Welcome to Harnessing Creativity.
Today we unleash your creative spirit.
I'm Janna,
Wherever you are in this moment,
I'm grateful to share it with you.
This meditation is truly for everyone,
Especially those who may not think of themselves as creatives or artists,
Because we're all on this earth to create,
We are all artists.
And today we'll focus on unleashing your own creative energy,
Which already resides within you.
Gently close your eyes,
Find a comfortable position.
Begin to scan your body from the crown of your head downward,
Letting the body soften.
Begin to notice your breath,
Letting it slow down,
Savoring the air.
On the next inhale,
We'll trace the movement of breath upward.
Start at your belly,
Inhaling upward to the ribs,
The chest,
All the way up to the collarbone.
Exhale slowly downward,
Releasing to the chest,
Down to the ribs,
Emptying all the way down to the belly.
Now just release the breath,
Let it happen naturally.
Just notice the sensations in the body and become comfortable bringing awareness to your body.
Now we'll focus the mind on a moment in your life when someone criticized or rejected something that you created.
As you're bringing this moment to mind,
Know that it could be something you made with your hands or you wrote,
Even an idea you came up with.
This can be from your childhood or even a recent event,
Any time when your creation was discouraged and it depleted you or inhibited you from creating more.
Bring this moment to mind.
Just notice if this moment held you back,
If it made you close your heart to possibilities.
Perhaps it made it daunting to dare to be curious and more creative.
Notice if it perhaps made it difficult to express the full version of you.
Whatever the experience is that comes to mind,
Begin to feel it in your body.
Notice any sensations that arise when you recall this past moment of creative discouragement.
Perhaps there's tension or even a stiffening or closing some part of the body.
Without judging,
Just bring awareness to the felt senses in the body as you recall this moment.
Now consider what you believed about yourself in that moment when your own creative desire was crushed and take this belief about yourself and let it form just a few words.
Maybe the words would be,
I can't or I shouldn't.
Just let the words form.
The words may be discouraging words,
But let them form anyway.
Just bring awareness to what you believed about yourself in this moment.
Now see yourself from above releasing those words,
That belief.
No longer holding on to the words,
Letting them grow faint.
See them becoming colorless,
Finally disappearing.
The words are gone.
The belief is now completely powerless over you.
Feel yourself lighter,
Yet more powerful without these words,
Without the belief.
This power to create is your birthright.
You are meant to create with passion,
Whether it's a new business concept,
A literary work,
A form of art,
Perhaps a fresh opportunity,
Even a relationship,
An innovative project,
A recipe,
An unorthodox idea,
Anything about which you're passionate without being stunted or discouraged or blocked.
Know you are creative.
Each of us is in some way.
We all have a creative need within us.
Know this.
Know this need is here to move you into action.
With your eyes still closed,
Bring your awareness upward until you can envision yourself from above,
Completely free of the weight of those heavy words of discouragement.
You're free now to create,
Uninhibited,
Unchained by some potential audience of rejection,
Unburdened,
By this audience that could crush you.
You're ready to create for a new audience,
An audience of one.
You are primed and ready to create for yourself.
Let go of the concerns of that judging audience.
Now focus only on the intuitive,
Playful,
Curious part of you that is the artist within,
That part of you that believes in your birthright to create.
Part of you that's deeply open and curious about what you can still create,
What you are yet to create.
This is the you that's not swayed by judgment.
We all want to be seen favorably in the eyes of others.
As you create now,
You are creating for yourself,
For this audience of one.
Believe in your own creative energy above all else.
Now is the time to open your heart to creating again.
Hear these words,
An open heart has the space for possibility.
Nobody has the power to close your heart except you.
Let your heart open to this creative wisdom.
You have an abundance of it within.
Gently open your eyes as you're ready,
Ready to create.
May you reconnect with your artist within.
Thank you for meditating with me.
May the universe bring us back together soon.
And until then,
Know that you have your own creative wisdom on tap.
