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The approach provided here is
conceptually similar to a Twelve Step program however the overall
difference is one of focus and intent.
For those not familiar with Twelve Step programs, it is a program
based on the twelve steps used in Alcoholic Anonymous to assist
individuals in maintaining sobriety. A conceptually similar approach
is used for two reasons. One is that the creative process your face
is essentially the same as dealing with an addiction. Second, the
Twelve Steps program incorporates many, but not all, of the steps
required, in one degree or another, in any creative effort. Or,
alternatively said, the conscious choice of an individual who is
suffering from an addiction to choose to find sobriety as is done
through a Twelve Step program, is a choice to consciously recreate
their life and the world they experience. That is a quite powerful
creative endeavor. Hence it only makes sense that the approach used
for such a powerful creative endeavor can be used whole, or in part,
in any other creative endeavors of similar magnitude - that is, to
recreate an aspect of your life. In this regard, the Twelve Steps
approach is an excellent starting point from which to work through
the creative process for your creation.
Although the Twelve Step approach provides an excellent starting
point, what is proposed here is something greater in magnitude than
what the Twelve Steps seek to do. The Twelve Steps are focused on
creating sobriety from one’s addiction while remaining in the world
as it is. The focus on remaining within the boundaries of what one
has been taught to believe about themselves and Creation.
The Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines are focused on holding one’s
creativity sacred and to recreate oneself and one’s world such that
their creative spirit is free to dance. It is free to dance between
meeting its needs and the demands of the world without compromising
unfolding true to its nature to create what it desires. The Fifteen
Creative Steps/Guidelines direct the individual toward creating a
life and a world where addictive thinking patterns are unnecessary
for the pain that gives rise to the response patters is addressed as
the gift that it is.
Rather than recreating an aspect of your life to fit into the world,
the Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines provided here direct you
toward accessing the creative power to recreate the world you
experience to manifest the creative idea you have rather than
limiting yourself to finding those creative ideas that will fit in
the world as it is. Rather than trying to fit into the world as it
is, an opportunity and approach are provided to recreate the world
you experience. Of course, finding creative ideas and ways of being
in the world that fit into the world as it is, is an easier task and
you can live quite happily doing so. But, you never see and
experience the depth and breadth of who and what you really are. You
will never consciously experience the creator that you are, and see
what you are able to accomplish when you do not compromise your
creative ability to fit in.
For most people, what stands in the way of their accessing their
creative power is a way of thinking that parallels an addiction.
No matter what you think, ultimately, the mind, and what you think
and believe, and nothing else, are what stands between you and your
creative powers. Most of what we do is not based on clear thinking
where we fully analyze the situation for what it is. Rather, we
respond to what arises based on habitual ways of thinking and
responding to what the world presents to us. Many of these response
patterns are simply addictive patterns we hold to avoid certain
truths and/or perceived undesirable possibilities based on our past
experiences. We believe our thinking is what gives rise to
creativity. It does not. What gives rise to our creativity is our
intuitive guidance based on the energy we sense. Relative to one’s
creativity, thinking is a two-edge sword that can cut either way. It
can actually be an addiction compromising one’s creativity. It can
also be an asset when used to explore the depth and breadth of one’s
creativity. Intuitive guidance provides the discernment to know when
thinking is, and when it is not, useful.
Although the approach provided here is similar to a Twelve Step
program because the process is essentially the same as dealing with
an addiction, there are significant differences. The most
significant difference between this approach and the Twelve Steps
Programs is that in the Twelve Step Programs one is never free from
their addiction and always in recovery. In the creative approach,
although you are always consciously creating and need to be aware of
how you are making your decisions and where you are focusing your
attention and awareness, you can drop an addiction and/or other
tools you have used to create an experience when those tools no
longer serve what you desire to create. The tool most of us use to
refocus our creative efforts is pain and we can learn to drop it as
our primary means to get our attention.
Analogously, it is like trying to cut a piece of steak with a butter
knife. All knives are not created equal, as are beliefs, mental
habits and response patterns to life. Some are more effective for
some tasks than others. When you realize there is a steak knife and
you use it once to cut a steak, even if you were in the habit of
always using a butter knife, you will never go back to a butter
knife to try and cut a piece of steak. You say you can’t use a
butter knife to cut a steak? Well, then you get the point. All
beliefs, as all knives, are not created equal and some cannot do
what we think they can do.
The same is true for many of our beliefs and mental habits. When you
truly see and experience how your beliefs and habits don’t serve
what you desire to create, you will simply drop what no longer
serves. Believe it or not, this is the essence of what a miracle or
faith healing is really all about and it happens in the twinkling of
the eye. But, it does so subconsciously. Quite simply, the essential
belief of some type and form changes and suddenly one’s entire world
and life are different.
How and why a simply belief can have such power is another topic. It
is not the belief that is important, Rather it is the belief
structure and how and why that belief is held in the first place.
The belief structure in turn, is only the composite of all you have
ever experience. So the entwinement and interconnectedness of any
one belief will always seem a little mysterious as to what exactly
its influence is. In any case, the past will interject itself from
time to time but you will know not to follow its path for you know
your past does not serve you. Rather you will take from the past
that which serves your current creative efforts and drop the
remainder.
The problem most of us have is that we have never really experienced
the true power or impotence of our mental habits such that we can
simply drop those that don’t serve. Of course, often we are afraid
to drop our habits for fear of what other individuals will say and
think when they see us using a steak knife and everyone else is
using a butter knife. How and why it is possible to simply drop
something that no longer serves you, including addictions or
addictive patterns, is that you are a much more powerful creative
being than you have been lead to believe when you access the source
of your being and the source of your creative powers. You can come
to see this is true and the Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines will
point the way to accessing that source of your being for you to see
and experience this truth for yourself. That is, if you choose to go
there.
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