What are you trying to build in your life? More resilience to disappointment? A better relationship with your mother? An opportunity for advancement in your career? No matter what you’re trying to build this will take momentum, stamina, and above all else Truth.

Building for the sake of building becomes exhausting when we’re not motivated to build, or worse, uninspired by the lack of creativity in ourselves to build something honest and unique. We are creative people, designed to perpetuate the creative spirit of a planet continually creating. God didn’t halt creativity the day He departed this world and left us to our own devices. No. He gave us His vision of possibility. And this vision is unique to every single one of us. Could this be the purpose of our journey here? To make discoveries about our creative spirit? I’d like to think so.

Being creative honors the relationship with the creator in each of us. I didn’t wake up one day and discover that I was a Seeker, one of those meditative types, but I have since discovered ways that meditation can help find creative Truth. And now I teach self-healing through meditation and encourage it to enhance creativity.

I'm the daughter of an aspiring physicist and an eighth-generation Virginia Quaker. My family supports both intellectual and creative pursuits, and I have found that I approach meditation this way. It can become both a spiritual and a pragmatic experience. We live on a planet teeming with change. Every day the planet recreates itself by experiencing death and rebirth. And every day, should we be so inclined, we can tap into the Earth experience, these energies of rebirth and reawakening. Through both a grounding and an uplifting approach to meditation, we can enhance our relationship to creativity.

Meditating on a planet that continually shifts gives us a unique perspective on how to accept challenges in life and accept the potential for growth.

Earth is a biosphere, and we are a part of this controlled atmosphere. There is only so far we can go before we will circle around again to the same place we started in life. From death to life. From life to death. The circle is important and gives us a unique perspective on our evolution. By meditating and acknowledging that the planet has as much to give us as does our relationship to God, or Source, or All That Is (pick a vocabulary word), we gain unilateral knowledge of balance. Balance is key to achieving the glue we need to make who we are, and what we pursue, stick.

Earth provides the building blocks if we tap into those building blocks to redesign our relationship with her. We’re struggling because we don’t accept Earth as a spiritual entity. She’s Earth. We want to believe that our spiritual realm is out there. But if Earth is a part of the solar system, the Universe, can she not be a part of the Heavens? Who says Earth is here and Heaven is there? Isn’t it all one plane of existence? Can the mind help us build a better future for ourselves by taking ourselves into new territories of thinking and awareness? I’d like to think so. Think of meditation as an anchor rather than a lifeline.