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Creativity perspective on passion
and creative passion
Passion in the creativity perspective
Passion and creativity
Creative
passion
Passion
of the heart
Passion of
the mind
Reality molds itself to what we think. Anything that we believe and
hold influences our overall thinking and our thinking influences how
we do, and don’t, act. Passion adds energy to both our thinking and
our actions so as to propel us forward to cause us to manifest an
experience based on what we think at a faster rate.
The feelings within our being is the fuel that energizes the
manifestation of our desires and intentions and brings them into a
physical form and/or experience. When feelings are strong we call
them emotions and name them based on what we think gives rise to
them. As used within the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
material, emotions are strong feelings that are readily discernable
the we have we have named and characterized because they appear to
arise from recognizable sources. For example, hate and love are
considered emotions because they are associated with strong feelings
and tend to arise from a discernable cause. We feel the emotion of
love as a result of a spouse, family member or friend. Similarly we
feel the emotion of hate for a detestable enemy. Yet, in either
case, what lies behind the emotion and given rise to what we call an
emotions is simply a flow of energy, a flow of passion.
Feelings, as emotions, can span the spectrum of essentially no
energy and no passion for what one does in life to a tremendous
creative passion that is all consuming and renders the individual
somewhat crazy in the eyes of the world. Additionally, whether the
feeling is characterized as a passionate longing for something we
desperately want or it is an obsessive fear or the anxious dread of
something unwanted, it doesn’t matter. From the viewpoint of
manifesting a creation, feelings and/or emotional energy is
emotional energy and the effect is the same - the manifestation of
the focus of that energy.
Passion in the
creativity perspective (Top)
The use of the word passion in the
context of accessing and releasing your unlimited creativity is
reasonably close to how we use it every day. Passion represents that
intense, extreme and overpowering emotion or feeling. Frequently it
is seen as directed at a fiery affection or love, or it is seen more
physically as an intense sexual desire or lust. But it is similarly
associated with an overwhelming anger or rage, and to a lesser
extent, a strong desire or affection for some object or cause.
However, no matter how you look at passion, in today’s world there
seems to be a reasonable negative interpretation with passion
because it so intense that most people shy away from passion. It
doesn’t seem that to be called a “passionate person” is necessarily
a compliment. It tends to refer to someone who borders on not being
in control of their emotions. We would like to dispel that aspect
and connotation of passion and just refer to it as that intense,
extreme and overpowering emotion or feeling and place no judgement
on it. Rather see it as the
creative life energy wanting to burst out all over for love of
life and what is in one’s
heart. How it gets manifested, i.e., as
anger, is another issue which is more related to the enculturated
ego and the experiences one has had in life than the energy
itself.
Within the Releasing Your
Unlimited Creativity material passion refers to an intense, extreme
or overpowering emotion or feeling and/or a strong desire for some
thing. There is no judgement place on the energy as it being good or
bad. How it is used is a choice made by the individual. The kind of
passion that is being discussed here is the kind of passion a
drowning individual has for air. It is a type of passion which
includes a suffering. It is a suffering in that if one is not able
to live and express their passion a part of their being will in some
way die. It doesn’t matter if the passion arises from the desire of
mind or the
heart, the effect is the same. Passion will add energy
to what one desires to manifest. A
passion of the heart, as discussed below, is as passion that
arises from the flow of energy that sustains one’s being and flows
from the essence of one’s being. A
passion of the mind, discussed below, is one that arise because
of how one thinks and is directing the flow of their
creative life energy. There are significant differences about
manifestations that flow from a passion of the heart as opposed to a
passion that flows from the mind.
Passion and creativity
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Passion is important from a
creativity perspective because of how passion is relate in the way
the energy of the psyche is directed into the creative activities.
The energy within our feelings is the energy behind manifesting and
brings ideas into form. Passion is about loving what one desires to
bring forth in the world, the love of life and living one’s life
with passion great energy. In living in passion and enthusiasm, one
has the courage to go forward into life and the unknown. Courage is
about action and acting.
Courage is located in a place in the
heart and comes from the heart.
You can feel it physically. The feeling of courage does not reside
in the
mind and is not something you think about. It is not
necessarily rational. It is a heart feeling that tells you that you
have the knowledge and awareness that you have the mind, body and
spirit to do what you need to do. It is courage that enables you to
move forward by going within and look at exactly what in necessary
to awaken and change internally such that by making those internal
changes have the strength of will to act in the external world. When
one is passionate, one has great enthusiasm for what they do and
they become “possessed” by what they desire to create.
Your intention, whether it be to move towards something or away form
something, takes form depending on how much energy you direct into
or on the object of focus. Or in other words, your intention takes
form by how much attention, consciously or subconsciously, you place
on it. The more enthusiasm you have for something, the more
emotional energy you put into it, and therefore, the more attention
you are giving it to manifest in form. Or, saying the reverse, the
more attention you give to something, the more emotional energy you
project into it. The more energy you project into something the more
you work to bring it into form.
The bottom line is no matter how you look at it, if you really
want to create something, set a clear focus through a clear
intention, become enthusiastic about your focus, and keep an
unwavering attention on that intention and watch the your
creative life energy pour into you to act. As your energy
pours into your intention you will find your consciousness and/or
its awareness expand, to understand what needs to be done and
achieved to accomplish manifesting the intention. You only then need
to have the courage to act on what you know. If you are enthused by
your passion, you will have all the courage that you need.
