Creative Sacred Living Magazine June 2014 | Page 30

choose it to be—to exist, also. And while their
choices in no way hinder your own choices, your
attention to what they are choosing does affect
your vibration, and therefore your own point of
attraction.
One way we can lose touch of our creative power is by allowing our interaction
with others to overshadow or dominate our energy. For example, you are feeling
good, thinking fun thoughts, and a friend calls, comes in…and starts
complaining. Do you match her complaining energy or do you CHOOSE to
CREATE change?
My friend Alexandra Kavanah of Mantrapreneur and I talk about this as
“dumpster diving.” If a friend was in a garbage dumpster would you jump in with
her? Probably not. You would pull her out, right? You can do the same thing
today!
YOU are the artist of your life. No one else is the artist of YOUR life. It can feel that
way sometimes, but that is only when we are not flexing our creative “muscles.”
Think of every situation like a color. If you were painting a painting (which I highly
recommend to fully integrate this teaching) would you allow someone to come
up and paint a color that you did not desire
on your painting? Of course not. If you were
painting an owl (which I did for two years
straight!), would you allow someone else to
come up and paint a big school bus (that is
just what came to me!) over it? No!
So if your friend comes up, in the middle of
your “owl” moment and starts talking about
her beat up, run down school bus, you ca n
simply follow up her comment with, “Let me
tell you about my owl!”
With that, you offer her the opportunity to
climb out of the dumpster and into your
space, OR not. If she chooses the dumpster,