WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:03.776 [SPEAKER_01]: In order to create anything at all, we have to relinquish control. 00:03.857 --> 00:06.741 [SPEAKER_01]: The active creativity is the active perpetual discovery. 00:07.081 --> 00:11.448 [SPEAKER_01]: The active perpetual discovery allows you to be in the flow of trust. 00:11.788 --> 00:18.478 [SPEAKER_01]: It heals our relationship with trust because when we go blindly into following a desire, we really don't know what we're going to find. 00:18.458 --> 00:23.706 [SPEAKER_01]: And when we see on the other side that what we found was something beautiful, that what we created was something beautiful. 00:24.066 --> 00:37.145 [SPEAKER_01]: We allow ourselves to fall more madly, more deeply in love with life, think about life being a canvas for you to create within, life being a place for you to explore and discover. 00:37.245 --> 00:38.627 [SPEAKER_01]: When you're able to romance, 00:38.607 --> 00:45.715 [SPEAKER_01]: the creative process and really allow it to take you places, take you somewhere that you haven't been before. 00:45.755 --> 00:53.384 [SPEAKER_01]: You are in a love affair with something that only wants the best for you and only wants to spend time with you. 00:53.424 --> 00:56.168 [SPEAKER_01]: Your creativity wants you to spend time with it. 00:56.188 --> 00:57.289 [SPEAKER_01]: It wants you to nourish it. 00:57.369 --> 01:05.779 [SPEAKER_01]: Creativity heals because it allows you to be in this perpetual discovery with the moment 01:08.223 --> 01:11.586 [SPEAKER_00]: But you're awakening already, right? 01:11.606 --> 01:12.847 [SPEAKER_00]: It's already happening. 01:13.508 --> 01:15.690 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why you're here and why you're listening. 01:16.310 --> 01:17.791 [SPEAKER_03]: Nothing is broken in your world. 01:18.132 --> 01:19.553 [SPEAKER_03]: Nothing needs to be changed. 01:19.633 --> 01:21.014 [SPEAKER_03]: Nothing needs to be different. 01:21.114 --> 01:27.019 [SPEAKER_03]: And yet everything is constantly changing because it is the inevitable nature of that which is eternal. 01:27.580 --> 01:32.484 [SPEAKER_01]: What have come to realize in this endless searching for answers is that they really are not. 01:32.504 --> 01:36.628 [SPEAKER_02]: If you spend your whole life trying to get your act together then then what do you have? 01:36.828 --> 01:37.909 [SPEAKER_02]: You have an act. 01:39.053 --> 01:40.275 [SPEAKER_02]: right instead of a life. 01:40.796 --> 01:44.200 [SPEAKER_01]: Hello everyone and welcome back to figuring shit out. 01:44.701 --> 01:46.063 [SPEAKER_01]: My name is Vanessa Fontana. 01:46.263 --> 01:52.412 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host and if you're new here, figuring shit out is a safe, intentional space for brave and creative living. 01:52.472 --> 02:01.145 [SPEAKER_01]: It is designed to help you figure shit out and also relinquish the idea that you need to in order to get started doing anything or living your life. 02:01.626 --> 02:02.847 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so excited to have you. 02:02.867 --> 02:05.231 [SPEAKER_01]: The recording set up today is a little different. 02:05.271 --> 02:08.115 [SPEAKER_01]: I decided 02:08.095 --> 02:12.644 [SPEAKER_01]: that's what's different and also I felt like these things deserved their moment. 02:12.865 --> 02:14.147 [SPEAKER_01]: I really liked the setup today. 02:14.207 --> 02:23.326 [SPEAKER_01]: These orange flowers spoke to me if you're not watching on video then just click over to video and see the beautiful orange flowers and my fun little candle in the background. 02:23.366 --> 02:24.889 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm very excited about all of this. 02:24.869 --> 02:28.114 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you guys so much for sitting with me during this episode. 02:28.174 --> 02:30.297 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so excited to get into it It's gonna be quick. 02:30.438 --> 02:52.632 [SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be good and it's gonna be all about how creativity can heal you and how everything is on the other side of your creativity Of course, this is not a concept that we haven't spoken about before, but as I was sitting and I was meditating with some of these things I just realized how deeply symbiotic the process of healing is with creativity and it just continues to show me more and more and more the more that I learn 02:52.612 --> 02:54.194 [SPEAKER_01]: about it and go on this journey. 02:54.274 --> 03:02.546 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm very very excited to share with you some of the ways that creativity can heal you and some of the things that you discover in this process before we get started. 