Nothing occurs without a flow of energy

We feel energy at each and every level of our being.

Most are unaware of what they sense.

Passion is just a very deep feeling about something

In looking at what we feel and asking why we feel what we do as oppose to anything else, we can come to see there is an awareness in what we feel

We simply need to pull the string on why we feel what we feel we will have insights and we will come to understand things that are not readily available to our mind

Our current mind is often unaware of the awareness in what we feel for it does not have the minimum set of experience to characterize what we feel.

Yet there are things that we know and we know that we know. These, in turn, baffle our mind for it does not know how it is possible to know such things.

It is here we need to learn to be able to step out of mind and what we think and believe to access the awareness in feeling.

The awareness of what lies in feeling is the root of our intuitive guidance, body wisdom and inner knowing.

Look to see what gives us a passion for life and for living, a fullness of being, and/or an inner satisfaction.

Calibrate the internal compass

Most of us have shut down our ability to feel for one reason or another but they all center around some type and kind of pain and/or discomfort.

In seeking to protect ourselves we put our creative power in a cage of our own making

There is the need to become open to what we feel at each and every level of our being.

Many of us will find it necessary to practice feeling at each and every level of our being - spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically.

To become open to what we feel, we will need to face the pain of the past.

Pain, in one form or another, is what ultimately keeps us in the illusion of separation and does not allow us to consciously experience the oneness of Creation and how everything is interconnected.

This exercise is best done by having an individual ask us a series of questions that cover the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical aspects of our being

For each question and our response become aware of what we feel and where we feel it and be aware if any thoughts, images or memories arise around what is asked.

Use a sliding scale of 1 to 10 to look at the intensity of the feeling we have.

Pain

Fear

The pain that arise relative to returning to creative play and/or becoming open to feeling is the pain that is related to the occasion as to why we shut down our creativity in the past as a result of the experiences we have had.

To deal with pain, we need to understand its functions and what is does.

Pain is a gift if we know how to use it - It is moving past some threshold and/or we are holding onto that which must be released.

We an learn to use the gift of pain through body wisdom, intuitive guidance, guided meditation and the like.

Any true creative endeavor causes us to enter the unknown

Because we have felt pain in the past, we tend to think the unknown will give us more of the same.

But we cannot fear the unknown for we do not know what to fear, we only fear the past

Fear is of the past - normally reflective of where we were hurt or perceived to be hurt.

When we fear we are only fearing a memory

The traditional way to face fear is to keep inviting the individual back until they feel strong enough to fact whatever lies in the fear.

The alterative way to address and face and explore the fear is to do a hazards analysis or review of the fear to identify what the true hazard is that gives rise to the fear. Then institute compensatory or design measure to remove the hazard

Then appropriate to the uniqueness of the individual, in their own way, have them describe a ritual or some type and kind of action they could create to dispel the ghost of the fear that may reside after having obtained the awareness of the true hazard giving rise to the fear

In exploring our fears we may find the fears have no rational explanation based on the experiences of this life. In this case, we are responding to memories from our transcendental mind.

Here the individual will need to set the intention to make the nonconscious conscious and allow their intuitive guidance to guide them through the process.

Draw a symbol, picture or the like of what it means to have courage or be courageous.

Claim what is drawn as our own and as having and possessing it

The proof we have this courage is that we are here in this moment doing this exercise. It is time to be aware of possessing such a courage and claiming it

We need to realize we have placed our creativity in a cage of our own making to protect it. But, in fact, it has become a prison and only we can let it out.

Discuss concept of the permission slip - in essence a contract between you and your creative spirit

Create a permission slip that gives our creative spirit the freedom to come out and express itself true to itself. A sample is provided in the topic, "Guardian consent form for the playful child within."

Include the agreement the requirement that our mind will protect our creative spirit in a way that it remains free. That is, we holding our creativity sacred