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The overall methodology and
approach to releasing your unlimited creativity utilized is based on
the relationship between energy consciousness, and creativity,
understanding and awareness. The approach discussed here may not be
entirely in line with your current thinking. But as you explore
creativity and allow yourself to experiment to see how the energy
consciousness model works to explain the creative process, you will
begin to see the relationship between these concepts for yourself
The relationship between creativity, awareness and understanding is
diagramed in the figure below. The “field” of the diagram is our
creative ability. As seen in the diagram, our creative ability
depends on our awareness and our understanding.
Awareness is seen vertically as something that can increase or
decrease but it exists in a “band.” Awareness exists in a band
because as a human you will not have a complete awareness of what
is. If you did, you would not be having a human experience.
Increasing awareness implies one is more conscious of what they do
how and why they do it and the band would be move up covering more
of the area within the “V” called labeled “conscious creativity.”
Decreasing awareness implies one becomes less conscious of what they
do. Here one would move downward covering the area labeled
“Subconscious creativity” that lies outside the “V.” The band can be
narrowed or expanded and/or slid up or down.
Becoming wise or enlightened is
expanding the band of awareness. That is, one become more aware of
what is. Studying a subject, like going to college to become an
engineer or doctor, is to slide the band upward increasing the
ability to consciously create with the understanding one gains but
not necessarily expanding the awareness of what is.
If what one learn in a subject is taken as fact but not truly
understood, the individual increase their understanding in the area
but their awareness of what is has not really changed. There is a
subtly here that one can have understanding about something but yet
be unaware as to what is really happening.
The two concepts, understanding and awareness, are integrally
linked. They are not the same but related. Understanding as seen
here is more about “this is the way it works.” That is, one
understands how it works. Awareness is more about understanding “why
it works this way and not another way.” Awareness goes to a leave
deeper than understanding. Also, you can have an understanding of
something but be unaware in the moment that you understand. To act
in an intuitive way correctly for a situation would be an example
where you have the understanding to act but not the awareness.
Hence, you act intuitively.
Understanding is seen horizontally as something that adds breath to
whatever one does. Understanding is the “V” shape on the graph.
Inside, or with understanding, one is capable of consciously
creating. Outside the “V,” without understanding, one subconsciously
creates. For the sake of the diagram, understanding is seen as
expanding as one goes up in awareness and contracting as one goes
down in awareness.
The more you understand a situation, the greater the range of
possibilities to accomplish something. Hence the broader the space
of conscious creating and one move up the “V” which as said above,
in many ways is related to expanding awareness. If you have little
understanding of a situation, you will see few possibilities within
the situation and hence the contraction of conscious creating as you
move downward.
It needs to be noted that only one “V” shape is drawn in the diagram
because we are talking only about our creative ability. In reality,
there will be a “V” for each aspect or dimension of being or each
aspect or dimension of a situation that we create. You will have a
different awareness and a different understanding for each aspect.
We create by how we focus our attention and awareness. The focus of
our attention is represented by the shaded gray area in the above
figure. It can span both our conscious and subconscious
understanding or lie exclusively in one or the other. We consciously
create by focusing our attention with whatever awareness and
understanding we have about a topic or subject. That is, we create
based on what we understand which includes what we believe and how
we believe. Subconscious creating is based on the subconscious
programming we have. Subconscious creating is still based on how and
what we believe it is just that we are unaware that we believe what
we do. Our creativity can be conscious, subconscious or unconscious
and what we create is determined by where we place our attention.
To understand the concept of subconscious attention and awareness,
one only needs to understand there are an enormous number of
sensations and perceptions we have but just never reach our
conscious awareness. For example, suppose you witness an accident.
There are details that you can recall consciously. However, there
are also details one can remember if they are hypnotized and
describe the accident. Subconscious awareness and attention is
related to the type and kind of information one can retrieve in this
hypnotic process that is not normally consciously available. Yet it
needs to be understood that our subconscious is infinite in its
depth and breath and although our attention and awareness is
normally very much limited our subconscious nevertheless contains an
infinite amount of information about any situation we encounter.
Hypnosis is one technique that can tap into the subconscious. There
are a variety of techniques that one can use to increase this
subconscious awareness and bring more and more of it to the
conscious mind. Meditation is one such approach and there are a
variety of meditation technique that can be used. The meditation
techniques found and use in the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
materials have been helpful at reconstituting one’s creative
ability.
Our attention as indicated in the gray area of the figure whether
conscious or subconscious it is limited. At any given instant we
have only so much attention to focus on any given topic. To
consciously create anything, we must first focus our attention and
awareness on the topic and also have some understanding of that
topic. If we have no understanding about a topic, we have nothing on
which to focus. For example, until one understood how to fly, one
could not focus their attention and awareness on flying and the
principles of flying. Before flying was understood all one could
focus on was trying to figure out if flying was possible and how to
fly. They could not focus on flying itself.
