At Conscious Pioneer, we talk a lot about creativity – how it’s our human life-blood, our compulsion, our path to freedom.
Every time we explore this topic, in groups, with individuals or for ourselves, we end up at the same place: owning our creativity means owning our passion, and through our passion, our creativity finds its voice. It’s all related.
If you are really lucky, you experience joy when sharing your voice. Did you ever have the experience as a kid of singing at the top of your lungs, not caring who heard you or what you sounded like – just feeling awesome?! Of course this doesn’t mean everyone is a singer – everyone’s creativity and passion are completely unique and personal – but this is a feeling that most of us can relate to…
It’s our experience that every single one of us is amazing at doing or sharing or being something – all we have to do is find out what it is, and do it. Imagine if it’s not as hard as you think… ?
Here’s the kicker: when exploring, testing, stretching, and exercising our creativity, we can get knocked around, bumped and bruised. In response, it’s tempting to shrink our voice really small; so it feels manageable, or maybe so we can forget about it so we don’t have to risk more bumps and bruises. Shrinking our dreams to make them manageable is certainly less risky, but at what cost?
If we tone-back our creativity so we don’t have to risk, an essential part of what picks us up and keeps us going after those bruises and bumps is missing – our passion.
Passion is heart. It is the feeling or sensation that we experience when we fully engage in anything. It’s outside of time and thought: pure action, pure knowing. If we shut off our feelings so getting bumps and bruises doesn’t hurt so much, then we inadvertently shut off our passion too. Either we are feeling, or we’re not. There’s no half way about it.
Have you experienced bumps and bruises? Have you come out the other side shinier and brighter, or scared, or demoralized and ready to quit?
Silly of us to want to want to shine and not expect to be tumbled to get there!