Creativity Center (receptive): Using Emotional Energy to Harness Faith
Resiliency Keys
Through my Creativity Center, I’ll experience and explore one of the four resiliency keys that build on the two foundational keys: emotional wisdom. Decisiveness, courage, and empowerment are also key themes in Creativity Gates.
About the Creativity Center
This Center is all about emotions, which fuel creation of my life. This is the place where I carry the energy that makes me human. No other animal has the capacity for intentional creativity in the same way that humans do. It’s associated with the energy for romance, poetry, sex/sexuality, war, marriage, intimacy, relationship with nature and Universal/Divine Order, imagination, and the capacity for new human experiences.
The term “emotion” here does not refer to feelings experienced in reaction to events or people. Reactive feelings are typically connected either to our sense of lovability (the Heart) or the signal associated with strategy (e.g., frustration and anger). The emotional aspect of the Creativity Center is about “mood” – anything I associate with the concept of “good mood” vs. “bad mood.”
Emotions are frequencies of energy that have a natural flow and fluidity about them. It is the nature of emotions that they come and go. Those with an activated Creativity Center experience a personal mood cycle that operates like a sine wav. Since I have a receptive Creativity Center, I pick up on and amplify the signals from activated Creativity Centers around me. Activated or receptive, everyone has the capacity to shift and change this frequency of energy through awareness, focus, and attention. Doing so allows us to be deliberate vs reactive creative beings.
The most important piece to understand is that I have the capacity to influence and work with my emotional energy. Activated Creativity Centers will always have a frequency, but the power of the mind will influence the way in which it operates. Those who learn to allow, accept, and embrace both the highs and the lows of their inherent wave of energy can choose to create their lives more deliberately and with purpose. Where they put their focus and awareness is the modulator of this process.
For example, as they’re feeling sadness they may begin asking “What’s wrong with me?” or thinking “I’m worthless, I made a huge mistake” or focusing on how terrible they’re feeling. Each of those thought processes takes attention and focus in a direction that influences the nature of their emotional energy, dropping it lower and spending longer at those low levels. This will cause them to feel sadder for longer, all the while generating these signals for receptive Creativity Centers like mine to pick up and amplify.
On the other hand, if they’re feeling deep sadness and instead recognize it as a sign to nurture themselves, go deep within, and trust in the underlying abundance and goodness of life, they’ll find that the amount of time they spend in sadness decreases. When they recognize the nature of their mood cycle and that lows are temporary, they’re able to use the lows constructively, which elevates their baseline, and increase the frequency of their wave, which decreases the duration of lows. They’ll also more positively impact the receptive Creative Centers around them.
Activated or receptive, the nature of the emotional energy held in this Center will determine the nature of what’s created in life.
My Receptive Creativity Center
My receptive Creativity Center gives me empathy, and I’m here to gain wisdom about emotional energy. My emotional frequency is not subject to the wave experienced in an activated Creativity Center, but it is subject to influence by others’ activated Creativity Centers. I feel other people’s emotional energy deeply – often much more deeply than they do themselves because I take it in and amplify it.
However, because the world tends to judge emotions and because it can be intense and overwhelming to feel emotions in an amplified way, I may find myself trying to avoid them altogether. This is even more significant for me because I also have a receptive Heart.
Being so sensitive to others’ emotions/moods can result in a tendency to “make nice” or trying not to “make waves” with the people in my life to protect myself from the discomfort of experiencing the amplification of their “negative” emotions/moods. I may find I have a hard time speaking up for myself or stating my beliefs because I don’t want to upset anyone. On the other side, I may have a sort of addiction to dramatic energy, especially if I grew up in a family with a lot of emotional activation (i.e., family members with activated Creativity Centers). There’s exciting energy here – poetry, music, romance, sex, intimacy.
Of course, if I begin to behave in those self-protective ways, I will inevitably find that my own boundaries get crossed (or maybe I haven’t even been able to establish them in the first place). Feeling responsible for keeping other people happy typically leads to a lack of self-care and self-nurturing. What initially seemed like self-protective ways to cope becomes a self-destructive mechanism.
The most effective strategy for a receptive Creativity Center (and a receptive Heart) is to walk away from a person or situation when the emotional energy gets too intense. When I start to feel overwhelmed, it’s time to break energetic space with the other person/people and go somewhere where I can be alone. I’ll find it only takes about 15 minutes before I begin to feel a decompression and regain a sense of what’s truly mine to feel and to take responsibility for.
It can also be helpful to remind myself of the inherent nature of the activated Creativity Center’s emotional wave. Then I can begin to depersonalize my amplified experience of another person’s emotions/moods and make peace with speaking my truth or setting a boundary even when emotions are high. This is the most important aspect of cultivating the wisdom of this receptive Center.
