What’s On Your Radar
There’s something I’ve noticed about Creative Hearts; they are kind-hearted, generous, empathetic, and often sensitive souls.
They often pick up on how other people are feeling. They want others to feel comfortable, welcome and at ease, and they often go out of their way to make that happen.
Without even so much as flicking a switch, their inner world is like a screen where other people’s thoughts, feelings, needs and wants can take centre stage.
Being inquisitive by nature and often highly sensitive as well, Creative Hearts are able to notice and appreciate beauty, colour, design, and the breathtaking majesty of something as simple (and marvellous) as a sunset.
Their sensitivity is often tuned outwards, picking up like radar signals all the information, emotions and details ‘out there’ in their surroundings.
This ability to tune into others and focus outside themselves, as well as being part of their natural state, may have also been amplified as a clever way to navigate childhood if their caregivers made it clear to them it wasn’t safe to have needs, wants or opinions of their own.
The problem is, we can spend too much time worrying about what’s on other people’s radars, and miss what’s showing up on our own. If we aren’t careful, our thoughts can easily be drawn to what other people might think, or how we need to please or impress them.
We can forget to observe what is happening inside ourselves.
Your radar is the still small voice inside you.
It’s the delicate mix of intuition combined with physical sensations and logical analysis. Relying on one without the other means taking information only about the wind, tide, or current when you need to factor in all of these to steer your ship safely and successfully.
Part of navigating to the heart of our purpose is learning to pay attention to our own radar.
It can feel foreign and even scary at first, to begin to tune inwards more and place more weight and value on our own feelings, needs, desires and dreams. It can feel like, by doing so, we are threatening to cut ourselves off from safety, relationships, and connection.
Fearing we are being selfish, we often quickly shift our focus away from our inner world and instead put our attention squarely back where it’s resided for so long, on other people. Often the people closest to us. What a noble, wise and clever way to navigate the world, especially if your livelihood and safety depended on it.
However, as we mature and establish our lives as adults, we have more options and more power than when we were children.
We have not only the right, but also the responsibility and opportunity to cultivate our lives so they support and encourage our fullest, most generous and life-giving self-expression. Our gifts, strengths, curiosities, and attributes naturally form a constellation that is as unique to us as every star in the solar system. When we allow ourselves to shine, it means not only are we no longer fighting against our natural essence, but we are also a beacon for others.
Our inner voice, what I am calling here our radar, has two jobs: to act as our conscience and our deepest self-knowledge.
When we learn to tune into our inner voice, our inner radar, we unlock information that will guide us to the life that is most authentic, fulfilling and purposeful for us. The life that is congruent with our values, wants, needs, desires and even our constraints. Because everything has constraints, like coastlines that border our voyage.
But that is for another time.
For now, I ask you, “What is your inner radar telling you?”
Paying attention to your radar is a lifelong practice and will always lead you home.
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As always, be kind to yourself and nurture your creativity.
With my warm wishes,
Nicola xx
About Nicola Newman
I'm a Creative Business Coach, Award-Winning Artist & Mentor for Creative Hearts who want to flourish, flow & prosper.
My passion is inspiring and supporting Creative Hearts to trust their inner wisdom and carve out a life that’s personally meaningful and fulfilling to them.
I share practical, evidence-based tools for Creative Hearts seeking to improve their lives or businesses. My work draws from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based techniques, body-based practices, and neuroscience -- and my own creative living adventures -- among other approaches.
My mission is to support Creative Hearts to:
Dissolve creative blocks, develop a loving relationship with themselves, nurture their creativity and reframe the beliefs and patterns that keep them from following their heart and making the creative contribution they would love to make in the world.
My approach is to embrace gentleness, playfulness and self-care to navigate self-doubt and instead cultivate deep self-trust so you can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together your body of work, make money doing what you love and leave a creative legacy you’re proud of.
Let’s pour a cuppa and get to know one another, shall we? :) Read more about my story here.
