Solving the puzzle of our life

 

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Solving the puzzle of our life
Our life is a communication
Our life is an ongoing, unfolding communication
Piecing the puzzle together
Creating a perspective
Reconstituting the whole
Importance of the reconstituting the whole exercise

As the creator of the creation we experience, the experience of creation involves the need for us to forget how we created our creation and to become lost in our creation. Becoming a conscious creator is the reverse of this process. It is to piece together the puzzle we have created as to how we have created the experiences we have. In essence we have created a puzzle to be solved.

We each are in infinitely creative being who has fragmented and shattered our creative power by the experiences we have had. To regain our wholeness of being and access our true creative power, some where, at some time each will have to find a safe and secure space with someone we feel we can trust to share the depth and breath of our secrets and events that have shatter and fragmented our creative power at each and every level of our being. This will ultimately need to be done for whatever method we choose to access our unlimited creativity.

In piecing together the puzzle of our life as to how and why we have created the experiences we have in order to access the root cause, we need to realize two things. One is that creativity is the language of consciousness. The other is we are a creative living process in a process of continually unfolding and recreating ourselves.

Our life is a communication (Top)

In understanding creativity is the language of consciousness, we can being to understand the life we live is a communication to us and the world something our consciousness desires to communicate. In this realization, we need to become aware of two things. One is we cannot look to single individual events as to what is important in our life. What is important can only be seen in the context of the whole. We need to be able to stand back and look at our whole life to see what picture is being painted.

The reason for this is our life unfolds in a linear fashion - event follows event. Analogously it is like painting a painting. Brush stroke follows brush stroke but any one brush stroke does not reveal the painting. We need to stand back and look at the whole picture and all the brush strokes together.

The second thing of which we need to become aware is that what our consciousness desires to communicate can only be done through the experiences we have had. We may not have had the minimum set of experiences for our consciousness to be able to fully communicate what is desires to say. As such, we need to be prepared to look at the events of our life as either symbolic of something larger or as only a approximation to some deeper communications. Here the context of events and/or the repetitive nature of similar events in our life become important. If our consciousness cannot communicate what it has to say one way, it will look to find another way. All the ways it finds to communicate may be inadequate individually, but collectively the events reveal the deeper statement.

Our life is an ongoing, unfolding communication (Top)

In looking at our life, we need to be very aware we are a creative living process. We are recreating ourselves every moment by every experience we have. Some experience reinforce the past and/or what we already know. In this cases, we never notice that we are an unfolding process. Other experiences pull us outside the past and causing us to rethink what we known. These experiences allow us to see we can, and are, continually recreating ourselves.

In looking at our life we need to understand it is a process unfolding. As a creative living process, how we piece the pieces of the puzzle together today may be very different tomorrow. We should expect that the meaning and interpretation we give to our life at age twenty will be very different than at age fifty. This means that how ever we interpret our life, we need to realize we will need to iterate that interpretation as more information becomes available.

But even thought our life is in the process of unfolding, there is great merit to be obtained by looking at what has been created up to any one point. As we look at our life at different points along the way and iterate the process we can being to see a direction to our life. We may not be able to see a particular end point but we can see the all overall picture is pointed in a certain direction and each iteration narrows the focus. Of course is needs to be noted the direction may not be linear. The “direction” may be more of a spiral or circulation as if we are in a dance coming back to a starting point and starting another verse. In seeing any pattern, we can begin to anticipate where we need to go next and make the transitions in our life easier to understand and less painful than they would otherwise be.

Piecing the puzzle together (Top)

One of the more powerful analogies for our life is to see it something like a creative jig saw puzzle that we need to piece together. Each event is one of many pieces. However, rather than have all the pieces available to us at once they are given to us one at a time. What is important here is that although all the pieces seem to fit together before we have all the pieces, any one pieces could change how all the other pieces go together.

We can use this analogy of a jig saw puzzle in two ways. One is to create a perspective and the other is to use it as an approach to understanding our life.

Creating a perspective (Top)

Since we are going to piece the puzzle of our life together, it is appropriate to create a perspective or mind set that allows us to embrace what we will face. To create the perspective we can create a ritual were we piece together a jig saw puzzle to metaphorically represent what we are going to do.

