Believing is creating

Rafa Llacer · 30 dic 2016
In uncertain times, the Mayan maxim 'Believing is creating' inspires Nömad to embrace creativity and rebuild individual identity amid societal change and doubt.
Our civilization seems to be collapsing in slow motion. As all beliefs fade away like sugar cubes, liquid life has called into question the consistency of great ideas. Therefore, we are forced to individually restore our own identity. Man faces a state of loneliness and helplessness that requires a leap into the void: it is time to believe in oneself.
Are we in a moment of crisis or rebirth? The spirituality of the Mayan culture offers us a valuable teaching through one of the main maxims that guided their civilization: Believing is creating.
This is not something far-fetched. We are not the first to look back to find the necessary keys in other primitive cultures to understand ourselves. In this way, the Mayans endowed their children with a creative faculty and a worldview with which to live in harmony with the Universe.
With a new perspective, anyone can change everything. What we believe is impossible, is so because we effectively categorize it as such. What we understand as beautiful or ugly, true or false, can cease to be so if we believe it to be. We can be capable of reconstructing the reality that surrounds us.
At our Digital Marketing Agency, Nömad, we have closely followed this sensibility since we opened our doors. In our daily work, we expose ourselves to insecurity, to a lack of certainties, with blind faith in our own path. We even confuse the terms, and we affirm day by day that as we create, we also believe. We believe in our freedom to act and to make mistakes, in our capacity to be in the world in a critical way. We believe in the possibility of creating a story, our own, rooted in the great history of this world. We always find ourselves at this crossroads, forced to be free, to make decisions that modify our path, that alter our history.
At Nömad, following the spirit of this ancestral culture, we invite you to believe. We invite you to create.