4 Steps to Conquer Your Emotional Triggers | Transmute Creative Rejection & Disappointment

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Creative rejection and disappointment can be difficult to process, but it doesn’t have to be. In this article, I’ll share a four-step process to help you move through triggers along your creative journey. Step 1: Listen Objectively The first step is to listen objectively to what your ego and mind are telling you about the experience. It’s important to give voice to the inner dialogues that come up, whether that’s through journaling, speaking out loud, or reaching out to a friend. It’s also important to remember that these dialogues are not necessarily true. Your ego is trying to protect you and will look for conditional circumstances in order to make sense of things. Step 2: Push Conditions to the Side In order to connect to your soul’s truth, you need to push all the conditions to the side. Your soul’s truth is unconditional, pure, and loving. It’s connected to Source and is the thing that really wishes to be expressed. Take a moment to sit in a pool of gooey loving energy and allow yourself to soak it all up. Remind yourself that you are an Awakened Creator, that this is the path you are meant to be on, and that everything that is unfolding for you is for you and is growing you. Step 3: Open Up to Gratitude The fourth and final step is to give gratitude to the entire experience, including gratitude to your ego and mind for showing you what was not in alignment with your soul’s truth. Allow yourself to be thankful for the rejection and for not getting the results you expected. This will help you reaffirm your connection to the divine and open up to the truth of who you are. Step 4: Download My Free Heart Alignment Guide If you want to start strengthening your connection between you and your soul’s truth, I highly recommend you download my free heart alignment guide. This guide will share with you a three-step process that you can do anytime, anywhere to get connected to your heart’s truth. It’s fantastic for getting connected right before you go into an audition or start putting paint to canvas. Conclusion Moving through triggers along your creative journey doesn’t have to be difficult. By following these four steps, you can start to understand how the process works and strengthen your connection to your soul’s truth. I hope this guide has been helpful and I wish you all the best on your creative journey.

Fashion That Flows Without Limits – Interview with Divine Designer JuJu

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“I’ve always felt odd and weird, which I am, but I never knew how to express it until I became an adult and realized I had choices.” Today’s Awakened Creator Spotlight is on Juju, a Divine Designer, who is creating change and expressing their authenticity through unique and colorful fashion designs and spiritual healing offerings. Connect with him on Instagram @ju.universe, @ju.universellc, & @jujumagicllc. Here is Juju in their own words on their 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 love to create change. I am changing every moment and every second. I also love to create designs for fashion. I’ve always felt odd and weird, which I am, but I never knew how to express it until I became an adult and realized I had choices. I also always struggled within myself and had extreme turmoil in myself, from low self esteem, low self confidence, to suicidal attempts, until I felt drawn in with metaphysics, meditation, crystals, sound healing, and music. I started using self coping tools to cope with everyday pains that I grew accustomed to, until I found out that I can carry my pain in another way and express it in my art.  What most often gets in your way as a creator and how do you stay in alignment and flow? Overthinking!!! And overthinking so much that nothing gets done. I stay in alignment and flow by listening to my inner voice and body and going with the flow. It’s not easy, but with practice it gets easier to flow with that process.https://youtu.be/U6ss71UMQIw If you could offer words of wisdom or support to your fellow creators, what would you say? Keep going! Be authentic. Meaning, be authentic with yourself. Good days. Bad days. Show the world how you cope with that. Life will come with the good and bad, just like our emotions. They change and show us where we are with our emotions. How did you become a part of the Awakened Creators community and what does being an Awakened Creator mean to you? I became a part of the community after Amanda reached out to me. I am just like it sounds, an AWAKENED CREATOR. Want to connect with JuJu? Check out JuJu’s incredible creations on: Instagram: @ju.universe, @ju.universellc, & @jujumagicllc. TikTok: @ju.universellc Do you have the desire to align with your authentic creative expression? If you want to create more from your heart (and less from your head), 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. Access the HeART Alignment Creative Ritual guide for free.

