Oh I Learned This Week

My openness to great ideas — to creativity — to inspiration that feels like a gift straight from the Creator Himself…is directly tied to whether I choose to live open or closed.

It’s that simple. And that confronting.

When I am open — truly open — I receive insight, clarity, solutions, imagination. I feel aligned. Creative. Connected. Ideas flow through me instead of feeling forced.

But when I allow the weight of the world’s negative agreements — the criticism, the noise, the fear-based narratives thrown at us daily, to become my first vision, something in me tightens.

And when I tighten, I close.

I close to protect. I close to brace. I close to defend.

And in doing so, I don’t just block the negativity…I block the creativity too.

Because the same heart that must stay open to receive divine ideas is the heart that feels the sting of the world.

That realization stopped me this week.

I saw how quickly I react to what was never meant to carry. How easily I build walls instead of boundaries. How instinctively I defend instead of discern.

Reacting builds walls. Responding builds wisdom.

There is a difference.

Reaction is survival. Response is strength under control.

Reaction attaches itself to every opinion, every comment, every energy shift. Response asks, “Is this mine to hold?” And if the answer is no… it lets it pass.

Not everything spoken over us deserves agreement. Not every negative word requires engagement. Not every energy deserves attachment.

Some things are simply noise.

And I am learning that my creativity, my calling, my ability to serve — they depend on my ability to stay open without absorbing what was never meant for me.

Openness is not weakness. It is trust.

It is trusting that I can discern without defending. That I can ignore without hardening. That I can stay soft without being unprotected.

The future I want requires wisdom and grace — not walls.

So this week, I am practicing something different:

When negativity comes, I pause. I ask, “Is this meant for me? ”If not, I release it.

I refuse to attach to what drains me. I choose to stay open to what fuels me.

Because the ideas, the creativity, the inspiration — they flow freely when I am not in defense mode.

And maybe that’s the invitation for all of us.

To stop reacting to everything. To stop agreeing with fear. To stop building walls that block both harm and blessing.

To stay open. But discerning.

Soft. But wise.

In my next two blogs I will share what I have been doing, so you can be inspired to take the walls down and live in complete Freedom.