prayer for creativity and expression

For days that your creativity feels blocked, your mind is too loud, and you’ve forgotten why you began creating in the first place, tune in.

On days that your creativity feels blocked, your mind is too loud, and you’ve forgotten why you began creating in the first place, tune in.

Take a soft breath in.

Feel the ground beneath you,

and allow this reach your heart.

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This prayer in writing ↓

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Today, I surrender to you the belief that I must suffer, force, or prove myself to create something meaningful.

Today, I surrender to you all conditioning that taught me my creativity is not worthy of being received, valued, and paid for.

May today I never confuse humility with denying the gifts you placed in me.

May today I remember that humility is bowing to the beauty of what you created in me, while arrogance is believing my judgment or their judgment of myself is more true than your design.

May today I relax enough to allow your gifts to create through me with ease and playfulness.

May today I let your love direct my footsteps as I’m creating this project.

May today I let my writing and creative projects bring people closer to you and their innate power.

May today I remember the joy, devotion, and deeper purpose that brought me to this creative path in the first place.

You know my ideas better than I do. Please remove the ones that are not of you, and replace them with yours.

May today you see through my eyes,

listen through my ears,

think through my mind,

and speak through my voice,

so my creative work becomes a clear channel for your truth.

May today I create, speak, and lead with you as my guiding force.

May today I move with your ideas swiftly but never rushed, guided by your wisdom to know when to speed up and when to slow down.

May I release every resistance to your rhythm, trusting the moments you ask me to move, and trusting the moments you ask me to wait.

I long for a life and a schedule where creative flow and the slowness to receive can live together: a life that gives, creates, senses, serves, and returns again and again to beingness, stillness, and peace.

Please teach me how to create such a life, and give me the capacity to truly enjoy it.

So it is!

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Thank you for joining me on the path of unconditioning,

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Hedi Shah
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👁️ Mindfulness Teacher & Bodyworker
🐉 Nervous system regulation, breathwork, and posture-focused strength training to target the cause of what keeps you stuck and in pain, not just symptoms.

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