03:02.606 --> 03:09.375 [SPEAKER_01]: Make sure that you are following the podcast on your career streaming platform, that you rate of five stars and of course leave a comment. 03:09.395 --> 03:13.641 [SPEAKER_01]: The figure in shout out has ever helped you in your life if it has ever given you. 03:13.621 --> 03:18.227 [SPEAKER_01]: a little bit of joy on a sad day or a little bit more joy on a joyful 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03:59.960 [SPEAKER_01]: It heals you, and I'm going to tell you why. 04:00.000 --> 04:07.758 [SPEAKER_01]: There are five primary reasons that I have dug up for why, and there are many, many, many, many, many more. 04:07.898 --> 04:14.914 [SPEAKER_01]: But overall, when you allow yourself the space of allowing, you become... 04:14.894 --> 04:33.451 [SPEAKER_01]: in a relationship to the perpetual act of discovery, the person that you become as someone who is committed to the act of creation and committed to sharing that with the world regardless of what the world thinks. 04:35.252 --> 04:44.040 [SPEAKER_01]: The person that you become in that process is the most you that you will ever be. 04:45.826 --> 04:48.070 [SPEAKER_01]: But there's one caveat. 04:48.090 --> 04:51.336 [SPEAKER_01]: You must not be performing for anyone. 04:52.438 --> 04:57.467 [SPEAKER_01]: You are performing for an audience of one, you and you alone. 04:57.507 --> 05:00.672 [SPEAKER_01]: That is where it starts and many would argue. 05:00.712 --> 05:01.734 [SPEAKER_01]: That is where it ends. 05:02.295 --> 05:07.284 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to start this episode off by reading a chapter of the Creative Act. 05:07.745 --> 05:10.129 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't worry, it's only a couple of pages. 05:10.109 --> 05:17.439 [SPEAKER_01]: This book is a collection of essays by Rick Ruben that talks about the creative act as a way of being. 05:17.459 --> 05:35.745 [SPEAKER_01]: Instead of how to make great art or how to be an artist, it's all about how to live a creative life, how to live a life of creation, which is actually a beautiful process of learning how to be present inside of that so much to discover. 05:35.725 --> 05:37.990 [SPEAKER_01]: He begins this chapter like this. 05:38.611 --> 05:42.439 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine going to live on a mountain top by yourself forever. 05:42.479 --> 05:53.481 [SPEAKER_01]: You build a home that no one will ever visit, still you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you'll spend your days, the wood, the plates, the pillows, all magnificent, curated to your taste. 05:53.461 --> 05:55.504 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the essence of great art. 05:55.884 --> 06:04.335 [SPEAKER_01]: We make it for no other purpose than creating our version of the beautiful, bringing all of ourselves to every project, whatever its parameters and constraints. 06:04.836 --> 06:07.279 [SPEAKER_01]: Consider it an offering a devotional act. 06:07.419 --> 06:10.563 [SPEAKER_01]: We do the best as we see best with our taste. 06:11.084 --> 06:12.786 [SPEAKER_01]: No one else is. 06:12.766 --> 06:15.889 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to pause there because actually consider this. 06:16.009 --> 06:16.290 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay? 06:16.890 --> 06:20.254 [SPEAKER_01]: You are going to a mountaintop to live for the rest of your life. 06:20.294 --> 06:22.256 [SPEAKER_01]: And imagine this is like the best thing ever. 06:22.276 --> 06:22.596 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay? 06:22.616 --> 06:28.742 [SPEAKER_01]: You are so excited to do this to get on the mountaintop and create the best home that you possibly can for yourself. 06:28.882 --> 06:29.743 [SPEAKER_01]: It's cozy. 06:29.763 --> 06:31.005 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a fire. 06:31.025 --> 06:31.745 [SPEAKER_01]: There's candles. 06:31.986 --> 06:32.726 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything you like. 06:32.746 --> 06:34.028 [SPEAKER_01]: You can paint it whatever color. 06:34.348 --> 06:36.570 [SPEAKER_01]: But no one will ever come visit it. 06:37.331 --> 06:38.352 [SPEAKER_01]: Ever. 06:38.332 --> 06:45.689 [SPEAKER_01]: and remove any idea that this is lonely or remove any idea that this is sad, remove any idea that there's anything reclusive about this. 06:45.729 --> 06:51.563 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a place where you will discover where you will play. 06:52.605 --> 06:54.349 [SPEAKER_01]: What would it look like? 06:54.329 --> 06:58.633 [SPEAKER_01]: What would you have there that you don't have now? 06:58.653 --> 07:03.097 [SPEAKER_01]: What would you decorate your little mountaintop house whip? 07:03.377 --> 07:06.940 [SPEAKER_01]: If no one was going to see it, and if it was just going to be yours, it was just for you. 07:06.980 --> 07:23.475 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a question that is so interesting for us to answer because it begs the question, the deeper question, the actual question, who are you when no one is watching, 07:23.455 --> 07:26.419 [SPEAKER_01]: what would you create if you wanted to? 07:26.460 --> 07:34.572 [SPEAKER_01]: And some of us are just so distracted and in a endless cycle of consumption, this doesn't even cross our minds. 