Intuitive Insights: Inspiring Stories and Intuitive Tools for the Creative Soul
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Intuitive Insights: Inspiring Stories and Intuitive Tools for the Creative Soul
Let Go of Control and Serve Your Creative Journey
Have you ever found yourself caught in a cycle of doubt, wondering if you should just abandon your creative project altogether? You're not alone. The creative journey isn't a straight line—it's a rollercoaster with predictable yet always surprising twists and turns.
Today we're exploring what it means to "serve the process" in both creativity and life. That doubt phase you're experiencing? It's not the journey itself—it's just one part of the ride. When we recognize which phase we're in, we can stop fighting it and start serving it instead. Just like a rollercoaster, the creative process has moments of slow buildup, terrifying drops, and exhilarating rushes. The magic happens when we stop being surprised by the pattern and learn to ride the waves.
Drawing parallels between the creative process and the four ashrams of Indian philosophy (the student, householder, retirement, and renunciation phases), we examine how our relationship to service changes throughout life. Most of us in the "householder" phase juggle families, careers, and creative pursuits—and that's exactly where we're meant to be serving right now. The breakthrough comes when we shift from trying to control outcomes to simply being in service to the ideas, people, and stages of life we're currently experiencing. When we release the illusion of control, we discover a more harmonious way of creating and living that's rooted in trust, faith, and love.
Ready to transform your relationship with creativity and service? Join me for a contemplative meditation on what service means to you. Connect with me on social media @MagnetizeYourLight or visit magnetizeyourlight.com to explore intuitive readings and coaching options. Your journey of insight is just beginning—make some magic today!
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Hello, welcome to Intuitive Insights. I am your no BS Woo Coach, megan McDonough. This week I am bringing you a little insight. This is so. I've been marinating on this a little bit lately, on the creative side and on the life side, and I wanted to share this with you today and then offer kind of a contemplative meditation for you to do whenever you want, either with me today or save it and do it later. But today I wanted to talk to you about serving the process. So what the heck does that mean? So in let me start back where I why I'm thinking of this.
Speaker 1:So, as a creative right, as an artist, actor, whatever, there is a process, and the process is not like math, it's not like the two plus two equals four. You know the carousel at a theme park, and I have been to several theme parks this summer. So, yes, this has also been on my mind because of that. It's more like a roller coaster, where there are times where it speeds up. There are times when it slows down, it curves, it scares the shit out of you. You want to quit. You're like, why the hell did I do this? And then you get done. You're like fuck, yeah, oh, pardon me Oops, I guess I dropped the F-bomb. But you're like that was awesome, I want to do that again, right? Or you know, if it's not for you, if that life is not for you, you just get off the roller coaster and say that was awesome, I'm never doing that again. It depends on you know your path, right. Either you love that process of the roller coaster or you're more happy with the carousel. That line from Parenthood if you saw that movie where he's like you know, your mother's a genius, you know. And he's like well, why is she in someone else's car? If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. But she talks about some people like the roller coaster of life, some people like the carousel.
Speaker 1:So the creative process to me is more like the roller coaster. It starts off slow and then you're like what am I getting into? What am I getting? What have I gotten into? I'm in it now, I'm in it now, and then halfway through you're like you go through the doubt phase. You know it's the chaos phase of all the feelings at once. And then you go through the doubt phase like I should just stop, get out, I should just forget it, I don't know what I'm doing, and then you come back to wait. No, I got it. You have that aha moment and then you move forward and you're like this is it, this is it, this is it. And then you're done Right, and on to the next one, because you are now like cool, that was great, now what?
Speaker 1:So here's the thing I don't know how many times I've ridden the roller coaster in the creative process and every single time it surprises me when I get to the doubt phase, when I get to the chaos phase, and the same goes for life. So the reason I bring this up is because I'm living in that doubt phase and as I'm living in the doubt phase on some things, some parts of some things that are in process, my life included, I'm allowing the doubt to take over as, like, the doubt is the roller coaster instead of the roller coaster being the roller coaster and hope. That makes sense, meaning the doubt is not the journey. The doubt is a is a part of the journey. It is a piece of the path, it's not the path, and it's hard to remember that when you're in it.
Speaker 1:So I was speaking with my yoga teacher the other day and she reminded me because I was like, how do you? One of? One of my struggles has been since I had kids, since I'm older, my body and I are like not connecting. You know what I mean and I've always been very connected to my body. So since I've had kids and marriage and moving and all these things and getting older, and I said to her, because she has two girls, I said how old. So what did your process look like when your kids were little? Because I know intellectually, my practice is the word I meant to say for yoga I know mentally, my practice is not going to look the same now as it did when I was in my 20s, when I had all the time in the world and only myself to worry about. Right, I'm just a normal person. But how did she do it right? How did my guru do it? And she reminded me. Now let me just go back. So I've been reminding others as I remind myself.
Speaker 1:What part of the process are you serving in your creative journey? So if you're living in doubt, that's just part of the process. Keep going. If you're living in the chaos of all these ideas, and whatever, it's part of the process, keep going. Let it marinate. You know the thing, the aha moment will kind of rise to the top and then you'll see the vision moving forward. So it's easy to see for other people, right, not so much yourself, but if you remember that you're on the journey, and the journey is always different, yet has the same components, you can remember what part of the component am I serving now and lean into it theoretically.
Speaker 1:So I was asking her about the practice and she reminded me about the ashrams, the four ashrams in Indian philosophy, and those are kind of equivalent to the stages of life and what your dharma is in each stage of life, how you are serving the particular stage of life that you're in, or the piece of the rollercoaster. Right, you can even go as far as to say which roller coaster are you serving. So there's brahmacharya and I'm probably going to screw these up because I always get very nervous about my Indian pronunciations but grasha, vanaprastha and sannyasi. So brahmacharya is when you're the student and that's your character development, your student development, when you're learning from your mentors, when you're learning in life, right, the Grosha. And of course, again, nervous about that pronunciation, please hit me up and let me know how to pronounce it.
