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As discussed in several place
within this material,(conscious journey into creativity,
loss of creative play) as a manager, safety officer and in developing
technical training programs, the author observed that many people
seemed to have lost
passion for what they were doing in life. For
many, so much of life seemed like work or some chore that needed to
be performed. Many considered their work and even what they
considered their life work which should be the joy of their life, as
only the means to supply the money. The money the funded what they
liked or wanted to do in life after work either on the weekends or
in retirement. The question that arose was, “Where is this passion
for learning. learning about life and engaging life that was in
children? Where did it go”
As a technical trainer looking to improve the safety understanding
of technical personnel in high hazard operations, the author spent
an enormous amount of time trying to figure out how to get people
stimulated and passionate about the materials they were learning. In
essence he was pursuing the question, “Was it possible to re-instill
that desire to learn that so many child exhibit as they learn and
explore the early years of life?” His ideas was that if it could be
done, it would make learning much easier, faster, and improve the
safety of the organization.
But it was exceeding difficult. Through a synchronicity and the
observation of the release and subsequent recapture of an
individual’s
creative spirit, the next obvious question which ended
up being the ultimate question was asked. “Why, or where, do we
loose that
passion for play, creating and exploration that we had as
children?” That answer to this question is addressed in the topic,
“Loss of creative play.”
However, there is another question that parallels this question. The
parallel question is, “What is lost when we lose that
passion for
play, creating and exploration.” What is addressed here is one of
the more profound observations which results in the
loss of creative play.
Part of the answer to this question is obvious. That is, we lose the
ability to one degree or another for
creative play and to freely
live what is
symbolized in the heart. Because of
mind's desire to
keep us safe because of what we experience in the loss of play, we
lose some of our conscious
creative power and creative ability and
we lose some, if not most of the desire, to freely explore our world
and options and possibilities. We may keep some ability to creative
play in some areas of our life and we will never really lose our
creative power and creative ability for most of is resides in our
nonconscious mind. However we do lose our creative power and
creative ability to consciously create. Similarly, we do lose our
ability to be free to explore our world. We may freely explore those
parts of our world that our
mind thinks is safe to explore but,
nevertheless, much of our world remains off limits. But these are
not the more profound impacts.
The more profound impact is that we lose the ability to live life
itself for our ability to enter
creative play is reflect of how free
our
creative spirit is free to express itself and how free we are to
express
our creative
passion. The three, our creative spirit, our
creative passion and are creative play are all integrally linked. In
essence each is a different facet of the same crystal. Exactly what
that means for each of us is different for we each are unique
creation. However, we can be assured life itself is denied us when
we are unable to freely creatively play. In essence, parts of who
and what we are never express and those that are expressed can be
significantly effected. Most of us never notice what is not
expressed and lost because it has not been experienced. Yet, when we
are able to freely experience what lies in our heart it become clear
how much of ourselves is never expressed.
For those parts that are expressed and are affected by the loss of
our
creative play, often we end up experiencing
accident, illness
and/or disease. In studying creativity, it was learned that ancient
shamanic type healers when asked to heal a sick individual would ask
three questions. The three questions were: “When did you stop
dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop dreaming?”
In first hearing these three questions, they seemed a little
puzzling. They did not really seem to address the issue of healing.
Why would a healer ask about dancing, singing and dreaming? The
question was, “To what was the
shaman referring that these questions
should be asked - what does healing have to do with dancing, singing
and dreaming?’
.
As a side note, it was interesting to observe, the author found he
could answer two of these questions immediately. He could tell you
exactly when and where he stopped singing and why. Similarly he
could give the circumstances of why he stopped dancing. Both were
very clear in his
mind when and how they occurred. However, he was
somewhat puzzled in that he recognized that he never stopped
dreaming. In fact in many ways his life continued to evolve around
one particular dream he carried from his childhood. That dream
lasted about thirty-five years well into adult hood . It was carried
until it was replaced by another dream, a dream more appropriate to
become an adult consciousness and an adult creator. That is when he
finally grew up and replaced his childhood dream with an adult
dream. Little did he know at the time, but that childhood dream of
35 years is what kept his child like abilities to play alive and
that was essential for manifesting the adult dream.
As for understanding the reason why a
shaman would ask such
question, the answer only become obvious
after coming to the
realization of the existing of a
creative spirit within each heart. It was only then the reason as to
why these particular three questions would be asked by a shaman
before they attempted to heal someone could be understood. Our
creative spirit is what gives us life. It is what gives us a
passion
for life and for living. It is the source of
our creative
passion.
It express itself in our
creative play. When our creative spirit is
not free to express itself in the way it needs to be express, a part
of us dies. If a part of our creative spirit that is expresses is
serious thwarted in its efforts we should not be surprised at
encountering
accident, illness
and/or disease.
When we live in that
childlike state of play, we sing when we feel
like singing no matter when and where we find ourselves. We dances
when we feel like dancing. In this
state of play, we are always
dreaming and having fantasies. There are dreams of worlds to come
and dreams of worlds to create. To the child, it doesn’t matter what
the adults think about the fantasies and dreams they carry. Nor does
the child care if the dreams are real or could be made real They
were real to the child and that is all that mattered..
From the
creativity perspective, the wisdom of the
shaman in asking
such questions was that they knew that the ability to be in a
state of play and to be in one’s creativity was essential for one’s
health. The shaman may not express in those words and in that way,
but they nevertheless intuitively knew that fact. If a person loses
their ability to play and loses access to the
state of creative play, then it was highly probable that they would become ill.