A Call to Arms | Channeled Messages from Awakened Creators

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Creatives are often held back by lies perpetuated by those in power, and those who are afraid of what they might make. This denial of their creative power keeps them from experiencing the abundance that the universe offers.   In this channeled transmission from Source, Amanda shares a call to arms for creatives to step into their power and do what they came here to do. https://youtu.be/lBTrsP7xJiQ Lies Held By Creatives Creatives often deny their creative power, thinking that their contribution to the world is not valuable. They think that there is no path to living their truth, and no way to experience the joy they crave. They accept what is given to them, and deny themselves access to the abundance that the universe offers. Accessing the Divine Creatives possess within themselves a direct channel to Source itself. They possess within themselves a golden corridor allowing access to the divine, access to wisdom beyond their understanding, and access to illuminated visions of what could be. These pieces of information, insights, and inspirations are offered freely by Source itself to those who are willing and able to take them on, receive them, and bring them into form. Stepping Into Your Power Creatives are asked to boldly step into and allow through their vessel to be who they are, to be proud of who they are, and to no longer deny who they are. They are asked to be present with the All That Is, to receive its messages with an open heart and an open mind, and to form them in the physical so they are accessible to others. There is no right way to create, there is only your way. Your way, connected to the divine, is the divine way. Creatives are asked to step fully and completely into the power of what they are – a master creator, a soul who has opened themselves in this lifetime to allow that which they do not always understand into their awareness to be shared. Forgiveness and Transformation Creatives must release all of the judgment they have for themselves for their past choices and for the causes and effects that they have enacted up to this point. They must forgive themselves for walking a path they knew inside was not their own, and for transgressing against the truth in their heart. All of the experiences leading up to this moment have been a blessing to allow them to step stones through the waters. Creatives are asked to boldly be who they are, to no longer deny who they are, and to do what they have come here to do. They are asked to accept their spiritual gifts, and to recognize that their purpose can only be known by them and Source itself. A Call to Action Creatives are asked to step into their power and do what they came here to do. They are asked to boldly accept the power of what they are, and to no longer deny who they are. They are asked to forgive themselves, and to surrender what they think they know about their future, what they are capable of, and how much they are lovable. When they are ready, they are asked to throw their hands up, bow their head down, and humbly request assistance. Source will intervene only when it is given permission to do so. Creatives are asked to recognize the magnificence that they are and always have been, and to feel the love that Source has for them.

The Deadly Cost of Creative Repression

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As artists at heart, we have a creative desire that burn within us, but society (and even our own families) can send us negative messages about expressing those desires that encourage us to repress our natural creative impulses. Whether well-intentioned or malicious, this repression of creative energy can be deadly, or at best lead to substance abuse, depression, or anxiety (like it did for me). To make sense of what is happening when we repress our creativity, I was shown an inspired image (which I painted) of a fire-filled cave called, The Cave of Internal Desire. The flames of this cave represent our creative energy, passionate and burning wildly. Because of external and internal pressures we sometimes get stuck in The Cave and it can start to become toxic. In this article, we’ll explore the metaphor of The Cave of Internal Desire: why we get stuck in the cave, what happens when we stay too long, and how to get out of the cave and into alignment with our creative truth. What is the Cave of Internal Desire (really)? As I meditated on The Cave of Internal Desire, I learned that at its core, The Cave is a trial that we must endure as creatives in order to reach our Truth and our authentic way of being. It’s a portal that we must pass through, but if we stay in the cave too long, we can start to burn. Why Do We Get Burnt in the Cave? We get burnt in the cave because we are never intended to stay in the cave. We usually stay there because we are afraid to leave, afraid to step out, and afraid to walk into our creative life and own our creative expression. If we consider this from the perspective of The Cycle of Creative Flow, what may be happening is that we are getting stuck in the conception energy of the mind. We receive the inspiration of a great idea, roll it around in our mind, and maybe even manifest it physically a little bit, but we keep it to ourselves and never share it with anyone. We may start to play mind games with ourselves, our ego gives us excuses as to why it’s not ready yet, why not to share it. Usually it’ll be belittling thoughts like, “Your work isn’t polished enough,” “Your art isn’t refined enough,” “Your writing isn’t eloquent enough,” “Nobody will care,” etc. But the truth is, your soul will care. In fact, it will feel tortured in the fires of your desire until you release it and walk through the cave. At a certain point, that creative energy that is building up has to go somewhere, it has to be released. If we keep it inside ourselves, repressing our natural impulse to express, and don’t manifest it outward, it can start to become toxic. What Does Coming Out of the Cave Require? Walking out of the cave looks like creating, sharing, talking about your creative ideas to other people, anything where you are expressing the energy outward. Creative expression is called that for a reason…it has to be pushed out. By repressing our creative desires, we deny the truth of what that energy intends to be, and that’s a pain that is very hard to explain, but creatives who actively repress their impulses know it well. It’s excruciating and it ends up becoming this thing that frustrates or depresses us. Sometimes it becomes so bad, we turn to substances to numb or worse, consider suicide. Creative expression is called that for a reason…it has to be pushed out. Sometimes creatives will make art but then refuse to share their work with anyone. While it’s true that you don’t have to share it, there comes a certain point at which our hiding our gifts becomes selfish. The inspiration was given to us to first help ourselves, but then also to help others. We are the vessel with which Spirit seeks to share its creative energy with the world. Being visible is hard, being seen is hard, but being trapped in the cave, being eaten alive by the flames of your own creative desire and passion is harder. Freeing Yourself From the Cave Listen closely…you are being called to express your creative gifts. If there is something that needs to be birthed within you that you are holding in tight, release it, let it go, get it out in whatever capacity you possibly can. Creative expression is a noble and valuable thing, and when we repress our creative desires, we deny the truth of what that energy intends to be. Once it’s out, you’ll feel free, you’ll feel expansive, you’ll feel light. You won’t feel like you have an elephant sitting on your chest anymore, you won’t feel bound any longer. Spirit wants you to feel free, and the world needs you to share your creative gifts. The burning pain of the Cave of Internal Desire is a catalyst meant to push us forward through and out of the cave. Listen closely to your soul and if you feel called to express your creative gifts, release it, let it go, get it out in whatever capacity you possibly can. Want help reclaiming your creative expression? Use the FREE Heart Alignment Guide I created to get back in touch with your creative truth. You’ll also find a fiercely supportive creative community in Awakened Creators. Follow us on Instagram or watch hundreds of videos on YouTube.