Creative passion (Top)
Creative passion is at the extreme
end of the emotional energy scale for creativity and can be defined
as that which makes you passionate for living and passion to make
creation happen. Creative passion arises from alignment with the
flow of one’s
creative life energy. The greater the alignment, the greater the
passion. When one’s creative life energy flows with its fulness and
one lives within, and from, this flow the feelings one has can only
be characterized as passion. It is a passion for living and for
life. Your creative passion is something that flows from the essence
of your being and you are driven to do it no matter what the
consequences.
Our creative passion is what supplies the energy to create. Our
creative passion is a desire or collection of desires that will
create the tension with your being to create the life you incarnated
to live. The experience of Creation/creation is about how we do, or
don’t, access this creative power. We can fully embrace this passion
and live the life we incarnated to live or, our consciousness can
access this passion and use the energy to create something its
desires to experience. How and why you don’t live your creative
passion and why you may have found it necessary to mask your passion
can be explained by a myriad of different reasons. All of them lead
to either a damaged
masculine or the
feminine aspect of one’s being.
For both the
masculine and the
feminine aspects of our being need this creative passion to
create and manifest the experiences we incarnated to have. At all
levels of being, spiritual, emotional, mental and physical, creation
occurs as a result of the polarity or tension between opposites,
traditionally seen as the masculine and feminine. The tension
between the opposites is what supplies the energy of creation and it
is the energy in the tension that goes into the new creation.
Whether there is an internal or external creation, the creation will
occur only in the
uniting and
annihilation of some aspect of a
masculine and
feminine aspect of being. If either the masculine or feminine
aspect is not whole and complete, either the creation process will
not occur or the offspring of that union, the creation will somehow
be retarded, incomplete, or less whole than it can be. It may appear
fully functional and adequate but it will nevertheless be somehow
incomplete.
For us to create a new life or a new world within ourselves and/or
externally, we need an equally balanced,
whole and complete masculine and a
whole and complete feminine aspect to our being.
What is lost in childhood when one loses their spontaneous play is
loss of the balance, wholeness and completeness of either/or the
inner masculine aspect of one’s being or the
inner feminine aspect
of one’s being or both. Without that balanced, whole and complete
pair within our own being, our creative abilities are severely
curtailed. .
The
masculine aspect of being is damaged when we step out into
spontaneous play and we are forced back or some how stopped such
that we no longer are confident to spontaneously stepping into our
truth. The
feminine aspect of being is damaged in we lose our innocence in
that our trust in the universe and in those around us are lost. We
are no longer to be free and true to our being or we don’t trust all
that will be needed will be provided without having to compromise
our truth in some way. In any case, the physical plane grows through
a seed condition and it is a place of unfoldment.. Things grow and
unfold from the
seed condition created by the
annihilation of the
masculine and feminine.
Passion of the heart
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The passion of the
heart produces
a
feminine approach to creation that can be seen and experienced
as a nurturing space which allows for growth and expansion. A
passion of the heart is about life and creating life. The passion of
the heart will provide an individual an
internal satisfaction and
joy that does not run dry once whatever is desired manifests. The
beauty of creation itself is seen and experienced as one marvels at
creation itself in wonderment and Ah. It needs to be noted that any
passion that does not create a nurturing space but seeks to own,
control or in some other way manipulate the object of its focus is a
passion that arises from the mind as opposed to the heart. Only the
mind controls and attempts to own or manipulate. The heart always
nurtures and creates a safe and secure space for the protection and
growth of the object of its focus.
Passion of the mind
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The passion of the
mind, although
appearing the same can be significantly different than the passion
of the
heart and it usually is. Anything that is of the mind will be
dualistic and a two edge sword for all that flows from or rather
through the mind is dualistic for dualism is the nature of mind. It
is dualistic because it can cut either way. It can be nurturing and
sustaining if it chooses or it can be manipulating and controlling.
However, the natural tendency of the mind is to be manipulative and
controlling rather then nurturing.
Mind is the origin of the awareness of “I am” which is the opposite
of “I am not” and all the subsequent “I am this...” and “I am not
that...”. The passion of the mind is
masculine in it nature and tend to have a thrusting quality. It
is the thrusting quality of the masculinity that can cut and
separate into pieces rather than maintaining wholeness. The purpose
of mind is to trim what is unnecessary or impedes one’s creations
from manifesting so that the fruits are nurtured much the way a
gardener would trim a fruit tree to create more abundant fruit. But,
it is mind that is used to cut and separate whatever manifests from
its
source/Source and leaves a hollowness and lack of fulfillment within
the individual.
A creation that has been cut from its
source/Source will not give its
creator an internal satisfaction that doesn’t run dry. If however,
the
mind has only been used to trim unnecessary attachments, there
will be a lasting quality such that one can stand back and say, “it
is good” and rest in full appreciation of the power of mind to
create its reality and its experiences. It needs to be noted that to
not take responsibility for what one creates only causes separation
for one separates themselves from both their creations and their own
creative power that arises from the source/Source of their own being
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