For this exercise have someone obtain for you a one hundred piece jigsaw puzzle. Have them give you only the pieces such that you are totally unaware of what the pieces will look like when they come together. Put the puzzle together to symbolically represent embarking on a journey to piece together the puzzle of your life. Allow yourself to become aware of the difficulties and frustrations you feel in trying to piece the picture together when you have no idea what you are trying to solve. Become aware of the false starts and all the different ways you try and solve the puzzle. Become aware if there are any techniques you discover that make solving the puzzle easier - or more difficult.

When you complete the this task, check to see if you really desire to piece your life together to access the depth and breadth of your creativity. If piecing the puzzle together was enjoyable although frustrating, then you will enjoy piecing your life together. If you found the experience totally unrewarding, understand that the process of piecing your life together may be just as unrewarding. Ask yourself if piecing your life together is truly something you desire to experience.

Reconstituting the whole (Top)

Reconstituting the whole is about consolidating our creative power. It is about finding and collecting the pieces from where we have fragmented, shattered and scattered the pieces. What is recommended here needs to be done in conjunction with some other exploration technique such as “Becoming our truth,” “Utilizing our creativity and creative passion to access our unlimited creativity,” or “Surrendering to the flow of our creative life energy.”

Start from where you are now. Draw a life map as to how you got to where you are now in life. You can write a story about individual events in your life but draw some type and kind of map. Ensure each of the stories your write about the events in your life are clearly represented in some way. For example, you can draw a simple straight line road map where there events you write about are towns along the way. The larger the event in your life, the greater the size of the town. But what need to be reflected on the life map are individual events clearly separated or capable of being separated. For example, your life map could be a tree where life events are represented by the branches or the leaves.

After drawing your life map, share the story contained in the life map with someone whom you can trust. Only drawing the map is insufficient. We each need to tell our story to someone. It needs to be realized in the interconnectedness of Creation and the Oneness of the Universe, there are ultimately no secrets. We have to be willing to embrace that fact. Having secrets only keeps us in the illusion of separation. We will have to reveal our secrets to someone eventually if we wish to become free enough to access the depth and breadth of our creativity and/or become our truth. Whatever we are not free to tell another will limit what creativity we can access. We will be keeping our creativity captured in a cage of our own making by the secrets we cannot tell. That in turn will limit what we can consciously create in, and with, your life.

After you tell your story reflected in the life map, redraw each event on the map on a single sheet of paper. You can cut the life map into individual pieces if you wish, but you will probably find it more fun if you leave the life the map to come back to it later in your journey. These pieces represent the pieces of the puzzle you have at this point in time. You will add to this collection of pieces as new pieces which are revealed or your understand you need to go back and add or somehow change one of the pieces in your original life map.

As you live your life and follow your chosen method to access the depth and breadth of your creativity and/or to become your truth, add events to your collection of events as you remember them. Remember, you are a creative living process recreating yourself every moment. What you remember will allow you to change your perception of yourself by how you remember the event. As you have new experiences in life you have the option of recreating your life and how you interpret all that is of your past. Capture what you learn as individual piece. Reworking old pieces as new insights occur and adding new pieces as they are revealed.

From time to time, look at all the pieces you have and assemble them into a composite life map or picture. Look to see what has or has not changed. Look to see what new events you remembered that were never in your original life map. Redraw your life map based on what you have to date and retell your story.

For the life maps created and the story we create and tell as to how the events have occurred two notes need to be made. The first note which can be avoided if we can become a detached witness is that we may begin to notice we seem to be haunted by the past in two ways.

One way we are haunted is our interpretation of the events in our life are, in part, determined by how we feel in the moment. As we review the past, we create the occasion for either feelings about the past or feelings we experienced in the past to surface. Whether we are consciously aware of what we cause ourselves to feel doesn’t matter. Often what surfaces are subtle feelings of which we are not consciously aware. If we feel pain, discouragement, sadness, anger, or anything that does not make us feel fulfilled, feel we have a life worth living, and/or a feeling to freely engage life, we will interpret our life in a way that does not really serve us. We then begin to believe this story we tell about our life and live our life according to this story. That in turn causes conditioning to the body which brings up the second way we are haunted by the past.

The most significant issue we will face in reviewing our past, working to become our truth and/or access the depth and breadth of our creativity is body memories. In understanding the relationship between energy and consciousness, it is a rather obvious conclusion our body will hold memories as does the mind.

Most are familiar with mental memories and habits. Some mental memories and habits are the result of intentional conditioning and others are the result of simply doing something a particular way repeatedly. Body habits and muscle memories are similar and similarly developed but tend to be a little bit more subtle. They are subtle in that we will not necessarily have a conscious awareness of them when they surface for we tend to remember them through feeling and what we feel in a given situation.

