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Surrendering to the flow
Implementing Creative
Step/Guideline #5
Creative Step/Guideline #5
Background
Surrender to the creative process
Your intention
A way in which you will harness the ego
The Creative Power as you understand
it
Awareness of flow of energy that is
manifesting what you intend
A creation ritual/ceremony
Surrender to the flow
Follow your intuition
Creative
Step/Guideline #5 (Top):
After obtaining clarity of intent and choosing to harness the ego,
turn your will and your life relative to your creative endeavor over
to the care of this Creative Power as you understand it and
surrender to the flow of energy that is manifesting what you intend
to create. To surrender to the flow of energy and harness your ego,
allow your intuition to guide your actions relative to what you
desire to create.
Background
(Top)
The intention you hold causes a
flow of energy that flows along the path of least resistance. This
flow of energy will eventually manifest in an experience of what you
desire within the environment you find yourself if you hold your
intention with unwavering faith and as a
single point focus for your life. In many ways, the process is
automatic. If you are going to manifest what you desire, you need to
surrender to the flow of energy that will give rise to what you
desire and trust the Creative Power of the Universe will carry you
to manifest your desired creation. You must follow the lead of the
flow of energy and not what you think. If the ego is not harnessed,
it is here the ego will be instrumental in destroying your own
creative endeavors. This is the main reason why we do so much of our
creativity subconsciously. Our subconscious intentions are not
disturbed by the continual distraction suffered by the conscious
mind and what our ego wants. This is one reason why
ritual and ceremony can a be so powerful in our creative
endeavors by imprinting an intention into the subconscious mind.
What needs to be understood is the flow of energy you create has an
internal and an external component. There are internal changes that
will occur and external changes that will occur in response to this
energy. But you should not allow yourself to become distracted by
either component it creates. Rather, you need to keep a single point
focus on the flow of energy and allow the changes to occur within
and around you.
In any creative process, many of the changes we experience in a
creative endeavor are readily understood or explainable by our mind.
However, there are many things that our mind cannot anticipate
and/or understand. The creative energy manifesting our creation will
create an object or an experience within a given environment
seemingly something out of nothing. That is, this creative energy
and actions we take will create something we desire where something
did not previous exist. Namely, the object or experience we desire.
Often the phenomena which occur to create what we desire seemed to
be controlled by force, principles or influences beyond our control.
These phenomena can be of a variety of forms such as the chance
meeting of a key individual, the sudden inspirational idea seemingly
coming out of nowhere, or the sudden insight into something that did
not previously makes any sense. All we can do is to be open and
available to what comes to us. Once we start the creative process we
must surrender to that process if expect the Creative Powers that
govern the process to work as they need to work to get what we
desire.
However, more often than not, we are impatient. Our time line is not
the creative time line. The understanding of our mind which created
the problem is not the understanding which we solve the problem. Yet
we persist in wanting to do it our way rather than surrender to
creative process that we ourselves
freely initiate.
Surrender
to the creative process (Top)
After obtaining clarity of
intent and choosing to harness the ego, turn your will and your life
relative to your creative endeavor over to the care of this Creative
Power as you understand it
Turning your will and your life over to the care of the Creative
Power as you understand it is no more that stepping out of mind and
our attempt to control what is happening and allow the process we
set in motion by our own intention and actions to flow to
completion.
Some see turning our will and our life relative to our creative
endeavor over to the care of this Creative Power as surrendering to
God, one’s Higher Self or some Spirit Guide or Spirit Guides.
Surrendering is seen as following the direction provided by this
Creative Power in whatever way we understand It. However, from a
creativity perspective, this is not quite correct. There are two
important points here.
One point is the “Creative Power as you understand it.” You will
have to experiment at some point to see what exactly you understand
and believe about this Creative Power. Mind only knows what it has
experienced. Most of us have experienced some type of enculturation
about God, our Higher Self, and/or Spirit Guides long before we
start to think about conscious creating. As such, most of what we
understand about this Creative Power is enculturated into us and
based on the experience and/or beliefs of others. It is not based on
what we have directly experienced in our lives. We will have to give
ourselves permission to explore our understanding of this Creative
Power and to do our own experiment to understand how this Creative
Power operates in our live. Few see the Creative Power as part of
their own being and in fact, may things we attribute to a “higher”
Consciousness is only part of a definable and understandable
creative process in which we participate. Few realize there is a
reasonably well defined creative process that almost runs
automatically when left to itself. We simply need to surrender to
the process. What needs to be done here is trust the process.
