Waiting for Inspiration. Or Blowing it Off?

I wait for inspiration to hit!! I wait. What am I waiting for? That light blub to go off? That great idea that lights me up? Or the motivation to do that thing that I’ve been wanting to do. I have learned to wait. Not force it. Not cajole it. Not have any guilt or shame if I blow it off a little longer. Or kick that ball down the road. Because when I do, I realize inspiration WILL hit. It will come. Usually at inconvenient moments, like when your husband and kids are waiting for you in the car. That’s when you decided to clean out that drawer that’s been bugging you. Why then? Because you were most likely running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get everything done before you left. You were in action! You were in motion. And that’s when the inspiration and motivation hit to clean out that drawer. Let them wait a few minutes. They could have helped get ready to leave. They just walked out leaving all the lights on and doors unlocked with no food or water for the animals. Besides, it feels too good to get that drawer cleaned out. All that worry and it really only took a few minutes once you were in motion.

Einstein said, no problem is ever solved in the same consciousness in which is was created. So sometimes you have to move on, and do something else. I wait now because I’ve learned that everything has divine timing. I’ve learned, in retrospect many times, that by me waiting to do something, it actually worked in my favor; The interest rate dropped, somebody came along and fixed it for me, there was a huge accident on the 405 freeway and had I gone, I would have been in that mess, the examples go on. I cant call it listening to my intuition, because I’m not doing it because of some deep intuitive hit. I'm just not doing it because I don’t feel like doing it. I’m procrastinating, I guess you could call it. I try not to see it as procrastinating anymore. I trust that inspiration will hit. And when it does, it feels more like intuition. But when you’re blowing something off, it feels more like guilt and shame! It does not feel divinely inspired. We need to learn to trust our bodies and trust our gut. We are connected to our spirit through our gut and Solar Plexis Chakra. That is also our Action Chakra.

The word Inspiration literally means ‘to be in spirit’. What does it mean to be in spirit? I think it means to go with the flow of life. I believe to aspire is to be 'spirit in action'. Once that spark hits, it's flow time. And time slows down, virtually disappears as your energy flows with ease and those projects or hobbies you thought were so daunting, take no effort at all. That’s true divine inspiration and spirit in action.

But what about those times, you just cant motivate? My mother in law once said, 'there is a season for everything'. I think she said in response to the guilt I was feeling over not riding my horses in the winter because I’m a wimp in bad weather. That’s an appropriate response to that situation, but I found it to be helpful across the board!!! There is a season for everything. Hold tight, the weather will change. It’s all going to be OK. Enjoy what you feeling like doing in this season, right now, today, with no guilt, no shame, no coercion. Play when you feeling like playing. Sleep when you feeling like sleeping. Clean when you feel like cleaning. Work when you have to work, but your free time is yours. It will all get done, when it’s supposed to get done. Easier said than done. How do you know when its time? You don’t. But you know when its not. You just don’t feel it. So what do you do? Do what you feel like doing? You don’t feel like doing anything? Don’t do anything. Let yourself feel what your body wants to feel. But do it without guilt. Can’t help it? Having some guilt? Maybe a touch of anxiety, then do something. Empty the dishwasher. Open the mail. Make a phone call. Book that dentist appointment. Maybe you actually get quiet with your body and thoughts and meditate! At some point, as you are in motion, doing something, or have a change in consciousness by being quiet, a spark will hit. That idea will come. That email will get written. That painting will get created. That phone call will get made. Those legs will get shaved. And that drawer will finally get cleaned out. Let’s just hope your divine timing is better than mine and your family is not waiting in the car.