“We all have special gifts to share in this world and your creations are the medicine.”
Today’s Awakened Creator Spotlight is on Maricarmen, an artist whose vivid creations inspire incredible joy, happiness, and inner peace.
Connect with her on Instagram (@maricarmensmithcolorhappyart) and her website.
Here is Maricarmen in her own words on the creative journey and what it means to be an Awakened Creator.
Tell us about your authentic creative expression. What do you love to create and why?
I have always loved colours, painting, drawing, doodling, dreaming, singing, dancing, playing. However, as I grew up, I got distracted. In 2019, during a womb ceremony, I remembered what I always knew: I love to create. Due to limiting beliefs, I hadn’t fully claimed my passion until that day. After claiming my passion for painting, I launched my first painting idea. Then the pandemic hit, and during the lockdown I got plenty of time to paint.
I paint intuitively, following colors and marks. Looking back at one of the paintings of my first collection in 2020, I realized something inside me was bubbling with happiness. I discovered my authentic creative expression is joy!
My soul loves to create things that bring joy, create inner happiness, make me feel alive, excited, and raise my energy. This feeling of harmony extends to my shamanic healings, where serving and helping equals joy to me. Over the years, I’ve realized I am here to gift joy, express joy through all my creations and interactions, and when my soul is happy, I’ve accomplished my goal. This translates into my customers’ feedback, mirroring my feelings of joy, gratitude, happiness, and appreciation for my art and healings.
What most often gets in your way as a creator and how do you stay in alignment and flow?
I am a dreamer and this archetype can sometimes sabotage me. Being a projector in human design means being seen by others lights me up, but external validation can also be sabotaging as I get too excited and then feel down when there is none. With my sun in Leo, this can also pose challenges. To stay in alignment and flow, I become aware when I feel down and consciously write a gratitude list of all that is around me in the moment. I also practice kundalini, self-hypnosis, and do rituals.
If you could offer words of wisdom or support to your fellow creators, what would you say?
Become very intentional with what you consume and who you surround yourself with. There is so much noise on social media, constant advice on how to reach, how to get, how to increase, if you are not doing this, if you are not doing that. Listening to all these can lower our energy.
Remember that every journey is different and unique, comparing yourself to other creators can bring us down. We all have special gifts to share in this world and your creations are the medicine. Your intuition is here to guide you, and the more you listen, the stronger it gets. Focus on serving and creating what you want to experience in this world.
I believe We are here to experience and enjoy life with its up and downs, yin and yan, light and dark. Understanding that there is always a balance, a harmony, that some days will be awesome and some days won’t, will help you feel content and accept everything in your life. You are enough now, not when you have the certificate, when you finish art school, when you get the customers, the sales, the job, the million followers, etc. You are worthy with or without these things.
What does being an Awakened Creator mean to you?
Being an Awakened Creator to me means feeling the joy and excitement, enjoying my life now, being at ease, accepting the gifts I have, sharing it with the world, letting go of old patterns, surrendering to the mystery, and trusting Great Spirit speaks through each of my offerings.
Want to connect with Maricarmen?
Check out Maricarmens’s joyfully colored creations on:
Instagram: @maricarmensmithcolorhappyart
Website: https://maricarmensmiththejoyfulartistthatspeaksthroughcolour.com/
Do you have the desire to align with your authentic creative expression like this Creator?
If you want to feel free to create from the heart, my HeART Alignment Creative Ritual guide will show you a pathway home.
I will personally guide you (with quick video lessons) through a simple yet powerful creative ritual that will bring your heART back online so you can start creating from that space again.