I Tried Journaling Differently to Overcome Creative Blocks (and It Worked!)

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Creative blocks can be a major obstacle in the creative process, but they don’t have to be. If you’re looking for a way to move past them, journaling can be a powerful tool. In this article, I’m going to share with you four tips that I’ve found to be helpful in using journaling to overcome creative blocks. Tip 1: Creative Blocks Are Gifts The first thing to understand about creative blocks is that they are gifts. They are powerful pathways for growth and if we can shift our mindset to see them as opportunities to break free, we’re already making progress. Your journal can be a productive place to make major progress and move beyond creative blockages. Tip 2: Ask the Right Questions Journals can be a good place to vent, but it’s also a place to ask the right questions. Asking the right questions is key to using journaling to overcome creative blocks. It’s like the who, what, why, when, and where questions they taught you in grade school English class. There’s a gold mine of information if we ask the right questions. Tip 3: Align with Your Heart The next step is to align with your heart and ask yourself if your heart really believes that to be true. If you’re not sure how to connect with your heart in this way, I have a few videos on journal prompts to overcome various types of creative blockages, including learning to love yourself as an artist. Tip 4: Shift Your Mindset Once you’ve laid everything out on the table, you can start to realign your thought processes to a more supportive mindset. This takes some skill, and I have a whole video on shifting your mindset for creatives, also known as mental alchemy. Conclusion Journaling can be a powerful tool for overcoming creative blocks. By asking the right questions, aligning with your heart, and shifting your mindset, you can start to move past the blocks that have been standing in your way. I have created an entire heart alignment creative ritual that will show you how easy it is to tune in and tap into your true heart essence. If you’re interested in downloading this FREE Heart Alignment Guide just click here. Good luck on your creative journey!

