Creative Spark — Soul shaped with Monika

Do you deeply admire, perhaps even revere people with a talent, who are driven by a calling and have an unending passion to create. They seem to have a magnetic energy and lust for life in spades, that special something. Perhaps you were shortchanged and you find yourself wishing that you too had been born lucky. Your lot in life, is to find joy in celebrating the greatness that you see in others.

Nothing wrong with that. Except that, this belief leaves you with an emptiness inside the very core of your being, with a sense that you’re settling for crumbs. You try to fill this hole with food, drink, relationships and things, in vain. The longing is for so much more, something bigger and very different. You can feel it and sense it pulsing deep inside but it’s so hard to to put it into words. This longing can be persistent and wake you up at 3 am with the feeling that you’re missing the point somehow. It’s the pain of unrealized potential calling you towards your destiny.

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To uncover our hidden potential, we must turn towards the longing and dissolve the inner barriers that are in the way of it becoming a real experience in our life. You aren’t separate from what you admire in others, there’s a difference in quantity not quality. The task is to say yes and embrace a beginners mind. It’s to parent the possibility that you see reflected ‘out there’, which exists within too in seed form and needs the nurture of soil, sunshine and water to blossom into fullness.

I always dreamed of being a musician, an artist of some kind. I just didn’t seem to have enough talent for it and spent my life living on the offerings of other musicians, artists, stars. I consumed their brilliance from the sidelines, denying my own desire to create. Shame and fear were running the show. In my work, people tell me their secret fears - they’re not talented enough, too old, that’s it’s too late and they just haven’t got what it takes. I understand because I’ve been there myself. They’re in a familiar cycle of holding themselves back and suffocating their dreams until they reach the place where they know that they must do something about it even if they haven’t got a clue where to start. The pain of never becoming themselves becomes greater than the fear of stepping into the unknown. That’s when they find me and we get to work on midwifing their potential.

Connecting with my longing led to me to discover an unexpected outlet in the form of mystical poetry. I wrote, spoke and recorded my poem and shared it with an audience. It’s not something I could have imagined from the contracted and fearful place where I stood before applying the principles of the growth mindset. None of this would have been possible if  I hadn’t taken the risk to step out into the unknown, which is exactly what every creator must do in the act of bringing something new into existence. I had to get out of consumer mode and step into creation mode. To bring my longing for joyful expression out of the shadows, I had to stretch past the fear of failing, the discomfort of feeling exposed and face the vulnerability of being ridiculed. I’m sharing this not because I want your likes but so you can see that it’s possible for anyone to transform their pain into creative expression too.

It most probably won’t be a poem in your case, or it might, whatever it is, it will be healing, joyful and set you free from inner limitation. It will unlock natural radiance, confidence and self esteem. Which translates into more abundance and tangible success in all other areas of life, like promotions, paying clients, happier relationships and greater well being.  Because, you’ll learn to get out of your own way and stop blocking yourself. Unlocking your potential is a journey of unprecedented growth. It can be uncomfortable and triggering at times, but the fruit is uniquely delicious and well worth the effort. Witnessing creative potential come into form is a journey of giving birth to your next self. It can be thrilling and terrifying in equal measure. For the creative energy inside of us, this journey is not really a choice, something that’s nice to have. It’s a compelling portal that calls us to walk beyond fear and limitation into wholeness and fulfilment.