A Love Letter to Conscious Creatives 🌿🌙🌀
If you’re reading this, then you are a Conscious Creative.
Creativity is conscious living. Conscious living is creative.
To create is to come into our sage self, touch on our truth, bring out into the world through our body, refine with our mind, express with humility. In any area of our life, we can shape reality like magicians or alchemists.
Conscious Creatives see their whole lives as their art. From the moment they wake up, every choice, every habit, every experience is research, fuel for their creations, a blank canvas to play with.
Conscious Creatives come in the form of makers, builders, leaders, warriors, healers, gardeners, scientists, teachers, witches, caretakers, parents, children, elders, infinite forms. They are radically authentic to themselves and defy convention in the way only they know how.
Conscious Creatives are Tantrics. They dance with Shiv and Shakti, Yin and Yang. All creativity is creation and destruction, expansion and contraction, making and deleting, analytical and emotional. The connection to their own spirit and intution is what helps it all feel like play or a sensual dance.
Conscious Creatives are connected to self, to the collective, to the cosmos. Creativity is not an egoic endeavor. It is one of surrender to something much larger than themselves. They reject rugged individualism and the myth of the lone suffering artist. Everyday, they are moved by the art and expression of others.
Conscious Creatives are aware of the world in which we live. They don’t bypass collective suffering in order to create in a bubble. Because art is not frivolous - all art is political. They know their own existence is political.
“In order to move our culture forward, revolutionaries have had to speak and plan from the unseen order inside them. For those of us who were not consulted in the building of the visible order, igniting our imagination is the only way to see beyond what was created to leave us out.”
Glennon Doyle, Untamed
Conscious Creatives endlessly get to know themselves - their passions, convictions, desires, dreams, pains, griefs, fears, shame. They feel it all. They process their feelings through the body and through their art.
Conscious Creatives are in humble awe of their creative gifts. They know their unique creative flow that is easeful, pleasureful, delightful. They know how they shine. They are clear on the magic of their own unique amalgamation of Consciousness, Intuition, and Body. They feel gratitude for their creative gifts.
Conscious Creatives are moved, comforted, and emboldened by the power of their creative spirit and how it can be directed towards collective liberation. Their creative practice provides nourishment for themselves and their community. The river of their creative flow is nourishing, fertile, abundant. It feeds every area of their lives and leads to multiplicative abundance.1
For these reasons, Conscious Creatives are consistent. They’re disciplined not because they force themselves to complete reps or hit goals, but because they can’t help but be in their own flow for their highest good. They live and create according to natural rhythmic cycles and seasons, because ultimately their life is aligned with the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
Conscious Creatives are spiritually disciplined.
Because Conscious Creatives are radically aware of the power of every choice, every habit, every experience, they see how Conscious Creative living requires spiritual discipline. Spiritual hygeine, mindfulness, practice, ritual - the simple and unsexy tools of the sages are their lifeblood. It’s the structure for the flow, the riverbanks for the creative river.
Paradoxically, through spiritual discipline comes radical freedom. With daily devotional practice in connecting to their inner sage, everything becomes play, everything is art, every experience in life has meaning. Spiritual discipline is how they become effortlessly in tune with their creative power.
At the same time, Conscious Creatives are detached from outcomes. They surrender to the irrational nature of Nature. Like the Fool or a wild child, they are eternally innocent. Every day is a new day, where they’ve forgotten the failures of the past, are released from the expectations of the future, and remain enraptured with the present moment.
Conscious Creatvies are eternal seekers. They walk no linear heavily trodden path, they embark delightfully into the unkown, dancing with the mystery of life, continually surprising themselves. There are no failures, only lessons. Like the Zen Buddhists who see enlightenment as walking endlessly up a mountain rather than reaching the top, Conscious Creatives have no agenda except to keep walking on the path, riding the tiger, spiralling towards the light.
Our creative energy nourishes our own psyche, spirit, heart, and even material life. But even more powerfully, once we’ve been moved by creative spirit to share our art, it goes on to have a life of its own, touching, influencing, inspiring, moving others.
Creativity is perhaps the most important and consequential power for us to tap into in our quest for collective healing. Liberation lies in our deepest dreams and desires.
Rivers are often associated with the feminine, the goddess, energies of nourishment, fertility, abundance, sensuality, and the continuous flow of life. It is from waters that we come to this earthly plane, and to the waters we return. The flow of water, slow and steady, has the power to shape landscapes over time.
In India, the river Ganges is one of the ancient holy sites of pilgrimage. She is referred to as Ganga Ma and symbolizes eternal purity, sanctity, benevolence. Millions have travelled to the banks of the river Ganga to purify both physical and spiritual impurites. It has been central to rituals of life and death. She is seen as a mother who provides for her children with infinite compassion, offering sustenance, purification, and spiritual renewal.
In pre-Islamic Iran, Anahita was one of the most important goddesses, a water deity associated with fertility, protection of women, and served as a source of wisdom, inspiration, and creativity. She is associated with strength as much as flow, as she rides a chariot and wears a gilded mantle.
In Yoruba mythology, Yemaya is the Great Mother of all Orishas and a goddess of the sea and rivers. She’s associated with the dark depths of the ocean to the nourishing banks of the river. She is associated with creativity, especially in the realms of emotion and intuition.
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