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Life Artist vs. Con Artist
Over the last several weeks I’ve been writing about the Life Artist Color Palette and how using its nine contexts (colors) creates an opportunity to generate creativity rather than reactivity in our lives.
As Life Artists we are also continually facing our creative nemesis, the Con Artist. We typically experience the reactivity of the Con Artist as negative self-talk, fears, limitations, or the voice of “reason”—and all these ways in which the Con Artist shows up hold us back from realizing ourselves and our potential in a more vital way.
In learning to use the Life Artist colors to awaken your Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences, you begin to see the Con Artist’s messages casting a shadow over your light. As you learn how to use these contexts in your everyday life, you will be better able to address what is being blocked within you.
Take a moment to turn your attention to your Con Artist and ask yourself how its messages influence your ability to access the energy, feelings, thoughts, and forms that express your authentic self.
The Creative Lifecycle
It’s a glorious spring day and I’m once again reminded of the beauty in the natural order of life blooming in its right time. As I watch nature effortlessly being true to itself and animals living by their instincts, I look to the Life Artist color palette to remind me of nature’s creative ease within me.
When we honor our Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences like seasons, we glean the wisdom that each one offers the whole. When we use the nine colors in the flow of the creative lifecycle, we are accessing Spirit’s colors of willingness, inspiration, and dreaming to encourage us to plant the seeds of our energy desires. We then follow with Heart’s colors of courage, vulnerability, and gratitude to nourish the seeds of our energy desires with deeper emotional meaning. As we deepen our emotional roots to our energy desires and nourish these roots through our emotional connection, our Minds are better able to direct our thoughts with its colors of curiosity, learning, and remembering.
When you look to nourish the seeds of your energy desires first rather than strategize or push for certain outcomes, you are working with your true nature to allow the creative lifecycle to guide you to your instinctive knowing. With that the outcomes of your life bloom from the rich soil of your Whole IQ.
Remembering
Remembering is what I refer to as the “highest” color in the Life Artist color palette—meaning that it takes a refined awareness to tune into it. As with all the color of Faith, it is somewhat defined by what it is not. When we are in tune with this color as a Life Artist, it’s not about remembering where we were a year ago, or what we need to do next week. Rather than being a function of our memory, remembering is a function of healing our wholeness.
When our Whole IQ is fragmented, we are disconnected from our Soul intelligence. As we start to remember the gifts that live within our unique energy, feelings, thoughts, and forms of our lives, we heal the internal splits and schisms in our consciousness that cultivate fears, anxieties, self-doubt, and other symptoms which obstruct our highest potential.
I often experience remembering as a spontaneous awakening that connects the dots in some specific way in my consciousness, supporting me to know something at a profound kinesthetic level rather than just in my head.
Our Souls hold the DNA of our unique karmic potential, and through remembering our wholeness we access a deeper meaning and passion in our lives. This does not require you to leap into the unknown hoping it will work out. Through the colors of dreaming, gratitude, and remembering, we are creating faith by facing the circumstances of our lives as human beings forging our own spiritual authority in collaboration with a benevolent Universe.
Taking time to deeply inquire into the nature of our Souls through the Life Artist color palette leads us to remembering the source of our originality and that it’s eternally inscribed within, waiting to be expressed more fully through the reconciliation of our Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences.
Coaching Your Clients to Become Life Artists, with Michele McHall
In this evening, Michele will introduce you to the nine colors in the Life Artist Color Palette and the creative lifecycle that governs the use of these colors. The nine colors are contexts which support coaches to upgrade their listening skills and better tune in to see where their clients may be blocked in what Michele calls the Whole IQ, a person’s Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences. Through listening for and coaching your clients to activate the nine colors of Willingness, Courage, Curiosity, Inspiration, Vulnerability, Learning, Dreaming, Gratitude, and Remembering in their lives, you will be better able to hold your clients as “Life Artists” who are empowered to create their lives through the full expression of their Whole IQ. In this interactive presentation, you will learn how to use the colors in your coaching.
