Lesson 8 The Creative Unleash Your Authentic Power

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

Creativity: The Fuel that Propels You
Welcome to lesson eight. What an honor it has been to share these weeks with you on your sacred journey!

It’s now time to amalgamate all the steps to take the leap into flight!

Now that you have cleared the way and begun to build the foundation it is time to follow your creative passions and purpose with a tenacious authenticity and confidence! You were called to this journey and you triumphantly answered that call.

Remember, keep close within your knowing and heart, that this IS a journey. Rejoice in the progress and awakenings received during the participation of the course while actively revisiting its dynamics and foundational truth. The guidance contained in this course can serve you for years to come. I hope you will revisit it often.

As you are now well on your way to feeling free to live the life, your purpose, with passion it is time to discuss creativity’s role.

More often than not, when I suggest to someone that they are creatives, I observe a collective anxious laden sigh of, “Oh! I hope she’s not going to ask ME to do something creative!” “Relax!” I tell them, for they already have.

You have employed your creative forces from the first lesson of this course. Creativity is the use of the imagination – it is the spark and energy of life. It is the common factor in every lesson you have completed.

In week one, you were asked to prepare for the clearing and align with your truths. This required you to imagine something that was not yet tangible. You created the possibility and vision.

Week two, brought the challenge of getting out of your own way. In this you enlisted your imagination to “fake it until you make it” – acting in ways that are out of our norm is a creative process. When asked to evaluate where your energy goes you were asked to imagine the changes in your life that would come from focusing your energy differently. You did it! You used your imagination to see something greater for yourself, creating shifts!

In lesson three, your bravery enabled you to imagine and create the necessary change to bring forth your offering. You’re a warrior at creativity… do you see it?

Vincent Van Gogh said, “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” Imagination and faith are buddies. They can spot one another as your climbing that mountain or swimming that sea. They encourage one another to take that extra mile. They dare us to do what seems to be impossible. This practice is the muscle of spirit.

For week four your creative forces were in full gear as you imagined - and dared - to be the author and rewrite, renew, realign and rediscover your Soul Contract. This required many attributes; strength of character and spirit being only two of many —and you did it. You’re a creative powerhouse!

The following weeks brought the undertaking of life-altering strides of growth including self-care and forgiveness. While week seven presented the Divine opening and invitation to engage in the art of learning to receive and manifest – the grandmama of them all.

You are a creator, a creative – say it aloud right now! “I am a creative powerhouse!”

You dared to feel your feelings, take the steps to change (create) new attitudes, actions and beliefs in your life. You quieted your mind to allow the ultimate Creator force to flow through you. All of this is the very essence of creativity. Birthing and sharing your dreams, mission, purpose and offering with the world is the bravest act of the creative beings we are.

Even in the midst of formidable self-inquiry and the uncertainty of following a path with no guarantee of where the next step would lead, you danced through it brilliantly!

Use this same creative force to carry forth in all aspects of sharing your offering with the world!

Implementing the Creative: You Are the Creator
You now know you are free from the limitations of the often chaotic overthinking mind. You know you can create new supportive thoughts as you learn to master your mind with practice. You have repeatedly stepped into the courage of creativity.

You are ready to live the Light within you!

The meaning and richness of our lives increase as we focus on who we have become and you can now be free of all self-imposed limiting beliefs allowing you to fulfill the dreams, purpose and offering you are called to.

The significance of the work we have done together will continue to reverberate throughout all areas of life in the years to come. It is my hope that this last lesson of realizing you are a creative being, and thus a creator, makes the preceding proclamation made at the beginning of the course vividly clear that you have always processed the ability to unleash the fierceness within yourself. You simply required the support, steps, encouragement and guidance to arrive at the launching pad!

Intuition: Tuning Into the Invisible Intelligence that Sustains
In lesson seven we discussed the fact we are constantly manifesting, but we’re asked what are we manifesting. Let’s take a moment to delve deeper into this. Intuition is key in manifestation. It fortifies our Souls with its sixth (seven, eighth…) sense of an unexplainable, intangible mystical force that is unwavering. Intuition is the Divine intelligence and inner guidance that is attained by going “within”. It is the listening for further instruction, the tuning into receive alignment, the direction of our inner GPS. It is also the space where our self-knowledge and truths can fearlessly present themselves validating our knowledge. We will combine this final week's Soulwork and Energy Exercise in a practice to open ourselves to increased intuition.

As we actively and confidently create and live our dreams ironically, this is when we begin to attract the loving energies and opportunities we have been yearning for all along.

Replacing the thought of, “I wonder if I am truly intuitive,” to one of, “I am a naturally intuitive and creative being who processes all the necessary abilities to connect to the guidance of my inner-world created within me by Divine design.”

