7 Steps of the Creative Process
Use the Creative Process to create harmony in your life.
The Creative Process
During a Unity class, I had an eye-opening experience of how well historical figures shared truthful messages within their storytelling. In his book, Mysteries of Genesis, I learned of Charles Fillmore’s metaphysical interpretation of the creation story as an understanding of how people create their own life experience. I’ve expanded my own understanding to provide a modern version of the creative process. Following the process can allow you to create short-term goals and long-term visions of a life you would love. Here are the seven steps:
Step 1 - Envision Your Infinite Possibilities
Step 2 - Claim Your Harmonious LIFE
Step 3 - Imagine Your Vision Realized
Step 4 - Connect Powerfully with Self, Others and All LIFE
Step 5 - Intuit Your Aligned Action
Step 6 - Express Your Loving Vibration
Step 7 - Receive Your Harmonious LIFE
Use the 7 steps of the creative process to manifest your harmonious life vision. What would you love?
To achieve success and fulfillment in your career or your life purpose?
To deepen your relationships?
To receive your abundant health, time, money and other resources?
To create harmony between all the areas of your life?
Instead of trying to figure it out logically, you can have a lot more fun daydreaming about the wonderful experiences you’d love to have. Then pick your favorites and write them down to revisit frequently.
Destination, Company and Journey
People often say it’s not the destination, it’s the journey. James Norbury’s Tiny Dragon says it’s the company. I say it’s the harmony of all three - the destination you envision, the company you enjoy and the journey you experience.
Without a destination, you could wander around aimlessly for years, wasting precious time that could be better spent actualizing your life purpose. Even if you are taking steps to fulfill your purpose, how would you know if you haven’t defined it?
You need to have company to share your experiences with, because people are interdependent and need to fill their basic sense of belonging. You cannot survive without others in your life. Life would be sad and lonely if you had no one to share it.
You can’t reach your destination or enjoy the company if you aren’t actually on the journey. The key is to stay as present to your experiences. Notice the big picture and the details along the way. Celebrate little and big wins. Be grateful for each moment.
So you see that you cannot choose one as more important than the others, you need all three to create your harmonious life experience.
The 7 steps of the creative process can be divided into the 3 parts - The Destination You Envision, The Company You Enjoy and The Journey You Experience..
The first three steps are focused on the mental ideas by expanding your mindset, beliefs and imagination to envision your destination of a life you would love.
The fourth step is focused on the emotional connections by empowering your relationships with yourself, other people and all LIFE, the company you enjoy along the way.
The last three steps are focused on your physical experience, your journey, by aligning your actions and your being with your vision to manifest the life you have imagined. Because you may not have thought of everything, it’s good to add “this or something even better” to your vision.
The Destination You Envision
The first three steps take you through the practice of aligning your thoughts, beliefs and imagination intentionally with what you want to experience.
Step 1 - Envision Your Infinite Possibilities
Expand your awareness of infinite possibilities by expanding your mindset from limiting beliefs to limitless possibilities, so you can create your harmonious vision between your fulfilling career, loving relationships and abundant health and wealth. What would you love?
Step 2 - Claim Your Harmonious LIFE
Choose the specific ideas you would like for your life, your unique desires, and claim them with the same natural level of knowing expectation that you have for growing your hair. You don’t have to know how, but you know it will happen. You’ll use the amazing power of words to shift to knowing expectation to naturally claim your harmonious life vision.
Step 3 - Imagine Your Vision Realized
Imagine your life in beautiful, glorious detail, using simultaneous multisensory images that feel like they are happening right now. Your brain won’t know that it’s not real and will produce real physical and emotional responses, so that you actually experience your vision now.
The Company You Enjoy
The fourth step is focused on the emotional, energetic connections by empowering all your relationships.
Step 4 - Powerful Connections
The fourth step focuses on empowering your relationships with yourself, other people and all LIFE, three powerful energetic connections. These connections help you understand your life directly, indirectly and experientially.
Love Your Whole Self - It starts with yourself. Use rejuvenating nourishing rituals to love and accept your whole self – mind, heart and body. Embrace and integrate your younger versions of yourself with your current empowered adult self and your future vision self.
Synergize Your Relationships - Realize your interdependence with other people. Synergistic relationships produce greater results than the sum of the individual results. Move beyond placing blame on yourself or others, and even beyond the need to forgive, to the level of acceptance of what is. Accepting each person’s unique traits and abilities will enable you to determine the perfect level of synergy between you, emphasizing the best traits and talents of everyone in each situation.
Embrace Your Unity with All LIFE - Energy flows through all LIFE, connecting you to everyone and everything. Raising your level of consciousness enables you to engage more fully with all LIFE. Your energy contracts when you create separation at the level of competition with winners and losers. As you expand your consciousness you learn to cooperate with others to the level where both sides win, and then you collaborate so that all win. When you relate to all from an expanded level of consciousness, your local actions send a positive ripple throughout the world and the universe. You learn to work with your energy to contribute for the benefit of all LIFE.
The Journey You Experience
The last three steps energize your decisions, habits and actions to accept, allow and receive your abundant health, energy and resources.
Step 5 - Intuit Your Aligned Action
Use your love and compassion to guide your intuitive understanding toward wisdom. Brainstorm ideas to the depth of your intuitive wisdom to discern right action aligned with your vision and values so you can create your harmonious life.
Step 6 - Express Your Loving Vibration
Choose to expand with love rather than contract with fear. Vibrate your energy at the level of abundance in the flow of generosity and gratitude. Invest your time, talent and treasure for your highest good and the good of all, so you can fully experience your vision of peace, love and abundance.
Step 7 - Receive Your Harmonious LIFE
Rest from trying to force things to happen in a certain way in a certain timeframe. Accept what happens and allow everything to unfold naturally.
Open to receive your vision or something even better. To achieve this level of effortless allowing, be like water, moving persistently forward and around any barriers, gently carving your path toward your vision.
Create LIFE Harmony
Using the seven steps of the creative process will invite your harmonious life vision to manifest, because your vision already exists within you. You already are the person in your vision. Enjoy the process and you’ll enjoy peace, love and abundance throughout your life journey.
In the next several blog posts, I will discuss each of the 7 Steps of the Creative Process in more depth, grouped by destination, company and journey.
3 Steps to Your Harmonious LIFE Vision
Expand your mindset, beliefs and imagination to envision your destination of a life you would love.
1 LIFE Understood Through 3 Connections
Empower all your relationships to enjoy the company along the way.
3 Keys to Step into the Flow of LIFE
Energize your decisions, habits and actions to experience the journey of manifesting your vision.