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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration

June 18, 2024

The focus for today is:

I program my subconscious to provide me with creative solutions.

Today's inspiration was written by Evelyn C. Rysdyk:

You can program your subconscious before you go to sleep, asking it to provide creative solutions through dreams.  The prolific inventor Thomas Edison never even napped without programming his sleep time. He is famously quoted as saying, “Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” 

Take time before going to bed to think about what you want to accomplish or what problem you want to solve. Look at it from as many angles as you can and develop a request(s) about it for your subconscious mind. Keep your requests clear and simply worded. Write them down, and then get into bed. As you are falling into sleep, visualize and feel what it is you want the subconscious to work on as if it is already accomplished, and then use your voice to say, “I am grateful to my mind for providing me input about [insert request here].”

The subconscious can be creative when you are sleeping.  The ideas, concepts, and solutions the subconscious develops during this time can be harvested in the morning if you preserve the time your mind begins to wake up for that purpose. This means allowing yourself to linger in that hypnagogic state before the linear mind fully goes back online for your day.

CONTINUE READING:
Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
     The Subconscious Mind Is Your Creative Co-Conspirator
     Written by Evelyn C. Rysdyk.
Read the complete article here.

This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of finding creative solutions using your subconscious mind (today and every day)

Comment from Marie: We only use a small portion of our conscious brain, and the subconscious is there awaiting our requests and commands. Befriend your subconscious, ask it for help day and night, and listen for its subtle clues and messages. Remember to ask and ye shall receive. 

Our focus for today: I program my subconscious to provide me with creative solutions.

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RELATED BOOK: Shamanic Creativity

Shamanic Creativity: Free the Imagination with Rituals, Energy Work, and Spirit Journeying
by Evelyn C. Rysdyk

In this step-by-step practical guide to enhancing creative energy, Evelyn Rysdyk explains how, from the shamanic perspective, creativity--or creative energy--is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life. She explores how to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the “right brain,” boost imagination, overcome anxiety and destructive emotions, and become much more creative in daily life.

Examining creative energy as a natural phenomenon similar to the tides, the author provides suggestions for when your creative energy is at a low tide as well as offering shamanic techniques for dealing with insecurities related to your creative pursuits and overcoming dysfunctional subconscious perceptions.

For more info and/or to order this book, click here. Also available as a Kindle edition.

About the Author

Evelyn C. Rysdyk is an internationally recognized shamanic practitioner and author of several books, including The Norse Shaman, Spirit Walking, and The Nepalese Shamanic Path.

Along with her writings, she is an impassioned teacher and a featured presenter for Sounds True, The Shift Network, and other international and online programs. She finds creative inspiration and renewal on the coast of Maine.

Visit her website at EvelynRysdyk.com