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"Your job is to be a deliberate creator, and flow energy so deliberately that the vibrations of other people are uplifted by your vibration, rather than yours being brought down by theirs. Your connection to the stream is not fragile. If you get solidly connected, not only can other people not have a negative effect on you, you must have a positive effect on them. One person who IS connected to the stream of well-being is more powerful than a million who are not!" ~ Abraham-Hicks
The sun warms, flowers blossom, dew glistens, birds are pushed from their nests, and butterflies emerge from their cocoons. New growth is everywhere. Spring brings new life and along with it new hope. Time to pack away the winter coats as we shake off the winter chill and awaken from a cold hibernation. We are once again amidst the season for new beginnings. With the budding of a new love comes a renewed creative vitality. The pregnant pause is over and has made way for the birth of invigorated inspiration.
   
I have not been inspired much to write over the past few weeks, but at the prodding of a few friends I decided to deal with my writers block directly. As the Universe often provides exactly what we need when we need it, a fellow artist friend recommended a great book for dealing with artist's block. The book is called "The Artists Way," A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. I am barely into the basic tools and have not even begun the first week or chapter yet, and I have already found a wealth of information.
One of the basic tools the book recommends for dealing with artists block and to connect with the greater creative energy that connects all of us, is a tool called morning pages. It is a free hand, stream of consciousness where you write down three pages worth of everything that comes to mind. To be most effective, it is not to be read by anyone but the writer and not even by the writer for several weeks. The purpose is to free the mental and emotional blocks that obstruct the free flow of consciousness. (There is only one man that I am close enough to inflict this mental babble on and I am still learning just how important even with him timing is ;)
I just started the process of morning pages when the words "Go with Flow" jumped out at me. I have felt blocked from this creative flow over the past weeks. I have often prayed that God would use me as a conduit, but as soon as I began to see real evidence of this I forgot its source and my ego stepped in to take credit. Since then I have been struggling to remove the ego and allow a clean connection to the soul and to this stream of higher consciousness and creative power. A great quote from this book summed up this creative power beautifully.
"Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb . . . the most active and dynamic of all? ~ Mary Daly
This quote especially hit me because this is how I experience God most often. As I have discussed in a previous blog about the underlying rhythm of the universe, I often feel God's presence as an energy that permeates every cell of my being and connects me to all of life. These experiences with God often come accompanied by music, synchronicity, chanting, prayer, or meditation but are experienced as an abundant flow of energy that nourishes the very soul. Although I have felt this energy during this time of creative block, I did not feel its free flow working through me.
It is when I wrote these words "Go with Flow" that I began to realize that it was my desire to control my own destiny and the course of my life that I began to realize that my block is about not acknowledging the source of this creative power and surrendering to it. I have to remind myself to surrender to this flow not just upon my spiritual awakening, not just when I pray, not just when I meditate, or when I am moved by this stream of consciousness within myself or reflected in another. This flow takes conscious awareness in every moment of every day. Today I am choosing to "Go with Flow"
6:55 PM
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