The Island

Imagine yourself on a deserted tropical island filled with jungles, peaceful wildlife, and lined with beautiful beaches. This island world exists for enjoyment and fantasy, a remote paradise, a sanctuary of creativity and relaxation. A place where one can refresh their soul, renew their senses, and regain clarity of thought.

Now imagine yourself stranded and completely alone on this deserted island. Years pass, and yet you remain on the island. Your emotional state quickly redefines your island paradise. Boredom, survival in the elements, fear, and loneliness consume any thoughts of creating a way off the island. Quietly walking the shore no longer holds pleasure. You no longer notice the warm, soft sand beneath your feet, or the natural architectural forms of the coast. Confined by the edges of the island, hopelessness settles in and happiness drifts away across the currents of the ocean. Surrendering to the concept of immobility, conforming to the defined borders of the island, your existence becomes defined only by your efforts to survive.

Many individuals move through life as if they were stranded on an island, isolated and frustrated with their lack of self-expression and inability to generate creative solutions. You can find yourself feeling isolated from time to time, feeling stuck or trapped within a problem or situation, unable to create. When you are unable to see any solutions to problems with work, home, or life, you have disconnected with your energy of creation, your Creative Intelligence

Creation brings into existence ideas, inventions, beautiful art, literary wonders, and life. You were created from two cells, merging together and systematically following multiple stages of differentiation until there is life. As you were created, you were given the molecular fabric of life of which you can further create. Simply stated, you are born to uniquely express your creative self. Look at any child whose ideals and imaginative self have not been broken, and you will see this spark, this life-giving energy in their eyes as they play pretend, making believe they are anything at all. Creativity surges from the energy of creation speaking clearly through your soul, unhindered with the innocence of youthful play and recent connection to the spiritual center of creation.

But little by little, the inner voice of your creative self gets stifled by the ideas of others imposing view points that speak of conformity and safety. Creating unique ideas becomes a risk of expression that others may criticize, and you quietly, unknowingly lose your connection with your soulful self to fear. Symptoms of this lack of connection creep into adulthood as general discouragement, lack of joy, and isolation. Others will sense this discontentment as a lack of strength and circle like sharks to further impose their will. At this point, you may experience burn out, turn to self-medication, or remain in a cycle of misguided misery.

But think of the island for a moment. The encircling shoreline is surrounded by water, yes, but change remains constant. The pulsing current of the ocean continuously crests upward and forms powerful rolling waves that hit against the pliable sand of the shore. With each pounding against the rim of the island, the tide pushes and pulls layers of sand, changing the shoreline with every lap of water. This is the flow of life. No matter what your emotional state, the flow of life, the energy of creation, continually moves to you and offers you the ability to change, to make choices, and to be rescued. The power of creativity exists within all of us, and can be refined and executed using the skill of Creative Intelligence. You can effectively use Creative Intelligence to solve problems, generate positive solutions, and create an abundant life filled with trust, contentment, and fulfillment. You can choose to live on a deserted island—or create your own tropical paradise.

 “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” – George Lois