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Creating an alternative way to live
life
Getting started
Bottom line
Exploring our awareness through mind
Exploring our awareness through feeling
Learning to
dance
Exercises and guidance
Recommended
action
The
alternative way to live life
is to become aware there is
an awareness in, or behind what we feel. It is to dance between
the awareness available through the
mind and what we have experienced and the awareness available
through what lies in feeling to consciously create our life. It is
to not recreate the past in a new way as most of us do. Rather, it
is to consciously
step out of mind
to bring into existence something
not previously seen or experienced by ourselves or even another. It
is to live a truly creative life. This is often easier said than
done.
Exactly what this means, how to understand it, how to use it and its
implications are different for each of us.
We are all a unique
creation with different life experiences and
different reasons for
being incarnated. There is tremendous variation in what individual’s
need to do because of the programming we received in life, the
experiences we have had, and how
we have shut down our ability to
creatively play and to feel because of how the
free expression of
our
creative spirit was thwarted. In this regard, the following
overviews the salient types and kinds of action we will need to take
to live this
alternative way. Because of the tremendous variation of
what needs to be done between individuals, what is discussed is only
a starting point to create the alternative way.
In some ways what is provided here will be a disappointment. It will
be a disappointment because it does not have the details many of us
would like to have to guide us on such a journey. However, the key
to the
alternative way, and what the alternative way is all about,
is learning how to use our own internal guidance and the awareness
which lies in feeling. Then it is to
learn to creatively walk and
then
dance between the awareness of
mind and the
awareness within what we feel.
No one can so this for us. All another can do is: (1) provides some
guidance; (2) hold us accountable to opening ourselves to feeling to
learn how to access the
awareness in what we feel; (3) provides us
the safe and secure space to experience the opportunities to explore
what we feel and how we feel and (4) hold us accountable to the
awareness in what we feel to guide our life. What is provided here
and in the associated Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity web pages
is the
written information that can help us achieve these ends.
Unfortunately, the
experiential and experimental portion cannot be
provided in written form. We will need the assistance of another or
others in some way.
What exactly we need to do, how we go about doing it and who we use
to hold us accountable is our choice. To help achieve this end, the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity Programs and Services were created
to provide what cannot be obtained in a written format. However,
such programs and services are not available to everyone. Nor do
such programs and services address our unique needs. Hence, the
Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines were developed. The only
requirement for using the Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines are two
individuals who are willing to hold each other accountable and
provide a
safe and secure space for each other to do whatever needs
to be done. Then, of course, we are free to create our own unique
path. A recommendation as to how to proceed is provided at the end
of this web page.
The approach utilized in the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity Programs and Services, the
Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines, and
recommended is to get each of us to follow our own internal guidance
acting from an inner knowing and
internal compass to become a light
unto ourselves.
Creation is not done alone and we will always need
another to give us the experiences we desire to have. When we become
a light unto ourselves we do not need any another in any way to
experience completeness and wholeness. Rather we share experiences
with another as complements each giving the desired experience to
the other in a way each experiences
true freedom.
The approach encouraged here is to understand that we are the
creator of the experiences we have. We have either created them
and/or agreed to participate in them at some level of our being. In
acknowledging this fact, we need to begin to actively and
consciously create what we experience the way we want it. To do
this, we need to flush out, remove, and/or reprogram all that is not
of
our truth and allows us to fully expand and grow into the depth
and breadth of our true
creative
ability and creative power A
majority of the work in any
truly creative endeavor
is digging deep
enough to flush out, remove and/or reprogram at the appropriate
level to create what we desire. To live the
alternative way it is to
go deep enough to
learn to creatively walk and
then to
dance between
the awareness of
mind and the
awareness within what we feel.
Getting started (Top)
To live this
alternative way, we
need to understand there are
two ways or two perceptions to view
Creation. The two perceptions from
which to live life and view Creation are through what we sense or
feel,
symbolized
by the heart, and what we think and believe,
symbolized by the
mind. In understanding these two views and how they function we
will discover that the human being is what can best be described as
an exquisite “creativity machine” because as we can come to see, the
human cannot not create. Our very existence causes us to create. Our
life is a
creative endeavor.
However, by design, most of what we do create is automatic and based
on the programming of
mind at the
subconscious if not the unconscious level. It is
much the way a machine, once built and programmed, will continually
run until it exhausts it energy source, utilizes all its available
input materials, or breaks down in some way. Similarly, we will
continually create a life based on the programming within our
nonconscious mind until it is changed, we exhaust the energy which
we put into the life we are experiencing or we break down in some
way. We exhaust the energy by dissipating it in the desired
experience, diverting it into some other experience through the
intervention of mind, or
binding our creative life energy in some
way by our preferences and
attachments. We cause breakdowns simply
by over extending or diverting too much of our
creative life energy
in ways that do not
serve us.
