Lesley Phillips - Reclaim the Creator Within

Children love to imagine. This applies whether its boys playing soldiers, little girls being Arabian princesses or a mixed group pretending to work in an animal hospital and tending to sick animals.

They really believe they are there!

Whatever the game the common elements are they visualize a story, characters and events and then project these imaginings onto their toys or play act the characters and events with each other.

 I remember playing pretend when I was a little girl. I could see myself as a nurse in a hospital or a pilot flying a plane; my brother became the lion tamer or the bus driver and our toys came alive with our visions.

Then they learn to forget 

As children grow older they may hear from their parents that school work is more important than playing. They learn that it is their logical mind and not their brilliant imagination that will get them ahead in life, as this will get them a job and the material things they need to survive.

So they all grow up and become doctors, lawyers and bankers. Those who retain their ability to imagine may become writers, artists, actors and yet they may still be taught to approach this from an intellectual rather than playful perspective.

What a limited way of operating this is.

Everyone can benefit from having a fertile imagination. In fact there is a spiritual law that states this is how we create our reality. Indeed this is what children are doing when they play and imagine; they are practicing creating their reality.

Most adults forget how to do this because they adopt commonly held beliefs about life that limit their creativity. Most of these beliefs come from the most influential people in our lives – our parents.

A boy may have a passion for food and want to be a chef, but his parents are lawyers and so he does what is expected so he can participate in the family business. A girl may have the potential to be a great opera singer, but her mother says she has a dreadful voice; now she no longer believes in her dream.

 How can we let go of these limits? 

 A great way to recapture the creative flow is through meditation. Meditation allows you to let go of concepts that do not serve your highest good. It allows you to clear all the messages from the past that may not be true for you. Then you can start to see yourself and what you want clearly.

This is how I came to write The Midas Tree. Firstly meditation allowed me to transform myself from a Ph.D. scientist and biotech business executive to a spiritual counselor and author.

Secondly, meditation helped me get clear so my creative channels were open to receive the spiritual information in the book.

Finally the book, which teaches meditation through a fairy tale adventure, will hopefully help children remember who they really are - powerful beings with unlimited creativity.

Dr. Lesley Phillips is a speaker, author, workshop leader, spiritual and meditation teacher based in Vancouver BC, Canada. Her book “The Midas Tree,” a spiritual adventure story for children of all ages is available on Amazon as a paperback or e-book. She can be reached at:- www.themidastree.com Lesley@themidastree.com http://www.facebook.com/themidastree Twitter: @DrLesleyP www.drlesleyphillips.com http://www.facebook.com/drlesleyphillips