4 Benefits of Adding Meditation to Your Creative Practice | This Changes EVERYTHING 

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If you’re ready to get out of your mind, out of your fears, and out of your self-doubt and into a place of peace when it comes to creating your best work, you definitely want to educate yourself on the four major benefits to adding meditation to your creative practice. When I had my spiritual and creative awakening experience in 2017, meditation was one of the first tools that was taught to me that has been beneficial to my own creative journey. It’s something that I return to time and time again, especially when I’m feeling down, when I’m feeling stressed, or when I’m feeling just off-centered. Meditation is something that I can rely on to bring me back into balance and keep me focused on what I really want to be doing, which is making awesome art, whether it’s painting, writing, or whatever it is that I am into. And that’s what I know you want too. So here are the four major benefits of adding meditation to your creative practice. Benefit 1: Learning to Separate Your Mind and Thought Processes From Your Identity If you’ve ever been in the process of creating, you’ve probably experienced a lot of swirling thoughts in terms of critiquing your own work or wondering if you’re doing a good enough job. Meditation is going to give you the skills necessary to be able to observe those thought patterns without overly identifying with them or attaching to them, which will leave you to do your work more effectively and at the same time learn from the dialogues that are going on within you and see if there are some necessary tweaks of perspective that you need to make in order to either pivot some of those thought processes or tamper them down or eliminate them entirely. Benefit 2: A Tool to Return to Center at Any Time If you’ve learned about The Cycle of Creative Flow, you know that there is an aspect of creative flow that involves rest. It’s a part of the process that we don’t often talk about, but it’s an essential component to creative flow. Meditation is one of the things you can put into practice in order to bring yourself into that state of restoration. In that state of restoration is where you’re going to get realigned with your creative purpose and open yourself up to receive new inspiration. Benefit 3: Aligning More Quickly With Your Authentic Voice as a Creator While you’re in the midst of creating, you can get lost in terms of expressing your authentic voice. You can start to allow the voices of others or the voices of concern to begin manipulating what you’re creating, until you’re no longer creating something that’s authentic to you. Meditation is something that you can do before, during, and after your creative process to bring yourself back into alignment with what your authentic voice wants to say for the peace that you’re creating. Benefit 4: It’s Easy to Put Into Practice Meditation is really easy to do. You don’t need any special equipment to do it, just yourself and your breath. If you’d like to learn and practice a simple heart alignment meditation you can watch one of my heart alignment rituals on YouTube or download my FREE Heart Alignment Ritual Guide, complete with short video lessons. By learning this, at any time you’ll be able to get yourself back in alignment with your authentic truth as a creator, restore your center, and give yourself some space from any thoughts that have been pestering you throughout the week. Conclusion I really hope that you will take the information in this video and begin to apply it by utilizing meditation in your creative practice and seeing the benefits that it has to offer. If you’re interested in more resources like this or learning more about what might be interfering with your ability to express yourself authentically, please explore the free resources and paid resources here on the Awakened Creators website. Just move with what resonates with you. Thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of your creative journey. I am so glad that you have committed to your art, to your heart, and to you. I love you. Namaste.

3 Tips to Enhance Your Creative Process with Presence and Flow | Creative Flow State Explained 

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Creative flow is a powerful state of being that can help you manifest your dreams and desires. In this series, we have explored all three components of creative flow and how to embody it in your creative process. In this article and video, we will discuss three tips to help you embody presence during the creative flow process. Tip 1: Respect the Cycle The creative process is a cycle with layers of learning and understanding that unfold as you engage in it. We don’t want to get stuck in the body phase and try to force our manifestation out, but instead intuitively listen to our bodies and return to Spirit to receive inspiration for the next phase. As we move through this cycle of Spirit, Mind, and Body, we are creating, manifesting, and making real all of these things, and in the process, we ourselves are becoming changed. It is important to honor the cyclical nature of creation and to remember that there is a time and place to do each thing. Tip 2: Balance Masculine and Feminine Energies The Mind and Body components of the cycle are very masculine and form-based, requiring a fully embodied masculine energy. However, it is necessary to honor the feminine energies embodied in Spirit, surrender, compassion, tenderness, and nurturing. If you forget, just take a breath and remember the balance of masculine and feminine energies. Tip 3: Connect to Your Heart The center of the creative process is the heart. This heartfelt presence is the soul of everything you are doing on your creative journey. It is that presence, beingness, connection to the Divine, and is-ness that is always present and is your center. If you feel yourself spiraling out of creative flow, return to your heart and center yourself. I have created a FREE Heart Alignment Creative Ritual Guide to help you do this. Conclusion I hope that this series on Creative Flow has been helpful to you. If you feel like you are getting stuck in any phase of the creative process, please consider using the Heart Alignment Creative Ritual Guide. I have also prepared a Masterclass on Overcoming Creative Blocks in the various phases of the creative flow cycle with actual exercises and spiritual tools. If you missed any part of this blog series, you can start at the beginning with this article and video about the secrets to creative flow that no one told you. Thank you for being here and for being committed to your art, your heart, and yourself. Namaste.