In the above figure, understanding is represented by the horizontal
axis. The understanding we have on any topic can be conscious or
subconscious and we are free to increase or decrease our
understanding. Increasing or decreasing our understanding is
represented by the horizontal double arrow lines at the bottom of
the diagram. It needs to be noted that what we have show on the
diagram that as we increase our understanding we have a greater
range of possible conscious creative actions. However, the
understanding is always there and it is either available to our
conscious mind or it is not. As a being of infinite consciousness,
all is already present within our being. We have just not accessed
and revealed what is available to be known on any given topic. We
can expand and contract our understanding by the beliefs we hold and
how we think with the beliefs we do have.
In the figure, our awareness is represented by the vertical axis.
Moving our awareness upward, we move one of the double arrow lies
upward with our awareness. As we do so, we increase our percentage
of conscious awareness and we make more of our understanding
conscious. How we bring that awareness to us doesn’t matter. Whether
we learn it from another or by some internal knowing, all is already
inside us. We are only making what is subconscious conscious by how
we focus our attention and awareness. We grow/increase in conscious
creativity as awareness increases.
To move up, we incorporate beliefs that remove limits and barriers
and support awareness and a broader and deeper understanding. If we
move downward, we decrease our awareness and either forget or go to
sleep such that we do more of our creating on a subconscious level.
Moving down, we shrink/collapse our conscious creativity as
awareness decreases. To move down, we incorporate beliefs that build
limits and barriers and contract and/or foster lack of awareness. At
a given time for the awareness we have, a certain portion of one’s
understanding is conscious and subconscious as represented in the
“V” shape that is intersected by the awareness band. To increase our
awareness on any given topic, we need to remove the limits and
barriers that are determining how we think about topic. Similarly,
if we add beliefs that build limits or barriers such as judgements,
we contract our understanding and also decrease our awareness.
 This
second figure to the left gives the typical relationship between our
creativity, our attention, our awareness and understanding and how
we have scattered our attention. You can look at our attention
(conscious and/or subconscious attention), the shaded gray areas, as
our ability to focus our awareness on the understanding that we have
to create the reality we experience in any one moment. Ideally, if
we are going to consciously create our experiences, we would like
our attention to be totally within the “V” such that we have focused
our attention with a conscious awareness on the understanding we
have to create what we desire in total consciousness.
However, in any one moment, we will use different aspects of your
creative ability to create any one experience. Hence, the focus of
our attention is seen scattered. Now the key issue that most of us
face in accessing and releasing our unlimited creativity is most
individuals allow their attention to be scattered and fragmented as
in the second figure. That is, we use different aspects of our
understanding with different levels of awareness. We have not
integrated our creative actions.
One reason for this is our beliefs are not integrated and the
subsequent understanding we have from those beliefs is scattered and
fragmented so that causes our attention to be scattered. For
example, you like to open the window to your house in the morning.
But you don’t like flies in your house. Your attention is split
between opening the windows each morning and chasing the fly which
come into the house. However, if you understand a screen on the
window prevents the flies from coming into the house, and you
possess enough awareness to put a screen on your window, your
attention will no long split and wasted chasing flies. The
integrated understanding of the open window, a screen and the flies
is what frees your attention to do something else rather than be
occupied by the mundane of chasing flies.
What we each tend to do in our life is both vary our attention
because we allow ourselves to be distracted by every day life and
fail to realize what we do in life that is supporting, or not
supporting, what we want to create. For example, you have ten trips
to make in a car each day. Five support what you wish to do and five
support the mundane of life and how you think you have to live life.
Your attention is scattered between ten trips only five of which
supports what you desire. However, in understanding you change what
you believe and how and what you think, you may be able to
consolidate the ten trips into 2 or 3 and even eliminate the need
for a few of the trips. In doing so, you are less scattered and more
focused. In this regard, much of our difficulty in creating what we
desire arises from the fact we have a scattered understanding about
how we create because of the beliefs themselves.
As diagramed in the second figure, some aspects of our creative
ability are very conscious and we are very consciously aware of how
we create what we do. In other aspects of our lives our
understanding is totally subconscious. For example, one such belief
in this area is our concept of God. We may think about something
such a God and/or the Creator of the reality we experience, and
place our attention on that topic but we fail to see how that
concept influences our creativity and how and what we create because
of this concept of how our concept of God affect our creativity, is
completely within our subconscious. For many, their God or their
Creator stands apart from and outside Creation itself. In doing so
they give all the creative powers of the universe to this external
concept of God/Creator failing to see the creative power they
themselves have.
To believe all the creative powers of the universe lies outside
ourselves we deny our own role in what we experience and we scatter
and fragment ourselves and our creative ability. There is an old
Arab proverb, “Trust in God but tether your camel” which is very
similar to the expression Christ is reported to have said when asked
about paying taxes, namely, “Render unto Cesar the things that are
Cesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” There are things that
are created by a power beyond our control. Yet there are many things
well within our control for which we continually deny our
responsibility and continually give our creative powers away when we
are not even aware we are doing so because of how and what we
believe. If you are going to regain your full creative powers, you
will have to revisit your beliefs about how much creative power you
hold, how much creative power your God holds and how much your
society and the people around you hold. You may even have to do some
of your own experiments to find out.
Each of us must come to an understanding for ourselves what in our
life is under their personal control and what is under the control
of something which the individual is unable to control. If we look
carefully at the relationship between our inner world and our outer
world, we will find we control much more that we have given
ourselves credit for controlling.
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