Get in Touch with Your Wise, Creative Nature

One of my favorite books is “Women Who Run with the Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I read it when it was originally published in 1992, but the message still holds true today. Clarissa uses wonderful universal stories and myths to describe our psychological journey from ego to soul and the journey back to our wise woman selves.

I pulled it off my bookshelf this week when I found myself struggling to be creative and feeling lost and unsure of what I wanted to write.

Many of you know that I am in a coaching program with Christine Kloser and Lynne Klippel where a group of us are writing our books to be published later this year. My outline and initial thoughts flowed nicely, but now that I’m in the more creative part of the writing, I’m either avoiding it or feeling blocked.

Clarissa talks about the “Wild Woman” archetype as our natural instinct – the innate, basic nature of women. It’s our wise or knowing nature. It’s the female soul and the source of the feminine. This instinctive nature often contains our creativity, our gifts and our power and can guide us to consciousness. Understanding this aspect of ourselves is about knowing the soul. This is our true nature that has inner ears and inner eyes, the eyes of intuition, the deep knowing of the heart.

I notice that many women I coach now have lost much of their passion for life and for their work. Our collective creative potential is dwindling. We find ourselves drawn too much into the ‘doingness’ of work and home life, into busyness or inertia, often because we have lost touch with our wise nature. These difficult economic times are taking a toll on all of us. We are losing our joy and our energy to create. We may be filled with ideas, but feel unable to act on them.

It takes practice to get connected back to our instinctive, creative senses – back to our passion, energy and soul power. Clarissa suggest drawing on the ‘animus’ aspect of our psyche – your internal masculine energy – to more easily manifest your ideas and creative work in a concrete way.

I’m going to draw on this aspect of myself to help me organize and implement my creative ideas for my book. I’m a creative, idea person, and need to watch that I don’t just stay in that creative place that I love to be in, and not get anything completed.

My mission is to support more women in manifesting their creative ideas and projects into money making services and products.

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I’d love to hear your thoughts on how you’re staying connected to your wise, creative nature. Post your comments here at my blog.