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The format for the Fifteen Creative
Steps/Guidelines that paralleled the Twelve Steps was chosen for
three reasons. First, the desire for an individual to become free,
or at least to be able to manage an addiction, is an extremely
powerful creative endeavor. To create that freedom or to be able to
manage an addiction, parallels what one needs to do in any creative
endeavor. All that differs is the magnitude of the effort and the
repercussions you wish to create. The Twelve Step approach is able
to mask and bypass many of the complexities of creative process and
makes a complicated creative process relatively easy to follow. In
this regard, using the Twelve Steps as a launch point only follows
the recommendations made in the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
Approach to (1) become wise and learn from the mistakes of others
and (2) allow effective ness to be your measure of truth. The Twelve
Step approach works for individuals to learn recreate their life to
manage their addictions. So, it only makes sense to use what is
known to be effective and model what needs to be done for any
creative endeavor, large or small, based on an approach that is
known to be effective. Only the highest complements can be made
about the Twelve Steps and what they can achieve. Yet there is more
to create in one’s life than sobriety form an addiction - there is
creating life itself. The Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines address
those differences.
The second reason a parallel format is used is that they reduce a
rather complicated process into manageable actions that can be done
by any two individuals. There is no need to use the Releasing Your
Unlimited Creativity Technology which give rise to the Fifteen
Creative Steps/guidelines. Nor is there the need to use any
“professional” support. Only one other individual who is willing to
hold you accountable to what you wish to create and help you use
these Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines is necessary. It can’t get
much simpler than this.
The Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous found that only two individuals
were needed to help each other maintain sobriety with the use of the
Twelve Step approach. The only condition that appears to be placed
on these two individuals is that one is recovering themselves such
that they know and understand what the other faces. No one else is
really needed. So it is hoped people will find such ease of use with
these Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines to create whatever they
desire. It is hope people will realize to create whatever they
desire, they only need one other individual, preferably one who also
has had to face a parallel creative endeavor themselves, to support
and hold them accountable in a nurturing and supportive way to
create they wish to create.
On this point a note needs to be made. There is a belief that unless
one has “walked in my shoes” they cannot understand the pain that I
have faced and endured. Although there is a truth in this belief,
what is not understood is that anything you experience is a creation
and any creation is experienced the same as any other creation. The
difference is the magnitude of the impression the experience of any
creation makes on one’s psyche.
One does not really need another who has “walked in similar shoes.”
Rather, all that is needed is one who understand how the creative
spirit has become bound in life by the circumstances it faces and is
willing and capable to create the space for the creative spirit to
unbind itself and come forth and freely express itself. The
understanding about he creative process to do this is beyond what is
available in the Twelve Steps or even this Fifteen Creative
Steps/Guidelines. They are a “how to” approach as opposed to
understanding the how and why.
Having “walked in similar shoes,” one has endured a similar set of
experiences provides a common ground that masks over the
complexities that are in actually faced in one way or another.
Unless on has walked through a similar creative endeavor, they will
not be sufficiently aware of the particular creative process one
faces. Hence the need for one who has suffered and/or endured a
similar set of circumstances in their life. However, if one is
willing to learn and understand the overall creative process, and
experience it consciously, one can learn to create the safe and
secure space for any bound creative spirit to release itself for all
creative processes follow a similar pattern. All that is needed is
the awareness to know what to look for. But to gain that awareness
one must enter and travel the creative process while they are aware
and awake. Most prefer to remain asleep in their creative
activities.
What needs to be realized is that we all are creator of the life we
live. All that is different is what we create. So there is no reason
why each of us cannot support the creative endeavors of another. We
do not need to have walked the parallel path of another to help them
on their journey. There is no need to be a recovering addict as
recommended in the Twelve Step program. Rather, there need to be one
who understand the struggle of the creative spirit and realizes the
addict is struggling to access their own creative power to a
sufficient degree to recreate their life and maybe even their world.
We all do that whether we are conscious of it or not. All that is
different is what we are choosing to create. In that understanding,
there is no one who you cannot help and support. It is one creator
supporting another in their creative efforts.
The third reason for this format a result of the ease at which
humans fall into addictive behavior whether or not it causes enough
damage to one’s life such that one needs to enter a recovery program
like the Twelve Steps is another issue. It is hope the individuals
who have been in a Twelve Step program, and those who have not, are
able to see the similarities between the addictive experiences and
the addictive powers of mind in any creative process. It is hoped
they would come to see and understand why it is said recovery is an
ongoing process and what exactly in their life is holding them in
their addiction. It is hoped what is provided here can help people
step past “always recovering” to “always creating” such that they
can create a life style that severs their entire being to make it
even easier to have freedom from their addictions and their
addictive mind. The motivation for this last intent is two fold. In
seeing what the Founder of the Twelve Step program was unable to
create in his life and what personal friends who have been involved
in a Twelves Step program have been unable to address, it is hoped
these steps take them to that next step of freedom. A step to
freedom to create what better serves who and what they are and what
they incarnated to experience
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