Creativity: the Real Medicine that is not Prescribed by Doctors

Whenever you are facing some difficulties in your life that create anxiety, depression or any other condition that impedes you from enjoying life; creativity is the most powerful tool you have available - and it’s free.

We don’t get taught in school to use our creative expression as a way of expressing pain or to deal with waves of difficult emotions. The system is not interested in letting us know that we can access the source of creativity within us to find healing, clear stagnant energy and release what no longer serves us. The pharmaceutical industry would be broken and the medical system as we know it, would be completely different. Where would the system generate money from if we didn’t get sick?

Sometimes it can be difficult to be creative. When waves of depression hit, there’s no strength to get out of bed, let alone doing arts and crafts. And that’s totally ok. You don’t need to pressure yourself to do anything. In fact, creativity is not something that can be pushed out of you. It’s something you tap into. 

How do we tap into creativity?

First of all we need to create space. The only way to create space to open the vessel to receive creativity is by clearing the stagnant emotions first. The only way to clear the stagnant emotions is to feel them. What makes an emotion stagnant is that it has been sitting there for years and years waiting to be felt. Because it can be quite painful to experience it - and it can also bring up thought patterns that are quite toxic - it is hard to allow ourselves the space to feel those emotions. We learn very early on to develop coping mechanisms to avoid those feelings. We either keep ourselves busy, distracted or numbed with substances so we don’t feel what needs to be healed.

If we allow ourselves to sit with the difficult emotions and ride those waves of anxiety, depression and darkness within us, we can actually free ourselves from the stagnant energies that are attached to them. Sometimes those feelings can be quite scary. They might be linked to suicidal thoughts, self-harm, self-abandonment and despair. No wonder why we avoid feeling them! If we’re not taught early on how to deal with the difficult emotions we’re going to experience throughout our lives, we’re going to run away from them as adults.

Who teaches us that it’s ok to feel those feelings and that we have tools available to deal with them? Who teaches us from a very young age that we can self-regulate through breath, that we can clear energy with movement and that we can let go of anything that doesn’t serve us by expressing creatively? We’re now remembering that wisdom and hopefully passing it on to the new generations - children that are fortunate enough to be born in families with self-aware parents that have learnt through experience, and have done the work to heal the ancestral trauma we’ve carried for generations. 

Creative expression is one of the most powerful tools we can use to heal ourselves. Something as simple as making a collage can take you miles away from toxic overthinking loops and sad and anxious feelings. Simply because the life force moving within you and expressing through you, clears up all of that, giving you a profound sense of peace and relief as you manage to express and let go whatever heavy feeling you were carrying - probably from previous generations that were passed on to you through programming and conditioning. 

When you focus your energy onto something beautiful, you inevitably shift the energy - from stagnant to flourishing. It’s a law of nature. If you plant seeds of flowers, you’re not gonna get vegetables. If you focus your energy in negative loops, the emotions that are going to mirror those thoughts are going to be of the same low frequency. If you focus your energy on creating, those emotions will have to come out of you as you shift the internal frequency into a higher vibration. The energy shifts when you give it a different focus and you allow yourself to express it. Singing, writing, painting, dancing. You choose. They all work without failure.

I don’t need to find scientific facts to prove my point; you can do that yourself if you need to. I always write from my own experience and what has helped me heal and process deep trauma within more than 10 years of self-enquiry and being fully devoted to the use of creative expression as a way of healing. This is the main reason I chose to be a creative coach; to pass on the learnings and insights I’ve gained from using creativity as my spiritual healing practice. 

Creativity as a spiritual practice

One of the biggest blockages around creativity comes from the inability to connect with our spirit; inner guidance or the creator within. 

If we are a great spirit inhabiting a body, representing all that is, mirroring the love that we are made of and where we come from; certainly we can connect to it and channel the creativity that comes from our higher mind, the source of creation. It sounds easy, and it certainly is once you master how to do it. However, in order to reach that level of connection to our higher self and to be a vessel for the Creator to purr creative energy through us, we must clear the conditioning that trained us to believe that we are not worthy of expressing our true nature; that we are not creative, nor good enough, or that creativity is only for the selected few that make it to the top of the mountain.

What if I told you that being creative is a practice that is available to everyone and all you need to do is to believe you can do anything? 

And if you don’t believe it, that’s fine. All you need to do is to start. Once you take the first step; even if the result doesn’t come out as you pictured it in your head, all it takes is practice. Any spiritual practice requires - guest what? - practice. A yogi doesn’t become a yogi just by staring at the window every morning. A meditator cannot progress in their learning if they don’t meditate. The same goes for creativity. If you want to sing, dance, paint, you need to integrate it into your every day life. And the more you do it, the more connected you feel to the source of creation. It’s a law of Nature.

‘But Yhonet, what if I don’t have the motivation to do anything? Where do I get the motivation from?’

You don’t need to wait until motivation comes to you. Motivation gets created by acting on your desires. When you act on your desires, the fire within you gets lid up and fuels you to keep going. The hardest step to take is the first one, and by the looks of it, you’ve already taken it - otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this blog.

If you would like more tailored guidance to activate your creative expression and stay on track with your creative spiritual practice, get in touch. I’m just one click away.

Thank you for reading me. Feel free to leave in the comments, how is your creative practice so far? Would you like to step up into the next level?

With love and devotion,

Yhonet