Loss of freedom to explore - especially our own thoughts

 

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One of the most important things to realize about creativity is that mind only knows the past. It will characterize whatever it perceives, including the energy giving rise to the thoughts we have, based on the experiences it has had. This means that any thought we have is not necessarily an accurate representation of the energy we sense. The more the experience we have is like the past, the more our mind properly characterizes what we experience. However, the more what we experience is not like the past, the more inaccurate our mind becomes at characterizing what we experience.

To create means to bring into existence something not previously experienced or significantly different from the past. Consequently, anything mind thinks about what needs to be done and/or its characterization of the energy we feel leading us into creative endeavors will be inaccurate. It is essential that we learn to play with and explore the creative thoughts we have to get some idea as to how and where it may be inaccurate. However, most of us have been thwarted early in life when we stepped out to explore ourselves and our world. We either suffered pain or felt the control of our early care gives as to what is considered right and wrong. As a result, we developed response patterns of life to protect ourselves and we learned to control our explorations. We no longer felt free to step out and challenge the prevailing authorities.

The most typical example of such a pattern is where an authority of some type was the occasion for the us to feel spiritual, mental, emotional or physical pain. To avoid feeling that pain again, we developed a response to any energy that appears similar to what caused us pain. Hence, rather than being free to explore the energy we experience, we moves away from it. In doing so, we rob ourselves of our own creative power. Often the accident, illness, disease and the like arises in our life simply as the excuse for us to take back some control over our life and our creative power. Accident, illness, disease and misfortune is often the way our subconscious forces us to take back control over our life where we are unable to live true to who and what we are. There are very few reasons available for an individual to tell an authority figure “No, I don’t want to do that” without suffering some type of consequence. Loss of acceptability is probably the greatest consequence. However, saying “I am sick” or “My car broke down,” or “I had an accident,” are ways we can say “No” to what is asked of us.

Our problem is that our mind is not compartmented even though we like to think so. Our fear and protective response patterns that prevent us from exploring our external world also keep us from exploring our internal world. Many of us cannot give ourselves permission to explore options and alternatives to their own thinking in our own mind. We cannot seem to look at the “What if’s?” This, “What if I lived this way rather than that way?,” “What if I believed this rather than that?,” “What if I walked in their shoes?”

In reality, almost all of us have developed one or more thinking addictions (patterns of thinking and believing) that do not allow us to feel and/or explore our own inner world. These patterns, in turn, interfere with our creative efforts. The most creative state we can enter is the spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery and exploration of oneself and one's world at each and every level of your being simultaneously. We have experienced that when we were very young, before mind developed its judgments about what is or is not acceptable. However, as our mind developed and our spontaneous and innocent play was somehow thwarted, we developed response patterns to avoid feeling the pain of being thwarted again. Whether or not the response patterns we developed very early in our life interfere with what we desire to create and how they impact our creative efforts depends on what we desire to create and may or may not become an issue.

It has been observed, for any particular creative effort we undertake, all we really need to do is to follow the Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines for whatever it is we desire to create. The response patterns that interfere with what we desire to create will surface naturally as we work through the steps. As we work through what arises, we may experience new found freedom and/or even a rush of energy within our being that has been describe by many as the Kundalini.

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