Creative ManiFestival Day 1

Welcome to Creative ManiFestival!

The purpose of this 30-day course is to radically change the way you think about money, work, creativity, and time.

The lessons will serve as a guide, but YOUR creativity will be the actual teacher. It is the wisest teacher you will ever know, and it is already within you. This course is just here to help draw it out.

This is truly one of those experiences where your success will be directly related to the energy you put into the endeavor. A self-study course such as this requires a commitment on your part, and a certain amount of discipline.

That being said, it's also important to note that you will get out of this course whatever you are supposed to get out of it...right now.

That means that if you are in a mode to spend half an hour on this work every day...great! If you are in a mode to gather an hour or two here or there....that's fine. If you stop for two weeks and pick back up, that's cool. If you skip around, that's groovy. And, if you find that the lessons get away from you completely for the time being, that is also ok.

Creative ManiFestival will offer your LOTS more than you could ever do in a month. That's the spirit of abundance, and it is my hope that the very experience of this course will reflect that abundance in the Universe and within you.

In order to really embrace this concept, do everything you can to keep from feeling overwhelmed. New exercises in this blog will be posted every day...but it's TOTALLY FINE if you get behind and end up picking things up later. It will be here for you.

When there is more than enough (in this case, more than enough exercises to try), it means that you can experience the luxury of picking and choosing...and, furthermore, to trust in your own creativity to navigate the choices! (You'll get some specific tools to help you discern your creativity's guidance, later.)

On a practical note, I highly recommend that you use a special notebook or journal for all of your ManiFestival work. There will be times when you will go back to refer to work in previous lessons, and it will be helpful if you can locate the previous material easily. Also, a 3-ring binder works great, because you can print out your lessons and keep them all together in one place.

It's time to put all the instructions aside and jump into an exercise.....


******EXERCISE 1********

Invite your creativity for coffee.

Sit with your journal, and have a conversation between you and your Creativity. If you like, you can alternate between your dominant hand ("your" voice) and non-dominant hand (your "Creativity's" voice). If the hand-alternating gets too frustrating, drop it, and just write regularly, but see if you can change your pace or style a bit when you write from the Creativity voice. The idea is to bypass the left brain and get to heart of expression. You can write very quickly when you write for Creativity. You can hold the pen in a fist. You can also do this at the computer by closing your eyes as you type when you are "taking dictation" from Creativity.

To begin the coffee date, start by asking a question, from your own voice...and let your Creativity answer.

Here are some questions you might want to ask your Creativity:

"How do you like living in my world?"

"What would you like to be different?"

"How can I help you?"

"How can you help me?"

"Who do you wish that I was more like?"

....Just let the conversation flow. No judgment, no editing...just check it out.

That's it for today...more tomorrow!


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