07:35.473 --> 07:49.294 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you take a few days offline, if you allow yourself to just be bored, you will get a little spark inside of you, a little desire to read something, to draw something, to write something, to do something, 07:49.274 --> 07:59.027 [SPEAKER_01]: And usually, when we go to do this, the very next idea in our head is, what will other people think? 07:59.047 --> 08:02.632 [SPEAKER_01]: And we start creating with this audience in mind. 08:02.672 --> 08:12.565 [SPEAKER_01]: We start creating with this idea of how it's going to be received and in that we ruin our own receiving of the thing that wants to be created. 08:12.545 --> 08:13.046 [SPEAKER_01]: through us. 08:13.226 --> 08:17.913 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes on to say, we create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves. 08:18.714 --> 08:22.921 [SPEAKER_01]: We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves. 08:23.642 --> 08:27.167 [SPEAKER_01]: Measurement of greatness is subjective like art itself. 08:27.508 --> 08:29.090 [SPEAKER_01]: There is no hard metric. 08:29.170 --> 08:32.275 [SPEAKER_01]: We are performing for an audience of one. 08:32.255 --> 08:41.913 [SPEAKER_01]: If you think I don't like it, but someone else will, you are not making art for yourself, you've found yourself in the business of commerce, which is fine, it just might not be art. 08:42.253 --> 08:44.117 [SPEAKER_01]: There's no bright line between the two. 08:44.157 --> 08:50.348 [SPEAKER_01]: The more formulaic your creation is, the more it hugs the shore of what's been popular. 08:50.328 --> 08:52.932 [SPEAKER_01]: the less like art it's likely to be. 08:53.273 --> 08:57.300 [SPEAKER_01]: And in fact, creativity in that spirit often fails at its own goals. 08:57.560 --> 09:02.990 [SPEAKER_01]: There is no more valid metric to predict what someone else might enjoy than us liking it ourselves. 09:03.511 --> 09:10.202 [SPEAKER_01]: There is no more valid metric to predict what someone else might enjoy than us liking it ourselves. 09:10.583 --> 09:12.927 [SPEAKER_01]: This brings me to point number one. 09:12.907 --> 09:20.073 [SPEAKER_01]: of why creativity heals you and creativity done in the act of creation for creation sake. 09:20.234 --> 09:34.146 [SPEAKER_01]: The first reason the first way is that the self-respect you gain in the creative process is a self-validating self-healing tool that you have been longing for for so long. 09:34.226 --> 09:39.991 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason why so many of us create and then have this idea of it being consumed. 09:40.071 --> 09:42.053 [SPEAKER_01]: We create with the 09:42.033 --> 09:45.698 [SPEAKER_01]: is because what we're looking for is validation. 09:46.099 --> 10:00.919 [SPEAKER_01]: We are looking for some type of response, some type of way of being received that is comforting to us, that tells us we did a good job, to that tells us our idea was worthy. 10:00.899 --> 10:17.406 [SPEAKER_01]: but the act of creating for creation's sake, doing something for the absolute pure joy of it, doing it for you because you like it because it's for you takes away the need for it to be validated by other people. 10:17.386 --> 10:20.811 [SPEAKER_01]: You begin to build a sense of self-respect. 10:21.152 --> 10:28.483 [SPEAKER_01]: You respect your ideas, enough to listen to them, to linger within them, to see where they may lead you. 10:28.964 --> 10:36.576 [SPEAKER_01]: You respect your desires in a way that allows you to explore things that may be you never, 10:36.556 --> 10:37.999 [SPEAKER_01]: ever explored before. 10:38.400 --> 10:48.303 [SPEAKER_01]: This is why the artist's way is such a healing journey for so many people because in the artist's way Julia Cameron recommends something called artist dates. 10:48.684 --> 10:53.856 [SPEAKER_01]: These are one to three hour excursions for you to do something with you. 10:53.836 --> 11:00.426 [SPEAKER_01]: something that is whimsical, something that is festive, something that is joyful, you cannot take anyone with you. 11:00.446 --> 11:07.517 [SPEAKER_01]: This has to be a solo date by yourself and you have to really ask yourself, what is it that I want to do? 11:07.537 --> 11:15.068 [SPEAKER_01]: And in this way, what you do is you come to a sense of inquiry that has an underlying basis of self. 11:15.048 --> 11:17.132 [SPEAKER_01]: respect and self validation. 