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What is your current relationship to creativity?
When we bring our creativity to coaching, board rooms, and within the organizations we work with, we bring our authentic self, talents, and gifts that make us so effective in these situations. You can ask yourself a few questions that might help bring your creativity to the table.
In this episode of In a Manner of Speaking, Elena talks with her dear friend Virginia Mason Richardson. Virginia is known as “The Queen of Synchronicity” and an intuit. In college, she was diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases. One day she experienced a physical “rush” that came packaged with a message that said she had to stop taking the mounds of medicines sitting on her bathroom counter. She started listening, accepting her own “authority” which resulted in her healing. Virginia is the writer and creator of The Magic Guide and an intuitive psychic.
Following her intuition and passion for writing about her magical experiences, and healing herself
Virginia has been a complete atheist for most of her life. Virginia did not grow up with any religion or spirituality but followed ideas about philosophy, human evolution, and other curious things.
When she was in college she started getting sick and was in and out of doctor's offices for years. She was diagnosed with epilepsy in her junior year of college. Then, she was diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases, fibromyalgia and Sjogren's syndrome. Her body felt like it was falling apart and she didn’t really know what was going on.
In the summer following her graduation from college, she was in standing in her bathroom looking at all the medicine bottles sitting on her bathroom counter and had this physical “rush” packed with a message that said she had to stop taking all this medicine. She called her doctors to find out the safe way to get off the medications, and she just started listening and following her intuition.
As a very curious person, she started following her intuition exploring her memories and dreams - exploring it all. She had a memory that as a kid, her dreams often came true. So Virginia began to trust her intuition and accept her gifts. As she did, she stopped feeling sick. “It felt immediate, almost like I just was fine all of a sudden.” As she started accepting who she was, her family did the same. She discovered the more she opened up to listening, the more she got.
The Magic
When Virginia is talking about magic, she’s talking about those things she uncovers and what reveals itself in the future.
In her experiences, all of the signs she gets, all the synchronicities in her life, she accepts that she’s just psychic. Sometimes she closes her eyes, gets a vision. Working with people, she is empathic in feeling other people's feelings. Her whole body is like an antenna constantly receiving. The thing she most appreciates is the synchronicities. Her life is constantly seeing synchronicities.
She has studied too. She has her yoga teacher, her Reiki master, and studies astrology. In college, she studied human evolution and science. But she says her biggest training has been with herself, listening. She also follows rituals and says, “You can make things happen with them.”
Virginia has a very close connection to the historical persecution of magic. Virginia is a direct descendant of the people who were at the Salem witch trials. Her mother is a genealogist so she knows a lot about her family history and ancestry.
Virginia encourages you to explore rituals, tune in to themselves and see what needs to be ritualized and celebrated so you can experience a direct connection to the world around you.
Elena and Virginia explore intuition. Elena asks Virginia for advice on how to engage more fully with her intuition. Virginia recommends people start meditating. Create a journal and start tracking those things that show up for you, the numbers you see, the gut feelings you have. First, take baby steps in trusting yourself. And if you’re told to do something, do it and notice what happens.
Weekly Coaching Tip
What is your current relationship to creativity?
When we bring our creativity to coaching, board rooms, and within the organizations we work with, we bring our authentic self, talents, and gifts that make us so effective in these situations. You can ask yourself a few questions that might help bring your creativity to the table.
Is your creativity blocked? What would it be like if you did lead with creativity in mind? And what might you have to trust inside yourself to let it rise to the surface?
Sometimes I find people have forgotten that they're creative. Every single human being on the planet is creative. I simply think sometimes we've forgotten that creativity exists in every one of us.
Sometimes we block it on purpose. Sometimes we’re afraid of our creativity. Maybe you’ve been hurt by your creativity so you protect it from the world and yourself.
So the first thing I might ask is it blocked? Do you actually have access to it daily or is it something that you think nope, not me, I am not creative at all. That ship has sailed. You might consider that it's just blocked and you need to release it, find out where it went, and release it to come back out again.
The second thing you might ask is, what would allow you to have your life be full of creativity in your job, your relationships, in your conversations with friends, and in the way you relate to yourself?
The third question you might ask is what might you have to trust inside you to let it rise to the surface? Sometimes our creativity is blocked because we're not trusting that it's actually there anymore. Or we've been hurt and we potentially block it off from the world so that we feel safe. So again, what's the thing that you'd have to trust inside you to let it rise and be seen in the world?
Try these action steps and let us know what happens!
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