5 Powerful Steps To Unleashing Your Creative Self

<h1>5 Powerful Steps To Unleashing Your Creative Self</h1>

by Brett Krkosska

<div align=justify>There is a thread of certainty that runs through most lives. It
 
is sensed as a measured and anticipated rhythm of predictability
 
built upon our notions of how things have been and how they will
 
continue to be. 
 
 
 
While this is comforting and provides a sense of continuity to
 
our lives, it is also limiting and not conducive to unleashing
 
our creative selves. Here are five steps you can take to break
 
the mold of predictability and expand your horizons in ways you
 
never imagined. 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Acknowledge And Release The Past 
 
 
 
The mundane concerns of existence that propel us through our
 
days often leads to a deadening of exhilaration; a striping
 
away of the possibility for anything out of the ordinary.
 
Walking in a haze of memories, expectations, assumptions,
 
guilts, worries -bombardments on our psychological and
 
emotional centers - we are often oblivious to moments of
 
complete amazement and wonder. We are wholly unaware and
 
uninterested in seeing what is already there, but not yet
 
recognized. 
 
 
 
By bringing the preceding moment into this moment, you are
 
unfairly coloring the outcome of this moment to look the same
 
as before. Creating true change in your life begins by
 
acknowledging and releasing the past, whether it be good or
 
bad. 
 
 
 
In fact, see the bad things for what they really are:
 
revelations of what is truly good. For if life were all rosy
 
and nothing bad ever happened, how would you know things were
 
rosy? You would have no reference point; nothing to compare
 
rosy against. 
 
 
 
Release the past and you are free from a linear, pre-ordained
 
future. 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Say Thank You 
 
 
 
Appreciate your life for what it has been. Give yourself a pat
 
on the back for everything that brought you to this exact
 
moment. Congratulate yourself on doing the best you could. 
 
 
 
Give thanks to yourself, for the people around you, and to the
 
source of life that allows you to say, "Here I Am!" 
 
 
 
Practice sincere gratitude several times throughout your day.
 
In this way you are able to stay connected with your creative
 
energies and recognize abundance in the world. 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Create Your Day 
 
 
 
Imagine yourself awakening each morning to exclaim, "This is
 
how I shall create my day!" How many people aspire to create
 
moments that shape the day around them, rather than allowing
 
the moments of their yesterdays to serve up the ordinary menu
 
of today? 
 
 
 
When you awake each morning, start out by deciding on the
 
outcome of the day. We have been taught from an early age that
 
the outside world determines our actions and our state of mind.
 
This is not true. You have freewill. Use it. 
 
 
 
Decide for yourself how you will feel and what you will
 
accomplish. Do you want to be happy that day? Do you want to
 
begin writing a operatic ballad? It doesn't matter what it is.
 
Just declare it. Simple as that. 
 
 
 
If you don't know what to declare on a given day, always start
 
with happiness. Affirm your decision to be happy. Remember that
 
happiness is a state of being, not a reaction. Don't allow
 
outside events determine whether you will be happy. Create the
 
commandment in your mind and you will find that happiness
 
exists in the strangest of places. 
 
 
 
Fully expressing your creative self takes practice, especially
 
if you are in the habit of reacting to the moments of your day.
 
You are rewiring the neural connections in your brain. You are
 
breaking old connections. With practice, creativity becomes a
 
habit. 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Expect The Unexpected 
 
 
 
Consider the clarity and simple freedom that comes from being
 
unattached to the unfolding of a moment in your life. How does
 
it feel to be an observer; an inconsequential witness? Most of
 
us have experienced these special moments to some degree. Can
 
you recall such moments? Do you remember how it felt to be
 
completely in the world, but not an immediate player within it?
 
Simply watching. Uninterested. Non-judgmental. 
 
 
 
At these times it is not unlike staring without prejudice into
 
a fish tank. It makes no difference in what direction the fish
 
swim. It matters not the size of the bubbles percolating from
 
the bottom. It's of no concern the manner in which the water
 
ripples on the surface. 
 
 
 
If the moments of your life were observed in such a manner, you
 
could then decide the meaning of circumstances in your life with
 
fresh eyes. Moments would exist within the space of a moment.
 
The meaning of the next moment could then be nothing, or
 
anything. There are literally no limits. 
 
 
 
Therefore, aspire to be an unattached observer each day. This
 
doesn't mean you can't feel things. By all means, feel things
 
with passion. Yet, be the observer of your passion. Be in your
 
emotions, but not swept away by them. Watch your reactions, say
 
hello to how you feel, and watchfully move on under the creative
 
mandates you set for yourself at the beginning of the day. 
 
 
 
What happens when you let go and be the observer? The
 
unexpected happens. The clarity of purpose you defined at the
 
beginning of the day is ever-present around you. Now you are
 
free to notice, from among the thousands of pieces of
 
information entering your brain each moment, the meaning of
 
things which encapsulate your purpose. 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Believe 
 
 
 
What if the meaning of your moments was like the first flush of
 
rapture found in the eyes of a new-found lover? Can you imagine
 
such wonder and amazement, such endless depth, in the moments
 
of your day? 
 
 
 
When moments are free of preconceptions that have been brought
 
forward, then the possibility of infinite futures take form.
 
These are the times when you can indulge the ending of your
 
story however you choose. 
 
 
 
What is the ending? It is no more or less than the extent of
 
your belief in what is possible. It is the ending that holds
 
meaning for you; void of conjecture that your environment might
 
not relinquish the prize of your choice. 
 
 
 
It is an illusion to think that the environment around you
 
exists without you. The environment exists because of you. You
 
are the master. The stimuli that enters your brain through your
 
senses is timeless, formless, and meaningless. You bring to your
 
environment the meaning of your choice. 
 
 
 
Your environment is like sand on a beach, smooth and
 
undisturbed until your footprints change its landscape. A few
 
come to build castles in the sand, while most simply wonder the
 
water's edge while their footprints wash back into the sea. 
 
 
 
The universe listens to those who ask. And of those who ask, it
 
is those who expect to be answered who will receive. Do not say
 
you want the thing you desire. For the universe will deem your
 
request already answered. To want is not to have. Do not say
 
you will have it. That is the same as wanting. 
 
 
 
Instead, have the thing you desire. Make up your mind it is
 
already yours. Believe it is so because it is so. There is no
 
elaborate, complex formula. It is as simple as breathing. 
 
 
 
Now watch. Your desire has been granted. The universe has
 
delivered it. With your new, unfiltered, of-the-moment vision,
 
your steps lead right to it. 
 
 
 
Putting it all together, here are the steps to fully expressing
 
your creative nature: 
 
 
 
1. Acknowledge the past and release it from this moment. 
 
2. Give thanks to yourself, all things, and all persons. 
 
3. Create your day on purpose. Decide and resolve. 
 
4. Be watchful and expect the unexpected. 
 
5. Believe. 
 
 
 
Do you know the most wonderful thing about creating your life
 
on purpose? 
 
 
 
You are in fact changing the world in no less significance than
 
the achievements of the greatest teachers through all the ages. 
 
 
 
For when the masses transform the beaches into glistening and
 
interweaved towers of sand then the world will change in
 
indescribable ways. The unknown becomes infinite. Chaos becomes
 
opportunity. Improbability becomes possibility. Certainty
 
becomes purpose. Creativity becomes boundless.</div>

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		Brett Krkosska is a freelance writer and 
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