Daily Muse Tips for artists

Inspirational Quote: Self-Belief

2011-09-24T08:01:00.000-04:00

Believing in yourself is about realizing the following:

"...where your mind as personality has overridden the promptings of your Soul's true guidance. And second...putting the power of your choices in alignment with your deepest intentions." Meredith young-sowers

the path of least resistance

2011-09-23T00:08:00.001-04:00

Your creative spirit is an intelligent being - it knows the best way for you to unravel into your dreams, the path of least resistance, how to make positive change and live the life calling inside you.

Today, begin to focus your attention on asking and listening for your spirit's input. Your creative spirit's voice can be heard within your inner whispers and the energy of inspiration. Taking action on your spirit's voice will yield the path of least resistance.

What is currently inspiring you? What have you been inspired to do now for a long time but haven't given yourself the gift of follow through?

When choosing to take action and before you cross off your to-do list, open to other possibilities and allow for changes in your routine, seek the path of least resistance as inspired by your creative spirit.

Next time you make a decision no matter how small stop, take a deep breath listen to your heart - ask for inner guidance...

Even if you choose to ignore your inner voice, write down what you perceive you've heard, in no time you'll have an archive, a library to your inner voice -- your spirit.

This small act, when preformed consistently, will bring to fruition deep fulfillment. It will give you the life you truly desire by connecting you to who you truly are.

the magic of follow through

2011-09-22T00:08:00.000-04:00

There is no time like the present, there is only one life, one moment, right now.

Caroline Myss once said, "Insisting that the external environment meet certain conditions before you are to become internally focused is itself a distraction."

What do you tell yourself must be done in order to take inspired action - to follow through on lingering ideas?

For example, do you tell yourself you'll exercise more when the weather turns warmer? Eat dinners with the family on a day when your favorite TV program isn't on? Take a long warm bath after you get new luxury bath soap because you want it to be special but never remember to buy it until that nagging idea comes around again? Does your body ask yourself to create time for a nap but then you decide to you spend three hours cleaning your home? Did you promise to make a date with yourself to see a weekend matinee movie only to miss it by running errands? or Have you been wanting to have a dinner party but keep putting it off because you haven't decorated the room as you'd like but then spend money on new shoes and a fall wardrobe, complaining you just don't have the money right now to complete your decor?

"Insisting that the external environment meet certain conditions before you are to become internally focused is itself a distraction." ~ Caroline Myss

How are you limiting yourself by focusing on these outward distractions of can't or not until... rather than listening from within, to your creative spirit, and taking inspired action?

The answer to this question will lead you to discover the very reason you have to experience your goals or dreams come true.

Following the voice of your spirit in a timely manner, despite [Blank insert put off] is what brings a fulfilling life to fruition. It is the secret key as to why some seem to always receive what they put their mind to while others can barely get their feet off the ground.

Your ability to follow through, complete your ideas in a timely manner, determines just how thriving an artistic life you'll experience.

It' not magic, it's follow through.

Recognizing your creative spirit

2011-09-21T00:08:00.001-04:00

Begin to discover the various ways your spirit talks to you by recalling all the moments a decision you made brought, not only you but all involved peace and abundance.

In other words, a decision you made turned out to have a positive outcome for everyone involved. It was as if it that positivity was a gift that kept on giving or was a win-win for all!

A true sign your spirit is present and active in your decision making, is your choices benefit more than yourself. You can witness someone else spirit in action when a choice they've made has benefited you in some way as well - either large or small - it makes no difference.

What moments in your life can you recognize the presence of your spirit? Have you ever witnessed the presence of another spirit? No matter whom you recognize, your own or another, every time you discern the presence of a creative spirit, it calls positivity to the situation in abundance.

Do you recognize the voice of your creative spirit?

2011-09-20T00:08:00.005-04:00

In order to create the life you truly desire, a thriving artistic life, discern between what you think you should do and what you are here to do. What gifts, learning and insight is your creative spirit here to share and explore?

Discovering the voice of your spirit, listening from within and allowing your inner voice to influence your decisions, empowers you to make choices that bring your goals, desires and dreams to fruition in unimaginable ways.

What ways do you recognize the voice of your creative spirit? How does it make you feel?

the difference between dreams and wishes

2011-09-19T07:40:00.001-04:00

Dreams are different than wishes. Dreams hold the insight into how you can bring more meaning and depth into your life, where as wishes are feelings or a strong desire for something that isn't easily attainable.

Your Dreams give you insight into your life assignment - your life purpose.

Your dreams most likely include the use of some of your inborn skills, like your artistic flair, diplomatic communication, or your carpentry craftsmanship, for instance. While not everyone will share your dream, your dream will be unique to you and who you are inside. Your dream will further develop the skills that are meant to be developed and explored within you.

What skills do you posses?
What do you long to learn?
What are you currently learning?
What are your inner whispers saying?
What gifts does your work bring to thew world?

The answers to these questions will not only support your dreams to fruition they will bring more meaning and fulfillment to your everyday experience.

May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul

2011-09-16T10:55:00.000-04:00

Inspired by: John O'Donohue

For Equilibrium, a Blessing:

Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.

As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.

Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.

As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.

As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.

As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.

May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.”

― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

If you don’t create what your ideas inspire - who will?

2011-09-14T23:17:00.001-04:00

"We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives." — John O'Donohue

You are an Artist.

You are abundant in ideas, infinite in possibility and face the blank page with courage and heart and choice - choice to make real your ideas come true.

Do not over look these same tools in creating your life. Remember, you are an artist practicing the art of living. You are creating your masterpiece called life. Do not forget that as an artists your are a creator.

You CREATE the experiences you want. You CREATE your responses to the experiences you do not want. Have you forgotten the hART of creating your life?

What is your heart inspiring within you? What do you need in order to feel empowered to create the very thing that longs to be created within? Why would you turn your back on your inner whispers? Your creativity? Your dreams contain your full potential. No one can live them but you, just as no one can create them but you; if anyone else could, you never would have had the inspiration in the first place.

How would you answer the following question:
If you don’t create what your ideas inspire - who will? If you don’t create what you truly want in life - who will? Whom do you expect?

Today, give your heart permission to create, as you would in your chosen medium, the life you truly desire to live. Ask your deep heart for one thing you can take action on today, that once implemented will bring you closer to the reality of your deepest desire - then repeat each day like today.

What have you discovered?