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Creativity and Inspiration: The Path to the Life You Want
Creativity and inspiration give us the power to create the life we want to live. (Updated August 2022)
Creativity and inspiration are two mental, physical, and spiritual phenomena that have the power to shift our perspective and change the trajectory of our lives. Creativity is a movement of energy that causes things to actualize, while inspiration is an experience within an experience stirring and stimulating the imagination of others.
We can find the result of creativity and inspiration working together in visual arts, dance, music, poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, or any other form of expression because it originates from within us. It’s not something we do but happens when we get out of our way and let the Creative Spirit (creative energy) move us.
We have the Potential to Create the Life We Want to Live.
As this powerful energy moves us, we have the potential to create more than art. The same energy that inspired Zora Neale Hurston to write Their Eyes Are Watching God, Octavia Butler to write Kindred; Monet to paint Water Lilies; and Walt Whitman to write Leaves of Grass is the same energy used to create performances, businesses, movements, and inventions. And most importantly, it is the same energy that has the potential to…
