Why We Need to Create Just to Create

It can’t always, or even mostly, be about making a sale.

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“The creative adult is the child who survived.” — Ursula Leguin

All of us are born with creative energies to create simply because of the call to create. Some of us may create incredible music or art, others are called to create welcoming spaces to help others feel at ease, or to craft meals from the heart because feeding people is a form of every day magic we all must partake in. Others may find their creative outlet in numbers, or in knowing intuitively how to say just the right thing to ease another’s pain.

Every human is born with innate creatively.

But, sometimes, we get stuck thinking we aren’t good enough or that we must create only things that others like and will pay for.

That is not innate — that is cultural.

Capitalism says that what we produce and what we earn is what matters. And while, yes, we’ve all got bills to pay and it is a great feeling when someone buys something you’ve put your creative soul into, it cannot be the only reason we create. And it can really jam up our creative pipelines and cause a painful disconnect from Spirit when we focus only on things which will win us accolades or put $$$ in out bank accounts.