We’re all creators and artists

Dear stars, we can see the true beauty and magic in the this world once we realise we are floating around in space surrounded by billions of stars, stars that come out when its dark and the biggest star of all emerges shining its light, giving us warmth and life. Today when I was in nature I looked around me and I saw some dirt on the ground. It was sparkling in the sunshine, like those billions of little stars but in the ground. Then I looked at the river next to me and saw it sparkling too. I had a moment of realization that everything around me, including myself, my skin, my hair, was sparkling, just like those stars, the sun in the sky and the dirt on the ground. It was a moment of immense beauty for me, I felt my body as a vessel, a vessel filling with spirit. This reminded me of when I’m creating too and how it makes my heart feel full.

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The biggest challenge I’m faced with when bringing something into existence is the thought ‘what if people don’t like it?’. I know many, if not all creatives think this at some point during their creations. The truth is, there will always be someone who likes what you create and another who dislikes it. Some people will see the sun sparkle, others may not notice the ocean sparkling or the tiny crystals in the ground. It all comes down to our perceptions, tastes and values. The most significant aspect is that YOU, the creator, loves it and love what you are creating. This love fills your heart and body with spirit and forms love intentions. Keep sparkling, just like those billions of stars in the sky because we are one, if not many of them and nothing can take that away from you.

I remember growing up, my sister and I would explore our creativity by adventuring our surroundings through our imagination. We would do this by imagining what the world could be and who we could be. This was a spiral of magic in motion through our creativity. My sister and I would light candles and do healing sessions on our family members, little did we know we were practicing Reiki and the name of our healing was called Angels with the tagline ‘find the magic in your heart‘. We would pretend to be sailor moon characters with magical powers, we would have important conversations with stuffed toys. As a 3 year old I would create stories out of images in books, we loved drawing and artwork, we would make cakes out of mud in the backyard or the more extreme adventures such as jumping off the ledge with an umbrella thinking we could fly. We thought we were magical.. we were. Why do we have to lose our belief in magic once the number of our age increases? Our magic is eternal, so long as you keep it alive. Everything we create in our daily lives is magic.

Do you consider yourself as creative? When you question yourself this, do you put an extent on how creative you are?  Beyond doubt, we were born creative. We came about from creation and we’re all creators, we’re artists paving our way through the depths of our souls and those around us. Prior to entering this world we already knew how to create ourselves inside our mothers womb into a living breathing being without anyone telling us how. 

This may sound unlikely for you as we have been raised to believe that some people are more creative than others, especially for those in the creative fields. What does being creative or a creator even mean? Well, realistically we create our daily lives every single day. Being creative means to be open to ideas and our imaginations, to allow ones essence and self expression to come through whatever we’re doing whether it be cooking, creating a piece of art, writing or dancing. In all of these instances we’re bringing something new into the world that didn’t exist or occur before and being creative means being yourself, freeing your spirit and nourishing your soul.

We can always awaken our creativity by expanding and allowing our mind, heart and spirit to soar far and wide through and along the depths we didn’t think existed before within and without us, it is a continual unfolding of our very presence. This is what an artist does, they awaken to life an essence, an expression and a story beyond what we have already seen or have been revealed to previously. And we do this every single day through our own individual voyages which makes us all artists, through our own unique individual beings, anything we do that reaches out and touches our heart or connects to another heart is an artwork. No one is ‘specially’ born moreso with a talent than someone else, this is a false illusion we have been told because we can always learn, improve or awaken a talent and it’s never too late to do this.

If our style of looking becomes beautiful, then beauty will become visible and shine forth for us. We will be surprised to discover beauty in unexpected places where the ungraceful eye would never linger. The graced eye can glimpse beauty anywhere, for beauty doesn’t reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it doesn’t wait for perfection but it presents itself secretly in everything – John O’Donohue

We could all create or paint the same thing everyones would look and feel different, no artist better or worse, just different. There is no certain way of creating that makes someone more creative than another either because we’re all flowering with individuality and have diverse approaches to creation. We all have our own mind and perception on the world, therefore in whatever we see it will be impacted by our individual judgement, response and perception.

A beautiful bird of red, greens and blues came over to visit my garden. I was soo delighted by his beauty. He sparkled like a pretty crystal jewel. He stood there awaiting the beauty of my gaze and I did. It was a brief visit, he fluttered his feathers a little and flew away. I captured the moment in the memory of my heart as I bid him a loving farewell. His message to me was you must not need everyone to see your beauty, that rather just one who deeply and truly appreciates it. This is what I felt when he showed himself to me. It lives within him and because my gaze found it, it lives within me too.