11:17.172 --> 11:20.479 [SPEAKER_01]: These artist states allow us to discover more of ourselves. 11:20.719 --> 11:29.596 [SPEAKER_01]: They allow us to say, oh well you know I have been wanting to go to that park or I have been wanting to take that acting class or I have been wanting to do this and why haven't I done it? 11:29.637 --> 11:34.787 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I make the time to do it and in that we see the little ink link of our desires. 11:34.807 --> 11:36.550 [SPEAKER_01]: We start to take them seriously. 11:36.530 --> 11:39.233 [SPEAKER_01]: And we start to take our self-seriously in the process. 11:39.253 --> 11:50.947 [SPEAKER_01]: We start to give credence to this artist that lives within us, that wants to play, that wants to see what will emerge, and that wants to create for the sake of creating, that is performing for an audience of one. 11:50.967 --> 11:57.255 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is something that's actually core and critical to metamorphosis, my creative sanctuary. 11:57.235 --> 12:12.413 [SPEAKER_01]: a place where you can really allow the creative expression within you to come fully into force while also facing the fears that arise in the process, the fears of being seen, the comparison, the distraction and consumption that's such a part of our society in Metamorphosis. 12:12.473 --> 12:13.776 [SPEAKER_01]: We do something weekly called 12:13.756 --> 12:20.826 [SPEAKER_01]: artist hours and these are times where you are required to take yourself on a little artist date. 12:21.206 --> 12:36.928 [SPEAKER_01]: But we begin them with breath and meditation and a regulation so that we can really tap into what is it that I want because for so many of us we are so disconnected from what it is that we want we can't hear our own voice because we are lost in so much noise all around us. 12:36.908 --> 12:48.748 [SPEAKER_01]: and so by allowing ourselves to drop into our body to breathe, to meditate, to access our inner child, we can then access our inner artist and really allow that part of us to leave. 12:48.889 --> 13:02.612 [SPEAKER_01]: The first 30 minutes are this work that we do all together and meditation that's designed specifically for whatever theme we're focusing on, which is also recorded so you can come back to it whenever you want and then the next bit of time is just time for you to 13:02.592 --> 13:06.237 [SPEAKER_01]: go on an artist's date and you can do this in community with other people. 13:06.477 --> 13:08.239 [SPEAKER_01]: Metamorphosis launches this upcoming week. 13:08.259 --> 13:17.611 [SPEAKER_01]: We're starting with the 10-day Creative Awakening and inner-child healing meditation journeys that we can really ground into what it is, our artists needs, where we are in our artist's tree. 13:17.631 --> 13:19.434 [SPEAKER_01]: This is something I'll be doing with everyone. 13:19.454 --> 13:21.196 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be guiding you through every step of the way. 13:21.216 --> 13:24.720 [SPEAKER_01]: If you want to join as a founding member, make sure to sign up below. 13:24.781 --> 13:26.122 [SPEAKER_01]: Spots are limited. 13:26.142 --> 13:28.245 [SPEAKER_01]: They are running out very, very, very quickly. 13:28.225 --> 13:29.427 [SPEAKER_01]: Hi guys! 13:29.807 --> 13:56.308 [SPEAKER_01]: As I'm editing this episode back, I just wanted to pop in and share something really special because this week I've been building inside of the sanctuary space inside a minimum emphasis and honestly seeing it come to life is just so emotional and the absolute best way and the platform is so beautiful, there's an app, there's spaces for connection where you can set up a little profile and then there's gonna be these live and recorded gatherings 13:56.288 --> 13:57.429 [SPEAKER_01]: Creative rituals. 13:57.550 --> 14:23.983 [SPEAKER_01]: There's already a library of practices and meditations just waiting there for you I'll to mention the people who've joined Metamorphosis so far I've gotten to talk to most of them and there's such an alignment in openness and kindness Creative wonder and that desire to Respark that creativity and I just know that this is kind of be so special So I'm making my final little invitation for founding members There are only 40 founding members spots available and there's five left 14:23.963 --> 14:27.548 [SPEAKER_01]: Once we begin on May 15th, Madam Morpiscis is going to close for a while. 