Creative Aliveness with Mindfulness Coaching

Are you embracing a sense of creative aliveness in your life? I’ve just completed one creative project and am about to undertake the next.

These in between places are always times of reassessing for me. I’m forever tweaking things, trying to stay aligned with my passions and engaging in creative work that feels meaningful. I’ve been paying close attention to what aspects of my home environment and my work inspire me and generate a sense of creative aliveness and what aspects of my work I need to release.

I run my fingertips over the spines of a few favorite books—Minor White’s mirrors messages manifestations, Phil Cousineau’s The Art of Pilgrimage, Mark Doty’s Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule. Just reading the titles and touching them inspires me, brings back feelings of creative aliveness and memories of how each one took me a little bit further on my own journey.  

I notice the themes of that to which I feel drawn to in my home—photographs, language, creativity, nature, and spirituality. Each new wave of clarity brings with it a need for letting go, releasing that which has outlived its purpose. Letting go, making room, embracing uncertainty, opening to what is next.  

We can awaken creative inspiration by surrounding ourselves with objects or landscapes that inspire us or by bringing an image of them to mind.

What inspires you and connects you with a sense of creative aliveness? Mindfulness coaching can help you to rediscover a sense of inspiration and creative aliveness again.

Jen Johnson is a mindfulness coach, counselor, and author with 40+ years of experience teaching mindfulness and meditation. She offers 1:1 mindfulness coaching worldwide via Zoom. Learn more about mindfulness coaching with Jen.