This morning in our Monday teleclass Earning Money we had a most fascinating time looking at the concept of “creativity”.
Many of us will believe that we need MORE of it, this thing called creativity: If I had more creativity, I would be more interesting, more attractive, and more wealthy.
Some people in the class thought of creativity as having the capacity to make things, to sew, to do pottery, to paint. Some thought of it as writing a book. Some thought of it as having some great solution to a “problem”.
The definition of creative in the dictionary is “the use of imagination or original ideas, to transcend the usual patterns or rules, to cause something to come into being”.
The most painful part of thinking about creativity can be in comparing our own with others.
That person over there is making a much prettier painting than me. That woman used to wait tables in New York, but now she is Lady Gaga and I’m still nothing. All my friends can cook, sew, make gifts by hand, and I hate crafts. He built that house himself, my house is boring. They invented google in their garage, I have no ideas!
Thoughts about creativity are stressful when we believe that if we were more creative, we would have more, be more, or do more.
My life would be better if I had MORE of this thing, called creativity.
My lack of creativity is a problem!
But is this thing called creativity actually yours? And are you sure your life needs to be better…..and that creativity is the ticket?
What do we really mean by creativity anyway? Remember the definition? It means imagination, original ideas, transcending the usual norm….something unique is being expressed.
Isn’t that already what you are? A very entirely unique human being living a different life than was ever once lived or ever will be lived again? Aren’t you creativity in action?
What if what you are IS creativity….just the way you are? And what if the creativity that comes to you and springs out of you isn’t actually even yours? Did you cause it, or did it just seem to happen?
Who would you be without the thought that you need any more creativity, inventiveness or imagination than you have now?
Who would you be without the thought that what you are just isn’t enough?
The hilarious thing is when I sit with this idea of creativity and wishing for more….I realize how my mind has been constantly creating stories my whole life. And they aren’t all fun stories.
Boy, I can sure find the Turnaround to be true: I need LESS creativity! Less of my stories about creativity.
“Coming to the end of suffering has to do with reality and truth, with what’s real as opposed to what’s not real, and valuing what’s actual instead of what’s imagined.” ~Adyashanti
What does it feel like to be OK with what is, right here, right now, the way you are?
Love, Grace