You Are Creating on More Than One Level

Most of the time when we think about creating our lives, we think about what is right in front of us.

Our money. Our work. Our health. Our relationships. Our home. Our goals. The things we want to change, improve, build, heal, or experience more fully.

That is creation on a very personal level.

But we are also creating on a larger level at the same time.

We live inside communities, systems, institutions, economies, laws, and collective decisions that affect the conditions in which we create our personal lives.

And the reverse is true too.

What we do personally contributes to the larger world.

That means we are never really creating in only one arena.

You cannot be a conscious creator in one part of life and completely unconscious in another without giving some of your power away.

If you are intentionally creating greater prosperity, freedom, health, opportunity, security, or happiness in your personal life, then it is worth asking how the larger world around you supports or affects those desires.

Not because you can control everything.

You cannot.

But because there are places where you do have a voice, a choice, and an opportunity to participate.

And wherever we stop choosing consciously, we begin creating by default.

That is true in our personal lives.

If we never make a conscious decision about our money, habits develop by default.

If we never decide what kind of relationships we want, patterns can continue by default.

If we never decide what we want our work or our future to look like, circumstances can begin deciding for us.

The same thing happens on the larger level.

When we stop paying attention, stop asking questions, stop participating, or assume that what we do does not matter, we have not stepped outside of the Creative Process.

We are still part of it.

We are simply participating less consciously.

And that is where power gets diluted.

Voting is one example.

It is one of the ways we participate in shaping the larger environment in which we are trying to create our individual lives.

That does not mean everyone should make the same choice.

It means we become conscious enough to ask:

What kind of world do I want to live in?

What conditions support the life I want to create?

What matters to me?

What do I believe supports greater prosperity, freedom, opportunity, security, health, education, business, family, or community?

And then:

Am I participating in the creation of that too?

Because the personal and the collective are connected.

The world we live in influences the choices available to us.

And the choices we make individually contribute to the world we all live in.

So perhaps the deeper question is not simply:

What kind of life do I want to create?

It is also:

What kind of world do I want to be creating that life in?

And am I consciously participating in both?

Because wherever you stop creating consciously, you begin creating by default.

And the more areas of your life you bring into conscious choice, the more fully you occupy your own creative power.

A Gentle Invitation

Look at one area of your life where you are very intentional.

You know what you want. You make decisions that support it. You pay attention. You take action.

Then look at an area where you tend to disengage, postpone, or assume that your participation does not matter.

Notice the difference.

This is not about judging yourself. It is simply about becoming aware of where you are creating consciously and where you may be allowing creation to happen by default.

A Quiet Question for the Week

Where in my life—or in the larger world around me—have I stopped participating consciously?

And perhaps an even deeper question:

What would it look like to reclaim some of my creative power there?

A Small Invitation

Choose one place this week where you can move from passive to intentional.

Learn something.
Ask a question.
Make a decision.
Have a conversation.
Take care of something you have been avoiding.
Participate in something that matters to you.

You do not have to control the outcome.

You simply have to decide that your participation matters.

Many Blessings,
Deb Foggio
Intutivie Leadership Coach -Systemic Constellations Facilitator
Owner THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE WELL BEING
248-720-7064
info@debfoggio.com