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Inner Healing Through Creativity

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Are you on a healing path? Do you sometimes wonder if you could tap into something that might help the process along in a natural way? Have a lot of ideas but not sure where to go? This could be where creativity comes in for you!

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In my personal experience, creativity has been one of the biggest healing fountains I’ve ever accessed. If you’ve decided to take the conscious steps on your own healing journey or thrust yourself into the clarity of your life path, creativity and thinking openly will more than likely be a vital part of your process.

Are you stuck?

If you are on a path of growth, sometimes you may find yourself stuck at dead ends or trying to figure out a way to comfortably put the pieces back together–and it’s hard to put the pieces back together in exactly the same way they were before when we are growing. Change happens and that change is something we have to learn to accept as our new reality starts to presents itself to us as we heal and grow. (I’m still trying to find ways to accept my new reality as I grow every day.)

We are always expanding our view as new branches form in our tree. Creative energy helps with the growth of these branches.

But…

What if we have a hard time finding ways to express the new version of ourselves without fear or doubt as we stretch to new heights?

This is where creativity can naturally come in and we can learn to express our growth with intent, emotions, problems, thoughts–or anything we want to explore!

There’s no doubt that the most creative minds out there have something to share but I believe that all people have the ability to be their own creators. Every one of us has an innate creative ability to some degree and this applies to many different facets of life. The benefits of exploring our own creativity can activate parts of our subconscious mind that aren’t normally utilized in our daily life. The simple act of creating something can increase our “ability to tap into the subconscious” by exploring our reality.

Here’s a small list of what we can learn about inside ourselves when utilizing creativity while on a healing path.

  • Dreams
  • Fantasies
  • Unusual Concepts
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual Explorations
  • Memories
  • Imagination
  • Intuition
  • Emotions
  • Positivity
  • Confidence
  • Self-sufficiency
  • Philosophy
  • …and more

This list could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. These simply listed topics are HUGE for those diving head first into their own healing process. Thinking outside of the box can help us find all the answers we seek.

Not only can exploring creativity present a new perspective but, as I said, it has massive healing qualities.

What will if feel like?

It can lead us comfortably through the process of growth and bring dreams forward that we had forgotten or even spark us to create something new! It can also center us when the tide gets too high during the painful triggers or develop our sense of self-awareness in daily activities. Through exploring our creativity we can even discover hidden memories or thought patterns which hold us back within.

At the start of my own healing journey, I couldn’t move forward without accessing this part of myself. Even the simple act of exploring questions can be creative enough to expand the mind and heart. It opens many avenues for growth and ultimately, the expansion that your soul really craves.

If utilized during your own process, it will soothe and help you to expand. If you have expansion on your plate in order to hold or balance energy, this is something I highly recommend for those looking to understand with more clarity. Creative thinking and growth is an amazing tool for the mind, body, emotions, and spirit.

Check out Part 2 soon where I discuss this at more detail and a concept I like to call the “Creative Threshold” for great feats of healing or growth.

Become Friends With Your Body

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Teaching ourselves to appreciate our own bodies can be difficult. Living in a world that doesn’t exactly encourage a healthy relationship with our bodies can create many problems with self image. This inflicts everyone on some level. Yet, on the other hand, we have a huge resurgence of “body positivity” in Western Society. This can also lead to gross acceptance that can create even more damage or cycles that undermine our personal growth.

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Where is the middle point?

Learning to balance our personal needs with the needs of our body is something I want to touch upon. The ability to become “friends” with the spirit of our body. Discovering the essence of our physical state and its personal needs as it cries out for attention feels hard but is often quite simple.

Putting a metaphorical ear to each want and each sensation can come from a place that we all know: Friendship. By learning to be good friends with ourselves, we start small and work our way through the pieces.

Become friends with our physical state

This is just as important as any other state of balancing we’re striving for in terms of growth. To understand what we’ve done to our bodies over the years and what we’ve neglected to do for our body in the present- and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to know what you body is capable of either. We all have our own bodily needs and wants.

