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A Guided path to using meditation
as a creative tool
How to
use this material
Accessing
the source
Learn to create a living meditation
Learn
to create a living meditation
Look
to create life
Getting started
Considerations in exploring options in meditation
Background
concepts on how we create our experiences
Selected Tools
and Techniques of Meditation
Focusing and accessing information
The conceptual framework for reconstituting our creative power
An
introductory discussion to the integration of intimacy, meditation,
creativity, celibacy and sexuality
First and foremost, what is stated
here is not a guided path to use meditation. Rather it is more
directed toward using mediation as a creative tool and about
meditation, controlling or influencing an individual’s creativity.
This material does not arise out of any interest to teach mediation.
It was created because of the importance of the creative power
inherent in meditation and the desire that each individual be free
to live and freely express the truth of their being as desired by
their creative spirit.
There are five areas addressed in this approach: (1) understanding
some background concepts on how we create our experiences; (2)
understanding meditation as a part of the creativity process; (3)
introducing and offer an exploration of some options/techniques with
meditation; (4) provide some suggested meditation exercises and
techniques that you may find useful and, of course, (5) provide some
suggestions and recommendations.
You can use what is provided here as a meditative practice. But if
you wish to meditate as an end in itself and/or use meditation as
the vehicle to create because that is what you think you need to do,
then it is recommended you go find a meditation teacher and/or a
meditation tradition. Using mediation as a vehicle to create is
different than using it as a tool. The approach taken here does not
recommend using mediation as an end in itself nor as the vehicle to
create.
How to use this material
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You are, of course, free to use
this material however you wish and whatever you choose to do should
be done freely. Hopefully you will learn to choose in
total freedom. You should not use the approach presented here
the way it is said to used because you are told to use it this way.
Rather, you should choose to use this approach because either it
feels right and
serves your being or what is presented here is, in your opinion,
at least worthy of an experiment and exploration.
Whatever you choose, choose in freedom and the freedom to be true to
who and what you are. Do not choose this approach because you think
it will give, or lead, you to what you seek. It will not. What you
seek ultimately lies inside you. Although this approach will help
you to focus inward. The guidance and direction you need for your
creative endeavors will ultimate come from inside of you. Until you
learn to first look inside as to what you need to do in any
situation, you will not become a conscious creator.
If you do not learn to look inside first, you willy simply respond
out of habit and prior programming to recreate the past in a new
way. If you do look inside first, you may still choose to create
based on the past. But you will both be consciously doing so and
taking responsibility for what you experience.
The approach to use meditation as a creative tool is to use the
mindfulness and awareness you can gain in meditation, coupled with
your intuitive guidance and intuitive insights, to lead you through
the unknown which your creative endeavor will cause you to enter.
It is recommended you use this material in one way and one way only.
It is recommend you set the intention to use this material to guide
you to a way of focusing your attention and awareness so that you
can do three things: access the source of your creative power and
ability, learn to create a living meditation, and learn to utilize
your internal compass.
Accessing the source
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It is recommended that, in time,
we seek to access and understand what our creative spirit asks us to
do with our life. Although the following will not necessarily make
sense to you unless you consider exploring the depth and breadth of
your creative power and ability, it is nevertheless true.
The reason for this recommendation is that the creative power and
ability inherent within our being to create what we desire is
currently
unconsciously directed toward creating a specific set of
experiences which are aligned with the
intention for our life. The intention for our life why we, as in
infinitely creative being,
incarnated. Our creative and creative power is currently
directed toward creating a life which will fully meet the intention
for our life if we liste to is.
Because of the enculturation and programming we received in life and
the way mind operates as a switching station for our
creative life energy, our creative power and ability has been
overlaid with subconscious programming. We, of course, also have
your conscious desires and wishes. As such our unconscious,
subconscious and conscious desires and intentions are not
necessarily in alignment. This in turn, causes our creative power to
be fragmented and scattered rather than coherently focused.
