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The following is a suggested
approach. It provides both the key steps in developing a
creativity perspective and a start point or a launch point the
use of
meditation as a creative tool
Step one - before we do anything
else - calibrate the internal compass
The first step we need to take in
using meditation as a creative tool is to learn how to use our
internal compass. We must be open to what we feel and know
what serves and doesn’t serve our creative need. We need to be
open to feelings and what we feel. We need to practice feeling.
This first step is about focusing our attention and awareness on
what gives us life and makes us feel life is worth living to create
a life worth living. We start by becoming aware of what types
and kinds of experiences give us a fulness of being and/or a
fullness for life. Feelings such that we want to live life and
engage life because of what we were experiencing. In knowing what
gives us life and allows us to feel full of life, we can begin to
look for those thoughts that will carry us to more of the same. We
will find our greatest creative power and ability in what gives us
life. If we are going to use meditation as a creative tool we want
to couple our meditations with the optimum creative power we can
obtain. We do that by becoming mindful and aware of those thoughts,
actions and deeds which
serve us.
Become mindful and aware of what makes you feel alive. Contemplate
your past and see what did or did not cause you to become more alive
with life and/or feel passionate about life.
Calibrate your internal compass and know
what it feels like to be served or not served by life. The
discussion “Calibrate
your internal compass” provides guidance as to how do this.
Follow the directions as provided. Then start making as many
decision as you can in your life based on your internal compass and
choose those thoughts, ideas, decisions and activities that lead to
those types and kinds of activity that gave you a fulness of being,
a feeling of being full of life and/or a desire to engage life to
create more of the same.
Allow that feeling of what serves to give you life, makes you feel
alive and makes life worth living be your internal compass. Compare
that feeling to the feeling you have for all that is discussed here
and what you do in and with your life. It is there you will being to
access your creative power and ability. Learning to focus on your
internal compass will also help you to become mindful and awareness
of both what you think and what you feel. In challenging yourself to
be aware of your thoughts, decisions and actions and whether or not
they provide a feeling in alignment with the direction you desire to
travel in life you will have already be meditating and using
meditation as a creative tool.
To use your internal compass is, in essence, an ongoing meditation.
If you use it to live your life, your life will become a
living meditation.
Step two - the need for clarity
of intent
Setting a clear intention is the
first element of any successful creative endeavor. A conscious clear
intention can greatly assist any creation effort. Clarity of intent
coupled with mindfulness and awareness is the most powerful mental
creative force you have. Clarity of intention or clarity of
intention cannot be under estimated. For many intentions we hold and
have held, our intentions are fulfilled even long after you have set
them and forgot about them, even ones we no long want.
An intention causes our creative life energy to flow or not to flow
in a given direction in our life to fulfill the intention that is
held. In this regard, the intention(s) we hold, consciously or
subconsciously, is (are) a very powerful creative force in our life
to create the experiences we have. To get some creative control over
our life it becomes essential we understand both the conscious and
subconscious the intentions we hold. Often we need to go back and
establish the clarity of our intention before we actively undertake
a creative endeavor.
As such, it is recommended we become very clear on what we desire to
create and experience and why, including the feeling we wish to
have. In many ways the feelings are more important than what we
mentally think we want. It is essential that we know exactly what we
want, not necessarily in a specific form but in its key attributes
and experiences, including feelings. The discussion entitled, “Clarity
of intention overview” and related discussions “Obtaining
Clarity,” “How
Intention Works,” and “Setting
An Intention” can provide some assistance in this area.
Step three - follow what serves
you
You need to be aware that in
setting your intention as recommended in steps one and two, you may
find you end up not using anything on this or the
related web sites. This material may only serve to focus you in
the intention you set for yourself and you will find your meditation
practice elsewhere. The goal it to become mindful aware of
what serves you and what you desire to create.
Look at what is in the material on this website as a food that you
eat that will nourish you spiritually, mentally, emotionally and
maybe even physically. It is hoped that this material would be so
appetizing to you that you would want to
eat, digest and assimilate it to make it a part of yourself the
much the way you eat a food that you enjoy. But, remember, keep the
parts that work for you and throw the rest away. Keep what you feel
is nourishing you. Look to see if you feel you are growing in the
awareness of your own being.
