In: Consciousness|Creativity|Visionary in Life and Business|Visioning|Visioning into Manifestation™
7 May 2011We spend a lot of time thinking and talking about our hopes and dreams, but how often do we think about the vision the Universe had for us. When you really think about it, this is the true meaning of vision—getting a true understanding of the vision the universe has for us. And when we have the courage to actualize this vision, we become powerful co-creators called Visionaries.
It takes courage to actualize the vision the Universe has for us because often you are stepping out on unknown territory. Expansion and growth always requires that we step into the unknown. In fact, the Queen of Media, Oprah Winfrey stated:
“The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.”
Now the question is: Have we opened our hearts to the “grandest vision” the universe has for us? Many have not taken this into consideration. What’s more, we will discover in our journey of growth and true self-realization that our hopes and dreams are but a small glimpse of the vision the universe has for us. We have infinite creative potential and the “grandest vision” the universe has for us presents us with avenues called provision to use as much of this infinite creative potential we desire to manifest great things and even greater things.
With this provision, the universe acknowledges the desire to do something that matters is in all of us. But we must be ready for it.
And how can we get ready for it? We get ready for it by first allowing the Creative Spirit to reveal the “grandest vision to us.” It takes meditation, prayer, visualization, and consistent right action to be able to catch this vision. Once we catch this vision, it will take more spiritual work to hold fast to this vision.
After we have held fast to the vision, to actualize this vision in our lives, there is always an opportunity for a bold move. I say, opportunity because it is just that an opportunity and success happens when opportunity meets preparation.
Consequently, this is when we have to muster the courage to trust our inner being and step out on this bold move. It is then we will realize that the spiritual work–meditation, affirmative prayer, discipline, visualization, and right action—was not done to make something happen but to prepare us to do something that only we may understand.
This is the way of the Visionary. The Visionary looks for an opportunity to make a bold move that will actualize the grandest vision. Life is filled with these opportunities to make a bold move, but we have to be prepared and we have to be courageous. Each time we make a bold move, we exercise the muscles of our faith and realize more of our true and authentic self. We are not limited…at least, that’s not the vision the universe has of us.
In: Abundance Training|Blue Lotus Living Skills Application|Consciousness|Creativity|How to "Be Happiness"|Purpose and Intentions|Spiritual-Personal Development
7 May 2011I am pretty sure you have heard the expression “get a life.” Well, you have one. What are you doing with it? Are you seeing the things you truly desire manifest and actualize in your reality or are you waiting on something or someone or some place? Well, while you are waiting for it, her, or him, life is waiting for you to live it.
When you really get how this thing call life works, you realize you really are in the center of it all. Good must be expressed through you in order for you to experience it. Inspiration must be expressed through you in order for you to experience it. Creativity must be expressed though you in order for you to experience it. Life must be expressed through you in order for you to experience it.
Too many of us have postponed living waiting for some grand event or waiting to get to some destination. Your life is a journey and if you are not co-creating your life and allowing yourself to live your life, then you will never fulfill your destiny because destiny itself is a journey.
As artist, particularly, we hold on to brilliant ideas, artistic expressions, or inspiring works of art and postpone expressing our work because we are waiting for something. Perhaps, its that big contract or maybe it’s a large sum of money or that big move to another country. Whatever it is, it limits our living. What are you waiting for? When in reality, “it” whatever “it” is, it’s waiting for you. It is waiting for you to show up in your own life so you can receive “it” or manifest “it.”
We are creative and divine beings and our lives don’t have to be limited. It’s only the limits we place on our life that actually causes limitations.
If we live free of limitation, we are living according to the Tao. As it is written in the Tao Te Ching:
“The Way is a limitless vessel;
Used by the self, it is not filled by the world;
It cannot be cut, knotted, dimmed or stilled;”
Our lives can take us to great and wonderful places if we allow ourselves to become that limitless vessel and a limitless vessel is a Willing Vessel—a vessel which allows the Spirit to move through you so that you can become more of your true and authentic self. Becoming more of our true and authentic self is what makes us happy and happiness is the purpose of life and living. When we limit ourselves and limit the flow of life through us, ultimately, we are making ourselves unhappy.
Peace, happiness, joy, creativity, and all that is good can abide in us and in our lives when we live it and live it without limits. Life is waiting for you to live it. Are you ready? If you are ready, then start by putting the life back in your living.
In: Abundance Training|Ascension|Co-creating|Creativity|Visionary in Life and Business
5 May 2011I believe that a growing number of artists now realize that in this day and age one must develop in his or her entrepreneurial skills in order to assure that one’s creative work reaches his or her audience. Many artists now realize that in order to maintain a livelihood from their artistic expression, these entrepreneurial skills must continuously be developed. And as these skills are developed, the artist is required to practice patience and focus.
Just as we must exercise patience and focus when we are developing as co-creators on the path of enlightenment, we must be patient and focused as we develop in our creative work and business. Every day and in every way we must be dedicated to doing what it takes to actualize our vision in our artistic work as well as our lives. We have to be dedicated if we want to derive a livelihood from our creative work as artists and entrepreneurs.
