Some of you may have seen my post recently about forcing my
kids into creative mode through boredom. It works! My daughter has started to
catch on without the unnecessary discomfort. If I ask her if she is bored while
she gazes aimlessly around the house, she often replies “no, I just haven’t
figured out what I want to do yet.”
Yes! I love this. I know she gets it by her response. Every day will be
what she decides it will be. It can be a gift, or it can be a drag. Before
she gets to a breaking point, she will often ask me for ideas or as I talk
about in my book, “call for back-up.”
Asking for help isn’t weakness. It's creative. It’s creative
when we act on the solutions found between minds working together on ideas. Both
are constructive actions that weave colorful threads into the reality of the
world around us.
My son on the other hand is a little more difficult in these
situations. His typical solution to boredom is shopping. Does that sound familiar
to anyone? He usually thinks the answer to all his problem is something else. This is when I get to step
in and say “no.” I have six more years to get this point across before he doesn’t
need to ask me and can get to the store himself, so wish me luck!
Spirit has had his best interest at heart of course and some
of this lesson came in for him over the holiday season. Nearly every gift or “thing”
he received for his birthday and Christmas this year either was lost, broke,
missing pieces, or hasn’t even shown up yet! I must admit he has handled it
with grace and understanding because to a ten year old, this could have been
cause for a complete meltdown and pity party. It hasn’t been. He became more
grateful for what he does have and has been more creative with activities like origami,
building forts, and playing outside with friends.
The point is we don’t have to get hit with a lesson this
extreme, into an uncomfortable situation, or bored before we make the decision
to get creative because it’s the only remaining option. We have the ability to
head off many of these scenarios by staying in habits that are creative.
One might ask what my son could have done to head off his
lesson. Well, let me share with you what happened around this time. Originally,
he asked for snow for Christmas. My kids have yet to experience this natural
wonder first-hand living in Florida. Obviously, I explained if I could pull off
this opportunity to go discover and experience snow, I wouldn’t be able to
afford to put things under the tree as
well. At first he was totally okay with this, but then something shifted as we
got closer to the holiday. He changed his mind. He wanted stuff he thought
would bring him more happiness. But did it? One was creative, the other not so much. Can you recognize why this is?
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Soon, Embracing The
Spark: A Simple Guide For Using Creativity To Live Brilliantly will be
available for purchase. It will provide all the tools one needs to use this
holistic approach to creativity as a way of living and transforming daily life
into a personal masterpiece. These tools will not only help each reader move
more in alignment with a vibration that benefits one’s authentic self but also benefit
the world touched by the creative actions of the reader. I am so very excited
to get the message out in a language that can be understood outside of my own brain
this time! Let’s all thank my editor, Karen, for this one! I am so very grateful for her hard work and powerful questions.
Take the time to explore creativity in your life. Any idle time we find in our busy schedules is our heart's way of pulling us back to this natural state. Head off the hard lessons and wasted time. Use the time to do what would most benefit not only your vibration, but to the collective vibration. Explore, dance, walk, sing, write, discover, play, reconnect with friends, share, cook something new, learn something new, etc. The possibilities are really endless!
Embrace the Spark!
love, jodi
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