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Using creative play
Using play other than the most creative state
Using creative play
Challenging the limits of mind through feeling
Challenging the limits of mind through mind
Using
creative play is not as easy as
using play in our creative
endeavors. Play in our creative endeavors is really about getting us
out of mind
and keeping us out of mind to explore options that
reside outside the limits and barriers of mind. Creative play is
about moving toward
play of what is symbolized in the heart. This
type and kind of play posses a problem for most of us.
When we are born into the world we are is the
play of what is symbolized in the heart. We
lose the ability to be in this play as a
result of our play being thwarted in one way or other as we grow
into life. As we shut down the ability to be in the play of what is
symbolized in the heart, we also begin to shut down our ability to
be in
creative play and move more and more toward
play of the mind.
We look to
mind to create response patterns to life that prevent us
from feeling
pain when our play is somehow thwarted and keeping us
safe. In time, these response patterns to life and the limits and
barriers imposed by mind prevent us from going too deep into
creative play and into our own
creative power and creative ability.
Hence, to use creative play in our creative endeavors it is almost
assured we will have to address some, if not all, of the reasons why
we lost our ability to be in the
play of what is symbolized in the heart. This is the deepest level of creative play we can enter
without going through the doorway toward the
most
creative state of
being. Regaining the ability to return to the state of play with
which we came into life is discussed in the topic “Returning to the most creative state of being through creative play.”
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Given the fact that it is state that using
creative play can be
difficult because of the past we may need to face, we can ask the
question, “How does one use creative play and what exactly does this
all mean in an every day practical sense?”
The answer to this question is that in our daily life,
creative play
is about understanding and using our
intuitive guidance to guide our
creative endeavors. It is to be free to act to continually
honor your intuitive guidance until we create what we desire yet not take
the guidance seriously for, as discussed below only the direction it
provides is correct. That is, we allow ourselves to play with what
we get. By continually going to our intuitive guidance, we are
continually seeking to align with one or more of the deeper
undercurrents of Creation giving rise to Creation. This, in turn, is
both keeping us
out of mind
and keeping us close to aligning with
the flow of our own
creative life energy.
It needs to be understood, that
mind will provide an interpretation
of the energy we experience which rise from the intention we set
based on our past experiences and provide that interpretation to as
our
intuitive guidance. The thought, image or understanding we get
is only the best our mind can provide based on the past and mind
will not necessarily have the necessary
minimum set of experience to
correctly interpret what we experience and sense. In this regard,
there are inaccuracies being imposed on the interpretation of the
experiences we have because of the limitations of mind. Hence, we
cannot take our intuitive guidance seriously. The only aspect of our
intuitive guidance that we can ensure is correct is the direction in
which we need to travel. We each can and should do our own
experiments to see how this works for us for it its effect will be
slightly different in each of our lives. If we change our intention,
we will observe we get different intuitive insights base on that new
intention. This is because there is a different flow of energy
giving rise to the new intention.
These inaccuracies act as the limits, barriers and boundaries to the
correct interpretation of what is experienced or become obstacles to
where we need to go to get create what desires. If we stays within
the limits and barriers imposed by
mind, we will be unable to find
the creative solutions we seek. It is necessary to understand the
existing limits and barriers may not provide a large enough space to
explore what our
intuitive guidance is attempting to communicate
about what needs to be done to create what we desire. We may find
that we will need the freedom to move past those limits as
necessary. We may find we have to challenge the truth and validity
of the limits themselves. We will needs to move past the limits and
barriers imposed by mind.
Creative play is about learning to understand how to move freely or
loosely within the limits imposed by our
mind when it provides us
intuitive guidance. Challenging the limits and barriers of mind can
be done one of two ways. One is through experience and feeling. The
other is a more mental approach.
Challenging the limits of mind through feeling
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The first way to challenge the limits and barriers imposed on the
intuitive guidance by
mind is through experience and feeling is to
simply gain more experience. When the experience is gained, clarity
is obtained. The best way to gain that necessary experience is to
honor the intuitive guidance we receives in a
suorephex, that is, a
surrogate or real physical experience for it will lead you in the
direction we need to go. In doing so, we honor the fact we have
sensed the energy and we honor what mind tells us in the best way it
can as to what this energy is or represents. If we honor the
intuitive guidance in a suorephex, we move toward aligning with the
flow of energy we sense that lies at the base of the intuitive
guidance.
Honoring our intuitive guidance in turn, allows us to move closer to
aligning with the energy and allows us to see what aspects of the
energy we sense that
mind cannot adequately interpret. We will know
we have achieved alignment with the flow of energy to create what we
desire through feeling. This is to use our
internal compass to guide
us. We can feel an “optimum” feeling within an intuitive insight
that does not change for it is arise from the center of the flow of
energy giving rise to what we experience. That feeling can lead us
in a direction we need to go. We only need to maintain the optimized
feeling. As we take actions that decrease this feeling, we know you
are moving out of alignment with what we wish to create. In trying
to align with the energy and attempting to explain to ourselves what
we perceive, we will gain the necessary experience to do create what
we desire. It is an iterative process.
Challenging the limits of mind through mind
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The other way is to explore what we think and believe and
intentionally move past the limiting beliefs we possess. It is to
“not do.” That is, to become other than what we think and believe.
It is to challenge our thinking and beliefs through actions. It is
to construct our own experiments. It may be to explore the opposite
of what we think and believe and/or to look for ways to move past
what we think and believe to find alternatives or different ways of
thinking.
Using the
creativity perspective, which
holds
our creativity sacred,
is a way to do this. The creativity perspective is specifically
designed to address this issue. It can impose both limits to keep us
safe and protect ourselves yet give us the freedom we need to
explore as necessary. The trick, so to speak is that
mind seeks to
protect. By choosing to hold our creativity sacred, we direct mind
to protect our creativity. That then opens the door to allow us to
go into the unknown and have mind supporting our efforts to move
past it own limits and barriers.
In the
creativity perspective, we impose limits and constraints to
keep ourselves, and others, safe but we look to see how, or if, the
limits we impose are compromising our creativity. It is a way
analogous to the way we performs a hazard or safety analysis in the
construction of a new building or new industrial process. When
constructing a building or industrial process the engineers look for
occupational and environmental health and safety issues in order to
mitigate any potential hazards. In performing an analogous safety
hazard on what our
intuitive guidance asks us to do, we can review
the actions we will need to take to
honor our intuitive guidance to
ensure both safety is maintained and our creativity is not
compromised. Rather than letting our fears and/or real or perceived
hazards stop our creative endeavors, we can find a way to continue
our creative endeavors yet maintain a sufficient level of safety.
By keeping fixed limits and barriers we can explore how those limits
and barriers do or do not affect and/or compromise our creativity.
We then gain the understanding as to which type and kind of limits
and barriers need to be removed or retained and when for a
particular creative effort. In essence we can have the proverbial
cake and eat it too. In doing so, we will have the freedom to free
our
creative spirit or keep it captive in the
cage of our own making. But no matter what we choose, we will become the creator for
we will be the one who is choosing. This is the most powerful
creative step we can take. In choosing in awareness we (1)
consciously know what we are choosing and (2) can always go back and
can change the choice if it does not serve us.
Related topics
Loss of creative play
Understanding the impacts of loss of creative play
Returning to the most creative state of being through creative play
Using creative play to recreate oneself
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