Video Summary:

Happy spring. I want to contrast two ways of creating the life we would have for ourselves in this coming year: inside-out creating and outside-in creating. I'll start with outside-in because it’s the primary way we were taught to create things things in our culture.

With outside-in creating, we start with a specific goal that our mind can clearly identify and then work with things outside of us to create that goal. This brings the thing we wanted to create into our lives.

Outside-in creating works well for specific things like finding a house in a certain neighborhood, a job with a specific company, or getting a specific time in a 5K race. Anytime your mind can clearly comprehend a specific thing you want to create, you can make it happen outside of you.

Another way that we create things is inside-out creating. An example includes the Dreamtime practices of the Australian aboriginal people. When they want to create something, they go inside to awaken it in the dimension of ceremony or the Dreamtime.

Their experience and beliefs tell them that once they awaken it there, it will inevitably come into their lives externally. So they create and make it happen on the inside at the spiritual level.

It's the same thing with creating an intention. You create what you want in the spiritual realm. You can do some inquiry, decide what you want, and identify the elements of what you want to create in your life. By creating and making it happen on the inside, the outside follows.

So the primary difference between inside-out and outside-in creating is where we go to make it happen. With inside out, we're going inside through ceremony or meditation, envisioning what we want, and setting intentions. We're trusting that by creating it inside, it will soon take form on the outside.

The primary reason I like inside-out creating and intention is we get to leverage the power of the universe to create the thing we want. In contrast, when we create something outside-in, we're limited to what our minds can comprehend. We see the time we want in the 5K, and then train to fulfill that goal.

Inside-out creating, on the other, hand is great for creating community, purpose, career, and relationships. We can identify the elements of a relationship, career, or thing we'd like to create and awaken it inside. Then we collaborate with the universe to manifest it outside and bring it into our lives.

So with inside-out creating, your creation is not limited to what you can see. You’re identifying qualities of the thing you want to create and partnering with life so it can open doorways in ways that your mind can't even comprehend. You're leveraging the power of the universe to create it in your life.