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The Creation Cycle

Hi 
 
I have been reading Penney Peirce's wonderful book The Intuitive
Way. She speaks of the creative process as being a twin to the
intuitive process. It has been very enlightening for me as I tend
to get stuck in wanting to be inspired all of the time and often
refuse to take quiet-not knowing time to rejuvenate. My inner
spirit has literally forced me to slow down this past summer and as
a result of surrendering to it I am now feeling new inspiration and
higher visions come into my life. I will outline Penney's wonderful
interpretation of the creative process for you here as I understand
it in my own life.

The Descending Phase of Creation:
Be-Do-Have-Be

1) Spirit-be swoops into mind-do: and this is spontaneous
inspiration. This is spontaneous creativity - the acting on the
first impulse. The first impulse is always the most true. If you
want to check out this phase of the creativity cycle check out my
e-course Collage For Self-Discovery. It is here where we experience
enthusiasm, purpose and the desire to expand. We are motivated and
have no doubt. There is a childlike willingness to take a leap into
the unknown.

Because I teach this and love to live this phase of the process - I
can tend to get stuck here often....longing for the thrill of
inspiration.

2) Mind-do swings to body-have: The goal is clear. Coming from
higher guidance you launch into action. We experience an increase
in intensity and focus during this phase, a threshold is reached
and physical results manifest. This is the manifesting part of the
creative cycle.

This would be what I term as my "busyness" syndrome. I get so
excited about creating my e-courses, and writing and painting and
drawing that I forget to return to being. My spirit literally
slowed me to a stop this past summer in order to realize this. This
is getting stuck in "do-have".

Getting Stuck in do-have, do-have, do-have:

This where we keep on creating what we have created before. We
focus on busyness out of fear of the unknown and creating something
unknown. I created my e-course Deepening Creativity out of the
desire and need to deepen in the midst of busyness. Completing the
the creation cycle by returning to being is out of the question
because often leaving the world of doing can feel like loss,
annihilation and "depression". In this place we are called to open
up to something new.

All summer long I have been struggling with what can only be
explained as a sort of depression and a refusal to create much. My
old ways of creating alone in the privacy of my own studio, and at
my computer have been feeling isolated and not as challenging or as
enlivening as they have before. I faced the need for a
challenge...it seems to be presenting itself as giving my gifts to
people in a living, face to face, breathing manner. Joining with
people is now becoming one of my greatest joys and has become an
process of awe and creativity for me.

Letting Go Into Being: As soon as you let yourself not know, not
think and not do your intuition turns on again.This is presence and
we can access it and rejuvenate it anywhere, anytime in our lives.
This is the place to take small,non goal oriented, body inspired
actions. Be insignificant and simple. This is the place from where
my free e-course Creative Intuition was born.

This past summer I have felt less than ordinary. Uninspired,
simple. My creativity was bare and simple. Often taking a nap or
going for a walk or just shutting off my mind and doing a simple
manual task at work or home that did not require a lot of cognition
felt like the most important thing. In this place peeling potatoes
can be profound and I often felt like I never wanted to be creative
again! It is in this place that I can feel my inner life. I can
feel subtle vibrations in different parts of my body. I feel
profoundly loving, soft, open. One thing this quiet past summer has
taught me is to just stop when I experience overwhelm. When it
stops feeling easy and inspired I try to just stop the trajectory
and rest and wait. This has felt hard for me! Yet rest is profound.
When I truly rest, my dreams are magnificent.

And then...Inspiration arises again! This is where you feel lit up
with burning inspirations and motivations and a new and fluid
direction comes clear. You are 100% full of energy and ideas. You
want to give birth to creations and be dynamic and life looks full,
active and positive.
What I have found in my what our society would call a "depression"
is an ability to hold more love and to love and accept more of
myself. Slowing down as I have, I realize been integrating a new
vision for myself as being able to hold and extend far more love
and connection than I have been previously felt capable of.
 
This past summer for me has been a profound allowing of insight,
self acceptance and from it birthed a new willingness to extend
more and receive more from my extending. I have a vision of being
to handle more relationships and connection in my life without
feeling overwhelmed. I have an energetic blueprint of the level of
presence I need to maintain to live into the next phase of my life.
 
Love to you,
Shelley