How to let your soul speak, draw, paint, write..... fly.

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Oh good, you're here. Let's talk lavender. How are you feeling today? You know you are allowed to enjoy your life, not just get through it every day. Are you just getting through it these days? Are you at least having some fun occasionally? Occasionally? What about hobbies? Hm are you doing anything purely for the pleasure of it? Anything at all? Or are you always, always in survival mode? If you're living in fear, in fear of anything, you just don't have the capacity to put your energy and attention into something else. For instance, if money is tight, you worry about it. And you find yourself not wanting to spend money on so-called useless pleasures. So what happens? You end up watching Netflix or scrolling through Instagram for entertainment. If you're working all the time, you're so tired and don't feel like you can afford to put energy or focus into anything else. It feels like that thing is just going to end up draining you even more. And honestly, sometimes a hobby can just feel like more work, just different work, and without a paycheck at the end of it. If a relationship is super stressful for you right now, a hobby, even the thought of a hobby, is merely an added stress. Maybe you just couldn't face explaining what it is to this person, or it feels selfish or self-indulgent. At any rate, the stuff you're interested in you think is nerdy or useless, or you're not even that good at it anyway. Maybe you don't even remember what stuff you like to do other than what you just do every day, daily or daily grind. Maybe that's all you remember how to do. I'm sure you've noticed there's always someone telling you to do something for yourself. But honestly that just sounds like more planning and explaining more things to do and get organized and your soul your soul feels tired. But hear me out on this. What if we looked at it a little differently? Just for a minute, try and think of something that you really enjoyed as a child. Not necessarily something you loved or were terribly good at, but something that made you feel calm and safe in your body. That's the feeling we're looking for, the feeling of calm and safety in your body. Maybe you enjoy drawing or colouring. Maybe you like painting with those small watercolor pain sets and the little plastic palettes, maybe clay or gluing things, collecting things in nature, making items, making intricate designs with yarn or thread, maybe knitting or crocheting, writing stuff like letters or poems, or even haikus, remember those? Or maybe you enjoyed growing things. Maybe you were that kid that sprouted beans and damp cotton balls. Or you painted those little model figurines soldiers, animals. Or maybe you enjoyed the music you composed in your bedroom alone at night or on your plastic recorder that annoyed your brother endlessly. Think about it. Do you remember how it made you feel? That's the whole point of it. How it made you feel. When you fully engage in a hobby, it's not about what you do or make or achieve. The whole point of it is that you slow down, and all of your attention is only on your inner you. The big grand you that lives in your body. You stop for a minute, and something magical just flows out of you and tells you where to draw a line or paint a stroke or write a word or pick a color or a note. And that thing is uniquely you. It's a physical manifestation of your you energy. It's a physical manifestation of the beautiful, beautiful only you energy. No one else on the planet will ever make something exactly the way that you do. No one. It's like your fingerprint. It's completely, uniquely you. And allowing that energy to seep through the fear and embarrassment and lack of confidence, and to make itself visible to you is the point. No one else has to see it. It's yours and at the same time it's you. Quick story. I was listening to an interview with Eminem, you know, the famous rapper, who to date is the best selling rapper of all time. Imagine that. That man has sold two hundred and twenty four million albums. And anyway, it was a video podcast, and he was holding a battered old shoebox in his lap. He opened it up gently and took out a few crumpled sheets of paper, receipts, printer paper, hotel notepads, little scraps with scribbled ideas, some doodles, pictures, quotes, interesting words. And it was so interesting because he is a very provocative in your face personality. But when it came to his shoe box, he was really shy about it. He clutched it to his chest and said it's private. But then he explained that he needs nothing at all to flex his creative brain. It's not the tools or the world. It's just attitude and curiosity. He said something that really resonated with me. He said, How can I take what I see and make something meaningful for me from it? And then there's Michael Jackson, who's pretty much in the news with new movies and documentaries out, and he sold five hundred million albums in his lifetime. The album thriller was a global cultural shift in music and art. The man invented the moonwalk for heaven's sake. He was literally known as the king of pop. And when he died, he left a large estate to his heirs. Many years later, though, his private locked away papers were found and sifted through, and literally two thousand small bits of private art, drawings, music and lyrics were found squirreled away in a safe for his own eyes only. Most of it was not particularly good or noteworthy, but he worked his creativity privately and often messily and basically. Even great artists have the same process as you do. They just do something with what they have at the time something with what they have at the time. So what if today you did one very small thing about your hobby, that thing that you thought of from your childhood? Don't go and buy a bunch of stuff or do anything big or expensive. It needs to be very small and very basic. It's your first step your first step to letting your real self out to spread your wings a little and let your spirit stretch and yawn and flex its toes. If it's drawing, just a pencil and a disused notebook, kid art supplies, some markers. Start with stuff you already have. Think of MM just anything that would work for practicing, trying, doodling, relearning. Use your hands, put the phone down and shut your laptop. Use those useful hands of yours. Just do what pops into your head. Keep going. You will feel yourself smiling. Tell no one. Your heart will smile at you. And then tomorrow, do a little bit more. Keep going. Your spirit will move your hands and your head, and you will just do stuff. Your soul will expand. Your energy will shift. You will renotice a forgotten side of yourself. You will renotice a forgotten side of yourself. There she is. There he is. Your energy in the world will change, and you'll feel different. Better. You'll notice different things in the world. You'll notice different things in the world. It will be small, but you will notice a change in yourself and how you see the world. Keep going. You will find a rhythm and it will comfort you. It will make you feel alive and present on the planet. Keep it private until you are ready to share it with others. You may never want to share it with anyone. It's your gift of process to yourself. It just seems dull and difficult to connect. But as soon as you meet someone at a social event or work event and they are enthusiastic about anything. A hobby, a niche interest, a geeky something, a sport. Anything. Even if you don't know a single thing about the interest, it's easier to connect, and it makes you think that this person has something unique about them. You get an instant glimpse into their humanness. And that is so attractive and appealing. Bonus points if they're bad at something or just learning how to do something. So you don't have to be good at something. You just have to enjoy it and actually do it. Just do it and find your hidden self that's dying to come out and spread out and expand. So before I go, tell me that you're going to do that today. Say it with me. Today I am going to take the first step in expanding my creativity so that my soul can fly. Again, today I am going to take the first step in expanding my creativity so that my soul can fly.