Regaining My Connection

I shared how I had seemingly lost my creative spark as I had delved into working intensly with AI tools.  I don't think AI tools are completely destructive, and in fact, I have a lot of material that I intend to use that was co-created with AI.  I emphasize the co-created part.  As creators, if we give over our creative projects to AI we are in trouble.  

How did I get the spark back?  

I hadn't worked in weeks, and instead was meditating every day.  I was using a meditation by Gene Ang on Achieving Greatness.  His work is based on "transmissions".  It is energy work, but in this meditation I found myself focusing on what it meant to me to be great.  

There are many levels of "greatness".  You can look at successful people in the world who have achieved some level of financial and material success, and yes, this is one level.  But does material success according to the world really mean greatness?  Gene points out that there may be some reason your soul would want to achieve this level, and there is nothing inherently wrong with it.  Except that many people compromise their own values, and integrity for material success.  They may create negative, hurtful situations for people, disregarding the impact of their actions and looking only at their personal gain.  This is NOT greatness.  This is egotism.

Greatness is different.  It can align with material success or not.  It produces something good in the world regardless.  It creates harmony and healing.  It brings about positive change.  

As I was meditating on these ideas of what is greatness, I just allowed myself to breathe into the possibilities for my life.  This openness seemed to reignite the spark.  Openness is so important for creators.  To many of us come up with all the reasons why we can't do something, or why something is impossible, or not the right thing, or there are too many other things, or I don't have time.  

Openness is allowing, and creating is allowing the divine to flow through us.  Becoming an open channel is how to receive the ideas wanting to be born through us.  So I opened up, and things started flowing again.  What's even more surprising is that even though a new project was "downloaded", just stepping into this new phase of creation activated the will to complete the earlier project I had abandoned.  

Message for today:  Keep the Channel Open!