Surrendering to the birth and death of your great ideas…

I’m an ideas woman. 

From the moment I finally gave myself permission to believe my ideas were worth exploring, I was rewarded with direct access to my innate well of creativity.

When I feel the flicker of a new creation, it’s like an old movie starting to roll through a projector. A series of stops and starts, of words, feelings and visions that blurt into my conscious mind. It doesn’t always make sense at first but the excitement is too intriguing not to listen.

Connecting to this internal, creative impulse, makes you feel alive. What starts as a flicker then rapidly grows into an all consuming wave of thoughts that you can’t ignore. It’s like a child that wakes you at 3am nagging you to turn on the light and pay attention. 

 This process is stimulating, addictive, powerful and electric, which makes it hard to let go of the ideas that are not meant to manifest.

 One of the greatest lessons I have come to learn, is the importance of knowing when ideas are meant to end, and to let go of any guilt or attachment that may come along with it.

 Some of the best ideas need to be put on hiatus to be fully realised and others need to be abandoned, even when they feel like they are a part of you. 

 Just like all living beings, ideas go through cycles of creation, maintainance and destruction.

So how do you tell the difference between a worthy idea that needs to be fully realised vs. knowing when an idea/concept/business/song/screen play/book/relocation/relationship…etc. needs to be set aside?

 The answer is in the feeling and NOT the over thinking.

It’s in the heart and not the mind.

 If your idea is worthy of manifestation, you will likely experience internal resistance, a roadblock or wave of fear after the initial excitement subsides. If your idea is covered in a veil of fear shaking freeze, you will still feel a deep inner knowing beneath it. The idea will still feel expansive, curious and like you know you’re going to expand once you bring this idea to life... 

Equally, you will know when it’s time to abandon ship if you find yourself pushing, forcing or draining yourself without that special glimmer inside. You may not want to let go of the idea because you feel a sense of guilt, you may have poured money, time and energy into the idea just to keep it alive, you don’t want to let people down, and you don’t want to admit that the idea has become stagnant, hard, lost momentum or changed direction. 

 Accepting that not all great ideas need to be birthed and leaning into the feeling of when to let ideas evolve on their own or to let them go entirely without judgment, is a big step toward your creative evolution.

When you can become unattached to your ideas and creations, and see them as having a life of their own, you then open a new space to make the clearest decisions of your life and dharma.

 So this is your permission slip, to abandon the ideas that aren’t flowing. To explore the unknown and trust that more magic will come your way…Ideas with legs that pour out of you, that consume you for hours and days, that ignite something in you that you haven’t felt before. Don’t wait for someone to tell you what you want to hear and to give your ideas approval. Your inner knowing is the only voice you need to listen to. 

 Let your ideas flow like water and you will bathe in meaning and purpose.