Six Light-Hearted Ways to Cultivate Creative Awareness

Shift Your Energy

When meditation seems like too much, taking a playful attitude can help to shift gears out of the stress and into a more creative place where ideas and insights can naturally arise. These fun ideas make taming and training the mind more like child’s play than work. In a playful and light-hearted way it’s possible to shift the energy into a more embracing, loving place. Here are six ways to dance with the divine and let meditations become a fun and regular part of daily practice.

Debra Moffitt is author of Awake in the World: 108 Practices to Live a Divinely Inspired Life. A visionary, dreamer and teacher, she’s devoted to nurturing the spiritual in everyday life. She leads workshops on spiritual practices at the Sophia Institute and other venues in the U.S. and Europe. Her mind/body/spirit articles, essays and stories appear in publications around the globe and were broadcast by BBC World Services Radio. She has spent over fifteen years practicing meditation, working with dreams and doing spiritual practices. Visit her online at www.awakeintheworld.com.

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Naturalist and author, Henry David Thoreau walked to move energy as a way to open space for creative ideas. The poet, Emerson, said about him that the length of his walk generally would influence the length of his writing, making it more abundant. Thoreau demanded wild nature. No gardens or sidewalks or anything tame. He loved the harmony of being in wilderness. “I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking,” he wrote. “They who never go to the holy land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds, but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean,” he wrote in his essay Walking. Getting outside into a forest or by a beach can open up creative spaces in us that we didn’t know existed. See if you can saunter well enough for Thoreau to approve.