7 Tips for Igniting your Creativity- (P.S. They Won’t Hurt Your Sex Life Either)

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I am a creative junkie. I experience creativity as a delicious errotic energy moving through my body. I can’t get enough. This is how it works. If I have an idea coming in, it wakes me up in an aroused state early in the morning to complete its bidding. If I follow through, this ‘inner fire’ and highly pleasurable state will amplify. I can utilize this potent force and create, or put the pillow over my head, go back to sleep and crash and burn. It’s usually fifty fifty what I choose, but I’ve learned it pays to listen. I don’t experience creating as something I ‘do’ rather as an energy moving through me. It is my job to show up and listen and then take aligned action. I want to be in an intimate relationship with this force tingling through me all the time and I want to talk about it with anyone who will listen.

Creativity is sensual, whether you are baking a cake, or writing a report on insurance claims. Yes, even that. My point is that every single one of us knows the creative force intimately, even if we are not aware of it. It is the very same fire that fuels desire. When my creative life is on fire, you can often bet my sex life is too. In the Hindu practice this generative force that propels the universe forward is called Shakti. Creative energy is sexual energy and vice versa. It is just how it comes into form that changes.The creative force fuels creation, period. Important, yes?

The second chakra is known as the creative and sexual center. This chakra is located just below the belly button. I experience this energy center in the womb; a place where babies, new creations and consciousness itself gestate. Whether you identify as a male or female, with or without a physical womb, this energy center is equally important and holds potent creative potential. To awaken this creative vortex in yourself, simple honoring and meditation practices are a potent way to begin a relationship with the power of creation in you.

At the moment I am needing a dose of my own medicine. I am writing this article to keep my fires lit and care for my own vitality. Let’s just say it has been a long Winter in Oregon. This is for anyone who is needing to spice things up. Anyone who is feeling stuck, underwhelmed, grey and turned off. It is so easy in our…