Today’s Guest Spot goes to Suzanne Murray.
I recently watched a video of a 42-year-old neurosurgeon from California who dances for his patients to cheer them up during their check-ups. He gets them dancing too, including a young woman in a wheelchair seen waving her arms and shimmying her chair. I love that this doctor had found such a creative way to tend his patients spirits as well as their bodies. I imagine it’s a great help to their healing.
It has me thinking more about how being creative can help heal our world. Creativity allows us to access new ways of looking at a problem and find fresh solutions. We touch expanded capacities and find ourselves capable of more than we think. We connect more to our heart and spirit. We are often surprised and delighted by the unexpected inspirations that arrive. We can learn to bring the creative process into every area of our lives to help ourselves, each other and the world.
The simplest way to work with this process is to ask a question like “how can I help the world today” or “how can I bring more creativity into my life” or “how can this problem I am having in my life” and then let it go. Don’t try to figure out the answer with your mind. Rather let the response drop in as an awareness or intuition, a flash of insight or an ah..ha moment where you sense you are on to something.
I do this all the time, especially when I don’t know what to do. Like with this newsletter. A few days before I planned for one, I had no idea what to write about. I felt completely uninspired. I silently asked the question “what’s my topic this month?” and let it go. The next day I saw the video about the dancing doctor. That inspired the subject of how to work with creativity to help each other and the world.
When faced with the events in the world today and the constant bombardment of information we can easily feel overwhelmed and helpless to affect change. Knowing that our creative self is eager to assist us can help. Ask a question on an issue concerning you, someone or something you care about or the world at large, and see what comes. Then take some kind of action on the awareness, no matter how small. See where it takes you.
Be willing to step out of your comfort zone. That’s part of being creative. We expand beyond who we think we are into more of who we really are. The rewards are many including an increased sense of empowerment and happiness. Play with this. The world, as you know, needs our gifts and inspirations now more than ever.
Wishing you the joy of being creative, Suzanne
Originally published as “Adrift” in the March 2006 of Sun Magazine.
Suzanne Murray offers many opportunities to tap into your creativity:
THE HEART OF WRITING COACHING
Do you want to ignite your creativity and show up to your writing on a regular basis or go deeper into the process and craft? Online coaching to support you with any resistance or problems along the way: daily lessons and assignments hold the space of unconditional acceptance and support to nurturing your unique voice and work on the stories that are really important to you.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)
Combining Western psychology with Chinese acupressure, it works to actually rewrite subconscious patterns and limiting beliefs that keep us stuck. I’ve had miraculous results and have been working with EFT in new ways that allow us to laser in on the issue and shift it at the core and change your life from the inside out. We often make significant shifts in a single session.