14:27.669 --> 14:40.488 [SPEAKER_01]: It will not reopen, you will not be able to join until after our 10-day Creative Awakening and Inner Child Journey is complete, and that journey alone is so special and something that only founding members get access to in this very intimate way. 14:40.508 --> 14:51.304 [SPEAKER_01]: It's about reconnecting to yourself, reconnecting to your creativity, meeting your inner child, your inner teenager, grieving parts of you that got abandoned or hidden or silenced. 14:51.284 --> 14:54.187 [SPEAKER_01]: and opening back up to that possibility and expression. 14:54.247 --> 14:58.492 [SPEAKER_01]: And artistry, it's gonna be such a powerful way to open the space. 14:58.992 --> 15:00.434 [SPEAKER_01]: And we get to do it together. 15:00.534 --> 15:03.718 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you every step of the way, and that journey is so accessible. 15:03.758 --> 15:05.439 [SPEAKER_01]: It's only 10 to 20 minutes a day. 15:05.479 --> 15:09.464 [SPEAKER_01]: It might be a meditation, journaling, somatic work, whatever it is. 15:09.644 --> 15:13.408 [SPEAKER_01]: It's really simple, focused practices to bring you back to yourself. 15:13.448 --> 15:16.211 [SPEAKER_01]: And then you get to share with others, connect with others, if you want. 15:16.391 --> 15:19.755 [SPEAKER_01]: After building inside a metamorphosis and seeing it all come together, 15:19.735 --> 15:25.441 [SPEAKER_01]: I have priced this so generously for founding members, basically the price of going out to dinner one night. 15:25.461 --> 15:33.711 [SPEAKER_01]: $66 for the month, you get access to the entire sanctuary, the community of people, the live, and recorded sessions, the workshops, the creative practices. 15:33.791 --> 15:36.814 [SPEAKER_01]: This founding member rate will never be this low again. 15:36.934 --> 15:40.598 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you join now, you'll always be able to come back at this price. 15:40.618 --> 15:43.802 [SPEAKER_01]: So even if you just want to join for the month of May and June, 15:43.782 --> 15:51.069 [SPEAKER_01]: You can leave afterwards and return later at that price and that is not an offer that's going to be available to anyone else other than founding members. 15:51.490 --> 15:55.154 [SPEAKER_01]: So if your heart has been pulling you towards this, you feel resonant with this. 15:55.594 --> 15:58.457 [SPEAKER_01]: This is your sign to stop overthinking it to join. 15:58.857 --> 16:08.507 [SPEAKER_01]: I've also linked the full FAQ page below a full podcast episode where I walk through every part of Menomorifices is also in there, but genuinely these bots are almost gone. 16:08.487 --> 16:11.013 [SPEAKER_01]: And I absolutely love to have you inside. 16:11.093 --> 16:16.145 [SPEAKER_01]: So I just had to share because it's been such a beautiful thing, creating metamorphosis. 16:16.325 --> 16:21.718 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just need you to know that the transformation inside is so real. 16:21.818 --> 16:23.001 [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be so powerful. 16:23.041 --> 16:24.825 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm so, so, so excited about it. 16:24.805 --> 16:26.187 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, back to the episode. 16:26.607 --> 16:37.059 [SPEAKER_01]: The whole purpose of Metamorphosis is on the back of all these things that I've learned about creativity, which is how deeply healing it is when you do it for the sake of doing it. 16:37.420 --> 16:47.151 [SPEAKER_01]: And it can be so easy to get lost in this especially as we create things and we share them and we actually, you know, maybe even create things that become our job and 16:47.131 --> 16:49.897 [SPEAKER_01]: there is a commerce aspect to what we are creating. 16:49.957 --> 17:03.705 [SPEAKER_01]: This is something I constantly have to really hold myself accountable and because there are times where I'll record an episode and I honestly don't like it or there's something about it that I know for me I wasn't in the creative flow when I was recording it and 17:03.685 --> 17:04.706 [SPEAKER_01]: It might sound good. 17:04.726 --> 17:10.432 [SPEAKER_01]: It might look good, but I know the place that I was recording it from wasn't a place that was whole. 17:10.512 --> 17:15.878 [SPEAKER_01]: And I usually have to ask myself, in a moment like that, do I really want to use this episode? 17:15.958 --> 17:17.720 [SPEAKER_01]: Is this episode usable? 17:17.760 --> 17:23.927 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's the number one signal that art has become commerce. 17:24.007 --> 17:26.349 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're asking yourself, is it usable? 17:26.389 --> 17:28.031 [SPEAKER_01]: Useable for what? 17:28.211 --> 17:29.052 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the question. 17:29.032 --> 17:36.831 [SPEAKER_01]: He touches on something here that I want to go back to, which is that there is no more valid metric to predict what someone else might enjoy than us liking it ourselves. 