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Closely related to
passion relative to supplying the energy to manifest a desired
creation is enthusiasm. In many ways enthusiasm is passion expressed
differently.
Enthusiasm, as used today, is seen or described as a keen or
animated interest in, and preoccupation with, something and is seen
as an eagerness, devotion or fondness. This is a rather weak and
impotent description when compared to
passion. But there is an older, what is considered an archaic
use of the word, that is a more appropriate definition for
creativity.
This older definition is that enthusiasm is a state of exaltation
viewed as supernaturally caused. This definition of the word
fits perfectly the feeling and experience one has when they
experience their
creative passion. Creative passion is experiences as something
that seems, if not supernaturally caused, caused by something that
lies outside ourselves.
This older definition of enthusiasm may be interpreted as a
religious fanaticism in its extreme cases, that is, a
passion for one’s religious ideas. However, focusing on
religious ideas or any other similar ideas is not the desired use of
the word in creativity. Rather, the focus is on the concept of a
state of exaltation supernaturally caused. This is and extremely
important concept when it comes to creativity, our
creative passion and accessing the energy for a creative
endeavor.
The importance of the concept of enthusiasm is its origins. The
origin of the word comes from the Greek: en meaning “in” and theos
meaning “God.” That is, entheos is referring to inspiration or
possession by God which give rise to entheos meaning "inspired" and
enthous meaning "possessed." When we think of what is
symbolized by the heart and what we feel in our heart that
catalyzes us to create, enthusiasm, from it origins, is an excellent
word to convey the source of creativity and the
creative life energy that sustain us. It is being enthused with
the creative powers of the source/Source of Being. It is about being
inspired. It is the meaning we would like to consider relative to
creativity, the creative perspective and our creative endeavors. We
need to become enthused with inspiration at each and every level of
our being. .
However, as seen, its modern usage, enthusiasm is a weak substitute
for the concept. In the concept of one’s
creative life energy flowing though the heart to be en -thused
with God,
passion is the more appropriate term today. Yet the origins of
the work enthusiasm says it directly. The use of the word enthusiasm
within the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material is directed
towards a return to this earlier concept of being inspired or
possessed by our creative life energy that flows directly from the
Source, God or Divinity, whichever you choose to accept.
For us to create what we desire, we must become possessed by our
desire. We must be enthusiastic about life and living. We must have
an all-consuming
passion for being in physical form to create the experiences of
life we incarnated to have. Or, we can be narrowly focused and
enthusiastic only about a subject, topic, object or person. But in
any case, we must have an all-consuming intensity for our area of
focus and attention if we want to manifest it. It is interesting to
note that often this enthusiasm lies at a more subconscious level
than a conscious level. Consequently, we don’t recognize it for what
it is and how important it is to our creative endeavors.
Relative to creativity and manifestation our intention, we need to
become enthused about our intention. We must become possessed by it.
We must begin to evaluate every decision in life as to whether or
not our decision takes one a step towards or away from what we
desire to create. We only need to assure what we choose to live that
we live in balance. That is, the balance of holding focus on what we
desire to create and yet tending to the things of the everyday world
that allows us to function to create what we desire. It needs to be
remember that we stand between two world. The reality of our unique
consciousness to create the experiences of our choice and the world
in which we find ourselves.
To become enthused by an all consuming intensity for our intention
is the key to manifesting the creation we want and manifesting any
intention that we hold. One of the most basic principles is that our
energy goes where your attention goes. Remember within the energy
consciousness perspective, reality will mold itself to what
consciousness desires. That on which we choose to focus on is what
we pull into our life. If we have an enthusiasm for that focus, we
pump huge amounts of our emotional energy - our life energy - into
that object of focus.
It works like this. We are consciousness and create through the
intention we set. Our intention is no more than
our piece of the individualized Consciousness focusing Its
attention in that intention. Now, the flow of our
creative life energy, which is no more than the focus and
attention of our piece of the individualized Consciousness, goes
into that intention. Remember consciousness and energy are one and
the same. Our intention takes form depending on how much energy we
focus on our object of focus. Or, our intention takes form depending
on in other words, how much attention we place on it.
The more enthusiasm we have for something, the more emotional energy
we put into it and the more attention we are giving it to manifest
in form. Or, said in reverse, the more attention we give to
something, the more emotional energy we project into it. The more
emotion we place in something, the more enthusiasm we have for the
object of our focus and the more energy we project into it in the
form of emotional energy. The more energy we project into something
the more work we are willing to do to bring it into form. The bottom
line is no matter how we look at it, if we really want to create
something, then, we need to set a clear focus through
intentionality, become enthusiastic about our focus, and keep an
unwavering attention on that intention and watch the
creative life energy pour into it. But this also means we
must act as inspirit and lead from within to manifest it.
Since
energy and consciousness are different forms of the same thing,
as we focus our attention and consciousness our awareness of that on
which we focus changes. If we become observant as a
detached witness, we can watch our consciousness expanded to
understand what needs to be done and achieved to accomplish the
intentionality. We experience this expanding awareness as learning.
It needs to be realized there are
no
mistakes in creativity. Mistakes can only be made as compared to
what is knowing. In creativity you enter the unknown where no
standards exist. Rather, all we do is learn what does and doesn’t
work. We simply expand our awareness and knowledge about that on
which we focus.
