Creativity

Have you ever told yourself that you'll paint or dance or play somehow but you never do?  You've said to yourself "Yeah, I need to dance again.  I haven't danced in 20 years like I did when I was young. Or "I'd just love to paint, and not care; throw caution to the wind and paint whatever comes up."  I know I've said that to myself many times over the last... decades!  

This weekend I actually did all of those things.  I went to the Creative Me! workshop held by my friend Sara Wallace.  She did a great job and it was a lot of fun.  It truly was a journey in self-expression, unveiling and playing in creativity.  We sang and danced and played.  We journeyed into our hearts and came out with creative ideas.  Then we expressed those ideas however we wanted.  Some did creative partner yoga, some played instruments... I don't really know what each person did, as I was wrapped up in expressing through painting.

What I loved about it (besides everything) was that it was an opportunity to release my own self-judgements and explore what it was like to be free of those.  At first that internal shift was more challenging than I imagined.  Self-judgements are apparently more ingrained in me than I thought.  They quickly faded as Sara joyfully led us through the various creative play exercises.  What fun it was.

I find interesting the tendency we have to stay in stasis in our lives.  Habit and routine take over.  They silently creep up and envelop us while we remain unaware.  At times we may recognize this and tell ourselves that we want to change the status quo.  But we never do.  Or we muster all we've got to change for a few days, weeks or months, only to wake up one day and find ourselves back where we were.

What I like about workshops and classes is that they are like working out with a personal trainer.  You sign up because it's something you want to do, and the commitment of a set time and money investment always seems to be enough to get you to go.  Then the leader motivates you through the experience and you end up having a good time and feeling good about yourself because you actually did it.

So do what it takes to fulfill those long-held thoughts of "yeah, I'd love to...".  You'll be happy you did.

If you want to find out more about Sara or her workshop check out her website:

www.illuminatedliving.wordpress.com

For photos from the workshop check out my Facebook page

www.facebook.com/RightPathHealing

To see my painting, watch my video blog, I reveal it at the end

www.youtube.com/user/RightPathHealing