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It is stated in the second step of
the creative/creation process “Creating the Space for Creation -
Preparing the Environment”: Recreating an aspect of ourselves
and/or our environment is subject to internal and external
influences. Creating the space is about working to understanding and
addressing the internal and external influences on our particular
creative endeavor and addressing or reducing their impact to the
extent possible. Exactly what those influences may be and how
effectively we can address them is unique to our creative efforts.
(More on .... addressing the internal and external influences on our
creative endeavor).
The
creative/creation process analogously is a heating up and
cooling down process. It creates a “fire” which consumes the
existing world so that it can be dissolved and recast into the new
world.
If we are allowed to be in a space with little or no outside
influences, we will take a shape and form inherent to our own being
and as we cool down from the transformation process. In doing so, we
will become our unique creation that we are in alignment with the
truth of our being.
If however there are outside influences, we will take the shape of
those influences and rather becoming who and what we are, we will
continue to take the shape of that which is external to us. In this
regard, many traditions, religious or secular, which work with
transforming the individual’s view of reality often require a period
of isolation from the world. This is necessary to reduce the outside
influences as the individual transforms.
There are two primary
external influences and one
internal influence of which we need to become aware.
Internally, all that influences us can be summarized into one simple
principle. It is, “What within our being does or doesn’t allow us
hold focus on what we desire to create?” To create anything we must
have the focus and passion at some level of our being like a
drowning person has for air. We must know what we need to get and
have the energy and
passion to get it with a single point focus. Anything that takes
of off focus or drains our energy does not sever our creative need.
It does not matter from where it originates or what it is. The
question that only needs to be addressed is, “Does what arise from
within our being server our creative need?”
The easiest solution to this internal issue is to learn how to use
the internal compass and focus on the feeling behind, or giving rise
to, what we desire to create. Then use the internal compass and that
feeling to hold us accountable to what it is we desire.
Externally, one influence is society and the other is the
expectations of those in our immediate environment. All of us tend
to be influenced by society much the way all materials are
influenced by gravity. It exists even thought we may not be aware of
its force on us. It is necessary to become aware of how it is
influencing us for otherwise we will not mold ourselves true to our
nature.
Although the influence of society is less of an influence that those
in our immediate environment it is much more permeating and stronger
in its effects. The influence of those in our immediate environment
are very strong but relative short ranged. They causes us to create
habits of response but as we change those in our environment, we can
change our habits. However, the residual habit will still exist
unless we actively create a flow pattern within our being by
changing our thinking and how we believe that eradicates all traces
of the habit. Changing an external life style without change the
fundament beliefs and thinking that caused that pattern will not
eradicate a habit. It will only cause the habit to become dormant.
The influences of society and those immediate to use, is one reason
why it may become very important that we remain isolated for a time
as we reform and recast our being. How much isolation that is needed
depends on how strong or subtle our internal influences are relative
to the external situations of our life. Then of course we have to be
aware of who you trust to enter our life during this reformation
period and help to meet our mundane needs for they will be
influencing us whether we realize it or not and to a much greater
extent than we realize.
It needs to be understood is that
the chaotic state we experience within our being during the
creation process is very real. The ability of outside influences to
force us to take the shape of the environment conditions we find
ourselves is equally real. It cannot be overemphasized that once the
internal or external influences start to form a pattern as the
material cools, the material will continue to flow in alignment with
the influence until the influence changes or a new form is cast.
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