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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.
Dreaming
In the Life Artist color palette, dreaming is opening our Spirit intelligence up to “muse” with the Universal Intelligence. Dreaming in this context is less about our wish lists and fantasy lives and more about opening the portal of our consciousness to sacred time and space. In this place we allow our egos to rest in a way that too few of us from Western cultures are accustomed to.
We create with the Universal Intelligence instead of forcing or driving our desires to manifest. The three colors of Faith are dreaming, gratitude, and remembering. Dreaming is the color of Faith that initiates the creative lifecycle by opening our energy to the Universal Intelligence and allowing us to believe that there are compassionate and loving resources in the cosmos that are ready to collaborate with us and inspire our highest good.
When we allow ourselves to dream, truly “magical” things start to happen in our lives. When our consciousness is grounded in the trust of self and others, we are not grasping for things, or inclined to “fake” Faith. In the movie, “Bright Star,” based on the story of the poet John Keats, Keats’s character at one point says, to summarize, It may look we’re out in the fields doing nothing, but we’re actually courting our Muses.
As Life Artists, it is essential that we court our Muses, and dreaming is the pathway not only to invigorating your Spirit, but to saying “yes” to invoking the mystery rather than fearing it.
Inspiration
Like willingness, inspiration is a color that engages our Spirit intelligence or energy. Inspiration accompanies vulnerability and learning as one of three colors of Trust. When our Spirit intelligence is inspired, it gives us a spark of energy that feeds and motivates our passion and creative commitments.
Inspiration cultivates our self-trust when it is aligned and founded upon the Primary Colors of willingness, courage, and curiosity (see the color chart here). An example of that alignment in my life occurred recently during the Olympics. I was inspired watching the athletes, and even wished I could be as fit as they are, but when I checked in with my priorities (and realities!) and attuned with my Primary colors, I found that my willingness (Spirit) had a clear energy of desire of acceptance and peace; that for me, courage (Heart) was about being patient rather than pushing; and that I have curiosity (Mind) around listening to my heart. So my inspiration was really about “slowing down,” rather than going out and run five miles. And how do I know that’s true, rather than the Con Artist letting me off the hook? It’s about attuning to our creative consciousness rather than fixing ourselves, and for me I could feel into the truth of what’s important to me now. It’s a process of building greater trust and sustained progress toward that which is truly important.
We all know what it’s like to be inspired to do something and then we aren’t able to follow through or sustain our commitment. This happens because the thing we’re inspired to do is not supported by the Whole IQ. When we build our inspiration from the Primary Colors, we are more likely to feel a flow of sustained creativity rather than a yo-yo experience of our energy commitments.
In the past couple weeks, slowing down has connected me to the integrity of my Spirit intelligence. Perhaps tomorrow my willingness will reveal an energy desire that leads me to different place. Go ahead and find your source of inspiration today by first connecting with the Primary Colors. Notice how choosing what truly inspires you each day influences your ability to trust the fluctuations of your energy rather than forcing it to be the same every day, or a way that fits a circumstance in your life.
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