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Stepping Into Your Full Power

Dear Creatrix,

What a month this has been so far!

What has been your most significant insight? And what have you learned from the visualization exercise in the last lesson? And, most importantly, what are you going to do about all the things that you’ve learned about yourself, now?

The goal, the wish, for me with the CREATRIX School, and each of these chapters is, always, to lead you back to yourself.

Life, conditioning, demands, everything around us tells us that we have to rely on things outside of us for our well-being: Teachers, guides, phones, parents, bosses, doctors, partners, friends.

Specialists can be good, but we also have the intuitive understanding of who we are and what we need, we simply have to take the time and be quiet enough to listen to it and then to begin to trust it.

The more we do this, the better it begins to work and the more our lives start to align and come in a natural flow.

Because in the end, we are the only ones who have the right answers for ourselves.

So, I hope these last exercises helped you find some of your own answers and more certainty about your abilities and strengths and where you want to be headed with your life from now on.

Today, we’re going to turn back a bit to the beginning of this chapter to find out what we can do with this new understanding and knowledge of ourselves.

And I would like to start with this:

“What do you think is the meaning and the purpose of life?”

I came across this quote by Pablo Picasso yesterday:

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away”

And I think we’ve done a lot of work to find our gifts in the last lessons, so now it may be time to start giving them away.

And we’ll get to figure out the best ways how to do this as well.

But first I’d like for you to write down your definition of the purpose and the meaning of life.

It doesn’t have to be your forever definition – it can just be one for now, so that when you learn more or when you come across new ideas that change it, you can adjust it accordingly.

I feel like I’ve got clearer on mine, too, by working through these lessons again.

For me, the purpose of life is to explore this world and life in form, and to learn and to grow and to enjoy this process of growth and discovery.

And I give my life meaning by being kind and by feeling, by seeing beauty and by sharing the beauty, by creating thing and by sharing what I create so that it may help and inspire others, and by living in connection with other people and by exchanging our ideas and experiences in and of this world and beyond.

And then, once you’ve written down your definition, we will have a closer look at what we need for living our purpose.

Abraham Maslow, who first came up with the term self-actualization, discovered or worked with a hierarchy of needs.

According to that, we first have to make sure, that we’re safe, that we have food, that no one is harming us physically or mentally and that we have shelter, a safe place to sleep.

According to him, as long as these areas are not fundamentally covered, we’re in survival mode.

And I agree.

While today many people have the physical safety, and enough to eat, not all people feel safe mentally – we worry, we have fears for the future, for our well-being, we have self-doubts, we don’t know how to connect safely, we struggle with past abuse and trauma and so on.

So, as long as we don’t fully overcome these, we remain, at least, with one foot in survival, independent of how wealthy or competent we may be in other areas, and that is what keeps us from experiencing freedom, relaxation, peace of mind and our full natural humanness.

So, I founded the CREATRIX School to give people (and myself) the tools to come out of survival mode and into freedom and thriving, and it’s so beautiful to see it working.

We’re all here to learn how to trust and believe instead of experiencing (and repeating the) fear and worry (others have or had), to learn how to create our futures and enjoy our present, instead of reliving our pasts.

I know that I needed that to be able to live my purpose – and the more I embraced the notion of being on a continuous journey, and that on it, life is getting better every day – the freer I have become.

It’s not about being perfect and having it all figured out or pretending to be so or to know it all – it’s about embracing what is and loving that.

Our lives are not about arriving and then standing still, they are about being on the journey, in flwo and enjoying the ride, taking every day as it comes.

And for that, we need to trust that we have all we need to handle whatever may come every day, to begin to relax and enjoy, and this chapter has really helped with creating a basis for this, hasn’t it?

Of course, we won’t stop here.