Here on the Prosperity Project, our dreams have centered around creating physical spaces for ourselves that contain everything we could ever need or want as we go about the playful work of creating stuff. Robyn created a business that lets her spend her days doing work that feels like play to her. Bob created a woodshop that allows him to create with his hands while his mind is busy mulling over the thoughts that eventually turn into his books. I built myself a room with a view, where I could write in peaceful solitude. Then I made it a movable room so I can always be at home, wherever my heart may lead me.
Our dreams, then, have been dreams of creation; it turns out that our hearts' desire has been to live in a world where we can spend all day playfully creating things that add value to our world, and the world in turn rewards us with grateful plenty. The more we play, the more abundantly prosperous our lives are becoming. I don't think it's an accident that creativity is tied up with the notion of revenue. The energy of creativity is born out of our second chakra. It is the same chakra, interestingly enough, that also governs our relationship with money. Could it be that if our relationship with money is strained that it might somehow affect our ability to create? Could it be that if we are blocking our creative impulse we might also somehow be blocking our ability to allow money to flow toward us? I wonder.
In Invisible Acts of Power, Carolyn Myss explores the energies of the seven main chakras as they are expressed in acts of service. For example, the first chakra, whose energy has to do with physical survival and tribal security, is associated with gifts of shelter and food. Sometimes, when people have hit rock bottom, it is an appropriate act of service to respond by helping them get a place to live and food to eat.
Whereas the energy of the first chakra grounds us and ensures our physical survival by encouraging us to conform to our tribe, second chakra energy is associated with interpersonal power ... particularly in the forms of sex and money. This is the energy center that controls our desire to create, and it is this energy that sets us apart from the others in our tribe. When we add value to our world by playing in our workshops, we are operating out of second chakra energy; and it is second chakra energy that causes money to flow toward us as a result of our creativity. It is no wonder, then, that Myss relates second chakra energy with what she calls "Gifts of Survival -- Financial and Creative Support." Myss, an intuitive, says it much better than I can:
[W]orking with your creative energy is as essential to your health and overall well-being as breathing and eating. Creative energy is a basic survival instinct; it motivates us to become part of society, to become productive, to bring things to life, and to distinguish ourselves from others by what we make, the crafts we pursue, the skills we develop in business or in cultivating friendships, the entrepreneurial ideas we conceive, the problems we resolve, and the children or communities we birth and nurture. Yet many people have creative ideas and yearnings that they do not pursue out of a fear of financial failure or embarrassment, or because they are reluctant to step outside of their normal way of life and change it. They abort their dreams, not realizing that psychological and emotional abortions can be more devastating than physical ones. As a medical intuitive, I have seen many depressions and other chronic suffering at whose source was the repression and denial of a strong creative urge.I find it fascinating that each of us here on the Prosperity Project, as we were choosing where to give our money, chose to give second chakra gifts of financial and creative support. Robyn's foundation gave money to the symphony and to other fledgling business endeavors that were the product of her friends' creative impulses. Bob gave away money to a friend to help her start her business, and also gave gifts of money to random strangers ... both second chakra acts of service. I gave all of my money to music ensembles, because learning to finally give expression to my own creative impulses by singing in a chorus is what once saved my own life.
I have always heard that whatever you are hoping to manifest in your own life, that is exactly the seed that you should sow into someone else's life. If, for example, you fear that you don't have enough money, you should make it a point to tithe a portion of your money. If you fear you don't have enough time, you should tithe a portion of your time. As you sow, so shall you reap. If we, then, are wanting to manifest into realities these dreams we have of the perfect workshop, studio, or business, perhaps we should look around us to find someone into whose life we can plant those very seeds. Do you know someone with a dream? How can you help them make that dream a reality? I bet in helping them, your dreams will also come true before you even have time to notice.
Maybe next we should make a game out of planting some seeds ... I wonder what would happen?
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