Intention Inspired

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The intention of this self-guided journey is to inspire creative action into the first moments of our day so that we can be in more alignment with our highest self and deepest intentions.

Why spend 7 days refining your Morning Routine?

How we start our day sets the tone for the rest of it.

When we awake from a well-rested slumber, we are nourished and aligned. As the day unfolds, external influences demand our energy, and internal noise clutters the mind. If we're running on autopilot, we can quickly lose ourselves to the daily shuffle and to the desires of others.

Our morning routine nurtures our deepest intentions into inspired action.

When we start each day with our Self, we gain clarity into who we are (self-awareness), what is most important (set intentions), and how to get it (inspired action).

Our morning routine helps us focus on what is in front of us and where to prioritize our time. From this place of clarity, we are more prepared to move through the day with focused intention, empowered decision-making, and aligned action.

As we refocus and reprioritize our deepest sense of Self first thing in the morning, what is most important naturally surfaces to our consciousness, and those trivial things that have been consuming our precious energy fade to nothingness.

Over time, we craft an ever-changing morning practice that consistently shows us what is most important to us at the moment ... (love, joy, creativity, flow, fulfillment, happiness, freedom, equanimity).

What to expect on this journey.

Over the next 7 days, and hopefully forever beyond it, we will be gifting ourselves at least 15 minutes each morning to lay a clear and focused foundation that the rest of the day can blossom from.

Each morning, we will be served with a daily intentional session that includes a variety of positive, healthy inspirations that help us see things in a new light.

You are encouraged to make each daily session your own and find what works for you. Our morning routine is uniquely suited for each of us as we continue to experiment and adjust.

Ready to commune with your Self each morning and nurture your deepest intentions?

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Today, let's consciously co-create our reality with the support of the Universe.

Explore today's full session here: https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn30

Our perception of reality informs our belief of what reality is. We believe what we perceive to be accurate and our perception feels very real but many of our beliefs may not be factual.

🔬 SCIENCE SHOWS

"Perception molds, shapes, and influences our experience of our personal reality,”

says Linda Humphreys, PhD, “Perception is merely a lens or mindset from which we view people, events, and things.” She also says that "our past experiences greatly influence how we decode things. Certain people, things, and situations can trigger you to interpret things through a positive or negative lens based on those past experiences."

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

"I consciously co-create my reality with the Universe. My journey is magical and magnificent."

🌻 MINDFUL MOMENT

Perceive yourself and your reality to be exactly what you need at this moment.

Try it. There may be resistance but you might be on to something. You have the power. You have the choice.

📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT

1. Sit and breathe yourself into this moment.

2. Choose three items that are around you right now.

3. Sketch them.

This is all practice so don't panic if you perceive that you cannot sketch.

Remember the exercise that we did with lines and shapes? See the items as lines and shapes.

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As I become more intentional about the reality I am creating,

I am grateful for _______________________"

I am grateful for each and every one of you for having the courage, compassion, and curiosity to explore your creativity. It is always fun to have others to play with.

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

How are you inspired to live with more intention and create the reality of your dreams?

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend

Today, let's break away from the "norm" in a way that resonates with our inner divinity and allows our soul to sing its own song.

Explore today's full session here: https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn29

The abstract is not designed to "make sense" or copy reality.

We are not designed to always "make sense" or copy a reality we have already lived or the reality of anyone else.  

Abstract means existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. 

It is meant to encourage involvement and imagination in the viewer.  We are the viewers of our reality.  The abstract allows us the freedom to explore and create our own meanings for the reality we are creating and the manifestations that we bring to life.   The abstract brings us close to releasing our need to believe that we already "KNOW".

🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION

We gaze with wonder as the natural world prepares.  Much of the preparation goes unseen but we can imagine it occurring. That is the beauty of the Abstract.

Holding just an idea or a vision and imagining an outcome ... that is the essence of creativity.  What is also amazing is that you don't have to have a thought or a well-thought-out idea.  You have your own internal expression that is longing to be witnessed.  

To let your soul speak you just have to begin and be willing to stay out of your own way.

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

"I have the courage to create and the wisdom to admit that I may not know.

I allow my internal wisdom to be heard."

📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT

Find today's exercise at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn29

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As I gaze with wonder and let my soul speak,

I feel grateful for ___________________ "

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

How do you enjoy letting your soul speak through abstraction?

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend

Today, let's allow effortless creativity to flow as we empower ourselves with the relaxation we deserve.

Explore today's full session here: https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn28

🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION

Winter is coming! We are prepared to ease into it with comfort and anticipation.  We have learned to tune into our body and our intuition and rest when it is called for.

From our commitment, we have learned that we are important and that we are deserving of our Creative time. We no longer question whether we are "Creative" because we know that it is the expression of our soul and that everyone is Creative.

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

"Rest helps me connect to the peace, wisdom, and creativity within me and all around us.

I allow myself to rest as often as I need."

