#59 Creative Inspiration

October 23, 2024

Cultivating our creative side can be challenging in our fast-paced, outcome driven world, but it is essential for our health. And the drive for creativity under pressure can feel more intimidating than inspiring.

So how can we find inspiration without intimidation? We can inspire ourselves!

Set yourself up for creating, anything that you are passionate about.

Having trouble remembering the last time you were creative or inspired?? Grab a time on my schedule to chat and discover your inspiration. Absolutely free!

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Episode Transcript

Hello and

welcome

to the Own Your

Health podcast,

I'm Cyndi Lynne,

and I can't

wait to help

you step into

your health

power.

Today we're

going

to talk about

inspiring

yourself.

A big part

of our being

healthy is

feeling

inspired.

It's feeling

that there are

things

within us and

outside of us

that can pull

us towards being

more, towards

feeling

better, towards

accomplishing

more than we

possibly ever

thought

we could.

And whether

that's

our health or

our career or

something creative

nature, inspiration

plays a big role

in us

maintaining

the excitement

our life and

in fact, our

health.

Today I'm going

to talk about

inspiration and

where

you can find

it from within.

And it's based

on what I've

it's based on

a project

I've been doing

this week, which

was a little

bit of a

surprise for me.

So often we

looked for

inspiration,

whether it's

ways to move our

body.

We look for

yoga inspiration

beautiful photographs

yoga videos of

professionals who

can seem to do

every possible

move.

Or if we're

in creative

outlets,

we may wander

museums, or we

may step outside

and look at

nature and

everything,

especially its

fall

here, everything

that

it creates and

that it holds

for us.

We may look

at beautiful

photographs,

but many of

those things are

outside of us.

And there's for

some of us,

a fine line

between feeling

inspired

and feeling

intimidated.

So when I

pick up my

camera, and I

admit it's been

years since I've

spent a lot

of time with

my camera, and

I go out

and I start

shooting, I have

usually done so

after being

inspired

from great

photographs

of places that

I also have

been or

circumstances,

nature, parks,

things

that I have

around me.

And I look

at those and

I think, hey,

I can do that.

I want to

do that.

I want to

capture what I

see and what

I experience.

But sometimes

that

experience can

feel

very intimidating,

almost as if I'm

going out trying

to copy someone

else or I'm

competing with

someone

else, rather

than

the inspiration

of saying, hey,

I've

got this tool,

I've got this

environment or

these

situations or

these

experiences.

Let me see

if I can

capture how they

feel to me.

So the way

that this kind

of crept up

on me this

week was my

need to clean,

cleaning and

sorting.

And I have

a particular

area

in the basement

where I store

my sewing

supplies,

where I store

my yarn, my

knitting supplies

and patterns and

all of that.

And it's just

become such a

disaster that I

really can't

even

find projects

that I know that

I want to

work on. Things

that I know

are there and

I can't find

them.

And if you

have an area

in your house,

be it your

kitchen or your

basement or your

craft room, or

whatever it is

that, that gets

this way, you'll

probably

understand.

And if you

don't, God bless

you.

Send me your

secrets, because

I want to know.

So in an

effort to tidy

up the area,

to get rid

of the things

that I know

that I'm not

going to use,

to pass it

along for

someone

else to use

to make space,

to kind of

rediscover what

actually had in

terms of

supplies

and patterns and

so on, I

hauled everything

out and took

inventory,

and it took

me probably two

and a half days.

I didn't work

on it

continuously,

but it took

me about two

and a half

days working on

and off on this.

Now, this was

one dresser

drawer

and some bags

of stuff.

But the cool

part about it

was, it wasn't

just a rote

sorting.

It was actually

an opportunity

for me to be

reinspired by

things

that I had done.

Things, patterns

that

I've used in

the past,

wonderful

fibers that I've

worked with in

the past, things

that I've

forgotten about.

Things that if

you would have

put in front

of me today,

I may have

not had the

confidence to

start

up and do,

but when I

look back and

realize, actually

five

years ago, I

made that

pattern,

or I worked

with that fiber,

I did those

stitches, I

figured

this out.

It gave me

a renewed

confidence

in myself, in

what I could

tackle and what

I enjoyed doing

in the past.

And it inspired

me to not

only return to

that, recapture

some

of that, but

then even

stretch

a little bit

farther.

So as I

went through

each

item, deciding

whether this was

something

that I was

ever going to

use or something

that would

better

be passed on

to someone else,

I also took

the opportunity

to look through

patterns, to put

instructions

and needles and

so on together

in actual

projects.

So that when

I feel the

energy to

create,

to make

something,

it's very easy

to do that.

It's very easy

to go down

and grab a

bag that's

perfectly

labeled with a

shawl that I

want to make,

with the

needles,

with the yarn,

everything that

need there in

that bag.

Now, this sounds

really simple.

And whether you

do this for

meal planning,

whether you do

it with your

photography equipment,

whether you do

it with music

and your

instruments

and your sheet

music that you

enjoy, whatever

you

do this with,

know that it

serves as

inspiration to

yourself,

reminding you of

your desires, of

what you've

accomplished

in the past

and what you

enjoy what you

can do and

look forward to

in the future.

And you know

what? This is

completely

free of any

intimidation.

It's completely

free of any

comparison,

because it's you

and your

creation.

So if you

have all of

your watercolors

and that paper

together,

if you have

your palette and

your tubes of

paint and your

brushes together

with

canvases, it

allows

you to step

into that

inspired

creative mode.

Now, I can

tell you that

inspired creative

mode,

very different

from the go

downstairs,

clean the

basement,

get rid of

stuff, realign

the

drawers, make

sure

everything is in

order. That's a

different

energy.

And you know

what?

It's a great

energy.

And I enjoy

that because you

can actually see

what you've

done.

The space is

very beautiful

now.

But the

preparation

for the creative

energy, I think,

brings probably

the

most value.

Because when I

get that little

itch or when

I have a

little bit of

time to do

something creative,

whether

it's photography,

painting,

knitting, in my

case, cooking,

any one of these

things, I don't

have to go

through sort and

clean and search

and decide mode,

which is all

a very different

energy, I can

move right to

that creative

energy.

So I'm setting

myself up for

success in being

creative.

I'm providing my

own inspiration,

and

I'm eliminating

all of the

competition

and comparison

and all of those

things that can

so easily creep

into our life

and impact our

creative health.

So if you

found this

helpful,

by all means,

pass it on.

If you know

someone who is

super creative

super talented

and doesn't ever

seem

to quite get

to their sweet

spot in making

their art,

absolutely

pass it along

to them.

And if you

need help

finding

your creativity

to nurture this

very

important part

of your health,

reach out.

Grab a time

on my calendar

absolutely free,

and

we'll get you

started.

So until next

week, let's go

out and own it.

#59 Creative Inspiration

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