There are two different ways of living our lives. In struggle or in grace. Ever felt the difference? I have.
I was in the state of struggle not too long ago where I was simply trying to be someone else, trying to get something out of life and felt unsatisfied. It’s a normal state of living for so many people in the western world.
It’s almost synonymous with the consumer culture we see all around us. When it’s applied (often unconsciously) to creativity it infects it with a sense of wanting to be elsewhere other than where we already are. Which is debilitating for inspiration and our true life purpose. 
How many people can be seen complaining about the economic climate? Matter of fact how many people complain altogether? It’s like a disease. It affects the human Spirit. The habit of believing that we are not supported in doing what inspires is disheartening.
Many people look for reasons to back up their beliefs. Finding evidence that supports their claims which prevent them from doing what they love most and therefore feel justified for not being inspired.
A friend who is a passionate dancer shared with me something that truly switched a light on for me. He said if there is such a thing as God than surely you don’t need to struggle to do what you really love. When he said that something inside me shifted and I completely resonated with that. I gave up struggling. I shifted my perspective immediately.
Here’s a story worth sharing. Close friends of mine who are gifted musicians used to wonder how to make ends meet. They lived humbly and took various odd jobs whilst pursuing their passion and sharing their love for music which for them was singing and playing music to Creator/God.
There was a turning point for them when they decided to simply be themselves and let go of the idea that life was hard. They shifted to playing their music from the depth of their hearts and chose to do it for the love of it. Genuinely being authentic rather than hiding who they really were in their passion. Today their music known as Sacred Earth is incredibly successful and very well known. Their lives are far from struggle but in-fact filled with grace.
Grace is about living from a deeper place. It is the end of the belief that there is not enough to support us. It is the living of life in the now where actions come from the space of inspired being and doing. Rather than waiting for the future to become better and dreaming of success. Success is lived in the present by being content. Creativity becomes a celebration of consciousness. An awareness that the beauty that moves through our being which attracts the exact things that life requires.
Something shifts physically when we operate from this space. Efficiency occurs naturally because the body and mind rest whilst performing activities that take us closer to our goal. Without depending on the outcome anymore. Which is precisely why we are enabled to be more creative because the mind is uncluttered from thoughts and fears that threaten and impinge on the immune system which affect the body and the creative process.
If we observe nature, particularly animals in nature, grace arrives organically. Watch a bird. When it flies off it’s branch in the morning, does it doubt wether it will be provided for? Does it worry? Does it fret and fight what is? Or does it simply launch of it’s branch and find any excuse to celebrate life?
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