Friday
Value: Creativity
Express my creativity through art and share it with others. Also express my creativity through writing to entertain, teach, and inspire.
Art journal • Calligraphy • Cards • Collage • Web design • Crafts • Fashion • Garden • Graphic Design • Video • Illustration • Photography • Scrapbook • Interior design
Value: Honesty
To be congruent. To be sincere. A lot more silence. Listen more. Take time to sort through the input. Choose my words to reflect the deeper realities.
be my truest self
be mindful
let what emerges from me be the purest and most natural expression of my true self
Value: Balance
I want to balance a mix of interests. Music, art, literature, writing, teaching, learning, gardening, remodeling, photography, astronomy, cooking, scrapbooking, sewing, etc.
• Protect time to pursue my own interests.
• Plan to take classes, to visit places, read, learn, create - together with Keith when possible.
Finding Expression
Today’s meditation focuses on the energy of communication and creative expression. Authentically expressing ourselves is an integral part of a balanced, flowing life because it is how we share our unique gifts, talents, and perspectives with the rest of the world. At times we may feel reluctant to express ourselves openly because we feel vulnerable or exposed, yet when we hold back we limit our potential. Aligned with the flow of expression we learn to access a deep and transformational way of being that go beyond displaying our personality, style, or wit. We discover a way of being that communicates our essential truth through voice, behavior, and even through our quiet presence.
During meditation, you will connect to the place within where your inner truth resides. As you tap into the energy of expression, you will open and allow your truth and creativity to radiate your unique contribution to life. Today remember that you are a valuable, brilliant diamond, here to shine your light to the world in your own special way.
Each of us has a calling which is an expression of our selves. Our life is whispering to us all the time. Move with the flow of those whispers to hear your calling. What is waiting inside you to be expressed. Know it, express it freely. This is the highest expression of yourself.
Speaking from our true self is the main way we can let our life shine. To receive and express our infinite gifts is how we fulfill our purpose. Your expression is unique. If you block it, it is lost forever. When we tap into the energy of free self-expression, we find ourselves at home in the world, inspired. Like a facetted gem, universal light shines through us. Accept yourself for who you are.
My truth and creativity are within.
Activating Expression
Self-expression is an integral part of spiritual growth—it’s an extension of the way we approach life and look at the world. If we experience the world through the filter of anxiety, fear, frustration, and dread, then our expression will also be filtered through those same negative emotions. To create life-affirming expression, we need to observe, acknowledge, and shift these old emotional patterns.
We open the flow of expression and communication by activating the fifth energy center, also known as the throat chakra. During our time together, we will open to our natural state of positive self-expression. By doing so, we begin to transform our inner reality. When communication comes from your core self—your pure voice—it is simple, kind, understanding, and appreciative. In this flow of expression, you are able to share your true self with the world in thought, speech, and action.
There is a circle of energy directly responding to our intentions (which create thoughts, words, actions). We are what we feel, say, and express. Our expression shapes our basic reality. We limit the richness of what life has in store for us. When we express negativity and fear, we experience negativity and fear. Give voice to your dreams, who you are, etc. - this adds to the creative flow of the universe. Taking a dark view changes your brain and your body’s chemistry. When you express negativity, your brain changes the way it processes information.
Express from your true self - where you favor love, optimism, appreciation, compassion, kindness, gratitude. They come from the awakened fifth chakra. Let your energies be known and felt for what they are. Shakti is this energy. Shakti is a goddess who dances forward spiritual energy. It is not just your personal energy - but the mother goddess from where everything in nature flows. The more you express yourself, the more vibrant your reality becomes.
My life energy expresses its truth.
Expressing You
The fifth chakra is how we give voice to the uniqueness of our existence. Today in meditation, we sustain the flow of authentic expression that we activated over the last weeks. It is through this current of energy that we are able to receive and celebrate the specialness of our role in the universe with ourselves and others. Why is our self-expression a gift to others? It is a gift in the same way that every voice in a choir is essential to the whole song.
Communicating your life and presence to the world is a gift, but it is also spiritually significant. No one else can be who you are. No one else can fulfill your role in life. Creation requires you to come forward to be and share your true self. When you do, you encourage everyone else to shine forth in their full glory as well.
Marianne Williamson: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
With this fifth chakra, we honor the universe’s calling to listen and to be heard - give voice to our truths, our creativity, and our unique purpose - inspiring communication, connection, and vibrancy.
Your being is the greatest gift you have to give so others can bask in your personal expression. When we were kids, parents said do this not that, you are X not Y. But what parents want is not always what we want. People have so many notions about who they are, finding they are wise, creative, loving and universal comes as a shock. We are potential waiting to be awakened.
No one can be what you are. Don’t judge or restrict the flow of self in mind, body, or spirit. To keep the flow of self-expression in motion, encourage others to be themselves. Notice your self-talk and self-judgment of being held back. Take a breath, relax, and see if the flow comes more easily. Open up. Encourage others to speak or express themselves. When you create space for others to express themselves, you are giving them a sacred gift.
I radiate my unique expression.
Mantra
Om Janaha (Sanskrit: I express my uniqueness into the world)
Physical Focus
Throat Center
Color
Sky blue