Tapping Into Your Creativity: A Journey Beyond Physical Boundaries
Creativity, as I understand it now, has very little to do with talent, mastery, or even art.
For most of my life, I thought creativity was something you did—a skill you practiced, a medium you chose, a thing you proved. But tapping into creativity, at least within Souleyness, has become something much deeper. It’s not about learning how to create, but about remembering that you are a creation.
Creativity is the act of meeting yourself fully—your body, your emotions, your contradictions, your spirit—and allowing that truth to take form without judgment. In this way, creativity isn’t something you schedule or optimize. It’s something you allow. It’s something you return to.
Within Souleyness, creativity is one of the core pillars because it’s how we participate consciously in our own becoming. It’s how we make meaning in a world that often feels indifferent, overwhelming, or actively hostile to softness, depth, and inner truth. Simply put, it's one of the ways I’ve rebuilt myself again and again after ignoring my intuition to survive.
You cannot “do” the creative act—because you are the act. Art, expression, movement, and words are simply seeds that emerge from that truth. Creativity is life using you as the medium.
Creativity as Meaning-Making
Tapping into creativity is ultimately about meaning-making. Not in a forced, toxic-positivity way—but as a grounded response to what we can’t control.
Life hands us pain, chaos, and uncertainty without explanation. Creativity is how we metabolize those experiences instead of dissociating from them. It doesn’t erase suffering, but it transforms how we relate to it. Meaning doesn’t arrive from external validation, consumption, or artificial dopamine hits—media, substances, food, distraction. Those provide temporary relief, not integration.
What creativity offers instead is agency. Even when circumstances feel immpossible, your inner world is not. The ability to shape meaning internally—to choose presence, expression, and self-recognition—is a form of power that cannot be outsourced or taken from you.
This is why creativity matters so deeply to me. In a world constantly trying to extract your energy, attention, and gifts in the most toxic ways possible, learning yourself to the core becomes an act of gentle rebellion. A refusal to become jaded. A way of saying no to numbness and yes to depth. A way of building a home within yourself that no category-five energy vampire can destroy.
This Is Not a “Woo-Woo” Perspective
I want to be clear: this philosophy didn’t come from a place of blissful detachment or spiritual bypassing. I haven’t experienced the worst this world has to offer—but I have felt pain deeply. I know rage. I know what it’s like to turn that rage inward, to fracture relationships, to move through life armored and reactive.
And still, it was creativity that met me there.
The parts of myself that terrified me the most—the anger, the grief, the shame—became doorways instead of dead ends when I stopped trying to suppress them and started listening. Each time I faced myself honestly, I discovered not perfection, but coherence. A deeper sense of self. A growing belief in the masterpiece I already was.
That belief changed everything.
Belief in yourself is the utmost act of creativity. Not because it feels good, but because it requires courage. You could live an entire life without ever meeting yourself. Choosing to believe—to stay present even when meaning isn’t guaranteed—is the bravest form of creation there is.
Why Avoidance Is Easier (But Costlier)
I’ve tried the alternative. I’ve tried accepting that everything is meaningless by drifting through the plot on autopilot. And I learned, through pain, that facing yourself breeds just as much discomfort—cringe, regret, grief—as avoidance does.
The difference? One path deepens you. The other dissolves you.
The toxic route is always easier to indulge. That doesn’t mean it’s aligned. If anything, the difficulty of presence is proof that this work matters. Life’s principles are often simple—but never easy. And their simplicity can feel like mockery to our complex systems of survival.
Still, the answer returns again and again: pause. Tune in. Listen. Accept. Release.
Creativity Is Cyclical, Not Linear.
Like life itself, creativity moves in cycles. We were created to evolve—and evolution is, in itself, a creative act. To accept what is, receive what arises, face what hurts, and continue creating anyway is a form of inner alchemy.
Meaning emerges not from control, but from attention.The desert is simple, yet its patterns are infinitely intricate. There are seasons where everything feels stripped down to the essentials—where progress looks quiet, slow, or invisible. And yet, within that simplicity, something intricate is always unfolding.
Alchemy, in this sense, is a refusal to let pain calcify into bitterness. A conscious choice to transmute rather than numb.
Creativity, Research, and the Inner Landscape
Modern research supports what ancient philosophies have always known. In Metahuman, Deepak Chopra references the largest meta-analysis of creativity ever conducted—the “Hacking Creativity Project.” One of its central conclusions is that creativity cannot be reliably trained or forced. It must be accessed.
Chopra writes that creativity is essential for solving complex problems and notes how little success we’ve had in training people to be creative—because creativity is not a skill to be installed. It’s an intelligence to be tuned into.
From a Souleyness perspective, creativity doesn’t emerge by transcending the human condition, but by inhabiting it fully. The act of recognizing, releasing, and integrating the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to conceal is not a detour from creativity—it is creative evolution. It requires presence within limitation.
You cannot hack your way out of yourself. Even when masking or performing, your inner world remains honest. The act of recognizing, releasing, and integrating those masked parts is itself creative evolution.
My life didn’t suddenly become easier. Many external circumstances stayed the same. But my inner landscape became unrecognizable—in the best way. And that inner shift amplified everything else. It reminded me that home has always been within.
A Souleyness Practice
This is where Souleyness departs from productivity-based creativity. Creativity here is not output. It is the embodiment.
Pause: Notice what is alive in your body. Not what should be there—what is. Maybe your jaw is tight. Maybe your chest feels heavy. Maybe your stomach is in knots. Maybe you feel nothing at all.
Move: Release without explanation. Shake, dance, cry, hum, jump, scream. Release energy without needing to name it. When I feel anxious, jealous, trapped, or simply unsure of what I'm feeling, I jump, swivel my hips, or move my hands intentionally. The body knows what the mind can’t name.
Witness: Notice what changed. Maybe your breathing deepened. Maybe nothing dramatic happened — just 5% more space. That counts.
Integrate: Ask: What did this teach me about myself? Not “What do I do next?” but “What did I learn?” Sometimes the lesson is small — “I need to eat before answering emails.” “I don’t actually want to go to that event.” Sometimes the lesson is bigger.
Every time you listen, you build evidence that you can trust yourself. This is how creativity becomes self-trust. This is how belief is built. Practicing relationship with yourself in real time.
Tapping in
Within Souleyness, creativity is not an aesthetic—it is a relationship. A return. A refusal to abandon yourself. And in a world that profits from your disconnection, that might be the most radical art of all.
Believing in yourself is not arrogance. It is the courage to keep creating even when meaning isn’t guaranteed.
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Sources:
Metahuman — Chopra, D. Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential. New York: Harmony Books, 2019. pp. 83–86.
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