Your creative expression is all expression in your life, through your business, work, relationships, family, your relationship with yourself and all else in between. Your creative expression pours into how you make your breakfast, to the next product you launch, to how you write your emails or wash your dishes. All your life is part of your creative expression.
Creating for yourself first is how you make art out of everyday life, how the process and journey become the fulling part, and what allows for an expansive liberated energy to be transmitted through you.
When you create for the approval of others, or for money, or anything other than yourself as your primary intention, you dilute the potency and magic of your creations as they become heavy with pressure and expectations.
What can make it challenging for us to really lean into creating for our own joy first, is when our root chakra is ungrounded. The root chakra is the foundation to our energetic system, it is the energy centre that governs our safety and security needs. In order to feel lighter and to have the space to create for yourself first, your safety and security needs, need to be met.
Your security needs are generally external whereas safety is internal. Having our security needs met is essential for us to feel safe, and we may have all of our security needs met but have unmet emotional needs that makes us feel unsafe.
To ground the energy of your root chakra you may call in the support from family or friends, or get a part-time job to help you financially breathe while you work on your business, or it may mean exploring and alchemising childhood wounding and fears. Once these needs are met, there is no longer pressure to create in order to survive. Your energy becomes more spacious and freely flowing. This is the energy your ideas and creations deserve and this is when your expression will be most potent.
Having your survival needs met will look different for everyone and there are many nuances, tune into your own intuition, what needs are not being met and what support is available to you to give your creations some space without pressure.
You have so much creative potential, when you allow yourself to make art with it in any expression, with no pressure, you will surprise and impress yourself with what flows through you.
