The Essence Way of Creating
What if creating began not with fixed goals for measurable things, but by how you meet what is here?
The Essence-way begins with a question. What qualities are emanating right now? Spaciousness.. Vastness.. And the recognition that the ground from which I am seeing these qualities is spacious and vast. When a quality is recognized as the way of meeting this moment, something shifts. You're no longer pushing toward a destination. You're participating in how essence expresses.
The familiar ways of creating — will, setting goals, and taking steps— don't disappear. They soften and transform. They become more fluid servants of something deeper. The structure is still there, yet it's now in service to meet what is here. It's less like engineering an outcome and more like lovingly watching a child at play — present, attentive, and in quiet awe of what naturally emerges. This is whole and conscious creativity.
Starting from a Different Place
Most approaches to creating begin with a target — something concrete to achieve. Then the work is navigating whatever gets in the way. This is a powerful and necessary stage of development. It can also become an endless loop of striving, measuring, adjusting. There can be a sense that something is missing..
Essence-way creating starts from a different place. Not from what you lack and want to fill, but from being conscious of what's already present and expressing. Often the longing itself — for beauty, for freedom, for a life that coheres — is already pointing you toward an unconditional quality that doesn't depend on getting the thing right. The quality you recognise — in the sky, in your body, in the texture of your awareness— becomes the ground from which everything else unfolds. It’s a continuous nourishment.
From here, direction clarifies naturally. Not because you figured it out, but because you're operating from a deeper place. Natural creation happens when you're resting in what you are.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
— Albert Einstein
What Still Arises
Creating from essence doesn't mean resistance disappears. The familiar patterns still show up — a part that wants certainty, control, safety. The pull toward the well known ways we learned to survive.
But instead of these being obstacles to overcome, they become part of the creative process itself. When the quality calling to be lived meets the pattern asking for protection, and both are held in the body with presence — something can be alchemised. Not forced. Transformed.
This is essence in creative flow — not eliminating tension, but letting it become the vessel for something new. The old way of creating doesn't get thrown out — it gets included, softened, made servant to what's deeper. Much like the caterpillar’s metamorphosis into the butterfly.
What Becomes Possible
When you create from essence, you might notice:
A sense of life reorganising around coherence rather than achievement or lack
Things unfolding with an intelligence you couldn't have orchestrated
Less efforting, more participating
What emerges feeling both surprising and deeply right
The exhausting loop of striving giving way to something more like cooperation — with yourself, with life, with what wants to happen
A Slower Unfolding
This way of creating asks for patience. It trusts the slow unfolding. It can't be mastered in a weekend or reduced to steps.
It develops over time — through practice, through presence, through returning again and again to the qualities that are alive. Through being companioned as you discover your own relationship with how essence creates.
For some, this exploration unfolds in one-to-one companionship. For others, in small groups where we journey together — witnessing each other's unfolding, learning from how essence expresses uniquely through each of us.
An Invitation
If this speaks to something you've been sensing — a readiness to create from a deeper place, one that begins from presence rather than pressure — I'd love to explore what might serve.
