Apr 07 2008
The Five Rules of Inspiration
I’ve been working on a keynote speech I’m giving at the 8th Annual Women’s Wellness Weekend at the Sagamore Resort in New York. The theme of the weekend is Be Inspired. Originally I was going to present the second day of the weekend about Inspired Grace. People who are in grace often have amazing inspirational moments. But the Saturday keynote speaker had a family crisis of some sort and had to cancel, so I filled her spot. It meant completely rewriting my presentation because what I was writing for Sunday was built on what others would have been presenting on Saturday.
In short, I needed new inspiration and quickly.
To get me started I decided to google the word Inspiration to see what would come up. The top of the list happened to be a website about a product called Inspiration. That was intriguing so off I went on a seemingly random search. Inspiration the product turned out to be a software that helps school age children, high schoolers and adults, visually organize their thoughts and projects prior to writing. I had been looking for something like this for my son so I kept reading. Then I discovered that they make the product for Macs as well as PCs. I got a bit more intrigued. The clincher was the 30 day free trial. I decided to download it and use it to organize my presentation on Inspiration.
Which brings me to the First Rule of Inspiration: Go with the flow. Inspiration is very fluid and often the starting form will flow into another one. It might lead to nothing but it can often lead to a treasure chest.
But let me back up a moment. Just what is inspiration and why would you want it?
The Definition of Inspiration and Why Would You Want it Anyway?
According to the dictionary inspiration has these following meanings:
- Arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- A product of your creative thinking and work
- A sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- Divine guidance: (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- Arousing to a particular emotion or action
- Inhalation: the act of inhaling
My definition: Inspiration means “In Spirit” When we are in spirit then we experience grace…a state where
answers come easy, creativity thrives and we feel connected to a greater whole. Being inspired allows us to
access our multidimensional self, which contains vast amounts of information out beyond our conscious mind. It
also allows us to access the Divine Creator Source and be accessed by it.
Why would you want to have inspiration (assuming you are a super logical, ultra conservative robot)?
- To access who you truly are: Inspiration comes through your core essence which is divine by nature. Since everything is divine and we are created from the Divine, perhaps inspiration can be viewed as the Divine talking to itself.
- To renew yourself in life: Let’s face it. Mission Earth is no cake walk. As beautiful as life is here, it is also extremely challenging. Just like a good deep breath, inspiration charges the body with energy. I should know, just writing about it left me higher than a kite.
- To reach your highest potential. Inspiration lifts you above and beyond your normal mental reasoning. Since the human mind is focused mainly on survival, its your inspirational thoughts that widen your range of possibility.
- To evolve human consciousness. Inspirational thoughts are the foundation for inventions, social movements, music, art and my own personal favorite, Crystalline Consciousness Technique. Very few serious problems are solved without inspiration.
- To have fun! Inspiration, with its accompanying charge of energy, enlivens you and encourages you to be in the moment.
If inspiration is so important, let’s explore how to create or foster it.
Fostering Inspiration
Breathing is considered an autonomic as well as conscious act of the body. When you go into fear, your breathing becomes more rapid and shallow. You can actually switch off fear by consciously connecting to your breath and slowing it down while breathing more deeply.
Inspiration raises your vibration energetically when it occurs. Just like the breath, however, you can reverse that and you will be able to access inspiration more easily (or it will access you).
The Second Rule of Inspiration is: Raise your vibration.
If you reread the dictionaries definition above for inspiration, you’ll see that there are three main areas that receive inspiration: the sexual creative chakra (represented by creative thinking), the heart chakra (represented by breath and the emotions), and the 3rd eye chakra (represented by intuition and divine guidance).
Each of these areas has different methods that work best to raise vibration.
In the following posts I will cover these methods as well as include a podcast meditation for fostering inspiration. A final bonus in this series will be about fostering Grace and how it ties into inspiration. That post will have its own podcast with an activation for awakening your system to the quality of grace.
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Hi Gia,
I found your post really interesting. Would be looking forward to read your coming posts.
Hi Avani,
Thank you for your comment. What kind of metaphysical or energy healing topics would you be interested in reading about?
gia
However there is one thing I am curious about – Correct me if I am wrong, Energy healing usually deals with the past to clear out some kind of blockages be they mental, emotional of physical. What’s the next step? I mean after we succeed in clearing our blocks, how do we use this to move forward and create something meaningful in the spaces where those blocks used to exist?
Wow, great question, Avani. I energy healing (or better named, energy science) to improve my life in many ways, besides just healing. I use it to communicate with my guides (which is informational and brings me great joy), manifest in right timing and evolve consciously. I also use it for protection and better connection with others. I happen to be metaphysically inclined, meaning I want to know the source cause or things, so I use energy to help with that as well. Energy science is also what I use to create vibrant physical health for myself.
gia
Avani, most of the energy healing I do is by phone, although I can do healing without a phone as well. So why does energy healing, such as Reiki, work in a distant way, without contact? Because everything is energy. Although energy comes in different wavelengths, vibrations and frequencies, it’s all one energy (like the atmosphere around Earth). Energy responds to intent. So an intent for healing creates healing. I don’t actually transfer my energy to heal another person, but I help them hook up to the energy that’s already there. Then their healing system does the healing. I realize I may have created more questions for you than I’ve answered. But I love the conversation so keep asking away!
gia