Since I’ve always been inquisitive, and because I’ve always wanted to know why I act as I do, I’ve come to realize that creativity (which I once associated only with the arts) and Life (which was another world, ruled by circumstances beyond our control) are One. Whatever motivates a person in creating art is the the same kind of motivation that you can apply to any situation in life.
Hold on, please. If this doesn’t make sense yet, it will in a little while. I am going to share an experience I had today to illustrate this concept.
Today, getting ready to write this blog post, first I read my horoscope. I receive a daily intuitive horoscope from Daily Intuitive Horoscopes written by Ghazaleah Lowe. I’ve found her horoscopes to be insightful and pointedly true most of the time. If I don’t have the clarity to understand what she’s said yet, I’ve been willing to admit that I might not be ready to see that in myself at that particular time. Here’s today’s horoscope for Gemini’s ( that’s me).
I wouldn’t overthink it if I were you, dear Gemini, in fact, the truth is that your thoughts are way off and they are nowhere near close to whatever you seem to think is happening. Best you take your attention off of these thoughts and focus on your own life. A situation in your life requires more love than you are giving it right now and so it’s best that you focus on bringing more love to this situation than giving your attention to the thoughts in your mind.
The situation I found myself in when I read this was trying to figure out what to write about in this blog post. I was having a hard time deciding. So when I read this, it rang a bell. I’ve realized that in order to create anything that excites and thrills me, I do have to feel love.
And then the next thing that happened amazed me.
As I was setting up my laptop computer at my desk, I noticed a quote I had scribbled on a post-it note.
“Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”
Tony Robbins
I can do that, I thought.
The moment I felt appreciation, thinking about both of these serendipitous events–the horoscope and the quote–those moments opened a flood of love within me. I was feeling enormous gratitude to Life for bringing me the ways to experience ease and effortlessness in writing a new blog post. And appreciation that I didn’t have to battle with my mind commenting and judging what I’m writing.
I picked the painting I’ve posted up above, one I made fifteen years ago, to illustrate how appreciation can and does change your world.
I painted my son with his first daughter at that time because he was the father to his daughter my father never was to me. Sometimes in life the appreciation we never felt before surfaces in a different, but as meaningful way as the way we hoped it would have.
Appreciation is the closest to love in our world.
So what does my story have in common with the concept that whatever motivates us in creating art is the the same kind of motivation that we can apply to any situation in life?
It’s often easier to let go when we are creating because we aren’t as fearful to lose control. In life, to let go means we have to face our vulnerability, and being vulnerable is a word that implies being susceptible to being wounded or hurt by criticism or attack.
But when I opened or let go to feel appreciation for my son treating my granddaughter with the love I had wished from my father, it did change my world instantly. Just as letting go to appreciate the serendipitous events in my life today opened me to clarity, knowing exactly what I wanted to write on this blog post.
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