Re-connect and listen to what your body is telling you. Close your eyes and just pay attention.

Learning to communicate with our own physical form can teach us about the power we have and the weaknesses we have. It can increase expansion and allows for the freedom to move, be, and experience wellness daily– no matter what kind of state our body is in.

Start communicating with your body

How does one even start seeing their body as a part of themselves instead of something that gets in the way of their lives? How does one start to view their body as a friend instead of a foe? What kind of language does your body use to communicate with you? How can you learn to listen to it’s voice?

One of the first things to realize is that our body isn’t our foe. It’s not our enemy nor does it need to be neglected or controlled all the time. Crazy huh?

No self hate

By being at odds with ourselves and either hating or downing our body, we’re effectively undermining our personal growth in most areas. Confidence, self-esteem, depression, anger, sadness, guilt, and shame–these are just some of the feelings we embody when we do this. This can even lead to various cycles that keep us from experience the fullness of what our body can do for us–believe it or not our body wants us to thrive!

One of the first things to realize is that our body isn’t our foe. It’s not our enemy nor does it need to be neglected or controlled all the time.

But what happens when you talk down to a friend? What happens when you stop nurturing the friendship and you start picking it apart? What happens if you throw your friend aside and stop listening to the basic fundamental needs they have to stay connected to you?

Anger, silence and damage to the friendship is inevitable at that point.

Our body is here to help us navigate and experience life. The body might seem like a vessel to some, but the body is just as much of our experiences as the rest of our existence. Aligning our thoughts with what we feel about our body can encourage change and healthy attitudes and heal our image of the body. Which leads to better choices for our body through a realistic lens–not an overly positive one that can force you to fall back into a habit that destroys you.

Be real

Accept this friend that wants to converse with you and take in all it has to say. You might feel a lot of things too.

To become friends with the embodiment of our physical form creates awareness of neglect or loss of control. It can create a ripple effect into your daily life where you learn to respect yourself and the bodies of others too. It creates potential and the ability to see that potential in yourself, no matter what ails your body.

Learning to talk to the body is hard but with patience (I know, it can be very hard to cultivate patience) it can be learned. Stopping to take the time to listen to what our body says, even during small encounters, will reveal to us a lot more about our emotional and mental state. The senses are always willing to share information with us if we listen to it’s language. Start with the simple.

Think for a moment…

  • When you’re hurting, the body tells you it’s in pain.
  • When you’re hungry, the body tells you it needs food.
  • If something is cold, you put something warm on because your body told you it needed warmth.
  • When you’re tired, you feel it in your body.
  • If you’re sick, the body informs you. (Sometimes even ahead of time!)

These are just a few simple ways of the body communicating with us. With simple signals like this, it’s all too easy to ignore it’s voice with the distractions we have in our daily lives. It’s the more complex problems that we have become desensitized to because of distractions. The subtle nuances of communication and trust between our body and our mind have been damaged for centuries through disconnection with ourselves and our environment. The little pieces of our body that could easily be in tune with every part of us if we just listened more closely to our dearest friend.

The body has needs

Just like the mind, emotions, and our essence. Learning to pay attention and communicate organically through awareness will free us from the unhealthy relationship we might have with our body and put us on the path to balancing ourselves for expansion.

Once I stopped ignoring the big things my body was telling me, the closer I got to noticing the nuanced conversations of the subtle whispers.

One day I decided to make a conscious effort to make my body my best friend. Does that mean I always listen? No, but it definitely means that I’m paying attention. That’s where balancing and healing can come in. A door opens up to possibility and a new internal focus on relationship with ourselves. It’s a small step, but a very impacting one.

Follow along in my next article where I’ll explore the essence of our body and how it pertains to our environment and the subtle messages we can pick up on when we listen patiently to our physical being.

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