Where do they come from?

Author Steven King writes that people are always asking him where he gets his ideas. King says that he and his fellow authors admit they don’t know where their ideas come from.

Ram Dass’s guru told his followers he wanted them to build a large and fancy temple. It would cost a lot of money, so his followers asked him where the money would come from. The guru said, “Wherever it is now.”

What about you? Do you ever wonder where your creative ideas live and how they make their way to you? If you knew this, could you entice more of them to arrive on your doorstep?

It is my experience that thoughts, creative or not, belong to mass consciousness and are available to all of us. Some of us are better at tuning in to creative thoughts than others. The more open we are to believing in and living our creativity, the more we attract those types of thoughts and have them land in our mind.

We can invite more creative thoughts to land with us by being receptive to them. We do this by having a regular creative practice, using the thoughts we’re given, writing down or sketching the ideas that come to us, honoring the creative process, and sharing the results of our creativity with others.

The more we actively plan to attract creative thoughts, the more of them will come to us. Called by some as dancing with our muse, I find it isn’t difficult to get her attention. All I have to do is let her know she is welcome in my life and that her attention to me won’t be wasted. How do you attract your muse?

Speaking of being creative, check out this book by Chithra Shaan (@littleheartcreates). Called Beautiful Butterflies & Flowers, the book gives 20 step by step, no-sketch projects on watercolor paper. Published by Walter Foster Publishing, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group, the book went on sale this week.

The book opens like a file folder. On the left side is an instructional book that explains how to use watercolors and with step-by-step directions for each of the 20 projects that are printed on watercolor paper on the right side of the folder. There’s no need to draw the images and a person can color the pictures with watercolor directly on the paper using the instructions in the other half of the book. Truly ingenious, fun, and easy to follow!

I’ve colored one of the butterflies and I’m looking forward to enjoying coloring more butterflies as well as some beautiful flowers.

Enjoy creating your week and feel free to share your creative ideas in the comments section. Here’s a piece I did this week. I call it fractured but not broken.

Creating with joy, grace, and ease,

Krysta