Why It's Important To Live Creatively

I'm not recommending voodoo or even white magic with the ideas I've suggested in the post that precedes this one.  I"m just offering a powerful--and perhaps new--way for you to relate to your own wishes and unconscious self.

Throughout our lives, most women are so outward-facing that we don't truly see ourselves, let alone appreciate what we see.

We are experts in criticizing the way we look and focusing on our flaws. Most women hate to look at pictures of themselves.

We also don't tend to concentrate on getting our needs met, with so many other people depending on us.  We're trained to be experts in self-denial.

But that leaves us incomplete as human beings.

Because we don't give ourselves the time to think about how we want to be and what we want for ourselves as we grow older.

It's as if we assume that once we reach our fiftieth or sixtieth birthdays and cross over into the new territory called the Third Age, we'll suddenly  become more self-accepting and free to be ourselves. 

You can do that...but will you do it?

For many of us, it takes changing an ingrained set of habits, since other people don't especially want us to stop taking care of them and they can get angry about it. 

Besides, we have a well-developed guilt about taking our own lives seriously.

So here's my proposal:  try the first 5 steps and see what happens.

You're using your imagination to contemplate a possible change in your way of being, some would say your place in the universe.  Find out what that feels like. 

Use your journal to write about it.  That brings a whole extra dimension to the process.  Write about all your feelings and your whole experience.

Don't censor or censure yourself!  Find out what that is like.