Self-Actualization – Week 4 – Pt. 2

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What have we learned this month?

Dear Creatrix,

How are you today?

Is it a good day to reflect on and summarize all we’ve learned this month?

If you’re ready, then let’s go! 😊

We started our self-actualization chapter in the CREATRIX School, by looking at our Wheel of Life and assessing every area of our lives – where we’d like to go and where we are now.

And I’ve also shared the playlist for this month with you.

We talked about what self-actualization means:

To become the best version of ourselves, which is our most authentic version, and not the dimmed down version we became by letting other people make us believe in limitations and lack.

Because in the gap between who we currently are and who we could possibly be is where fear, anxiety, self-doubt and all the things reside, that don’t help us in life.

So, by becoming our best selves and being on our way to embodying and living as all we could be, we also start to feel better.

Do you feel better?

Can you see that you are beginning to close this gap?

And if not, what’s missing?

What do you need to allow yourself to be your most authentic version?

Just take that question with you, write it on a piece of paper and put it on your bathroom window, and then just be open for the answer to come to you. You already know so much more about what that would look like now, than before we opened this chapter, right? So just keep going, you’re on your way!

And we will also look at this more closely in the next, and our last lesson of this chapter.

After that, we talked and thought about the fact that all good things also come to an end, even our lives.

And we looked at the top five regrets people have on their deathbeds and checked in with ourselves, what we can do NOW so that we can live a life that leads us to our deathbed without having those same regrets.

After that, we took it one step further and wrote our obituaries.

This way, we began to not only focus on what we want to avoid (and create instead), but also had a chance to begin to think about what we would like to be known for – what we would like to achieve, and what we wish other people will remember about us – the legacy we would like to leave behind.

And then, in the third lesson, we talked about how to avoid regrets in general, and see mistakes as an opportunity to grow (something that is so important to teach to our children as well!).

The last thing we did in the first week, to really find out what we want from life and this chapter, was to create our bucket list.

What do you desire to do in this lifetime?

Week 2

In week two, we started to move towards the things we actually want to begin to change, by making sure we know why we are changing things and how.

Our mindset and believes matter fundamentally for anything we would like to achieve, so having a critical look at how we think about ourselves helps us to move in the desired direction more smoothly and confidently.

And if we want to create something that we’ve not yet experienced, we can’t learn from our past, but have to imagine a new desired future and then trace the steps back from the desired outcome to us now – to get there.

If we try to learn from our past, we keep recreating different versions of it.

Then we looked at what we learned from the Wheel of Life and the other exercises in the first week and how we can use that information to start creating the changes we are looking for now.

We also came back to the fact that whatever change we want to create on the outside, we have to create on the inside first.

Everything is an inside job, really, as we are creating our realities because of how we see the world.

If we stop judging ourselves, others will too.

It’s a bit funny because it feels like it started from the outside and so naturally we feel like the end or solution should come from the outside as well.

It feels like other people, our parents, teachers, educators, judged us and crushed our spirits, and that’s why we feel the way we feel.

I believe that none of that happened without a reason, though, and that our souls chose the circumstances they were born into because they would provide us with exactly the lessons we needed to learn.

But whether that is what you believe or not, as grown-ups, adults, we have the choice to blame our past, upbringing and other people for our suffering or to take our lives into our own hands and change and learn whatever we need to so that we can be happy, love, feel loved and thrive.

If we want to change things now, we have the full power to do so, by learning to see ourselves as how we truly are, or want to be, and not how others saw or see us.

So, we looked at that and how exactly we wanted to see ourselves and live our lives, and how we can overcome our resistance to change accordingly.

After that, in the last lesson of week two, I then shared the blueprint with you that we can use to create any kind of change on personal as well as on a political, global or community level.

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And I’d love to hear how this went…

🌈 You have the power to create your reality.

More from the CREATRIX School

Practice: Building a Safe Cocoon

Practice: Building a Safe Cocoon

Building a safe cocoon

The practice comes in two or even three different versions, in this chapter.

I had this idea of creating a safe cocoon, to help us move through the world more peacefully, but my guides invited me to do something else, building a kind of Merkabah, a protective and empowering shield, so I will share both of these options with you to choose from, and even add in a protective bubble as well.

Ritual: Releasing Old Assumptions

Ritual: Releasing Old Assumptions

A Ritual & Prayer to release old assumptions about our bodies

Many of the thoughts, assumptions we have about our bodies are not even our own. They are what we collected by living in this world. They are insecurities projected onto us by others.

