Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!
Season 3 - Episode 248 - Creativity is spiritual
>> Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop Podcast with Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset coach. Filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and possibilities, we help you to cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself you could ever imagine. Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places, her Chicken Coop, along with all her chickens. Hey everybody, good morning from the Chicken Coop. So to continue our conversation about creativity, another core belief that I have about creativity is that it is a spiritual experience to be creative. And I know that sounds strange to say it, but I truly believe that because, you know, if you're a regular listener, you've heard me talk in the past about how nobody understands where ideas come from. They know in the brain where things fire off, but nobody understands like where an idea actually comes from and that to me is divine. It is truly a divine situation. And when you think about, when you start to really pay attention to the fact that ideas are truly something that is alive and they come into your mind and they come to be actualized. They look for a person, a soul to make them real and not all of them are for you. They might come in and then they might leave. That's why if an idea shows up, all of a sudden, if you don't actualize it and then all of a sudden it leaves you, you never do anything about it. And then you see somebody else and they're like, oh, that was my idea that guy stole it. No, you never did the work to make it happen. And that's where it gets tricky because it's a very spiritual thing. They come in with the intention of you actualizing them and I can't begin to tell you how much I believe that. So when they come, if I know I'm not going to take an idea on and make it happen or feel like it's right for me and a fit for me, I say right away, this is not an ideal situation for me to actualize you and I release you and I'm going to go and focus on the things that I'm focused on. I don't let myself hang on and feel remorse about it. I just recognize that there are certain propensities to projects that just are not right for me. And there are certain other ones that are ideal for me. So when they show up, the belief that it is a spiritual situation is super, super helpful because you can recognize right away that you have this connection with the universe God, whatever it is that you believe, and they are, it's energy. It is a hundred percent energy joining you, coming to you, recognizing that that piece of the puzzle is so important because it's your connection, not only is it your proof that you are connected, but it is a direct reflection of how the depth of your connection. So I feel like I am always on fire, creativity wise because I'm really connected, I really believe in that, I do not believe that I'm alone, I believe these things are, these are spiritual connections and they help make me a different, better person every single day. So I thrive in that. It's about cultivating the beliefs that serve you long term. And if you look at it and you say, I'm not creative, then you're denying part of what's true because the universe is in constant creation, constant expansion, and you are part of that. You are essence of that, you know, we heard me say before, we have stardust in our veins. It is provable that we are part of the universe and the universe is part of us. So if that is true, which it is, then we are part of that creativity of constant expansion, constant growth, constant evolution, and we have to embrace that, that is a spiritual experience, my friends being able to create, whether it's creating muffins in the morning or creating art or creating a whole new app or building something that's raw power, creativity. So when you embrace it, it changes you from the inside out and it allows you to tap into that spiritual side of yourself more and more and more and more. It gives you strength, it gives you power. It gives you this untethered, like, you know, just more of an unbridled than untethered because I always feel like I am tethered to the universe. But it's more of that unbridled enthusiasm that you can run into it with. So I'm going to challenge you to start redefining the spiritual part of this because if you've never thought of it that way, it's a game changer. Okay, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.