Burned Out Creators: Understand This To Get Back In Flow | Creative Flow State Explained 

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The Creative Cycle of Flow starts with inspiration from Spirit, moves to conceptualization in the mind, and then to action in the body. But what happens when we get stuck in the body phase of creative flow? In this video and article, we’ll discuss the body’s role in creative flow and how to avoid burnout and physical illness. The Body’s Role in Creative Flow The body phase of creative flow is characterized by action. This is the output of what we are putting forth into the world. It doesn’t have to be a big action or a long action, but it is important to be present in the act of doing. This phase of the creative cycle is very masculine in its energy, and it is possible to get stuck in this phase. When we are stuck in the body, we can become tired, exhausted, and burnt out. Our back may start aching, our muscles may give out, and we may feel tired. This is a signal from our body that the body phase of our creation is coming to a close. It is important to remember that this doesn’t mean that we need to have finished our project. The body is not the end of creating. We don’t go from Spirit to Mind to Body and then ta-da, everything is done. It is a cycle, and we will cycle many times through Mind, Body, Spirit, adding layers of understanding and creative expression to the thing we are making. We want to avoid getting pulled back into our minds or starting to question our actions. We want to be present with the act of doing. We also want to avoid letting ourselves get pulled back into the Mind, pausing our progress or starting to question the progress we have already made and halting the flow cycle. Returning to Spirit When we start spiraling out of flow, at any point, we need to return to Center through our heart alignment practice and remind ourselves that this is just one third of the whole of the creative flow cycle. When finishing the body phase, we are allowed to, encouraged to, and invited to rest . After we have rested in Spirit, then we can return back to the mind and the body at a later time. If we do happen to get stuck in the body phase of creative flow, where we are putting a lot of pressure on ourselves to finish, we need to surrender and let go of the need to push. We need to allow ourselves to return to that more Yin aspect of the creative flow, release the Yang, and allow ourselves to return to Spirit to surrender back into rest. Conclusion In the body phase of creative flow it is possible to get stuck, and when we do, we can become tired, exhausted, and burnt out. It is important to remember that this doesn’t mean that we need to have finished our project. We want to avoid getting pulled back into our minds or starting to question our actions. When we start spiraling out of flow, at any point, we need to return to Center (which you can learn to do with my FREE Heart Alignment Guide) and remind ourselves that this is just one third of the whole of the creative flow cycle. We are allowed to, encouraged to, and invited to rest. We need to surrender and let go of the need to push and allow ourselves to return to Spirit to surrender back into rest. Let’s conclude our discussion by tying all three phases together. You can watch the video below or read the article here.

Attention Overthinkers! | Help Your Mind SUPPORT Creative Flow | Creative Flow State Explained 