Speaker 1:But that's the householder, you know. That's when you're raising your children, you're out in the world, you're making money, doing all the regular things that people do when they have a house and children, and you're serving others, you're serving your job, you're serving the country with paying taxes, you're serving a lot of people around you and you're engaged in the world. Then the next one is vanaprastha, which is when you retire, right, so you're kind of in a way, I don't know, working on hobbies, pulling the energy back to yourself, right, and nurturing yourself. If you choose to go to the next phase or just stay there, the next phase is sannyasi, which is renunciate, which is hard. That's when you know if you're a guru. You go into the mountains and you just pray for years on end, or what? Months on end or whatever. You kind of give up everything and just you know, dedicate yourself to prayer and spirituality.
Speaker 1:So she reminded me I'm in the householder phase and she reminded me that, or she shared with me that when she was in that phase it did look different. You know her traditional practice of asana, which is an eighth remind you of the entire product of yoga, which is, you know, eight parts, eight parts the stanga, but eight limbs. So she reminded me that I'm in that householder phase. And the one thing that she said, you know, asana, maybe when she could, every other day or whenever, but her prayers she never gave up, and prayers meaning her connection to source, her connection to God, right, so she always made time for the connection to source, but the physical practices may or may not be there, according to what was going on during the day, you know, and with the family and with the kids and how she was serving it.
Speaker 1:So it made me think about relationships to service, my relationship to service, and there is a saying that how you do one thing is how you do all things. So what is my relationship to service and what am I of service to? Currently, by external sources, right, I have children, so I'm of service to them. You know, citizen of country, so I have to be of service, pay my taxes, that kind of thing. I'm a creator. How am I of service to that part of myself?
Speaker 1:So the creative process has stages as well as the energetic process as well. So the creative process here are five elements of the creative process that are preparationation so preparation is all your research. The incubation is kind of letting everything, uh, marinate in your subconscious. And then insight, that aha moment where everything starts to come together, the um and the enubation. So this is, what does that say? What the hell did I write down? And, oh, my god, I can't even read my writing, I don't even know what it is. So, oh, evaluation, I can't read my writing. It's so sad. Evaluation, so sad. So that's when you assess everything, right, so you take all the pieces and you assess them after your aha moment. And then the elaboration on your ideas. So aha moment, pull everything together, get your focus and then elaborate on your focus. That wasn't like an ADD thing, I can't even tell you, okay.
Speaker 1:And then there's the energy process. So and I use the law of thermodynamics a lot I know the law of thermodynamics is specifically energy and quantum physics, energy and all that, and it relates to heat and mechanics. But I find that there are stages of it that resonate in the creative process as well, which are initially the resonance you know energetic resonance with something, and how I see that is that you're able to hear it, you're able to see it on an energetic level. And then, once you see it because energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transmuted. You go through the process of transmuting, which looks like chaos at first, right, everything kind of goes everywhere. What is this? How do I? You know, I have all these ideas. How do I move them together? So you kind of erupt the piece into many bits of energy and then you pull it back into one focal energy and that is the transmission, and again a new form of resonance in a different shape or form.
Speaker 1:So, having said all this, what I started to meditate on was what is my relationship to service? How do I view being of service? And for me the answer was I'm not in control. It makes me like a little hesitant and angry because I'm not in control. And then, of course, the higher mind steps in and says but you're not in control, and says but you're not in control, like of anything, that's an illusion. Control is an illusion, right? So then I look at it again and say, if I wasn't in control and know that I'm not in control, what is my relationship with service and how can I be of service to the stage in my life, to others around me and to my creativity?
Speaker 1:And if I look at it in that frame, what came up for me was if I'm not in control and all I'm doing is being of service to creative idea, people around me, my environment, my soul that craves to create, then it's not me creating. It almost like, takes the ego out. There's no more. I did this, it's that I'm in service to this, I'm in service to this idea that came to me. So what does this idea need to support its life, its next evolution? I'm not in control of my kids evolution. I'm not in control of my kids. I'm in service to them to be wonderful humans and the best version of themselves as humans, as I can be, or do so.
Speaker 1:For me, then, how being of service became how to let go of control and embrace being of service. Period, because of all, things are energy, and I truly believe we're one big energetic ball of light shattered into a million billion pieces. Right, we're all in relationship to each other in some way, shape or form. We're all in relationship to everything in some way, shape or form. We're either in harmony or disharmony, resonance, or we're working against each other, and there's always much easier, more fluid flow when we find where we resonate and service, that instead of perception of control, and that we have control and that we are separate. So this is short and sweet today, but my offering is not that short, I guess.
Speaker 1:But my offering today is to meditate on service. What does it mean to you and what is your relationship to it, and how and where you can be of service in your process as a creative, in your process of life, where you're at in the journey of life, how and where can you be more of service and what does that mean to you? To me it looks like letting go, letting go of any control, perceived control, letting go, and then it all comes back to trust, faith and love. You know what I'm saying. Let me know how it goes. I'd love to hear what comes up for you. You can always find me at Magnetize your Light on all socials and info at magnetizeyourlightcom. If you're looking for reading or coaching, intuitive coaching, I have all my offerings there at magnetizeyourlightcom and I will be back in two weeks with a very fun and interesting guest which I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 1:I hope this inspired you today. My goal for this is to inspire you on your connection to intuitive self journey, creativity and if it did, I'd love to hear and if you find someone who you think might resonate with this meditation or what I have to offer. Please like share, subscribe. It all helps. All right, have a magical day. Make some magic today. Thank you.