17:36.971 --> 17:39.357 [SPEAKER_01]: And I can't tell you how true this is. 17:39.437 --> 17:46.534 [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever I feel like I have created something that I really enjoyed making, it always gets the best response. 17:46.514 --> 17:49.982 [SPEAKER_01]: because it's not about the response, it's about the act of me enjoying making it. 17:50.483 --> 18:02.008 [SPEAKER_01]: And it is always always the best thing to sink into the creative act and devote yourself to it and allow yourself to really stand back with the thing that has come out of you and say, how? 18:01.988 --> 18:04.231 [SPEAKER_01]: I did that to have that moment of pride. 18:04.291 --> 18:13.904 [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing more priceless and I tell you that that really is the most potent way of facing the fear of being seen is creating something that you actually like. 18:14.164 --> 18:24.218 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not scared to share something that you actually like and in that it then becomes a symbiotic process of inspiring other people to do the same thing, to create for the act of creating. 18:24.598 --> 18:28.063 [SPEAKER_01]: It gives to you and then you give back to it. 18:28.043 --> 18:36.539 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes on to say, fear of criticism, attachment to a commercial result, competing with past work, time and resource constraints, the aspirations of wanting to change the world. 18:36.880 --> 18:43.071 [SPEAKER_01]: And any story beyond, I want to make the best thing I can make, whatever it is, are all undermining forces in the quest for greatness. 18:43.512 --> 18:50.305 [SPEAKER_01]: Instead of focusing on what making this will bring you, focus on what you contribute to this art to make it the best it can possibly be with no limitation. 18:50.285 --> 19:01.703 [SPEAKER_01]: This is another way that creativity heals because it allows you to be in this perpetual discovery with the moment, which in effects allows you to trust the moment more deeply. 19:01.743 --> 19:05.890 [SPEAKER_01]: In order to create anything at all, we have to relinquish control. 19:06.070 --> 19:10.437 [SPEAKER_01]: We have to allow ourselves to say, I don't know what I'm going to find here. 19:10.417 --> 19:26.265 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a level of trust involved in the creative process that really allows you to start having this conversation with the world around you with something divine with something that speaks words of wisdom that only you are in that moment hearing. 19:26.245 --> 19:29.268 [SPEAKER_01]: The act of creativity is the act of perpetual discovery. 19:29.609 --> 19:33.993 [SPEAKER_01]: The act of perpetual discovery allows you to be in the flow of trust. 19:34.314 --> 19:40.721 [SPEAKER_01]: It heals our relationship with trust because when we go blindly into following a desire, we really don't know what we're going to find. 19:41.061 --> 19:46.226 [SPEAKER_01]: And when we see on the other side that what we found was something beautiful, that what we created was something beautiful. 19:46.627 --> 19:51.392 [SPEAKER_01]: We allow ourselves to fall more madly, more deeply in love with life. 19:51.372 --> 20:11.858 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, think about life being a canvas for you to create within life being a place for you to explore and discover the leaves on the trees and all of their colors inspiring something within you that allows you to create something from the simple act of what is already in front of you. 20:11.878 --> 20:15.102 [SPEAKER_01]: You are able to be in this beautiful world. 20:15.082 --> 20:18.648 [SPEAKER_01]: and allow the world to ignite a beauty within you. 20:18.708 --> 20:20.210 [SPEAKER_01]: It's really, really special. 20:20.290 --> 20:36.837 [SPEAKER_01]: And when you're able to romance the creative process and really allow it to take you places, take you somewhere that you haven't been before, you are in a love affair with something that only wants the best for you, it only wants to spend time with you. 20:36.817 --> 20:40.461 [SPEAKER_01]: your creativity once you spend time with it, it once you to nourish it. 20:40.941 --> 20:58.338 [SPEAKER_01]: But the reason why so many of us find it hard to do this is because as I said before, we are so caught up in this distraction, this world of consumption and this feeling that we're always consuming, because we are running from our emotion. 20:58.398 --> 21:00.180 [SPEAKER_01]: So many of us cannot sit with our emotions. 21:00.200 --> 21:05.625 [SPEAKER_01]: We're not taught to and we're conditioned to run away from them so that we can serve this world of commerce. 