Nurture Your Creative Energy Through Life's Chaos

Your creativity is a soul gift. You can work with it or shut it out. I stuffed my creative nudges for many years. Ideas for books, businesses, and art got put to the back of my mind while I did what I thought I was ‘supposed’ to be doing.

Through a lot of personal work and exploration, I am finally in a place to honor my creativity and my imagination. For so long, I thought my imagination was getting in my way. And it was with the part of my ego that said my life is supposed to look a certain way.

If you feel that you’ve thrown your creative nudges out with the bathwater, you can do a few things to nurture your creativity.

Before I go any further if the word "creativity" triggers a certain feeling or thought for you, can you identify it with your imagination? You were born with imagination, and it’s not frivolous.

Consider how your creativity shows up and what your imagination offers you. Do you have a feeling about a topic? Do you see visuals in your mind's eye? Are you clairaudient, where words and sounds pop into your mind?

You can honor your creative energy and nudges in several ways. As you do this, you’ll discover more ways to expand your creative energy.

1. Keep an idea journal.

2. Journal every morning, as Julia Cameron of The Artist’s Way recommends.

3. Identify your favorite way to express yourself. Is it writing, drawing, using clay, or making music? To practice expanding your creative energy, write or draw for ten minutes daily—or any day you can fit it in.

4. Ask yourself how you best work out ideas when you have them. I’ve learned that I come up with solutions faster when I talk about them out loud. Otherwise, I spin in my mind for way too long. Sometimes, I’ll go for a walk and use my phone to record my thoughts.

Whatever you do, find ways to nurture your creative energy. You’ll bring more of the ideas that you imagine to life.

If you are in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, I’m offering a year-long series of workshops called “Nurture Your Creative Energy.” Each class is offered separately. The first class is on Sunday, November 3, from 3 - 4:30 p.m. in McKinney at The Wildflowers Production House. If you’d like to know more, you can message me.