By looking to access the understand what our creative spirit asks us
to do with our life, we will need to work back through all of the
conscious, subconscious and unconscious programming. That process
will provide a coherence to our creative power and ability. Then
from the point of creative power at the source of our creative power
and ability, we can choose what we wish to create. We can even
choose to change the intention for our life. But we will probably
find there was a profound wisdom within our being which created it
in the first place and the choices this wisdom makes are much better
than we give it credit for making. But you, of course, will have to
do some of your own experiments with creativity to prove the
validity of what is said here.
Learn to create a
living meditation (Top)
The second is to learn to lock our
attention and awareness onto what we would like to create with our
life, whatever it is. We ultimately create by how and on what we
focus our attention and awareness and hold that focus until we
manifest what we desire. The mundane of life has a way of pulling us
in a variety of different directions. Until we learn to focus or
life as much as possible into a
single point focus and
living meditation, we will not create what we desire. It is
possible to focus ourselves at a conscious, subconscious and
unconscious manner.
The easiest way to create is to have all three aligned which is the
essence of the
way of the heart. The hardest way to create is to try and do it
all with the control of the conscious mind which is reflective of
the more
traditional ways to create. A
living meditation is where we sufficiently focused and are
sufficiently mindful and awareness such that we make all of our
choices in life in a consistently same direction. This mean we have
to surface our unconscious and subconscious programming to ensure
those aspects reflect choices in the direction we desire to go. The
trick is not to use meditation in the traditional sense but to use
it to surface and change the unconscious and subconscious
programming.
Learn to utilize our
internal compass (Top)
We come fully equipped with and
internal sensing system which can function as an
internal compass. By becoming aware of this compass and
calibrating it, we can use our internal compass to guide us
through any creative efforts and/or to
what serves our being. It is here that we ultimately access the
depth and breadth of our creative power for whatever we wish to
create. It is here we can even cause ourselves to stumble into the
Ultimate Accident.
However, to use our internal compass, we need to be open to sensing
and recognizing what we feel at each and every level of our being
throughout the depth and breadth of our being. This will require
most of us to go back and deal with all the reasons why we shut down
our ability to feel. It is not as hard as it sounds. However, there
are issues of
pain that we will have to face.
Look to create life (Top)
It needs to be understood that
what our
creative spirit desires is to create life. It desires to create
a life within our being that will allow it to accomplish what it set
out to do, that is incarnated to do. Our creative spirit will give
us the passion and energy to support our life for a lifetime for it
will take a life time to create what the creative spirit desires.
Over the course of the life our creative spirit creates, we will
have the opportunity to create many things and experiences along the
way. We don’t have to be worried we will be carried of to some
obscure place to do something we do not like to do. There may be
such periods in our life. But if we allow our creative spirit to
lead, we will be carried through life into those things that give us
a passion for life and for living. It will carry us to do those that
make
a life worth living for us. Maybe not for anyone else. But for
us, it will be a life worth living. This is simply because the
creative spirit that is in us gives life and has every intention of
fulfilling what it came to do if our mind gives it the chance to do
so.
Getting started (Top)
The approach used here is to
provide you with some step to gets you some control over your
thoughts. Once you have a way to start sitting in a daily or
periodic practice you can then considers what is the most effective
approach you wish to create. To help you get started on an approach
that is effective for you, several discussions on or about mediation
are provided on this site to help you to create the perspective
discussed in step four of “Getting
Started.”
Considerations in exploring options in meditation
(Top)
The following discussions provide
some thoughts, ideas and perspectives on meditation. Each is a stand
alone discussion so there is no particular order to follow.
Difference Between Contemplation, Concentration and Meditation
The way of the heart - the easiest yet most difficult
way to
explore one's true nature
The way of mind - the traditional and most common
meditation methods
The Physical Body and Meditation
Breathing and The Heart Beat
Living Meditation
True Freedom
Is there a need to explore the past?
