Creativity and Healing
Some Musings on Creativity and Healing. These musings are continuing my conversation on Creativity from my last Musings entry of March 31.
Since December, I have had the privilege of creating Soul/Deepbody music for many people. Each person is unique and so each person’s Soul/Deepbody music has asked something different of me. I am in awe of the beauty of everyone’s SOUL. I am in awe of the creative force that exists within each of us.
Creating Soul/Deepbody music has been an ongoing exploration also of healing. I always knew that creativity is the only healer. However, I wasn’t sure “why”. I’m still not an expert on these things, but it seems that the process of creation is fundamentally an adventure into relationship with SOUL, with SOURCE, and this adventure reweaves my physical body, my mental self, my emotional self, and my spiritual self into a different weaving…a more WHOLE weaving.
In the process of being rewoven into a more WHOLE person, there are parts of me which are brought out of the shadow and into the light to be let go. These parts require unconditional love, compassion, loving kindness because they have served me well in the past, but are now causing pain because they are too limited. It’s like bringing the creative force of the Source of all creativity into a “self” that has a straight-jacket on. My body, emotions, mind and spirit want to expand to encompass this creative force, and to be rewoven. However, until the tight, smaller parts are transformed by compassion, unconditional love, loving kindness and let go, there will be the pain of constriction.
Letting these old, smaller, tight parts be transformed through the heart, letting them go, and then embracing the unknown rewoven new SELF is the essence of healing.
In my last Musings, I talked about “Bev” and “Beverly. Healing is the process of “Bev” being continually rewoven into “Beverly”. Healing is, in its own essence, a totally creative process.
My third album is The Journey of Joy. This music celebrates our life and all of the reweaving of our life as a joyful journey. Since I wrote and performed this music, one of my challenges has been to look at the non-joyful journey of my life. Every time I beat myself up for acting or making decisions about my life through the lens of “Bev” instead of “Beverly”, or every time I get mental and too serious about processing old patterns….my own music The Journey of Joy comes up to haunt me and remind me that there is a basic contradiction here. My SOUL desires for me a joyful life journey. My SOUL desires for me a joyful adventure.
There is a basic truth emerging: Reweaving is a joyful, soulful, adventurous process. It is spiritual and loving. It is healing and is a powerful creative essential Soul/Deepbody spiritual force. My Soul/Deepbody life weaving is dynamic and ever changing creativity.
Written with love. Beverly/