REMEMBER: I experience emotions and moods, but they are not who I am. When I find myself identifying with the emotional energy, I begin to hold onto it and may even feel like it’s mine to fix. I may be holding onto a lifetime of other people’s emotional energy because I didn’t have this understanding of the mechanics of emotions.
It can be helpful to keep this phrase in mind when I’m with other people: “be a screen and not a sponge.” With awareness, I can allow emotional energy to move through me, increasing my capacity for empathy, compassion, and creativity, and then simply allow it pass. If I’m struggling with holding what may be a lifetime of other people’s emotions, processing it out will benefit me significantly. EFT is the simplest and quickest method to do this.
I deserve to give myself the gift of releasing the emotional energy that was never mine to carry.
Without awareness of how emotional energy works, I might have believed myself to be an emotionally unstable person when I was simply experiencing the intensity of others’ instability – or the instability of picking up on the signals from multiple at once. Since my own emotional frequency is not subject to a wave, I’m actually MORE capable of stability than those with an activated Creative Center.
Awareness of how emotional energy works will allow me to differentiate my emotions from others’ emotions, form healthy boundaries, and maintain my own emotional frequency. Applying this information will give me the stability that I previously believed I could only achieve by disallowing myself the experience of emotions.
Conditioning Influences
If I’ve been around people with an activated Creativity Center in novice expression (or grew up that way), I’m likely to have been influenced by:
• making emotional decisions in the moment that create disappointment, anger, frustration, or bitterness in myself or others
Mature expression of an activated Creativity Center will teach me to learn to evaluate my creative desires and mood and know when the timing is right (or not) for the right aligned action. People with activated Creativity wisdom and optimal expression exemplify:
• knowing how to envision a deliberate outcome and to wait to ensure the desire for the outcome stays consistent o matter how much my mood may fluctuate
Purpose of Receptive Creativity
• The ability to hold an emotional frequency that supports abundance and faith
• The ability to hold my own emotional frequency no matter what others are experiencing
• The ability to be calm in the midst of an emotional storm
• The ability to be emotionally empathetic
Novice Expression of Receptive Creativity
• Allowing my emotional wellbeing and baseline frequency to be influenced by others
• Giving up what I want and need to keep others happy
• Compromising on my values, value, dreams, and independence for others because I can’t hold my own baseline frequency
Lessons/Challenges
• To not let the emotional energy of others hijack my emotional energy
• To use my emotional awareness to cultivate empathy and compassion without taking on the responsibility of “fixing” what belongs to others
Wisdom and Optimal Expression of Receptive Creativity
• Holding my own emotional frequency even when others struggle to sustain theirs
• Choosing close relationships that will support in sustaining a beneficial emotional frequency
Affirmations for Wise Expression
• Since I’m not subject to an emotional wave, I can make decisions in the moment.
• I have significant empathy and am sensitive to other people’s emotional energies.
• One of my greatest strengths is my ability to read the emotional energy and alignment of others.
• I observe emotional energy and only allow myself to accept emotional frequencies of my choice that are closely aligned with my own (or the frequency I want to have).
• I pay attention to the source of my emotions and allow others to experience their feelings without making their experience my own.
• I am very sensitive and I trust my insights about other people’s feelings.
• I take frequent breaks when the emotional energy is too intense.
• I am wise about emotion and consciously express my emotions with awareness and deliberateness.
• I use my empathy as a tool to sense how others are feeling.
• I am only responsible for my own emotional energy.
• I speak my truth and ask for what I want without worrying about the impact of other people’s feelings on my own needs and desires.
• Through awareness, healthy boundaries, and connection to my own emotional frequency, I achieve emotional clarity and detachment, which is a gift I bring to those around me.
Sound frequencies: listening while meditating on affirmations (or simply repeating them) can help with finding balance and healing.
• For the Receptive Creativity
• For cultivating my sense of emotional wisdom
Clearing old beliefs/stories that are holding me back
• Emotional Wisdom
Contemplations:
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- Have I experienced pain, dis-ease, or dysfunction associated with my adrenals, bladder, kidneys, prostate, Vagus nerve, nervous system, lungs, and/or pancreas? What about weight/food issues? If so, what could my body be trying to tell me? What story about myself and/or my life could my body be holding?
(I can revisit this question in the future if new health/body issues develop.) - Is my baseline emotional frequency abundant?
- Am I avoiding truth and conflict, trying to keep everyone happy?
- Is it ok for me to speak my truth?
- Can I disconnect from other people’s emotions?
- Have I experienced pain, dis-ease, or dysfunction associated with my adrenals, bladder, kidneys, prostate, Vagus nerve, nervous system, lungs, and/or pancreas? What about weight/food issues? If so, what could my body be trying to tell me? What story about myself and/or my life could my body be holding?
If I want more insight, I can always request a message from the universe.
For reference:
Matt’s Circuitry
Ben’s Circuitry