Body memories tend to shift the feelings we have in a given moment. Our mind interprets what we feel as a result of what mind is aware of happening. More often than not, mind tends to associate the feelings the body has with what is happening externally. When mind does this it never becomes aware of the body memories. That, in turn, allows all that mind is thinking to become captured by the past even when mind thinks it is free to create something new.

Freedom is a feeling. True freedom is to be like the wind, coming with nothing (no attachments) and leaving with nothing (no attachments). Unless we are in that feeling of freedom when we are acting to create something new, we will only be recreating the past in a new way. This is why the creative state of play of becoming like the spontaneous and innocent play of very young child freely discovering and exploring itself and its world is so important.

The goal of reviewing our life events is to become free of the past and the feelings that bind us to the past. This bring us to the second note about reviewing our life maps and the story we tell. We need to take the role of the creator of the experiences we have. Unless we do so, we will never find freedom. Otherwise, we will be a victim in one way or another, to one degree or another. Our creativity, creative power and our truth will be held captive in a cage of our own making in any area and in any aspect of our life where we do not allow ourselves to see ourselves as the creator of the experience.

When we look at the experiences we have had in life we need to see ourselves as having created that experience at some level of our being or we agreed to participate in that experience. Whether or not we believe we created or agreed to participate in the experiences we had doesn’t matter. We need to ask our intuition such questions as, “If I am the creator of the experiences I have, why would I create such an experience?” In asking such questions we get insights. The insights we get allow us to begin to see relationships between events in our life and the world around us that we would otherwise never be able to see. We will begin to see more is occurring than we first could imagine.

We need to iterate the process of drawing our life map and telling our story as we continue our journey into the exploration of the depth and breadth of our creativity. But we need to start telling the story as the creator of that life. As some point we will have a profound awareness. It is as though we can see through time and space relative to our life. We being to see are role for ourselves we never knew we had. We will being to see the meaning of our life and what we are here to do. But this awareness is not something we can access through our mind. Rather we will stumble upon it. Suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, our entire life makes sense and that understanding transcends our current life and the experiences we have had. It is here, in this awareness, we will need to claim what we find and appropriate name it.

This becomes Step five, “Declaring Oneself,” in the approach to access our unlimited creativity entitle, “Becoming our truth.” Although this step brings us to Step five of the “Becoming our truth” approach, we need the work of the earlier steps and the types and kinds of experiences we have in the other approaches to get the life experiences to construct our life maps. Without the work done in any of the approaches we will not have the information we needs.

When we know who and what we are from this awareness, we can then choose to become the conscious creator and decide what it is we really desire to experience.

Importance of the reconstituting the whole exercise (Top)

This exercise is important for several reasons. One is our attitude and perspective about our life changes from time to time. Often what we think about ourselves is based on what is happening in our life at that point in time. It is important to see whatever we believe about ourselves is not fixed in concrete and often determined by the events we face. Similarly, within the context of our life, even tragic events have a different flavor and meaning when views from a broader perspective.

A second reason why this exercise is important is that we forget. By capturing events as we remember them, we being to see how fluid our thinking can be and how seemingly forgotten events have a great bearing on what we think and believe about ourselves, others and the world we experience. Here again, by piecing together the pieces we see them in context and often that context causes us to give them a different meaning and impact in our life.

The third reason is we can arrange the pieces however we desire. There is a time line as to how we received the pieces. However, how they are assembled into a context is our choice. We can piece the pieces together in whatever fashion we wish. We can create a story that empowers us and our life. Then again, we can use the pieces as justification for anger, a victim consciousness and the like. But, however we assemble and interpret the pieces, it is our interpretation and our creation. So there is no reason why we cannot interpret the pieces in the most freeing and empowering manner.

Most importantly, we can realizes these are our pieces and they belong to us and no one else. It is our interpretation as to what meaning we give them. There is no more empower experience to see how we are the creators of the life we experience for we are in control of interpreting any experience we have and how we will respond to, and remember, that experience.

Lastly, the importance of this exercise is we become different. We cannot look at the events of our life and tell our story without becoming different. The question is “How different do we allow ourselves to become?” There is a nature healing that goes with telling our story. If we tell our story in the awareness we can change our story by how we interpret the events in our life, we being to see how we create both the experiences we have and the reality that goes with those experience.

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