My Creative Business Genius session for this week (idea for these came from Andrea of ABC Creativity, who is genius herself..) revolved around the idea of being open for blooming. About being connected to Source and allowing that connection to be fused with a ‘blooming-into-essence’… and how that will lead to the comfort, simplicity, warmth/safety, and abundance that I’m craving.
Doesn’t that just sound delicious?
It dawned on me that this ought to be a naturally occurring phenomena… right? Each of us fostering our connection with whatever we hold sacred, and allowing ourselves to bloom and develop within that connection.
And yet.
That’s often not what happens.
Often, instead, we find ourselves pushing down the things that we hold dear. Pushing them away in favor of ‘living in the real world’.
That’s so painful.
Painful not only for the person doing the pushing away, but for everyone around her.
As though we can each feel the path that might have been, slowly fading from possibility.
Except.
Except that it doesn’t.
Not really.
The path that might have been may not always remain in the same state, but there are always other paths.
Always other doorways that open once we make the decision to stop ‘living in the real world’ (whatever that is, and by whichever standards currently judge it to be so).
There are always opportunities to do and be who and what we really are.
With each day.
Hell, with each breath.
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With this, my breath, I am choosing now.
What will you choose?
You’re reading my mind, chicky.
Sweet.
Am grateful you were here for it
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I love the way your description of blooming into essence makes me feel. Its oh-so-very expansive!!!
I play with idea a lot within myself and with my clients.
I find the more we allow ourselves to play in the realm of what calls to us and feeds our soul…..the more fully we expand into we are here to be and the great work that only we can do.
I find that pushing down what we hold dear is born out of a desire to please other people and make them happy. We push aside our own desires and interests in the name of honoring responsibilities and expectations. Ugh!!!!!! So much time is wasted when we let our blossoming be deferred to later when we are done doing for everyone else.
I choose NOW to blossom!!
Thanks for another great post Angel!!
And I love that the description made you feel so expansive…
Gorgeous!
I totally agree…. the desire to please others and conform to society’s standards tends to be a primary culprit in ‘forcing’ us to push down who and what we really are. It’s so powerful, that need to push ourselves down and out of the way in order to fit in.
I went to high school with a girl who was always made fun of… she didn’t dress the way everyone else did, didn’t want to be part of the typical social scene, wasn’t into sports, and was super smart to boot. She never seemed to give a shit what anyone else said or thought of her though, just kept smiling (though I contend that there was likely pain beneath the veneer) and did what she wanted to do anyway… Fuck ‘em all! I loved her for that. She was older than me and I never reached out, but even to this day I wonder about her… about what she’s become… about what it was within her that gave her the ability to stick to what was true.
I wish that for all of us…
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Yes – and this also made me think of people who have beliefs in the sacred and divine that make them push down the things they *want* to hold dear. It brings to mind an old, good friend who wanted desperately to dance. She’d dance when no one was looking, dance in her mind where no one could see. The few times she allowed me a glimpse, she was a strikingly beautiful dancer. But her belief system got in the way — said it was wrong to dance. And so, there went that fire — out with a wet blanket of “right” and “moral” and “proper.” So sad. I wish that she’d had another path.
Oh wow….. that is incredibly sad, Jessica…. don’t you just wonder what could have been had she allowed herself some space with it? What kind of gift, and what potential healing she could’ve shared and promoted within others?
I do…
Our stories have such hold, until we can see them for what they are and work with (or around!) them. They can be so powerful…. but we are stronger still.
Thanks for being here and for sharing that. I love to hear others stories!!
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I love the idea of blooming into being-it brings to mind, aptly enough, flowers, and I am sitting in my backyard, typing this comment while looking at s rosebush that is blooming right now–noticing how each flower is unique, each flower is beautiful, and there are thousands, millions, hundreds of millions of factors that have made one single flower unique in itself-choosing its own path, following a specific set of rhythms and cycles that have led to its infinitely beautiful & particular being-ness. I choose the path of service and return to it again and again-thank you for reminding me Angel!
Beautiful, Bri….
I’m not a big fan of roses… never have been… but I consider the same thing with Sunflowers (for example) and love that analogy… So many factors go into its becoming.
Love that you’ve chosen (and are choosing) a path of service… you’re so good at it!
Thanks for being here <3
Wonderful post, as always. Blooming is a really, really good thing. <3
Thanks chicky… glad you stopped by… sending love & healing for you this week…
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You are so right – life gets so much simpler if you live in the flow, things that you would normally struggle with just pass easily with amazing results. It’s as if we associate “the real world” with suffering and anything else isn’t real or right. Where did we learn that? When did we decide that life was about pain and struggle. Surely life is meant to be beautiful and wonderful. Thank you for encouraging me to bloom.
I choose to be me, all of me.
This is so beautiful!!! Especially in conjunction with your ‘Trying to be “normal”‘ post (which was freaking amazing, I tell ya!!).
Thanks so much… for everything, Claire <3
This post is so incredibly relevant to me right now that I don’t even know what to say. That sounds like a cheesy comment but DAMN it’s true. Something I just heard earlier today: “it’s okay for you to take up space”. I don’t want to fold myself in any more. (a la Rainer Maria Rilke: “I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. “) I want to bloom instead. Thank you.
Yay! So glad it hit you where you live…. that’s what i always hope for <3
Totally…. God I know that feeling. Hearing something like "It's ok for you to take up space" is massively validating too, isn't it…. Love that Rilke too… absolute perfection.
So grateful you shared all this Michelle! <3
Love this! As a photographic artist who loved to draw people’s faces as a child, all I ever heard was, “Well that’s fine for a hobby, but you’ll have to do something PRACTICAL to make money.” Reading something like this reminds me that giving back to the world using our God-given talents is the best way to earn a living, because it’s focused on giving, not receiving. When that’s the true focus, the receiving naturally comes rather than being the focus of the effort, and the blessings are so much greater than when we focus on getting in the first place.
You got it, chicky!!!! Love that.
I think we were all told something like that growing up (ok, so maybe not all… i hear that there were some among us who had open-minded parents or some such thing
) and I wonder how many of that pass that on to our own families…
So love your take on this, though…. that’s fantastic!!! Thanks so much for stopping by <3
Angel, this is simply lovely- to bloom we must be grounded and present. And absolutely every moment is an opportunity to bloom and live the lives we are meant to. I love seeing you blossom and shine and I love that you help others do that in your work. xo
awww… thanks Nona… and yay!
Ya know… re-reading this now I don’t even remember writing it. I swear to god that my Muse sometimes steps in and writes things for/as me sometimes
So excited to be doing all this blooming, in so many ways, with you!!! What an exciting journey it can be…
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