21:05.605 --> 21:17.480 [SPEAKER_01]: When you allow yourself to be creative, this brings me to number three as to how this is going to heal you, how creativity heals you, you allow yourself to sit with the emotions that are inside of you. 21:17.820 --> 21:29.655 [SPEAKER_01]: Life is your canvas of perpetual discovery, your emotions are your paintbrush, your emotions are what you are allowing to create through you. 21:29.635 --> 21:45.218 [SPEAKER_01]: Emotions are just energy and motion, and so when you access them, especially the ones that are stuck and stagnant and you allow them to come out of you and whatever medium you choose You are doing something magnificent for yourself. 21:45.278 --> 21:46.440 [SPEAKER_01]: You are healing yourself. 21:46.500 --> 21:47.762 [SPEAKER_01]: You are alchemizing. 21:47.742 --> 21:53.309 [SPEAKER_01]: you are telling yourself that not only is it safe to feel, but that in feeling you're not stuck. 21:53.329 --> 22:01.059 [SPEAKER_01]: Because so many of us fear going into the feelings, so many of us fear actually feeling what's underneath all the distraction and all the numbness. 22:01.499 --> 22:03.622 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we're scared we're going to get stuck there. 22:03.963 --> 22:16.939 [SPEAKER_01]: And when we know that we're not, when we know that feeling it is just the first step in a process of discovering more in creating more, it allows us to build trust with the things 22:16.919 --> 22:28.650 [SPEAKER_01]: So we have the respect that you gain for yourself, the way that you're telling yourself that your ideas deserve to be respected by listening to them, by validating yourself, that is so incredibly healing. 22:28.710 --> 22:35.516 [SPEAKER_01]: You witness yourself and therefore the fear of being witnessed and the fear of being seen isn't nearly as scary because you're witnessing and fully accepting yourself. 22:35.737 --> 22:43.804 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you need some help on this, my previous episode will help you, the fear of being seen, I go really, really deep into the witnessing of yourself. 22:43.784 --> 22:50.574 [SPEAKER_01]: and how powerful it is to go into those dark places and allow yourself the bravery of fully witnessing. 22:50.634 --> 22:54.320 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you need some extra help, we do this inside a minimum emphasis. 22:54.340 --> 23:10.323 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a whole two-hour facing the fear of being seen workshop that actually pin points the moment where you were taught to hide or that you learned it was safer to hide than to be seen and allows you to go back there to talk to that version of you to heal again, join minimum emphasis. 23:10.363 --> 23:11.645 [SPEAKER_01]: We're opening founding members. 23:11.665 --> 23:12.947 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so, so excited for it. 23:12.927 --> 23:28.438 [SPEAKER_01]: Overall, the way that allowing yourself validating these things for yourself can change you, the way that you gain self-respect simply by listening to your ideas and following that compass is 23:28.418 --> 23:30.782 [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, so transformative. 23:30.802 --> 23:32.064 [SPEAKER_01]: It is so so powerful. 23:32.124 --> 23:39.797 [SPEAKER_01]: Then we have this canvas of possibility that allows us to kind of create this dialogue with life, this dialogue with something divine. 23:39.837 --> 23:47.710 [SPEAKER_01]: So it strengthens our relationship to synchronicity, to divinity, to the process of discovery and in that it heals something in us that. 23:47.690 --> 24:10.322 [SPEAKER_01]: wants to control the time that needs to know we are able to be front uncertainty because we see that uncertainty leads us to the perpetual discovery that is inevitable inside of creation, which leads us to the way that creation allows us to trust, to trust more deeply, to trust ourselves, to trust the process and to trust the emotions that are then being transmuted through. 24:10.302 --> 24:14.046 [SPEAKER_01]: We have this very beautiful map of symbiosis. 24:14.126 --> 24:16.949 [SPEAKER_01]: We have the respect that we gain for ourselves by listening. 24:16.989 --> 24:19.753 [SPEAKER_01]: We have the trusting that happens when we listen. 24:20.073 --> 24:23.897 [SPEAKER_01]: We have the emotions that are faced when we allow ourselves the space to create. 24:23.937 --> 24:31.866 [SPEAKER_01]: We have the dialogue that we create with life, the romance of life, allowing us to spark our inner whims, our inner child, like sense of joy. 24:31.906 --> 24:39.094 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we have something even more beautiful, which is the symbiotic process of creating something. 