“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”

~Buckminster Fuller

Each one of us is constantly coming up with new ideas. Nearly everyday something comes to mind that we wish for ourself, that we want to build in our life or that we would like to do for someone else.

This is the beauty of us as individual spirits, that we are always connected to our Creator, and that we are able to express this connection by being creators ourselves.

The problems for as creative beings generally start when our conscious mind, the ego-judge, feels the need to chip-in its two cents about our creative impulses.

The judgment of the ego, the worries that it interjects about the viability of our intended creation or about the opinions that others may have of the creation, is quite often what stops creativity dead in its tracks.

Once in a while we do allow our creation to come to life, to move out onto the great big world and become something, freely accepting that it may not be viable, or may be judged harshly by others. But the urge to see it live is too great to be suppressed. These are the things that are inspired, that are our passions, things which cannot be ignored because of their intensity.

And for a while we feel the power of them, we have a spring in our step and are happy to wake up in the morning. Yet, even these things can become tedious in our lives and begin to weigh on us, much like work and bills do.

Why is this? Why do we tire of our own creations?

Well for some people it is simply a part of their nature. Some people are idea people, great at thinking things up and getting others psyched about them but then, once they are implemented, they feel the need to move on to the next challenge or the next big thing.

The majority of folks though, who become disillusioned with their own creative outlets and the fruits of their own labor, are dogged by one major folly, the inability to allow change, to let their creations mature gracefully.

Our little creation began as a certain idea, a dream or an ideal of sorts, swimming around in our head.

After that initial spark we may have given it a bit more thought and restructured our vision a touch. Maybe we followed this up with some brief planning or research and then entered a stage of implementation.

Once implementation has been achieved many of us, through the power of our defensive individual ego, believe the creation (its purpose, its method, its manifest appearance, its end result etc.,) to now be set-in-stone.

If any tweaking is needed after this point, it must in turn be a poor reflection on our creative abilities, and therefore weaken the value of the initial creative impulse itself. I am not saying that this is truly a problem for everyone, but for many us, we believe that things must stay the same as we originally envisioned them or we may indeed be some kind of failure, obviously a human of sub-standard brain capacity.

This, of course, could not be further from the truth, but it is easy to set our opinions and ideas in stone, trapping them in their own likeness forever. It is like shackling your own capacity for growth and then wondering why you can’t seem to move forward.

As a person, we grow and we change, our values and ideals change shape, they metamorphose from a round vision to a square vision and sometimes back again. But when it comes to our creations, we often let them come to a stand still, exepcting them to be forever young, eternally viable and yet we continuing struggling. We push and push trying without gain, to squeeze our now square peg into and old round hole.

Common sense would say that in order to remain healthy a thing must have the right to grow and mature, to refocus its energies and incorporate new ideas. But common sense seems to be more prevalent in our thinking when it has to do with someone else’s creations, never our own.

If we can, however, learn to leave room for change and growth, in ourselves as well as our creations, what we will have is freedom. Creativity and success do not generally exist in the presence of restriction and imprisonment, life is ever-changing and must have freedom to move.

This is a lesson that I have had to learn in more than one way, over the life of this blog. There are times when my ability to write for this platform is flowing wonderfully and there are other times when producing something that I feel good about is like pulling teeth. And I have wondered off-and-on why I both love and hate this creative outlet so much.

The answer is now very clear to me. As with other aspects of my life and my spiritual practices, I have tried to compartmentalize and simplify this blog and its purpose by giving it a narrow focus. Having originally intended it as a platform for psychic and spiritual guidance, I have constrained it to that mandate even when the mandate was constricting me.

We all do this, plan something out and then let the plan curtail our own creative freedom, even once its become obvious that the plan was incorrect.

I have always assumed the desires and interests of my readers to be only within my original, limited mandate, and have modified my writing and creativity to then please this imagined “other.” (I even began a side blog to satisfy my need to express other valuable parts of myself, resulting in my feeling fragmented, divided between my own creations.)

This is a backwards way of thinking, sort of like saying “If they come, I will build it,” instead of “If you build it, they will come.”

So I urge each and every one of you to look at any roadblocks that you may feel to your creativity and success, and to then investigate what limiting thoughts and beliefs you yourself have about those things.

How are you restraining your own abilities for some idealized vision, or some imagined external opinion?

Once you have your restrictions in hand, you can take the steps toward releasing your blockages and breathing new life into your creations.

Now, having seen my self-imposed writer’s block for what it is, self-restriction, I will be adding new categories and articles here that represent more of who I am, beyond being a psychic channel and inspirational writer. The original topics will remain, as an integral part of who I am, but also be sure to look for new topics such as nature, herbalism, food wisdom, recipes, crafts, eco-living and so much more!

Metamorphoses is a beautiful product of nature, stagnation is not so pretty. ;)

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