Dancing with Creativity

2009 December 21
by Scott Jeffrey

Creativity doesn’t happen through brute force. When you try to force the creative process, you usually move backwards. Yet, you can’t remain passive either.

Learn to dance with the creative process. Listen to the music and trust you will find a way.

Above all else, learn to be patient. This will be the most difficult task for many of us because we tend to want immediate gratification. We demand results now—and may skip steps to get “there” quicker.

The creative process is an elegant dance with no true beginning or end. The beauty and magic of life is in the dance itself—unbridled and always changing.

When we learn to embrace each moment of the dance as if it was our first, we open up to an incredible new world. Only then do we possess the power to create what we want and have a whole lot of fun in the process.

In The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav had this to say about the dance: “This is another characteristic of a Master. Whatever he does, he does with the enthusiasm of doing it for the first time. This is the source of his unlimited energy. Every lesson that he teaches (or learns) is a first lesson. Every dance that he dances, he dances for the first time. It is always new, personal and alive.”

Uninhibited, passionate and playful, we dance onward, reveling in each step, each note and each fluid movement. Our dance partners are faith and intuition; our dance floor is Planet Earth, and the dance itself is our own true creation.

Are you ready to dance?


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