Allow what you use to come out of your own being. Whatever comes out
of you because you have eaten and digested it will be yours and it
would be a part of you. It would then be how you see and understand
meditation rather than someone else's view. When what you use comes
out of you there is then no issue of ownership in what you do. It is
yours. What arise will be yours and in being yours it will guide you
on your unique path of life that no one can live for you. Only you
yourself can do what you need to do.
As your read and contemplate the discussion on the variety of
related topics found on this site, it is hoped you will move to some
way of meditation that suits your needs and is effective for what
you wish to create. Your power lies in doing what you need to do to
get the creative insights to assist you in creating what you desire
to create. All you can really do is experiment and see what works
for you. All that can be provided here is to capture the
lessons learned by others and provide you with some
opportunities to experience and see what does work for you. Don’t
lock yourself into any one approach, including this one. Use what
works for you. Remember to
hold your creativity sacred and
allow effectiveness to be your measure of truth.
Step four - develop a
perspective - do not walk blindly
You can choose to just jump in and
start using the technique described below. However, if you have not
reviewed the topics related to meditation identified in the
discussion “A
guided path to using meditation as a creative tool” it is
recommended that you do so. Each of us need to decide what is
effective for what we desire to create in, and with, our life.
However, we cannot make a decision without information. The topics
provided in “A
guided path to using meditation as a creative too" provide some
ideas for considering in your practice. They also provided for some
ideas as to how you evolve your practice as you being to get a feel
for what you have elected to do. Having
eaten and digested the material beforehand or as you begin your
efforts, what is useful to you will arise as insights from within
your own being. Following those insights will make your practice
much more useful and enjoyable.
For those who just want to get started, a suggested approach to
meditation is provided in “Step Five - a suggested approach” below.
However it is recommended you
set the intention to find a approach that works for you. Then
review this material on this web site as you would read a book
trusting that if anything of value you will either stick with you or
rise in you as inspiration as some later time.
As your read and contemplate these discussion on a variety of
related topics, it is hoped you will move to some way of meditation
that suits your needs and is effective for what you wish to create.
Your power lies in doing what you need to do to get the creative
insights to assist you in creating what you desire to create. All
you can really do is experiment and see what works for you. All that
can a be provided here is to capture the
lessons learned by others and provide you with some
opportunities to experience and see what works for you. Don’t lock
yourself into any one approach, including this one. Use what works
for you. Again, remember to
hold your creativity sacred and
allow effectiveness to be your measure of truth.
Step five - a suggested approach
Before you start, you may wish to
get a timer. Setting it for five or ten minutes is sufficient to get
started. You can vary it as you are lead.
As you prepare, remember your intention for meditation and exactly
why you are choosing to meditate. Bring your intention into your
conscious awareness. Also, ask yourself, “What do I need to do,
and/or how should I change my meditation or what I am doing to
manifest my intention for meditating?”
As you meditate or after your meditation become aware if your
intuitive guidance offers any insights about what you should do.
Whatever comes, act on it as you would
honor any intuitive guidance. If you get no response, just
continue to ask the same question every time before you sit to
meditate and wait. When the time come, you will be lead as
appropriate.
At some point you will probably outgrow the meditation practice with
which you start. Learn to become mindful and aware to see the answer
when it comes and don’t be afraid to give up your meditation if it
tells you to do something different.
Sit in a comfortable position and focus on your breathing. Focus on
feeling your chest as it rises and fulls as you breath.
Just be with your breathing and the rise and falling of your chest.
If your attention wanders, just bring in back to feeling the
movement of your chest.
Without losing focus on your breathing, become aware of any thoughts
you have and what they tell you to do and let them pass. Stay with
your breathing.
If you fall asleep, enjoy the nap and do not judge yourself for
sleeping.
If you run out of time because you fell asleep, then begin again
tomorrow.
If you awaken from your sleep and have time remaining, just continue
to watch your breathing.
When your time ends, stop and resume tomorrow.
The issue is not how long you meditate. The issue is the
clarity of the intention you hold and the amount of passion you
put into manifesting your intention. It all depends on who you
set your intention.
The goal in using meditation as a creative tool is not to meditate.
The goal is to use meditation to become mindful and aware to gain
the insights from your intuitive guidance to manifest what you
desire and then act on the guidance you receive.
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