Creativity and Karma

What do Creativity and Karma have to do with each other? As it turns out… a  LOT.

It’s time to birth new projects and enjoy this spring energy of growth and renewal. It’s also a good time to ask yourself: What has been holding me back? What's been in the way?

If you’re getting stuck, it’s happening over and over again in the same places.  That’s why I want to talk about your creativity and karma.

From years of exploring this in the Akashic Records, I’ve discovered the primary way we experience karma is via our default patterns.

Karma is the energetic effect of all the past choices and experiences you have made at soul level. At it's essence, it is a neutral and very balanced aspect of Universal Law. Sometimes karma is good. It mostly gets your attention when it shows up as patterns and circumstances that don't really serve you. There are karmic default modes, belief systems, and filters that make it difficult to see your soul gifts, your power, or possible paths.

You'll find karma when you look at the stubborn areas of your life that no matter what you do, you can’t seem to change.

I’ve found 3 major themes of struggle or Karmic Imprints that are common among creative souls.  The good news is:  you can clear these blocks at that deep karmic layer, and major shifts are possible in your life that ripple out in all directions.

The 3 biggest karmic imprints I see creatives struggling with are:

The Invisibility Imprint

Also known as "The Fear of Being Seen", this imprint says “I’m only safe when I hide, and they can’t see me.” Why do so many creative souls struggle with shyness, fear of being judged and a tendency to hide their work and themselves from the world?

This comes up for creatives because their souls are calling them to share their creative visions. If this imprint is a big one for you, you’re going to feel uncomfortable every time you share your work. It’s going to feel unsafe on some level and you could experience anything from mild anxiety to extreme fear when it comes to being seen. More than likely it has stopped you from going forward with something in your creative life.

The Inner Critic Imprint

This one says,”Who do you think you are?  You will never be good enough!”  It’s felt intensely by those pursuing creative outlets because historically, there have been so many limitations put around creative expression.

The Inner Critic is a wounded aspect that wakes up and abuses other tender parts of you when you try to express yourself. It comes up for creatives because we live in a world that hasn’t been supportive our gifts.  It hasn’t been “ok” to be different, unique, quirky, playful, feminine or many of the qualities that true creative work requires. The result is a lot of bad feelings and often our creative processes get shut down.

These wounds are karmic, and they manifest as judgmental, harsh inner thoughts and sometimes judgmental, harsh people. When we have the Inner Critic Imprint, judgment shows up in all forms, and it can be a big block to our free creative expression.

The Starving Artist Imprint

Lack of money and an inability to create abundance is probably the biggest block for creatives.   really wanted to call this The Poverty/Lack Imprint because it’s not just limited to artists. However, it is so common in the creative community that we have a special name for it – starving artist.

It’s one of my deepest desires to help as many people as possible shift and clear this. If we clear this imprint for ourselves, eventually we clear it in the collective and the path of the artist can be as free and abundant as any other path.

When you have this imprint you believe on some level that creativity repels money, and that creative gifts are inherently less valuable than other gifts. You may believe and experience that it is impossible to make enough money as an artist. This is the biggest reason that so many people are blocked in their creativity in the first place.

All three of these imprints block creative souls from expressing full-out, sharing the work they create and manifesting a marketplace and economy that supports artists.

We are living in a time where we have the consciousness and the tools available to clear these imprints and dissolve the entanglements we experience with our creativity and karma.

It starts with each one of us. When you clear your own karmic imprints you open doors to creative expression and abundance you didn’t even realize were an option. Your creativity expands, your possibilities widen and you slough off the heavy energies that made your progress slow or non-existent before.

It’s not the Divine design for us to be tormented by our dreams and unable to see them brought into form. As artists and creatives we are actually the ultimate manifestors – abundance and joyful creation are your true nature.