So, today we will explore a way to release these assumptions that we have about our body, that no longer serve us, so we can have a better experience in our bodies from now on.

Body – Week 1 – Pt. 1

Body – Week 1 – Pt. 1

Welcome to a new chapter in the CREATRIX School

Our lives are such incredible miracles.

Everything is moving, is changing at all times. We are always in motion, life is always in motion. Life is motion.

And we will become more familiar with the motion of our bodies, and what we like about them and what we need them for, and how we can influence their well-being, and our natural, radiant beauty in the best possible way in this chapter.

In this lesson, we start by becoming more familiar with the topic and also more aware of our bodies.

Body – Week 1 – Pt. 2

Body – Week 1 – Pt. 2

How do our bodies interact with this world?

In this lesson, we explore what it means to experience our bodies in interaction with the world.

How do people see you, and how do you see yourself? Why does this matter?

And how would you like to be seen by the world? Let’s find out!

Body – Week 1 – Pt. 3

Body – Week 1 – Pt. 3

What do you (dis)like about your body? 👻

In today’s lesson, we will be very honest with ourselves, so we can heal and create the changes we wish for. 

For this, we are going to explore moments of feeling unsafe in our bodies, and moments in which we might have felt rejected for our bodies and how that has influenced our way of experiencing this world as well.

Then we’ll do a ritual to let go of the negativity we held on to about our bodies and begin to explore all the wonderful things we can do with our bodies.

Body – Week 2 – Pt. 1

Body – Week 2 – Pt. 1

More letting go and some New Ideas on Healing & Change

In this lesson, we will explore what it means to see our bodies and how we talk to them in new ways.

We will explore how healing works – without medication, and we will see how we can also change some of our features by talking to ourselves in different ways.

And we will explore why it is necessary to love ourselves and our experience for creating changes in a peaceful and joyful way.

Body – Week 2 – Pt. 2

Body – Week 2 – Pt. 2

How can we heal ourselves?

If you have allergies, or get a cold every year, if you have chronic diseases, food intolerances, migraines, if you need glasses or hearing aids, or medication of any sorts, if you take painkillers occasionally or often, if you don’t feel healthy or fit mostly or all the time, or think that your health is going to deteriorate as you age, you are limiting yourself – and if you wish, we will change the way you think about yourself and these things in this lesson today.

Because you can learn to heal yourself with your thoughts alone.

Body – Week 2 – Pt. 3

Body – Week 2 – Pt. 3

Thoughts on ageing (happily) & the Wheel of Colours & our Health

Today, we will first look at a few quotes and ideas that I found that might be helpful with our process of changing our beliefs, and then we will look at our Wheel of Colours, to find out how it can help us with healing and balancing our lives as well.

After that, we will think about age, and ageing, as that is on the one hand, a construct and illusion as well, and a necessity at the same time. And for that, we will time-travel a bit.

It’s going to be fun!

Body – Week 3 – Pt. 1

Body – Week 3 – Pt. 1

Let’s start our workout and movement routine

In the first half of this chapter we’ve focused on our mindset, how we see our world, and how we can change our mind to change our reality.

Today we will actually start moving our bodies, and I will share with you the basic requirements to keep your body healthy and fit so you can make a long healthy life a possibility for you.

Body – Week 3 – Pt. 2

Body – Week 3 – Pt. 2

Balancing our new routines

Our bodies often quite like for things to stay the same, so they might not be excited about us changing our routine.

Being aware of that will help us to set up routines that last. For that, we will start crazy small, and level up bit by bit.

And we look at how to resolve blockages that might keep us from starting at all.

Body – Week 3 – Pt. 3

Body – Week 3 – Pt. 3

What do we need to create our desired outcomes?

Today, we will think a bit about why we do what we do and how we can do it best.

We will go a bit deeper into concepts we’ve already touched on and explore why fear limits us and love sets us free, and how our personal change is good for the whole.

Body – Week 4 – Pt. 1

Body – Week 4 – Pt. 1

How do we define ourselves?

In today’s lesson, we will come back to the beginning again in some ways and explore how our bodies interact with other people in new ways.

When we started, we realized that others often defined us, now, we can use this knowledge and experience consciously, to positively influence others with our way of being, while protecting ourselves.