Navigating Life’s Creative Waves

Ever felt the rush of inspiration slipping away as you scramble to capture it? That's exactly what happened to me when I had an idea while kayaking. I faced the relentless chatter of my own mind, fearing I'd lose my creative spark before reaching my microphone. This episode is raw and honest, a testament to intuition, and a reminder that creativity thrives in the moments we're truly living—not just staring at a blank page. Join me as I navigate these fleeting thoughts, embracing the imperfection and chaos that come with them.

A few days later, with a fresh perspective, I reflect on our growth journeys and how they mirror the ever-changing natural world. Instead of picking up where I left off, I decided to align my thoughts with my current energy, offering new insights on embracing change without frustration. This episode is all about the ebb and flow of life and creativity, showing how living in the present can lead to genuine and inspired expression. Tune in to explore how letting go can make your creative process more fluid and fulfilling.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:23

Hey there. So they say that we teach what we most need to learn. It's an interesting saying, but you know what it's really true and it got me thinking. Today I kind of want to model this in real time. So I literally just came in off the lake and even in the time between getting out of my bathing suit and into the shower and over here to my microphone, I was already feeling the noise of my brain saying you're going to lose what you were thinking about. You're going to lose what you were thinking about. And it's so interesting because, well, a, what we're thinking about changes all the time and develops and grows.

Speaker 1: 1:12

So trying to hold on to the exact thing and capture it, it's a little bit attached, quite frankly. You know, there've been those moments where you say, oh man, I wish I had my camera, or you know whatever it might be. And so I'm leaning into the idea that something was conjuring while I was on the lake and I felt it and I felt the muse calling me and I felt that there was a learning opportunity for me as well as, potentially, for you. And again, that's the spirit in which I do this. Let me, let me, let me try to be clear here I am a verbal processor, so that's kind of what you're getting a little bit of.

Speaker 1: 2:09

And again, this is an honest, raw episode. You know, there's a massive limiting belief that we all hold from time to time, some of us more than others, that you know, if we're not working, we're doing something that is its opposite. And it's kind of a weird thing because I don't consider what I do work first of all. So that word alone is a little bit, it's not a good fit of all. So that word alone is a little bit, it's not a good fit. And embracing the idea that things happen, creativity is stimulated when you're living, not when you're sitting at the blank page. And I've experienced this time and time and time again. And it's interesting because when I talk about the places where there are spaces, or a gap, if you want, you know the space between the physical, literal space between when I stepped off my kayak and where I am right now on my microphone, all sorts of things happened in all sorts of other. I don't want to say you know universes, but honestly I mean it could have gone in so many directions. In fact, I passed through my kitchen and I was going to have lunch first, because I have a session in about 45 minutes. And then the little brain in my head kept saying, or a part of my brain kept saying to me why don't you go upstairs and just you know, just kind of lay something down? So that's what I'm doing. I, why don't you go upstairs and just you know, just kind of lay something down? So that's what I'm doing? I followed that intuition and I won't finish it now because, well, there are true time constraints around this, but maybe I've just captured something in this moment, Right? Hmm, interesting, I'm going to pause there. And again, this is about process.

Speaker 1: 4:13

So it's a few days later now and I'm back and I'm in a different headspace and in many ways, I'm a completely different person. We aren't that much different from all the organic things around us, like grass and trees and birds and flowers that seem to grow when we aren't looking. It's a lesson from nature that slow growth is almost invisible, but nature doesn't get frustrated when it doesn't see the results quickly enough. That's where we differ. It's not that anything has drastically changed since I recorded the first part of this passage only three or four days ago, only that I have lived and experienced more things. When we acknowledge that the only constant is change, we are more easily able to ebb and flow and not spend any time worrying about it or comparing our current performance against what we did before.

Speaker 1: 5:23

When I listen back just now to what I recorded those four days ago, my initial impulse was to continue where I left off, but what I had recorded was the product of my energy at that time. If I choose to live in the moment right now, I'm in a place where there is a space and an invitation to approach this in a way that is more aligned with where I am at energetically right now. So, instead of free thinking, I'm writing this before I record. Two things stood out from the first part when I listened to it. One is the amount of times that I had said I feel or I felt, and I'm noticing that in this moment, I'm more in my cerebral place than tapped into my intuitive space, although, although I acknowledge that they are both there within me at all times and, depending on the context, well, they'll take turns leading. So my intuition says, yes, go ahead and write rather than improvise right now. So you see, they can work together and support each other. The other thing that stuck with me about the first part is how I reminded myself that this is a process.

Speaker 1: 6:52

Process or process, for my Canadian friends is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as a series of actions or events performed to make something or achieve a particular result. Or achieve a particular result aka write, record, share. Or it also defines it as a series of changes that happen naturally. A paradox you gotta love. You gotta love how life imitates art. You've got to love how life imitates art. Friends, thank you for listening today. I hope that hearing about my process resonated with you and that you will connect and apply whatever insights you may have gleaned to grow and learn and cultivate your own unlimited creative capacity. My muses brought me two thoughts to ponder before I sign off. It was the Roman philosopher Seneca who coined that phrase while we teach, we learn, and it was Jonathan Livingston Siegel author, richard Bach, who said we teach best what we most need to learn. I'm Lisa Hopkins. Thanks so much for listening. Stay safe and healthy, everyone, and remember to live in the moment.