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To create, by definition, is to
being into existence something not previously seen or experienced or
something significantly from the past.
Mind only knows the past and what we have experienced. To create
is to be outside what mind knows. Anything we think and believe
about creativity, our
creative
ability and creative power, and/or how to create whatever we
desire is probably in error. The question is, “How big is the error
and how significantly different is what we desire to create from the
past we experienced?”
On this point, most do not create. Most only recycle the past in a
new way and call it creation and creativity. To truly create is to
live in the unknown and risk becoming totally lost relative to what
we and society knows.
A truly creative endeavor takes us totally into the unknown where
what
mind knows will be of little benefit. The more what we create is
unlike the past the more mind will be of no value. It cannot be
understated or overemphasized, that in a truly creative endeavor, we
have no idea whatsoever about how to proceed or go about manifesting
what we desire. Contrary to what we come to think and believe about
creativity, the unseen realms and the like, most of us, including
those who profess to know, do not have an adequate perception to
enter a truly creative endeavor and have our mind to know what to do
and/or necessary understand what exactly it is experiencing. To
think otherwise is not being creative. It is to repeat the past in
some way.
In fact, we cannot really imagine what a truly creative endeavor
looks like for anything we imagine is ultimately a product of our
creative imagination, our
mind and the experiences we have had. Yet, in knowing how to
properly build on our past and incorporating the
lessons learned, we can create worlds and experiences beyond our
wildest dreams for there is a
creative process and we can learn to understand it and use it.
Issues in a truly creative
endeavor
The most significant two issue we
face in a truly creative endeavor is our fears and the sacrifice of
Creation.
Fear: We cannot fear the unknown for we do not know
what to fear. We can only fear the past and what we have experienced
and project them into the future. It is not the unknown that we fear
but the projections of the past. In living in the past we shrink and
reduce our options in the future. If we give into our fear, we only
project the past into the future and recreate past. In doing so, we
thwart our creative effort if not kill it. The recommendation is to
explore the fear that arises and look for the true hazard in the
fear.
Whenever a fear arises it is telling us some aspect of the past has
not been fully processed and our
creative life energy is bound and not free to flow to
dissipation. We need to go back and see what exactly is giving
rise to the fear. There may be a injury or trauma that we
experienced or the fear may be more of an expectation that something
injurious could occur. In any case, we need to do a
hazards analysis to one degree or another and see what actual
injury can occur and incorporate appropriate compensatory measures.
If the fear is accompanied with some type and kind of an actual
injury, then we need to incorporate an appropriate healing to heal
the wound.
Sacrifice of creation: For any creative endeavor,
there will be a sacrifice. The key point to be made about the
sacrifice of creation is there is no “something
from nothing.” There is a price that will need to be paid. It
needs to be realized that to create anything we will need to give up
some of our
creative life energy and
tithe our time and energy to what we wish to create. Some part
of the exist form of our life that the energy we give up sustains
and what we think and believe will need to be transformed in some
way.
For any given creative endeavor, there are very specific reasons for
the type and kind sacrifice which must be done and a very specific
environment in which, or influence under which, it is done. The
question at to whether or not we are sacrificing the correct thing
is one of the questions that we will have to address. But that is
not a question
mind can answer. Similarly, there will also be the question if
we have the correct environment or influence for that which we wish
to create. Here mind again will be of limited value. However, our
intuitive guidance and
body wisdom will always be more than adequate to allow us to
feel our way through the unknown to manifest any creation we desire.
Of course, we will first have to be
open to feeling and learn how to use our intuitive guidance and
body wisdom and
trust
them to lead us.
Of course, we will have to let go of our
attachments to anything that must be sacrificed. Otherwise, we
cause ourselves to experience unnecessary pain. In turn,
pain and/or the thought of pain, takes us back into our fears
and where we experienced pain in the past. Here again,
mind will be unable to tell us what we need to let go to
alleviate the pain. But we can feel our way. There is
an awareness in what we feel. In particular, we can look into
the pain we feel to see the what is giving rise to the pain. There
is a
gift in pain and we only need to learn how to use the pain we
experience before we attempt to numb it or some how alleviate it.
A recommendation for truly
creative endeavors
For truly creative endeavors, it
is recommended that we adopt a
creativity perspective
where
our creativity is held sacred and all else is malleable. Such a
perspective causes us to
discard the assumptions
mind desires to make about what we face. It requires us to
surrender
to what we feel and the creative power of the situation which allows
us to
step out of mind.
What is presented in the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material is for truly creative endeavors where our
mind will be significantly in error. It is for those situations
were what we desire to create is significantly different than the
past we have experienced. This material is applicable to anything we
wish to create in and/or with our life.
Here a note needs to be made about what we desire to create. If we
desire to create something another has already been created, we are
not creating but copying. It may be a new experience for us but we
are not creating when we do what another has done. In this case, we
need to go to them and see what they did and learn to do what they
did. In this case we do not need what is presented here to get what
we want. But, what is presented in the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material will nevertheless be helpful.
Now if we wish to create something like another has done but do it
our own unique way, then we face a different set of issues. Here we
dance between two worlds - our world and their world - and it
actually makes what we wish to create harder than if we were free to
create totally unique to ourselves.
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Creativity/creation - an experiential science/subject
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our time and energy
Understanding from where a creation ultimately comes
The left hand path and our creative endeavor
The key understanding about a creative
endeavor
Byproducts of creativity
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