A Shocking Experience That Left Me Wanting More...

Hello world! 

I come to you to speak about an exciting yet shocking experience I experienced in my Explorations in Creativity class on January 13th. Let me just say that the first day of this class is what I like to describe as a great hook to introduce the beginning of a transformational story.

So, the experience I had came from an arts-based phenomenological activity we did in our first class together, and we essentially were undergoing a creative process. We were accessing our zone of creative genius! When my classmates and I were asked to describe a moment in our lives where we were being highly creative, I struggled at first to pick a moment in my life. I was overthinking whether or not certain creative experiences I had would be deemed as "highly creative", and I believe this was when my inner critic decided to come out and play. Woohoo! 

When I heard my inner critic voice, I did my best to not judge it. I acknowledged it and kept writing about my highly creative moment. I wrote about the time I wrote a poem and shared it at an event called "Take Back The Night" during my time in undergrad. I felt enlightened when I wrote that poem and shared it. It was like an unveiling moment for me and it was truly healing in a way because it was a vulnerable moment for me. 

My classmates and I were then told to highlight what stuck out to us in the creative genius moment we wrote about, then we would form a sentence on how our creative genius presents itself to us. 

My sentence was,  

My creative genius flows as a message from the Divine and forms into an emotional excited state that brings a sense of enlightenment and an unveiling moment in the end that is healing and, it wants to share that healing. 

This sentence absolutely felt right and authentic to me. My visualization that was formed by that sentence, was a picture of a flow of water that carries messages from the Divine, and these messages make their way to my mind and results in the unveiling moment. Drawing my visualization felt a bit automatic just like I would automatically start my car and put my seatbelt on without much thought. It felt like something was channeling through me, and I felt at ease mostly. With every stroke made from the chalk in my hands, it felt like a release of some sort. 

When I asked the Divine/my creative genius what it wanted me to know, what I was told is, 

Erica, you are my source. You are my muse just as much as I am yours. You are a messenger here to spread the words I speak, the love I am. Listen to me and we can heal, we can unveil, we can liberate. You are meant to expand not close up. 

This message just feels right. It's a calling that is calling on me lol. It definitely called me out on how I would tend to close up and escape from ideas (messages) that came knocking at my door. I no longer want to do that because trust me, escaping yourself and your calling just makes everything feel 10x worse, and I am tired of living that life. This whole creative process was shocking to me because I never experienced a creative process like this before so I was shocked at how good and right it felt inside. It felt like I was in a flow state and it left me wanting more and more. I want to continue to tap into my zone of creative genius because it feels invigorating. So, here's to more great hooks and transformation to come. Stay tuned!

XOXO,

Kemi Writes💞

p.s. My name is Erica, but I also go by Kemi which is a short version of my middle name. I like the ring to Kemi Writes, so I use both names on here.