Gratitude
We are all aware of the power of expressing gratitude and recognizing the abundance we receive and have on a daily basis. As the messenger of Heart intelligence and the second color of Faith in the Life Artist color palette, gratitude is about the wonder and joy we feel when our highest potential aligns with the highest good in the world.
Through the Soul’s Dream journey I guide, I have witnessed many people on the path of Intentional Transformation get out of their own way by healing and inspiring themselves first (by attending to their “personal cause”), and then moving on to their “world cause” of healing and inspiring others. People are filled with a deep sense of gratitude when they suddenly realize that their highest potential had been blocked by a belief, pattern, or role in their lives that was holding them back from living their lives in the unique meaning and passion of their Soul’s gifts.
The shift that can happen is living into the gratitude of having a purpose and relationships that are sustained from deeper truths rather than being grateful for all we have. When our Heart intelligence knows this capacity for gratitude, we foster faith that our consciousness is in continual evolution and that outcomes are not destinations that determine our worth, but rather pulse points for remembering who we truly are.
Curiosity
Curiosity is the third primary color in the Life Artist’s Palette and is associated with Mind intelligence. We often believe that we are safest when our minds have the answer and things feel familiar and under control.
The truth is, however, that the mind is more than just a bundle of thoughts trying to figure things out so that we can feel safer, or more powerful. It’s more than just the negative chatter incessantly questioning and judging our own and others’ worth.
Because our culture is so mind-focused, Mind intelligence is the most misunderstood intelligence in our Whole IQ. Its gifts are often used objectively for analysis and keeping things within the logical realm of reason. The laurels of the mind, in the traditional sense of having a high IQ, garner attention and accolades. We are a culture that celebrates genius and accomplishment. And yet, as Malcolm Gladwell explores in his book, Outliers, genius minds often lack imagination and social skills.
Curiosity lays the foundation for our ongoing wonder about life, and as a context (which, as a reminder, is what all the colors are), it develops the mind’s ability to be okay with not having to be right or always having things be ordered and known. In the creative lifecycle, our energy desire (Spirit) builds momentum through our courage to act in a heartfelt manner on its behalf. When we bring the context of Curiosity to any given situation in our lives, we give ourselves permission to look at life again like a child.
Curiosity not only opens our minds to new ideas, it allows our thoughts to be more attuned to the other intelligences, and to be in service to the wholeness of who we are.
Take a moment to look at where your thoughts are rigid, judgmental, or opinionated. How is your Mind intelligence isolated from you Spirit, Heart, and Body intelligences? What would happen if you had willingness to let go of these thoughts and be curious? What would you have courage to feel if you let go of your expert story, or needing a plan, or needing to be right?
The primary colors of Willingness, Courage, and Curiosity work together to stimulate your creative consciousness and will ultimately increase the flow of new possibilities and outcomes in your life.
***Curiosity is the third of nine posts covering the nine colors of the Life Artist Palette. To brush up on the colors, see the graphic from Willingness.
Courage
Willingness, Courage, and Curiosity are the “primary colors” in the Life Artist color palette. They are the most essential contexts for living our lives with creative presence. When used together these colors make it possible for us to open up to new possibilities and experiences in our lives.
Courage is the color that is associated with Heart intelligence. It’s necessary for breaking out of old patterns and limiting beliefs. Once we’ve shifted our energy to one of Willingness, Courage is about risking the known for the unknown and taking that initial step toward change.
The Latin root for Courage is coeur, which speaks to the power our Hearts have to make meaning of the desires we have in our lives. When we take actions from our Heart intelligence, we cultivate deeper roots of authentic connection to our true self as well as to others.
After exploring the energy you most want to occupy in your life, ask yourself, What must I now have the courage to feel in relationship to this energy? What action might this feeling prompt me to take to honor this energy I desire?
Take a risk today that honors your Heart and demonstrates your willingness to live creatively and courageously.
***Courage is the second of nine posts covering the nine colors of the Life Artist Palette. To brush up on the colors, see the graphic from Willingness.
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