what when where and why” of all the possibilities it shares with me.
This practice, if you will, was developed over time with BoB and I working together, building a relationship and trust and my own willingness to get down on the ground and learn the mass to mass, practical steps needed to bring an idea out into the world. The “boring” stuff, the minutia, the steps taken in real time reality. Because ultimately that’s what our soul wants us to do. It’s why we have all these dreams and visions of creative endeavors we can create to impact the world or even just our families and friends. Sometimes the dreams are big and sometimes they are small, the steps are the same. It also doesn’t really matter if it’s a book or a widget, the process of bringing it from a sea of potential into reality is the same.
But when we hide behind the notion that being an empath or highly sensitive makes it harder to ground, then we are cutting off the full communication with our soul. The portal might be open, but how are we using it? What are we bringing in from the other side?
We are all empaths; we all have a cosmic co-writer and we are all here and now. When we start to resist new wisdom and information because we have decided already what we are and how we work, we close the portal.
This is the same with any label. I am a Pisces, and I am also me. There is great wisdom in many of the modalities available to us. But don’t forget your own free will and your ability to surprise yourself and your reality when you take off the label and just be.
This is what the Intuitive creative writing course is all about. Building your bridge between your soul and this reality. Developing a continuous relationship with your cosmic pal and learning the skills needed to take on the mission they assign and see it through.
We’ve developed a free short quiz to allow you to learn about your connection to your cosmic co-writer. Take it here. This will lead you to the introductory 1.5 hour video course.
We will be starting a mastermind in January. This is a year long group where you will be inspired and coached in creating the story your soul wants to share. If you have ever dreamt of writing your story, or any book or creative project, this is going to be the catalyst you’ve been waiting for.
Right now we have a special offer which is technically closed but I am sharing it with you. Learn more about the mastermind and the offer here.