Imagine being able to access our genius and universal intelligence – the all-knowing source of past, present and future. Imagine that – being able to summon inspiration at will. They are always there – and it is us who controls the access! Imagine armies of creative, brilliant, genius muses just sitting and waiting for us to craft our lives in such a way that allows them to reach us. Our muse.Īnd yet this source is ever-present and freely available! I’ve learned that when this channel is open, life flows much more joyfully and effortlessly than when we are cut off from our genius, our inspiration. This is what I’ve experienced in my life and everywhere I turn I find more evidence that this could well be the case. So it’s the way we live that determines how often the channel is open – which would explain why some days the muse is so elusive. So, contrary to the idea that the muse comes and goes according to her fickle whim and fancy, could it be that the source of our inspiration is always there – it’s only our access to it, our connection, that falters?Īnd it’s the choices we make in all areas of our lives that affect this vital and powerful connection.Ĭertain daily actions, habits, emotions and beliefs help us to live and work more closely to this source, whereas others leave us cut off from it. (The origin of the word ‘inspire’ actually relates to the inhaling of spirit.) Universal spirit mingles with our own creative spirit and the result is inspiration. The muse is simply the connection to the innate genius we all possess.Īnd under the right conditions – when our spirit, our heart and our soul are aligned – we can access this internal resource. In this light, the muse is not an external force, but an aspect of ourselves. I believe that the muse is just our connection to this force, whether your label for this silent, invisible power is the universal field, source energy, the divine, the god-spark, your true nature or higher self. in the presence of the muse – could it actually be that we have simply opened up are to the source of inspiration – a force which is there all the time? When we feel lit up, on fire, in the zone, in the flow i.e. The commonly accepted definition is that the muse is a capricious force of inspiration, an ethereal goddess, that appears – if you’re lucky – but only ever on her untameable, unpredictable terms.Ī celestial being that deigns to visit, in bursts of creative inspiration, but only to the very hard-working and usually at the most inconvenient time and place.īut what if the mysterious power that we call The Muse is less of a contrary psychic visitor and more of a line of communication? She, (muses are invariably feminine) has intrigued, puzzled and fascinated creative minds the world over. Throughout the ages, great artists and philosophers have discussed and debated the existence and nature of ‘the muse’.
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