24:39.074 --> 24:54.784 [SPEAKER_01]: way that when you devote yourself to the act of creating a creates this ripple effect like Rick Ruben was saying in the creative act, it allows you to fully and completely invest yourself into a act of service. 24:54.804 --> 25:01.858 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a service associated with creation because you are literally devoting yourself to this act of perpetual discovery. 25:01.838 --> 25:16.978 [SPEAKER_01]: and in that, you produce something, you create something, you have something to show for it, and if you do decide to allow that to be seen, not because you need the validation or because it needs an audience, but because it's simply asking for that, because the audience of one, 25:16.958 --> 25:24.689 [SPEAKER_01]: you is like, you know what I do want to share this, that then allows there to be a spark led forward. 25:25.049 --> 25:41.852 [SPEAKER_01]: The potential of that creation to inspire other creation, the way that that creation now lives in the world of other people's creations and cause creations and the creation all around us, you join in the symphony of something very symbiotic, you join in this, 25:41.832 --> 26:01.056 [SPEAKER_01]: Knowing that is deep within all of us that we are not separate, that everything is giving life to everything and that you when you act as a creator, which you are, when you act as an artist, which you are, you feed the flow of that and it allows you to live in a little bit more flow. 26:01.036 --> 26:09.507 [SPEAKER_01]: if you are listening to this and you have no idea where to start or you just want to save space the sanctuary to meet like minded people and create. 26:09.748 --> 26:11.830 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to invite you into metamorphosis. 26:11.951 --> 26:21.323 [SPEAKER_01]: My creative sanctuary is based to drop in and meet the inner child, the inner artist, the inner light within us while also facing the fear in the shadows and all the darkness. 26:21.303 --> 26:50.027 [SPEAKER_01]: Those artist hours and there's also shadow workshops which target all of those subconscious things that will come up whenever we do inevitably face the fear and we can't just easily commit to the devoted act of creating inside is an entire sanctuary of practices and meditations and so many beautiful beautiful things waiting for you to discover. 26:50.007 --> 26:51.710 [SPEAKER_01]: But the doors open on May 15th. 26:51.770 --> 26:53.173 [SPEAKER_01]: So make sure you grab your spot. 26:53.193 --> 26:55.918 [SPEAKER_01]: There are limited spots available for founding members. 26:56.198 --> 26:59.885 [SPEAKER_01]: Founding members get a bunch of perks and discounted access for life. 27:00.386 --> 27:05.055 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is the only time I'm running founding member access until May 15th. 27:05.115 --> 27:07.279 [SPEAKER_01]: So make sure you grab your seat if you haven't already. 27:07.299 --> 27:09.002 [SPEAKER_01]: There are more details linked down below. 27:09.042 --> 27:12.268 [SPEAKER_01]: And also you can DM your Instagram if you have any questions. 27:12.248 --> 27:19.621 [SPEAKER_01]: I am so, so excited for Metamorphosis and so grateful that you sat with me here in this beautiful little episode. 27:19.681 --> 27:24.349 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember if you spend your whole life trying to get your act together, you don't have a life you have an act. 27:24.710 --> 27:26.112 [SPEAKER_01]: So go and live your fucking life. 27:26.273 --> 27:26.713 [SPEAKER_01]: I love you. 27:27.495 --> 27:29.899 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll see you next week. 27:29.919 --> 27:31.682 [SPEAKER_03]: You got to look for the redeeming feature. 27:31.702 --> 27:33.565 [SPEAKER_03]: You got to look for things to appreciate. 27:33.625 --> 27:37.412 [SPEAKER_03]: You got to find a reason to make it okay where you are. 27:38.152 --> 27:41.316 [SPEAKER_03]: Now, I've got to strive and struggle and thrive. 27:41.757 --> 27:42.718 [SPEAKER_03]: That's what I've been taught. 27:43.760 --> 27:46.363 [SPEAKER_03]: Growth and expansion is my quest. 27:46.383 --> 27:48.847 [SPEAKER_03]: No, that's inevitable. 27:48.867 --> 27:51.590 [SPEAKER_03]: Whether it comes easier hard is the question. 27:51.610 --> 28:01.003 [SPEAKER_02]: The horrible truth is that it's an inside job that if you're going to get that love and that respect that you've just so locked that connect that union 28:01.642 --> 28:02.784 [SPEAKER_02]: starts inside. 28:03.305 --> 28:08.937 [SPEAKER_01]: To every experience of growth, there is an equal and an opposite. 28:09.719 --> 28:12.645 [SPEAKER_01]: And that equal and an opposite is what drives you to felt like. 28:13.206 --> 28:21.102 [SPEAKER_01]: So you have to start and where it's, you have to start first within yourself.