the creative journey requires a map

I channeled this message in a journaling session one morning as I was contemplating the process by which my paintings are made. What I heard was a wisdom deeper than I knew, referencing a formal pathway for the Creative process as I experience it.

It refers to a methodology I have developed called The Creative LIfecycle and answers the question: why is the Creative Lifecycle important?

Would you set out on a journey without a map?  Or at least coordinates?  Or your destination plugged into Waze or Google maps?

Of course not.

So why would you embark upon creating something new without understanding the journey ahead of you?

There are many advantages to understanding the Creative Lifecycle. 

First, you’ll know where you are in the Lifecycle and where you need to go next. This is important so you don’t skip or backtrack, or lose yourself — or even exit (give up) too early.

Second, it will help you make stronger art because you’ll know what’s coming and what (inner) resources you’ll need to get there. 

Third, recognising the stages gives you waypoints as you progress; helpful markers on your way to help you see how far you’ve come and got yet to go. 

Fourth, understanding the many levels this works on - macro to micro - gives you a framework for understanding why the CREATIVE endeavour is so important.  You are co-creating with the Divine after all. And in journeying, you yourself undergo a transformation: YOU are the Hero walking the Creative Journey. 

Lastly, it’s only through actually taking the Journey that you can collect the treasure.  (This is not Monopoly and there is no way to Pass Go and Collect $200 without doing the work.)  You discover who you truly are and what you’re capable of. It’s no less than a path to self-realisation and ascension. It’s only in walking this path, one step at a time, and through encountering all the tests, trials and breakdowns that you get to know who you truly are - and that the gift — the GOLD - was inside you all along. 

But now you know. 

And that changes everything. 

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