Cultivating a Daily Writing Practice: From Surviving to Creating

When we live in survival mode, creating feels impossible. In survival mindset we are always reacting and defending. We may feel anxious, low energy. Life feels stagnant, like it's happening to us, bombarding us. We experience scarcity as opposed to abundance, and we want to protect the little we have because we worry there won't be more.
But we can live creatively. A daily writing practice can help us switch from survival mode to creative mode.
As we engage ourselves creatively, we engage life creatively. While creating we bring our awareness to the moment as it is unfolding. We witness how the receiving of images, memories, feelings, and experience making with them, giving shape to them, and to our lives. We experience creation moving through us. We experience ourselves as the energy that is creating.
This practice transfers to our life. When we get up from the page, when we walk down the street, talk with the person behind the counter, go to work, we notice how we are creating the world we encounter. We begin to see we have choices. Our choices create our reality.

[@janefaceinthewind6260]

Hi Justen, I'm afraid there are some sound issues starting half way through. Perhaps this is fixable.? Thank you for the excellent subject of this video and a very merry Christmas to you!

[@jimshouseoffitness]

I love the points about not being able to feel joy, peace, fulfillment, and to be generous when you are in survival mode. It's so very true. In particular the lack of generosity that comes with survival mode or a scarcity mindset. I find myself stuck in that mode often, and I never thought about it until now that when I am able to free myself of that way of thinking, is also when I feel the most creative and free to write. Very interesting. Thank you for making that connection.

[@Devotiontowriting]

Thank you for watching and for this feedback. I always feel that scarcity is accompanied by fear and in fear it is very difficult, if not impossible to write, create, connect with the source of creation.