By Bart Sharp

Stay as present as you can in the moment.

If something bothers you, find it, resolve it and feel complete. Creativity bounds in the attitude of wholeness.

Nothing stops the flow more than emotional obstacles.

Listen with more than your ears as the world is ready to give you the inspirations that you are ready to receive.

Stay curious.

Nothing is good or bad but it may have a message for you.

Cats, animals, nature, children and anything else are our teachers.

We never know it all; give up being the authority.

Creativity has an energetic feeling, when you fine tune into it you will find writing has a different energy than painting or gardening or socializing or dancing.  Follow the energy to your activity as it comes up or create the energy to the activity you desire.

If you dread something do not postpone it, procrastination is a killer of creativity spreading to all areas of living.

By Bart Sharp

Creation is like a spider web you may be seeing only the center that you are stuck in but there is a whole other world woven all around you that is connected to your actions.  Then there is the spider?

What I have learned about total creativity and creating what we desire is; we have hundreds to thousands of internal paradigms that live within us telling us that we cannot create spontaneously in magical ways.  I love identifying and transforming those limitations.

The magic in creativity is a bit like a thunderstorm in that they show up spontaneously, but certain conditions make them more likely to happen.  Like the thunder it sends an energy forth that affects everything in ways we do not comprehend and sometimes destroys things for something else to grow in its place.

It is like feeling a goal and visualizing how it would be in my life, what would it feel like to double my income.  Not project how I would spend it but all of the sensations it would feel like being that reality.  Feel the joy of that in your body allowing it to be everywhere in you. Not so much in your head of figuring it out how to do it.

Of course goals attained take most likely take more than visualizations, they require us to go out into the world and do it. Do it with curiosity, enjoyment and openness to receive where the journey takes you.

Dreams, creations and creating life forms are best manifested when we deeply know what we want.

By Bart Sharp

As adults we often have a different perspective than children do with the world of play.  We adults use play as forms of exercise, sports, competition, self-improvement and the most popular stress relief.     In the strategy of play as stress relief we have fun and/or are entertained as a way to escape our adult world.  It also serves us in that we adjust out of the tensions that our body is locked in to soothe us, relax.  It creates excitement within us that is energizing.  We need to play.

There is much that adults can expand upon in the ways a child plays.  Children play in a more creative way.  They are open to experience playful fun in a wider variety of ways.  They relish it.  A child has a more concentric point of view towards play in that they do it in 360 degree perspective where as adults lean to a more linear perspective, “I play when I bicycle and meet-up with my friends.  When I work I only work.”

A normal child can find play in almost any situation.  They crave it and intrinsically know that it is very important.

What we can learn from children is how creativity is an integral part of play.  It is an important vehicle to explore, imagine, build and be sensual.  We forget the creative side of play by doing things like painting, photography, building a decorative garden or writing a story for pleasure.  It ignites something inside of us that turns us on to living.  When we are turned on in such ways we become more opened, curious and less predictable.

How many adults do you know that do not play well are frightfully boring?   How many adults do not seek play intrinsically but wish to be entertained?  We often misidentify that we need to seek entertainment outside of us instead of activating our creativity within and as a result our selves to find something better than entertainment, joyful satisfaction.

Sometimes it feels good to do sensual playful things, to simply rub our bare feet on the warm earth.  Walk in the rain or snow. Sensuality is an important part of play.  How many adults would relish walking barefoot in the mud and enjoy the squishy sensations between out toes.  Yet if we had that attitude would lovemaking be different.

As adults we would be more whole persons if we sought play and relaxation too not only fulfill our adult needs but the child within us as well.

By Bart Sharp

Sometimes we become lethargic or stuck.  The creative process of our magical life is affected by a variety of things.  Often there is an emotion or project that we have not come to completion with that is taking our energy elsewhere and out of the present tense.  Sometimes it is the simply our surroundings that affect our magical life and creativity to receiving inner wealth.

I awoke one morning from a dream that felt like it had slapped in the face.  It was an abrupt awakening that was not physical but the immediacy of it had struck inside of me.  I could not remember the details of the dream but I knew its message.  “You are sluggish, it is time to change things up.”

The message rang all too true for the past week I had been slowly working around my home.  My productivity as a writer was less.  My business as a counselor was down.  I was doing less in general.  It was summer time in Texas and the heat takes its toll on everyone as it sucks energy from everyone.  But, I was spending the days in an air-conditioned home, so I had little excuse.

The dream had a more direct message.  The dream stimulated my awareness to a plan.  I needed to clean my home and finish projects that were annoying me.

We as creative and active people have an intimate relationship with our home.  The condition of our home affects us.  If our space is disorganized it can steer us away from our top creative efficiency.   Our home and own energies do flow together.  Completing those unfinished projects and maintaining an environment that is visually pleasing opens us.  It is why we should always spend time cleaning, organizing and straightening.

We are connected to everything, everybody in some way.  Our immediate surrounding and relationships have the most direct affect upon us.  In most cases it is the thing we are most able to change as well.  Be willing to be aware of what changes within and around you could best facilitate your creative growth and magical life.

One of my favorite movies, “Star Wars” uses the concepts of “the force” an energy that the Jedi knows and uses that consciousness for his/her source of power.  Once while in nature I asked the question, “Is there such an energy like the force in nature?  If so can I perceive it?”  I began to feel the forest differently as it was an opening to begin perceiving nature in more of a vibrational awareness.

I sat in my favorite area on the Barton Creek Greenbelt with my eyes closed wondering what the force felt like.  In the process of observing the energy of the trees I felt the trees energies trickling out of it to connect with the air and the other trees in the area.  It became quickly apparent that the trees, other plants, the sky and the earth were all connected.  It was just like “the force” that flowed through everything. We can take far fetched and simply ask our body to embody them.  Then we wait and see what happens.

Science fiction in the business community is a valuable tool.  When brainstorming sessions are open to all possibilities without judgment suddenly minds have permission to function outside the box.  Wild ideals can be thrown out and if one sticks then the practical perspectives can begin conforming it to something more applicable.

The key element to this type of creative process is allowance to let everyone be them selves and not to judge anyone for being outside the mindset of conformity of the business setting.  Providing this safe atmosphere where all aspects of a person to be revealed is more of a holistic expression of ideals.  Sometimes professional, other times playful and even the far side.  It opens a atmosphere of all possibilities like a science fiction novel.  After all we are looking for that one unique ideal that no one else has developed.