When we talk about deriving a livelihood from our creative work, the mantra has become a mantra, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” Yet, when we get down to it, sometimes we have to do some things we don’t like so much in order to fulfill that which we do love and again that requires patience and focus.
For example, some people may not like checking their emails three times a day, but if he or she is selling their own custom design art on wall scrolls via the internet, then in order to fulfill those orders, emails must be checked three times a day. Yes, you may love putting your beautiful custom art on wall scrolls, but without checking your email you wouldn’t know if you’ve received any orders.
Hence, with patience we find that we can deal with little dislikes and pet-peeves because we have our eye on the vision. The vision becomes more important than those little things we detest. When we grow on the path of enlightenment and use conscious creativity as an artist, entrepreneur, and co-creator, we find that it’s not so much “doing what you love” as it is “focusing on what you love.”
That’s right, focus on what you love and the money will follow. Your development as an artist, entrepreneur, and co-creator will always require you to do some things you don’t like, but if you focus on what you love, your ability to create a livelihood from what you love flows naturally and easily. Your ability to create a livelihood from what you love flows easily and naturally because you are operating according to the Law of Abundance. To live in abundance, you must focus on your vision and cultivate that vision through affirmative prayer, meditation, creative visualization, discipline, and right action. And all of this requires patience and focus.
Honestly, as artists, entrepreneurs, and yes, co-creators we will never be the happiness we are search for until we are actualizing our vision of purpose in life. Until we are living our vision, we don’t feel that sense of fulfillment. Instead, we feel something is missing or something is unfinished in our lives.
We all deserve to live our best life and that best springs forth when practice patience as we develop our skills and focus on what we love. Life is always becoming and so are we. As we express what is in our heart and actualize our vision, then we are becoming more of who we really are—more of our true and authentic self. That authenticity exudes and radiates from our creative work and inspires others to be an inspiration.
In: Co-creating|Consciousness|Creativity|The Creative Entrepreneur|Visioning
12 Apr 2011To be great, we must choose to be a part of the Great Work. And what is the Great Work? The Great work is dedicating our gifts, talents, and creativity to the conscious evolution of humanity.
To accomplish this successfully, the artist as an entrepreneur must discover how to free the imprisoned spirit through conscious creativity. With the practice of conscious creativity, as artist we will exhibit our greatness to the world. Our gifts and talents will function as transforming substance with the power to change our inner world and affect our outer world.
In essence, no artist wants to be ineffective and an artist with the ability to affect his outer world is considered great indeed. But before any effectiveness can take place, the artist must know his message and have a clear vision for that which he desires to create.
That message and that vision actualize when the artist frees the imprisoned spirit. The artist as an entrepreneur must be brave. He or she must be brave to face those unconscious aspects of his or her gifts. The artist must move these unconscious aspects towards the light so that these gifts can grow and evolve toward expanded awareness.
Dwell in the light and release the spirit and naturally one’s creative work as an artist will be a part of the Great Work. Moreover, the artist will find that his or her creative work will resonate with humanity because it will lend itself to some revelation about human nature and it will inspire the continuity of creativity.
As such, that same imprisoned spirit released in one artist will influence and inspire the release of the imprisoned spirit in the next artist. This infectious process demonstrates how the “creator” and the “created” are intertwined in the process of becoming more. Accordingly they co-arise in what has been co-created together.
So, if you are wondering why, here at Bluelotusliving.com we emphasize the importance to Let the Spirit Move You, then you now know that we believe that together we can “become more” and co-arise in what we co-create together as artists. No man is an island and the same is true for the artist. Every artist needs inspiration. Inspiration stirs up the gift and unleashes the talent that is in all of us.
In fact, I would be bold enough to say that I know artists who can go days without food, but I don’t know any artist that can go a day without inspiration. Inspiration is the pulse of imagination. Without inspiration, the imagination slips into unconsciousness allow it to be influenced by any outside circumstance that may not serve the vision or message of the artist.
We see it all the time. An artist loses his or her ability to inspire or be inspired and relies on outside circumstances to stimulate the imagination. The work that is created by this stimulation seems soulless and unmoving. It seems soulless and unmoving because the spirit has not been released but instead imprisoned by the artists disconnection with the co-creation process—the interconnectivity of the “creator” and the “created” by inspiration.
Greatness begins and continues to grow when the artist understands and creates with an appreciation of this interconnectivity.
Blue Lotus Living, founded by Carmellita M. Brown and Roslyn J. Randle, is a lifestyle company and community on the leading edge of the Visionary Consciousness Movement. As a company and community contributing to the Visionary Consciousness Movement, Blue Lotus Living develops and distributes educational, enriching, enlightening, and entertaining goods, services, and media productions for holistic, creative, successful, and inspirational living. So, let the Creative Spirit move you as you live with Soul Purpose in mind, body, and spirit.
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