We often think that creativity is a magical gift that only a few people have. 
That some people are born writers, or artists, or musicians, or dancers. 
Either you've "got it" or you don't. 

In truth, creativity is simply an aspect of awareness. 
It's about learning how to open the "tube" in which Divine information flows. 
It's about getting out of our own way, and learning to let that flow happen. 

Another way to look at it: getting creative ideas isn't about "forcing" or "trying" or "working. It's about receiving them. 

The same way that we receive images and information in meditation, or we receive the whispers of the Universe when we are out and about in our day—this is how creativity happens, too. 

What I find is that when we gather information from the Universe, we are always informed at the deepest level. For example, if you are writing a novel, whatever creative ideas arrive to you, always have to do with your soul's journey too—it's not just about the characters or plot. If you are painting a painting, what you express is always what your soul is working out—it's not just about what finds its way to the canvas. 

For whatever reason, fall and winter are some of the very best seasons to do creative work. There is something about being done with summer, and being ready to go internal, to wander around and see what the Universe is placing in our path, as clues and answers to our creative process. 

If you've never been a "creative type" why not? 
If you're a "creative type" who isn't being creative, why is this? 
If you need an infusion of inspiration, what happens when you let the Muse that is is the Universe, guide you?

Sometimes it seems we follow our schedules religiously—except when it comes to our spiritual life.

Now, some of you have very active spiritual practices, and you understand why it’s important to create time and space for retreats, workshops and events that expand you. Yes! This is the way to do it!
 
But for many folks—and I know this because I hear this directly from you—you're so busy with your life, spiritual practice seems to take a back seat.
 
Maybe we can grab a couple of minutes in the morning to journal, or a few minutes to meditate before bed. Maybe we multi-task by listening to spiritual podcasts while we’re at the gym. Or we squeeze our Divine connection into yoga class during the week, or at a Sunday spiritual service.
 
It's hard to understand until you're there... but..once you start making your spiritual life your priority, your to-do list is going to shrink.
 
You won’t be squeezing spirituality in anymore.
Skimping on the Divine won't be enough. 
You’ll want to make it your priority.
 
And when you make it your priority, all the busyness, all the doingness—will start to drop away. You just won't be interested any more. 
 
Once you start connecting in with the Divine—really experiencing two-way communication with the Universe—then the stuff that doesn’t really matter, won’t  matter to you. 

To be spiritually connected means that we are able to have direct connection with the Universe—a two-way communication that provides all the support we could ever need.

No guru, no teacher, no middle man required.

As souls, we are able to communicate directly with the Universe, and the Universe responds to us—it answers back!

There is a particular language that the Universe speaks, and this is a spiritual language we can learn. Once you understand this language, you have a spiritual connection that will support you forever. 

How do you learn the language? It's very easy. Pretty much any of the super-affordable DailyOM courses I offer will start you on the path of learning that you need to know. 

The  key is to start. Intuition is much more than just having a "feeling" or instinct. It is a language that you can learn very fully—a language that lets you receive information from the Universe in all ways, at all times, every single second.. 

it is a beautiful life, when we let the Universe lead—when we learn how to receive, interpret and follow the Divine guidance that is always available to us. 

So much unhappiness is caused by things we can't control.

We can't control weather extremes like hurricanes.
We can't control natural disasters like fires and floods. 
We can't control political systems or world events. 
We can't even control other people..

What we can be in charge of is ourselves.

That's it. Just us. And often, this simple realization that we can be in charge of ourselves—not the weather, not the world, not even our family member or friends— is enormously freeing. 

This means it's all on you: to punish yourself, fight with yourself, create all kinds of drama, distraction and disarray for yourself. Or to love yourself, fully and completely, exactly as you are. 

A lot of you are experiencing anxiety and fear as you face extreme weather in the U.S: floods and hurricanes in the south and east, the forest fires covering so much of the west. Many other devastating problems, other places in the world. 

So many of you who are sensitives and empaths feel all of this so deeply. 
In the past, you might have wanted to leave, to hide away, to pull away from the rest of humanity to reground and regroup your own sense of self. 

But there isn't any escape, is there? 

We can no longer "go" anywhere or get away, as we might have decades or year or even a month ago, to escape weather or to escape each other. Now, when we see a victim of Harvey, we realize even if we were not in that flood, our Oneness shows us what this person suffered. When we see the blankets of smoky air filling our forests in the west, our Oneness shows us we are all affected. 

We are feeling what each other feels. 
Understanding this is the first step toward having a new spiritual view of the situation.

There is no place to go. 
There is no way to hide.
We are in this together. 
We are not separate, and trying to get separate is no longer a solution. 

Separation: hiding out, finding your quiet space, was the solution of the past. 
It was the sure bet for sensitives, introverts to regroup. 

But now, we're invited to simply show up with full recognition of our Oneness. 
This is a new phase for humanity.
It's different. 

If you're feeling unmoored, stressed, freaked out, If you're feeling like getting separate isn't working any more. If you're unsure, if you sense that things are building and you don't know where they're building too... well, you're right. 

It isn't about politics or weather, although these are reflections of our collective inner change. It's about the newness of Oneness, 

A new understanding in the human collective. 
Difficult and uncomfortable now. 
Once we get used to it, a true evolution. 

Right now, we are experiencing the releasing of the world as we knew it.

We are wading through the floods. 
We are burning through the fires. 
Everything seems to be in chaos. 
It is the final push comes to shove.

If you experienced a spiritual "aha" during the 2017 Solar Eclipse, you know this: right now, we are being reborn.

At this time, some are waking up as individual souls. And if you have done that work already?
Then you are waking to the reality of our Oneness. 
The clear understanding that we are not separate from each other. 
Not separate from the Divine. Not separate from anything.

Anything you released already is gone. 
Anything you didn't release, the Universe is releasing for you now.

There isn't any way to to stop this: the cycle of death and rebirth continues over and over again in all aspects of energy and the Universe.

Relax. Get out of the way. Let it happen.

Our only job is to TRUST, and to recognize ourselves as part and parcel of the collective soul that is the Universe.

Yes, it seems scary and chaotic. 
But we don't have to fear, fret, worry, despair. 
The Universe has things well in hand.
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For now, allow yourself to be reborn with grace.