Creating change within your unique consciousness
Meditation tools and techniques
Caution about meditation- meditation as an addiction
Influence of the intention for your life
The enculturated aspects of mind
The belief in the need to transcend the physical
Acceptance of one’s individual consciousness for what it is, as it
is
Clarity of Intention
Your eulogy and what you wish to manifest with your life
Meditation for your life
Meditation, creation and surrender
Considerations if you are just starting
Background concepts on how we create our experiences
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In discussing meditation and one’s
true nature, it is appropriate to talk about energy and physical
creation and the their relationship to meditation for energy is the
source of creation. “Meditation Concepts and Principles for
Creativity” is based on what can be called the energy consciousness
model for understanding the Universe. The following discussions
provide some insights into the concepts and principles within this
model. The discussions provide some insights into how we create our
experiences and the reality of those experiences which makes an
understanding of meditation extremely important.
The essence of this model is provided here as a starting point as to
the reason for meditation and provide a basic explanation as to how
and why meditation works. It is not necessary to understand what is
discussed in this section to use the meditation concepts provided
and can be skipped if you choose to do so. However, understanding
this section will help explain why this book on meditation is
written the way it is. Although these discussion are not needed for
the use of meditation they can provided insights as to how you may
use whatever meditative practice you do use more powerfully.
It is recommend the discussion be read in the sequence provided.
Hyperlinks are available and the end of each discussion leading to
the next.
The Nature of the Universe
Creating/creation within the Energy Consciousness Model
Its All About Energy
Two Worlds of Energy
Accessing Your Animating Energy
Working With Your Creative Life Energy
Tithing and sacrificing to your creation
Creation is a physical experience
A continuous flow of energy
Throttling the flow of your creative life energy
Obstacles to one’s creative efforts
Creating with the unseen world
“Death,” dissolution, “No-thing-ness” and calmness
Becoming a copy or an original
Is There A Need To Explore The Past?
Selected Tools and Techniques of Meditation
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As described, there are a variety
of uses for meditation. Similarity, there are a variety of
techniques. The following provide some thoughts, consideration,
perspectives and the like on selected techniques. Each is a stand
alone discussion so there is no particular order to follow.
Yantra
Hypnosis
Visualizations
Heart meditation
Morning exercise
Self Programming
Guided Meditations
Pool calming exercise
Pool centering exercise
Pool insertion exercise
Omphaloskepsis exercise
Pool Meditation Exercise
Mantra And Sacred Sounds
Exploring our unique limits
Pool sheet of glass exercise
Music, Movies and Books (what are you drawn to)
The intention for your life as told through your creation story
Focusing and
accessing information
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Three methods are discussed and
provided that you may find useful to access information about a
topic to support your creative endeavors. They includes a conscious
centering and focusing technique that incorporates the “pool of
creation” [HYPERLINK pool_exercises] concept, the use of sleep and
nocturnal dreams and the guided meditation.
Accessing information
The conceptual framework for
reconstituting our
creative power (Top)
Meditation when used as a creative
tool can be very effective at reconstituting our creative power and
ability. Whether we realize it or not, our creative power and
ability has been fragmented and scatter by the activities of life,
the experiences we have had, and beliefs we have come hold about
ourselves and life. Understanding the relationship between
meditation and creativity, understanding and awareness we can
reconstitute or reassemble the power which we have given away.
The following discussions provide a conceptual framework to help
understand exactly what we try and do when we reconstitute our
creative power. Mediation, as a creative tool, can help us to become
mindful and aware of our thoughts and feelings. In doing so, it can
help us achieve this end. These discussion provide a “theoretical”
background for retrieving the soul of our being, our creative spirit
and its power, as done in a soul retrieval. It opens the door to a
self guided soul retrieval
It is recommended the discussions are read in sequence. Hyperlinks
are available and the end of each discussion leading to the next.
Reconstituting the whole
Creativity, awareness and understanding
Reconstituting our creative ability
Expanding our creative ability
Creating within a tradition
The relationship of intention and perspective
An
introductory discussion to the
integration of intimacy, meditation, creativity, celibacy and
sexuality (Top)
When we utilize meditation to
access the truth of our being, we move into the wholeness of our
being. This causes many seemingly unrelated aspects of our being to
come together such that denial of one influences what can be done
with the others. This discussion provides a starting and bridge
point for many of these issues.
Intimacy,
meditation, creativity, celibacy and sexuality
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