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What is the role of the Mind in the creative flow process? The mind gets a ton of credit for creativity, but it is really only one of the three elements necessary to bring something to life. So if you tend to get stuck in your mind overthinking your creative projects, this article is for you! If you prefer, you may watch the video. Together, we’ll put that pesky mind of yours in its place. This article and video are the next in a series about creative flow and how creative flow really works. If we can master creative flow, we can keep ourselves going along our creative Journey for a very long time. The Mind Element We all know we live in a mental world, a world that is obsessed with the mind and thinking. So our brains tend to get most of the credit when it comes to our creative process. But I’m here to tell you it is a third of what’s necessary in order to keep things going. After you’ve received inspiration from the element of spirit and you’ve opened yourself up to trust it that you are the one to receive it and that this inspiration is worthy of your time and attention, you’ll bring that inspiration down into the mind. The mind is where we begin to conceptualize and plan our creative process. Now this can be as quick and simple as “Oh my gosh I have an idea! I need pens, papers, someone give me a notebook!” to as detailed and well thought out as the script for a movie and all of the characters and “I’m gonna need actors and I’m gonna need costumes and I’m gonna need a set and where shall it be” and all of these questions start to form in the mind. So again, the mind is a really essential part of the creation process because that’s where we’re taking what was previously a nebulous inspiration and we’re giving it more form and structure. We’re starting to put things in a logical order that would make sense to us if we were to explain it to someone else what this idea is. Moving From the Mind Element to the Body Element So the key to moving from the Mind element to the body element so that you can manifest what you wanting to create is action. There’s just no other way around it. You have to act. Now if you’re feeling resistant to acting, that’s where we always return and align to the heart. Then we can ask, “Where is that resistance to action coming from?” If you need help doing this and kind of sussing out the reason behind your overthinking and your fear of taking action, I have written a eBook full of journal prompts for you to go really deep on this and find out why you’re getting stuck in the mind. That eBook is part of a series of ebooks that I’m writing about each element of the creative flow cycle. Not Having All the Answers One common fear that people have about taking action is that they don’t have all the answers yet. However, understanding the cycle of creative flow tells us that in order to receive the answer to our problem, we must act. If you’ve ever heard the adage “action brings Clarity”, this is the moment to use that adage. You must act. Do something. Take action on one of your ideas, even if it doesn’t work out, even if it ends up being wrong. You now know you can check that one off your list. It won’t work and you can move on to the next idea. Without taking action, you’ll never know what will happen and then you’ll be constantly stuck in this state of suspended animation instead of moving forward. If you are feeling fearful because you don’t have all the answers, go ahead and take action on something anyways and just see. Now that might bring up a lot of tension for you and if it does, there’s something in your heart that maybe needs a revolution. It could be a deep-seated fear, a failure, or a fear of making mistakes. If that’s the case, you need to tune into your heart to find out exactly what’s going on so you can bring compassion and love to that part of yourself. Why Heart Alignment Matters More The practice of aligning with your heart that we talk about here at Awakened Creators is so powerful, yet simple, I created a FREE Heart Alignment Guide. This simple 3-step ritual is going to help you tune into your heart so you can ask it these questions. You’ll get to know what is it that your heart really needs you to understand before you can move safely and confidently into action. Conclusion Just remember that the mind, while brilliant, is only one small part of the creative flow process and if you’re getting stuck in this space you need to act. I know it’s easier said than done but action truly does bring clarity. By acting, you keep the energy in the Cycle of Creative Flow moving so that the solutions to your questions can become inspired answers as you continue on the journey. After you move from the mind into the body, you can start to manifest your creation. However, be warned, the body also sometimes struggles in knowing when to stop. So if burnout is your problem, we’ll answer all those questions for you and more in the next article and video in this series.

What is Creative Flow? | The Secrets No One Told You | Creative Flow State Explained

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Creative flow is a concept that is often discussed in creative circles, but few people truly understand what it is and how it works. In this series, Amanda from Awakened Creators will explain the lesser-known aspects of creative flow that can be a real game-changer for your creative journey. If you prefer to watch the video, you can. What is Creative Flow? Creative flow is a state of being that emerges naturally when a creator is in harmony with all aspects of the creative process. This means that creative flow is not just a feeling that you get when you are actively creating, but rather a state of being that can be achieved throughout the entire creative process. As Alan Watts said, we should remind ourselves often that we’re “a human being not a human doing.” Being is something that the great Eckhart Tolle talks about in his book, The Power of Now. In it, he says, “Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it. As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve and life begins to flow with joy and ease. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction. Therefore, you are not attached to the results; neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of being. You have found the life underneath your life situation.” This teaches us that the state of being is not concerned with the future or outcomes, which can often be the obsession of creatives. What is important is that we maintain and focus on a state of being, accepting each moment as it is. When we do this, creative flow emerges naturally. How Does Creative Flow Emerge? When we can tap into a state of heartfelt presence or being, we naturally align ourselves with the is-ness of the all. This is a place of love, unconditional and acceptance of what Is. It is only when we are in harmony with this Is-ness or in dissonance with it that creates those feelings of resistance or creative blocks. Harmony is what happens when sound is vibrating in a way that creates a unity that moves together. It is the symphony of life. When we are in harmony with our creative process, we are in alignment with it. This is why here at Awakened Creators, we talk a lot about being in alignment. The Creative Flow Process Creative flow is not just about actively manifesting through our bodies, but also includes mental processing in order to conceptualize the inspiration that we’ve received, as well as inspiration and the spiritual element of receiving and surrendering. Resting and allowing inspiration to find you is also an important part of the creative flow process. In order to truly be in a state of flow, we must accept all stages of creation. It is like a tree that is always in a state of flow no matter what stage of the process it is in, whether it is in the winter resting, hibernating, going within, or in the spring budding with new ideas, or in the summer and fall, ample and ready to share what is created. Conclusion Now that we understand what creative flow is, we can begin to explore the first aspect of the creative flow process: Where does creativity come from and what is inspiration? In the next video in this series, Amanda will explore these questions and more. Or if you prefer, you can read the article.