💬 TODAY'S QUOTE

"Creation is the foremost human condition. The right to creation is more important than the right to food.  If man does not create or is impeded to create, man ceases to fulfil human functions because he loses his justification to be present on this earth as a higher being.  Our real illiteracy is not the incapability to read and write but the incapability to create. The children have a bigger knowledge to create until they lose their soul by becoming homogenous, or by education and convention." – Hundertwasser

📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT

Do what you do.

This has been a wonderfully creative journey through Autumn.

I hope that you will give yourself the gift of your own daily Creative Practice and continue to work in your Journal.

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As I allow myself the rest I deserve, I feel grateful for ___________________ "

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

What were your favorite creative activities this week?

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend

Today, let's be more conscious of the reality we're creating with the words we choose to use.

Explore today's full session here: https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn27

🧸 A MOMENT OF REFLECTION

There is power in the words we speak. Power to create or "destroy". Power to soothe or agitate. Power to build relationships or disregard them. This power does not only apply to words used towards others. It also applies to the words we speak to ourselves and the words we use to tell our stories.  It is important to be intentional about the words we use.  

What messages are we sending to ourselves and the Universe?

🔬 SCIENCE SHOWS

Psychologists have found that our subconscious mind interprets what it hears very literally.  Whatever words you use, your body, mind, and environment will eventually follow. This information, however, is older than the Bible.

💪 MICRO CHALLENGE

For one week, be very conscious of the words you speak and write them down every day. 

This will give you a very good idea of what you are telling yourself and the Universe.

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

"I am conscious of the words I speak because I know that I Am listening. My words become my reality. I speak to myself and others with love and compassion."

📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT

1. Make a cool background.

2. Cut out 50 words or phrases (or more).  

3. Lay them all out on the page and arrange them in a manner that creates a poem or a paragraph.

4. Compost the words that don't apply and/or cut out more that resonate.

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As I spend time observing the words that create my reality,

I feel grateful for ___________________ "

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

Do you speak to yourself with love and compassion?  

If we approach this creatively (with curiosity, observation, and inspired action) we can become aware and shift our words.   We can avoid getting too critical with ourselves or fearful if we speak "negatively".

What is one shift you are inspired to make with your words?

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend

Today, let's redefine 'art' as we notice what inspires our souls to sing.

👁Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn26

What is Art? How do you know if you are making it?  Is there a valid reason for having "Art" defined?  Wouldn't everyone have a different opinion of what Art is?

Let's look at this together.

Here are what some artists had to say about what Art is:

"Filling a space in a beautiful way. That's what art means to me." – Georgia O'Keeffe 

"Art is harmony."  – Georges Seurat

"To me the thing that art does for life is to clean it – to strip it to form."   – Robert Frost

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."  – Pablo Picasso  

What do you think Art is?

Can't art just be a soul's expression?  And wouldn't your soul be called to stand and marvel at whatever resonates and vibrates with it?  A song, a quilt, a sculpture, a dance, a building, a dress, a loaf of bread, a canyon, a sunset ... a soul starts to sing and Art is born. 

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

"I Am the Artist of My Life.

The label of "Art" does not matter.

Creating is what feeds my soul."

📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL EXERCISE

1. Cut out, from magazines or images, at least five unrelated items (like...an umbrella, a giraffe, a spoon, a train, and a radish)  

2. Look at these five items and decide what type of background they would go on (the beach, a mountain, in a mouth...use your imagination.

3. Arrange these five items on the page as if they were somehow connected.  

YAY 🙌 You have just made a work of art.

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As I am constantly in awe of the beauty that is all around me.

I feel grateful for ___________________ "

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

We are all artists, living in an artistic Universe, surrounded by wonder and Art.

 🌲 🍪 🪐 🌻 🦋 👘 🍄 🍁 🏔 🍊 🐚 🎨 🪘 🍭 🕯 📱 🧸 🛠 📝 🛖 🦚 

What kind of artful creations do you enjoy being immersed in?

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend

Today, let's broaden our perspective of reality by attentively examining what is on the inside.

👁 Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn25

We have heard it many times, "It is what's on the inside that counts.

We may make our first impression judgment based on the look of someone or something but seldom does that first impression hold valuable information.

If we want to make a true and creative connection we must assess the outside (without a judgment), follow our intuition, and attentively examine (using our well-practiced listening and observation skills and our power of curiosity).

What is on the inside?

🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION

Autumn is the season of contrast and duality.  Our practice is calling us to look at all sides of what appears in our reality.

The inside and the outside, the dark and the light, the outer "shell" and the core of what we encounter or experience.

Creatively speaking there is a whole new world of "insides" to be explored.

As you can see by the kiwi above the "inside" offers a whole different perspective.

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

"Viewing both the inside and the outside of who and what I encounter broadens my perspective. I Understand more and connect more authentically by focusing more on what is on the Inside."

📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT

Using our imagination we can gain inspiration from what is on the inside.

First, find three things that can be cut in half.

Then, use the patterns, lines, and shapes to create a Journal page.

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As my intuition guides me in gathering valid information concerning the "whole" of my experiences,

I feel grateful for ___________________ "

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

Seeing and intuiting both the inside and outside leads us to better understand and more fully assess our reality.

How does your reality broaden when you look inside yourself?

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend

Today, let's elicit the energy of our emotions to inspire our creative practice.

Intention Inspired community can access today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn24

🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION

It is in Autumn that the impermanence of all things and the assurance of change are all around us.

For many people that may produce a feeling place of fear, anxiety, or depression.

What do you do when you feel the emotions of loss, grief, anxiety?  

We play with our journal, our hobbies, and our creative pursuits and in turn begin to be creative about our family, our work and ourselves. Creativity breeds creativity across the board.

That is the beauty of the Creative Journal.

It allows for observation, imagination, and self-awareness to occur through an active creative outlet. Practicing any creative outlet benefits all other experiences. 

The more you practice, with intention, the more healing can occur. 

We will give simple form to some emotions in our Creative Journal today.

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:

"I use my creative process to acknowledge and give a voice to my emotions."

📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL EXERCISE

We are going to do some line and colorwork to give physical life to our emotions.

Focus on each of the following words individually, momentarily feeling that emotion.

JOY

ANGER

FREEDOM

GRIEF

BOREDOM

INSECURITY

COMPASSION

ANXIETY

DEPRESSION

CONTENTMENT

PASSION

CONFUSION

EXCITEMENT

For each of these emotions use a continuous line (don't pick up your pen) and draw that emotion line.  

For the same emotions, choose a color that resonates with each emotion listed.   Combine both exercises if that feels right to you.

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As I engage with my emotions creatively,

I feel grateful for ___________________ "

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

How do you enjoy moving your emotional energy with creativity?

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend

Today, let's reconnect to our child-like creativity with curiosity, imagination, and freedom!

Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn23

Remember what it was like to create freely?

To have a connection to creating that was simply curiosity, imagination and freedom?  Today, let's bring our freedom to the page.

🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION

The Weather has turned and we are prepared. 

We may not have a lot of "art supplies" on hand (or we might have too many and have to choose) but one thing stays with us: our imagination.

Maybe it has been a while since you used it but it is always there. 

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

"I honor the creative child within me.

I create with joy and freedom knowing there are no 'mistakes'."

📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT

Here are a couple of fun exercises to spark your imagination for an interesting journal page.

These can be done with only a pencil and a piece of paper if that is all you have.

1)  Ten Totally Random Things

Start by making a list of ten random things.  Imagine these "things" doing the unexpected, in unexpected places, with unexpected company.  For instance, a beard where a unicorn lives.  A strawberry on a racetrack.  A cave with a road going in and a river coming out the other side.  Cars go in and boats come out.  You get the idea.  Sketch them (Stick figures are just fine) or make a collage with images.

2) Crumple, Mash, Twist, and Arrange

Take a piece of paper and mark it up with whatever tool you have. (Crayons, a pencil, black marker, watercolor...whatever) crumple it, mash it, twist it. Now smooth it out the best you can. Tear it into shapes. Arrange the shapes on a new sheet of paper or in your journal. Glue them down when you're satisfied.

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As I play and create with my inner creative child,

I feel grateful for ___________________ "

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

How did it feel to create with freedom?

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend

Today, let's clear the cobwebs of creative resistance with intuitive, inspired action!

Explore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn21

💬 TODAY'S QUOTE

"To be creative can be as simple as seeing something everyone else sees, but thinking what no one else thinks about it." – Robert and Michele' Root Bernstein

👆 I would take that one step further and include yourself.  

Seeing something you have seen many times, but thinking something different than you ever thought before.  

Your creative voice is always there, imploring you.  "What if...?"  

🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION

Look at the lines and shapes of Autumn.  

These are the creative observations that invite your creative voice to be heard.

📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

"I hear my creative voice. I see a challenge, intuitively imagine a solution, then creatively take action."

🌻 MINDFUL MOMENT

Bask in the beauty of this Autumn day.

Whatever the weather, taking a walk outside to breathe and observe Nature's elements is a great way to clear the mental chatter and hear our creative voice.  

📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT

What shapes are you drawn to?

Find three items (either outside on your walk or in your house).

Hold them, sense them and then break them down to their lines and shapes. 

This exercise will require you to focus, intently, on each item with your whole being. Using the essential lines and shapes create their shapes on the page.

🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE

"As I listen and trust my creative voice,

I feel grateful for ___________________ "

👯‍♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

How are you feeling about your ability to identify the essential lines and shapes of things around you?

How is your creative resistance?  The more you create the easier it becomes.  If you are in "beginner mind" while creating with lines and shapes be compassionate with yourself as you journey.

Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend