1. We are co-creating the world - as participants in creation - manifesting our ideas into projects and circumstances - as observers in quantum mechanics theory, we are concretizing potentials - Ask yourself how do you breathe life into our world?
2. Calling the muse, evoking inspiration, honouring Awen, - Ask yourself, how do you invoke creativity?
3. A connection to the creator through creating, letting the gods/higher powers work in us and through us - How do you see yourself as being part of something greater when you create?
4. Creating as a meditation or ritual of meaning and connection... be it art, music, drama, sex, cooking, gardening, writing, storytelling, - Ask yourself how you use creativity to interact with others/the world and how do you give significance to your actions?
5. Creating art as expressing reactions to all/any of creation - How do you show your appreciation and acknowledgement of what has already been done or is in progress?
6. Being a creature - Expressing yourself in your full glory, uninhibited, unashamed and whole. How do you become who you are and persist as a perfect, unique aspect of the universe as you grow and change?
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My Frontier:
I find that lately, the exercise of writing a piece or drawing a doodle are literally my meditative practices.
I open my mind to the blank page, which I consider my frontier. I make love to that empty page. Nothing is more full, more rich, more generous, than a blank page. I welcome the Muse, and I am fully present, in the flow of inspiration, and give that permission for creativity to work in me and through me. I open myself to the potential as the possibilities unfold in my artwork and I gratefully honour what happens on the page. I am mindful of the smell of my book, the colour of the ink, the shapes of the letters and lines, the rhythms and patterns that texture the creation. I am breathing with the child of my mind/heart as it expands into being, inhaling with anticipation and exhaling with the perfection and beauty that occur in front of my eyes. I am on some level aware in that moment that I am one with my higher power, that I am created, creator, creation, and creating. I am filled with the powers of manifestation where sky meets earth in my subjective experience. I imbue the work with the emotion and vitality of water and fire. I visualize each syllable, each rhyme, each symbol, each shape, each curve, each literary device, as intricate keys that unlock the mystery of this gift of something being born.
Art is a profoundly and deeply spiritual thing for me, and yes, I consider making art of any kind, a meditation, in and of itself.