We need to remember what our mind presents to us is what we
experienced based on what we think and believe and what we have been
taught. What mind presents may not serve our creative needs and
actually interfere with the creative process. To “properly”
surrender to create what you desire to implement this step, you
should have the follow information before your in some concrete form
or way. A concrete form or way would be a written description, a
model, a picture, a way of being or acting like a yogic practice, or
something similar and appropriate to the item.
Your intention (Top): Have a
written statement or a “blueprint” (or its equivalent) of something
you wish to build or construct in your life
A way in which you will harness the
ego (Top): Identify how you will transcend your ego. What will
you do that will cause you to step beyond your past limits and
boundaries of your belief structure that you ego has imposed on you.
The Creative Power as you
understand it (Top): Create or claim a prayer, story, ritual, or
something similar that fully and adequately embraces how you
currently see the Creative Power within and the Creative Power
without. Remember you are unique. Whatever you use should address
your uniqueness and the way you experience the Creative Powers
within and without and as they relate to what you wish to create. It
is not recommended you use something because you think it is good or
wise. Use what directly serves your understanding. Take something
that is written and modify it if you must. But in any case create
what is unique to you. If something like a prayer, story, ritual or
the like truly severs your understanding use it. But become aware of
the subtle differences between you and its author/creator. Those
subtle differences will make a huge impact as you move deeper and
deeper into your creative power and ability. On this point, your
perception of the Creative Powers within and without may be change
depending on what you wish to create and there are no mistakes in a
creative endeavor. You only learn what severs and doesn’t serve your
creative needs. Some sample prayers, stories, rituals and the like
are though “Sample
Creativity Materials”
Awareness of flow of energy
that is manifesting what you intend (Top): To the best of your
ability, be able to describe to another how you will discern and
know the feeling of the flow of energy that accompanies your
intention. Describe the feeling to another. Or, describe what you
are doing or need to do to have that feeling. Or, describe what you
will use to know that feeling or keep in alignment with it.
A creation
ritual/ceremony (Top): In your own way, appropriate to what
you feel, create a way to demonstrate to yourself and to others your
commitment to this Creative Power and surrender to this Creative
Power for your creative endeavor. Create a ritual that you do to
witness to yourself and others. In the same way a knight would kneel
before a king to show he would serve the king, you need to do
something to demonstrate to yourself you will serve the intention
you set. But what you do cannot be hollow. It must be backed by
action, belief and passion.
Surrender to the flow (Top)
(And) Surrender to the flow of
energy that is manifesting what you intend to create
Surrender to the flow of energy means to align with the feeling of
the flow and whatever that flows brings into your life. You will
need to be open to what you feel, have
calibrated your internal compass and are learning to discern
what you feel in any given moment.
Focus on, and become aware of, the feeling that goes with what you
intend to create. Lock onto that feeling with your
internal compass and make it a
single point focus and/or
meditation for your life. This point cannot be under emphasized.
You must follow and align with the feeling. It is like a river
flowing from the mountain to the sea. It will curve, bend and maybe
even reverse direction. But as long as you are aligned with the
flow, you will flow to the sea. If however, you focus on the
external landscape, your direction in any moment may be wrong. If
you lock onto an external focus, you will be lead astray.
For every decision you face, check the feel of the decision. Check
to see if it is carrying you toward creating more of the feeling
and/or greater intensity, or, is it neutral or taking you away
toward some other feeling. A neutral choice appears to takes you
neither toward or away from the feeling you desire and would appear
to maintain the status quo as it is relative to what you desire to
create. However, you may have sufficient numbed what you feel such
that the feeling of the decision is below the threshold of numbness
you created because of the past pain you may have experienced in
life.
A
single point focus is an extremely important concept in any
creative endeavor and was discussed under the Creative
Step/Guideline #2. If you are still unclear of what a single point
focus means for your life is it recommended you study it and discuss
the concept with others.
Follow your intuition (Top)
To surrender to the flow of
energy and harness your ego, allow your intuition to guide your
actions relative to what you desire to create.
Any journey starts with the first step you take and then is followed
by the subsequent second step, and third and so on. To know where to
step and how to step, ask your
intuitive guidance. Ask your intuitive guidance, “What do I need
to do, what do I need to become, to create what I desire - what is
the next step and what does that next step look like or require me
to do?”
Honor the intuitive guidance you get with a
suorephex
- a surrogate or real physical experience.
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