Empowerment Steps
To accelerate and fortify efforts during the course we have incorporated Empowerment Steps that can be immediately implemented into action daily.

This week we add our final new Empowerment Step as we continue reaffirming the previous week's intentions:

1. I move through the ebbs and flows with ease as I move through the course.
2. I am continually encouraged and lifted up knowing the clearing is preparing me for the next level.
3. I embrace this journey with dedication knowing I will see evidence of enduring change being created with each lesson encounter as they build upon one another.
4. I am patient with myself and the process, taking the time to celebrate each step of forward movement.
5. I accept and acknowledge life is a process of learning and growth is to be enjoyed and savored, not a performance or expectation of perfection.
6. I am a unique and Divine being who has a purpose and special gift to experience individually and to collectively offer the world. I accept this as a universal truth and welcome its ultimate manifestation as it unfolds in my life daily.
7. I have the power to rewrite, reframe, redirect and shape with the intention that which I wish to create in my life for I am an active author of my experience and story.
8. I hold the power to create new sacred patterns of self-care in my life knowing it is part of my Soul’s evolution of which I am deserving, knowing it will simultaneously nourish my own personal purpose and ultimately the collective as a whole.
9. I have the power to courageously move through the grief process of forgiving another, and self, creating a peaceful and Loving environment that frees me to fulfill my highest purpose.
10. I affirm the universe is created and governed by a set of laws set in place by the Divine that support me in creating and producing my unique purpose and offering.
11. “I am a naturally intuitive and creative being who processes all the necessary abilities to connect to the guidance of my inner-world created within me by Divine design.”

With the addition of our final Empowerment Step it is my hope you will print them placing in a special place where they will be in view often.

As you review your participation of this course through rereading the lessons, Empowerment Steps, Soulwork, Energy Exercises and Journaling you will recognize and realize the limitations you have released and the levels to which you have unknowingly embraced your creativity!

Allow me to once again acknowledge the honor it continues to be to experience this life-altering journey with each of you and as a collective. You are now equipped to release your authentic self!

Soulwork & Energy Exercise:
We are all intuitive beings. While we have developed, and trust, this innate ability to varying levels individually, knowing this reality can assure us of this fact.

Many of the fundamental tools of this course when practiced effortlessly reinforce our intuitive abilities. Whether it be mindfulness meditation, taking the time to play, journaling and a host of additional activities.

As our last Soulwork & Energy Exercise I ask you to go into a space of silence. A deep meditative space is not required for this experience as we will be using the conscious and subconscious minds, body and yes, spirit.

Lay or sit in a quiet room where you will not be interrupted. Turn off the ringer and notifications on all devices to ensure this – or better yet, turn them off for a bit.

Create an environment that brings you safety, joy and calm.

Take several deep slow rhythmic breaths allowing your stomach to gently rise with each breath in, then holding it briefly. As you release the breath do so fully; release as much air from your lungs as possible.

After you have done this for a few cycles, you will intuitively know when your body has reached its place of a softening calm, place your hands cupped over either your heart chakra (located between your breasts) or on your lower abdomen just below your belly button. Take one final clearing breath.

As you tune into your body for a few minutes honor it by asking it to reveal to you that which it needs. We have previously participated in a body scan, as you now briefly check in with your body thank it for giving you guidance as to what it requires.

Then allow a complete silence to come over you. Repeat this affirmative prayer, “With gratitude, I acknowledge the Divine Source within me. I claim the gift this Divine design has placed within my mind, body, and Soul. I release all that hinders it. I gratefully and Lovingly welcome and receive all guidance within to make itself clearly known in my conscious mind and daily life.”

Now, simply allow your mind and spirit to be in a state of receiving; not needing to know or asking questions, simply be the observer and recipient. With patience and practice, it will come.

I suggest recording the above affirmative prayer on one of your electronic devices where you may listen to it repeatedly on a daily basis to reinforce this message as it becomes a part of both your conscious and subconscious minds.

This course is a sacred journey that I hope you will continue to revisit. Review your Soulwork over the past seven weeks repeatedly until you feel you have mastered it. Make a list of ways in which you have made clear and definite progress, the ways the course has prepared you to take on a new way of being while taking note of areas you wish to revisit for additional support and growth.

Journaling of Progress:
It is my hope you will continue to use your journal far beyond the completion of this course. Take a moment after you have participated in this week’s combined Soulwork & Energy Exercise to free-write on the sensations, emotions -any and all moments you wish to remember.

Over the next weeks I ask you to take time daily to reflect on your journal entries and celebrate how far you have come since week one. I also encourage you once again to continue refining each lesson as you revisit them. As jam-packed as the course is, there are jewels waiting to be found that may have been overseen the first time around.

It is my hope that you did indeed enjoy the ride!

Blessings Beloved,

Gin Thompson, PhD