dailydatewithgod

Being children of the Great Creator we all possess the capability to create.  There is sometimes anxiety that comes up for people around the word creativity. They have created this notion that creativity is only the stuff of artists and poets.  But creativity is about what you are generating in your life.  Whether it is a thought, an experience, a relationship, a mindset, or a feeling we all have the capability to notice what is generating within us and what is generating from us.  A victim mindset would have us believe that we are at the mercy of our thoughts and our feelings.  Yes, they happen seemingly without provocation sometimes, but we can choose the ones to which we give power.  This  defines what we are able to generate in our lives.  What we focus on expands and when we grow our attention towards the thoughts or feelings that are coming up at any given moment we generate more of it.  Over time if we do this absent-mindedly we build a mind muscle that is defaulted to that particular mode.  This is why people who are older are often seen as having strong ways of being and less open to new ideas.  We become an amplification of our own particular mindset the longer we live from it.  It gets regenerated over and over and it is what we bring to everything we experience.  Who we are being is what makes the experience. The power is in beginning to notice what kind of focuses we automatically generate and deciding if we want to change the course.  We can do this at any time.  It is simply a decision to generate and focus on more of the thoughts and feelings we want to have in our lives.  The ones that can create the kind of person we want to be. I learned the power of this on my daily dates with God when I was choosing to observe my thoughts and feelings without judgment or story.  It takes practice but it works.  It is empowering to acknowledge having the capacity to generate more of the kinds of experiences we want when we focus on what we are generating.   It is not about some magical ability to change the circumstances but what kind of being we are generating no matter what is the circumstances.