It is in focusing on living what is
symbolized in the heart and what we feel about life, what we
loves, that we becomes conscious of the
intention for our life. The desire that created us and sustains
us lies accessible through our heart. Through a conscious awareness
of that intention for our life, enthusiasm and
passion, in the form of a desire to transcend the
ego or to manifest the dream of the heart that we carry and
brought with us, enters our life through the passion of our
creative life energy. For the discussions here, a dream is an
intention but it is one that is held more subconsciously than
consciously. If one held it consciously it would be a vision. As the
energy that lies within the intention for our life is free to unfold
and enter into our life, we become conscious of the things that we
need to do to live that life we came to experience.
When we live with this enthusiasm for life or the intention we hold,
our purpose is clear - we know what we want and we go after it. We
become a light unto ourselves. The dream we hold become a vision.
Our energies are focused in the direction of the vision we know is
possible. Guided visualization and the like are actually unnecessary
because the vision we carry in
passion is clear and it is from that view which the enthusiasm
flows. We become open to the possibilities and our own intuition and
we seemingly create the circumstances and opportunities to manifest
the vision. Ideas flow, paradigms shift, and images of the future
allow you to be lead by a future of your own making. The universe
responds in a magical way that causes limitation to be sidetracked
or vanish. That, in turn, opens the opportunities for new visions,
new understanding and causes us to be even more committed to
fulfilling our
heart's desire.
This enthusiasm allows for the fusing of the feelings and
passion from the heart and the self-esteem and self-worth of the
individual. This fusion is based on the knowing that one's gifts
which arise through living the
heart's desire are needed and appreciated by the universe. It is
the knowledge in the mind that one's actions are correct for the
expression of their heart, and we have the will to carry out the
required actions.
We may not think we know how we can exactly tap into our
creative passion, how one recovers it if it has been smothered
by the hardship of life or the enculturated
ego, and how to fully live and express it. We can all see and
feel that enthusiasm in another person. We just know when it is
present. We all have probably seen and experienced someone who has
the unparalleled strength and energy, whether that strength and
energy be spiritual, intellectual, emotional or physical. We all
have probably been amazed at the capacities an individual possesses
to achieve their goals in spite of what obstacles present
themselves.
In actually, each of us have lived this
passion in our lives. We have live it at least once in our lives
and we frequently never pay attention when it is readily being
displayed daily before us. Young children, by their very nature,
display an enthusiasm for living, discovery and play that we take
for granted. But what they are doing is living the truth of their
being. At an early age the
heart's desire it to learn, discover, grow and "get to know" the
world and experience the world - and this children do with passion.
They live from this heart space with enthusiasm. They live in this
space before the realities of life become known and judgments are
imposed by the enculturated judgment levied on them by their
parents, schools and society in general.
Children are still close to the Divine, in touch with what they
really want to do in life. The are unmarked by the experience and
worries of life. They throw themselves into play and their play
takes on a uniqueness unto itself, almost giving the play a life of
its own. Their
passion for play enables them to take action without thought,
much to the consternation of those who would teach, “think before
you act.” Christ said, "Unless ye become like little children you
cannot enter the Kingdom of God." When one lives in the spontaneity
of their
heart's desires - that which their
creative spirit desires and
incarnated to experience - the magic, mystical and mysterious
world of the Divine reveals itself. In this world we clearly know
our priorities, we know our feelings and we are able to evaluate our
actions against our own enthusiasm because we can feel when we lose
it and we all have lived there at least once in our lives. We only
need to remember.
How do we lose this enthusiasm and
passion? How do we loose that child-like approach to life? There
are many ways and they are quite diverse. The most obvious are the
incessant do’s and don't’s that are levied upon us by our parents,
our society, our churches and whoever else we listen to for our
direction in life. There are those activities which we allow to
drain and leech our energy that will ultimately kill our passion.
The typical ones are the mundane and routine tasks of life,
especially if they have no importance relative to our
creative passion, and the endless obligations that we do for
others, to name a few.
Also, we love to judge. We are taught from the earliest age to judge
and think before we act. We judge the world outside and are
justified in judging because the guilty ones are outside us and not
us. We become attached to the actions of others and the judgments
we levy against them as if those outside us really do control how we
view the world. We judge our mistakes or set backs as failures and
defeats rather than the learning experiences that they are. We
become attached to the outcome of the action rather that the lesson
learned in the action. We lose enthusiasm for tasks that are hard
failing to realize they build the endurance we need to sustain our
vision. We project the past to the future expecting it to be more of
the same rather than knowing the future must be different. It must
be different because we now know more than we previously knew. The
future cannot be a repeat because it already is different - unless
we choose it to be the same. We lose the true meaning of life and
blame those external to us for what we have lost inside. We hold
those outside us responsible for extinguishing the flame in our
hearts when we, one by one, allowed each disappointment with life to
suffocate and smother the flame within our hearts.
So is there a simple rule to prevent this? The answer is yes. It is
to become aware, very aware of what we feel, think and what we are
experiencing at every level of being in the moment and how we are
responding to the experience we are having. When we become aware, we
can ask ourselves why we have the response that we do and not
another. In this understanding we become free of what
binds the free flow of our
creative life energy and we become free to choose however we
wish to choose to respond.
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