If the individual had not lost their ability to play, the
shaman
would then begin to look to other causes for the illness. If the
illness is not caused by the loss of the ability to play, the shaman
could then look to one of three other areas. One is to what we would
call a
karmic burden. A second is to look to the soul and see if the
individual made some type of choice for an experience that could
only be obtained through the
experience of the illness,. Or, third,
they may have what could be caused
illness of circumstance, that is,
the individual does not possess the energy necessary to sustain
themselves in the situation in which the individual find themselves.
In asking these questions first, there is the recognition that the
lost of the ability to play and the lose of ones creativity are a
common characteristics of all people independent of the individual’s
culture, time and place in history. Our creativity and ability to
play is something inherent in the human.
In studying creativity and looking at what was keeping individuals
from being creative, it became obvious that most individuals carried
childhood dreams and visions that were discarded for one reason or
other. However, what also discovered was that many of these
seemingly childhood dreams were not dream of a child. Rather, they
were the child’s interpretation of the reason for their incarnation
and the
intention for their life.
In looking at when this
state of play is lost in individuals, it
became apparent there are few additional items that indicated when
this state of play is lost in addition to the three the
shaman would
normally ask. It was found when we are allowed to play with our
dreams not judging them or denying them in any way, the dreams that
we carry as a child are symbolic of the life that we are ultimately
going to embrace and our life work. Or alternatively said, the
child’s dream is the best characterization the child’s
mind could
give based on the experiences the child had to the date of realizing
the dream. The child is very subconsciously aware of what they
incarnated to do and many of the dreams they carry are symbolic if
not literally a reflection of this purpose. However, usually these
dreams are abandoned and smothered very early in life when the child
begins to lose their freedom to play. It is in the
loss of the
freedom to play, they lose the ability to sample their reality to
understand what is the best vehicle to express that dreams that they
carry.
In looking into the
state of play which we
bring into life when we
are born, in addition to the three
questions asked by the
shaman (When did you stop singing? When did
you stop dancing? When did you stop dreaming?) We can ask the
following additional questions:
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When did you stop crying?
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When did you stop speaking your truth?
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When did you stop asking to be held?
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When did you stop being comfortable in being alone?
If we look at all of these questions, they boil down to one
questions. That one question is, “When did we stop being and
expressing our truth?”
For most of us, we did it in stages. Slowly over time losing more
and more of our ability to enter
creative play. To any one or all of
these questions we will have a
story to tell for when and why we
stopped. We all have stories to tell as to how and why we lost our
ability to freely play. For most of us many of these events within
our story occurred in childhood. Some may be from a very early age
that we have long since forgotten and they lie deep within our
subconscious.
Some who read this will say they never lost their ability to
creatively play. But on careful observation, and if we are honest,
we will find that we do not play freely as we did as a child no
matter how well we can play today. Part of what it means to have a
physical experience as a human being is give away our
creative power and creative ability. The human experience is designed to cause us
to think we are a
victim of the circumstances in which we find
ourselves. To do otherwise would not be to be human. But this is not
reflective of the truth of who and what we are.
As children we initially were able to acknowledge our fears, pains
and discomforts and express them as openly as our
mind and feelings
could allow. We could cry and run to mommy or daddy. However, as we
grew older, we each learned in our own way how to suppress these
kind of feelings somehow rather than continuing to express them
openly and freely and/or to share them with those who were of
importance in our lives. Many of us learned to mentally disassociate
ourselves from what we were experiencing although we still were
experiencing the events at some level of our being. Because of the
flow of energy within the universe and through our being is
continuous, these feelings do not go away. Rather they only find
some other expression within our being. Frequently they manifest as
physical discomfort,
illness
and accidents we experience.
If we spend a little time to talk about our answers to these
questions either to ourselves or preferably to another, we will find
ourselves telling a story about what we think happened or didn’t
happen to us, and why things happened the way they did. It is
our story and our view of how our life unfolded. It is this
story we need to understand and allow it to become very clear in our
life. We will need to understand the story we tell and look at it
very carefully. But then we need to realize there is another way to
tell the story. It is to tell the story as
detached witness and as a creator of the story. In doing so, we
will learn to access and release our
unlimited creativity.
In telling our story we can being to see how we lost the ability to
be the
state of creative play and
being to understand how to resurrect that
creative play.
In looking to resurrect that
creative play, whether we are male or
female, both the
feminine
aspect and
masculine aspect
of our being
must be healed for a proper balance to be restored. Exactly how our
masculine aspect and feminine aspect are wounded in the
loss of creative play is discussed in the topic, “Loss of creative play.”
This point is noted here, because
how the inner reflects the outer,
it is most likely there will be an external feminine presence and an
external male presence that reflects the types and kinds of healing
and/or issues that need to be addressed to heal. That is, what we
are seeking externally is reflective of what we need to address
internally. The actual people who are the external reflections of
the internal masculine and internal feminine aspect of being can be
expected to shift as a we heal. For example, in the past a woman may
pull a particular type and kind of male partners into her life
reflective of her internal male. However, as she heals her
masculinity, that external male partner will change. Either she will
leave the old partner or the partner himself will undergo a
transformation. How our inner world is reflected in the outer is
addressed in the topic “How the
Inner Reflects the Outer.”
Related topics
Loss of creative play
Healing perspective as compared to the creativity perspective on
healing
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