The
alternative way causes us to become consciously aware of the
awareness of
mind and
what mind wants and desires and the
awareness in what we feel and/or behind what we feel, to make more of what we do
nonconsciously conscious. To live this alternative way, we need to
spend some time exploring each of these two perceptions
independently to understand how we are, or are not, perceiving
Creation through each view. We will
need
to do our own experiments
with each to know what is and is not provided by each view and what
type and kind of limits and barriers that perception places on how
we experience Creation. We then need to
learn to dance between each
view and between what each view can provide.
Bottom
line (Top)
Creative power lies in feeling and
what we feel and can access in feeling. It is to understand what is
symbolized
by the heart and use the energy aspect of
energy consciousness.
Creative
ability is about being able to use and
direct what we feeling to create what we desire. It is to understand
the
mind and use the consciousness aspect of energy consciousness.
Feeling and sensing are about the body. Directing what we feel is
about the
mind. We come into life based on a feeling to guide us to have
certain types and kinds of experiences. Mind interjects itself and
begins to control what we feel based on our enculturation and the
experience we have in life. In time, we allow mind to dominate our
actions and decisions about life rather than checking the awareness
available through feeling as to how we should proceed.
We need to get
give ourselves permission to explore the depth and
breadth of what we feel and become aware of all the judgement
mind makes about what we feel and how we go about becoming aware
of what we feel. We look for those feeling that give a
fulness of being, an
inner satisfaction, full of life and a desire to engage
life. Since we will be accessing
body memories through our feelings
this exploration of feeling needs to be done in conjunction with
exploring our believes for the judgements about what we feel that
arise when we feel or just prior to feeling.
As we uncover beliefs which do not allow us to
hold
our creativity sacred and/or allow us to expand into the
infinity of our being, we
then need to reprogram ourselves. We need to program ourselves in
such as was as to find a perspective, a set of beliefs and a way of
thinking which allow us to continually expand and grow into those
feelings and the awareness revealed in those feelings.
Exploring our
awareness through mind (Top)
To explore the awareness available
through the
mind is to learn and understand how to use the
role of
consciousness in the
creative process. We will need to both explore
the perception we currently hold and develop a
creativity perspective where we learn to
hold
our creativity sacred. Exploring
our current perception is to explore what we think and believe and
to
pull the string on why we think and believe what we do and why.
In looking to develop a creativity perception, we change and evolve
how and what we think and believe not because we are told to do so.
Rather,
we do our own experiments to see
what is effective in our
life. We adopt those concepts and beliefs that allow us to
continually move past our limits and barriers and allow us to expand
into the
fulness of being and the
infinity of our being.
To explore our
mind, something like the “Belief and thinking inventory” can be
used as a starting point to being to probe what we think and believe
about ourselves and Creation. Whatever technique and/or approach we
use, we need to be willing to explore all our beliefs, especially
those that represent how we connect to the unseen realms of Creation
and how we connect to
Physical Creation and in, and through, the
body.
From the perspective of
holding
our creativity sacred, we can
imagine that we have place our
creative
ability and creative power
in
a cage of our own making by how and what we think and believe.
Punching out the sides of the cage is relative easy and represent
those beliefs that allow, or don’t allow, us to move laterally in
life. Individuals punch out of the sided of the cage all the time
changing what they believe. But they are puzzled as to why the
lateral moves do not give them the
freedom and/or satisfaction they
seek. More often than not, the issue is the beliefs related to the
top and/or bottom of the cage.
The
top and bottom of the cage, are a little harder to address than
the beliefs that allow us to move laterally in life. We must look
carefully and thoroughly as to how we view the unseen realms of
Creation and whether or not we have given away our
creative
ability and creative power and our responsibility to create some type and
kind of
victim consciousness with the
unseen. Similarly we must look
at how we connect to
Physical Creation and how we view the role and
purpose of our body. Here again, we must look to see if we have
given away our creative ability and creative power to one or more
types of authority figures and/or created a victim consciousness.
Exploring our
awareness through feeling (Top)
To explore the awareness available
through feeling we need to
open ourselves to feeling. We need to
explore the limits and boundaries of what we feel to understand
where and how what we feel is limited by our past experiences. As a
human being, we intentionally limit what we feel for the purpose of
having a human physical experience and experiencing creation from
within our body. The question we need to pursue is, “How did our
mind further limit the depth and breadth of what we are capable
of feeling by both our
belief structure, what we think and believe,
for whatever reason and by the experience we have had in the past
where our
free expression was thwarted in some way.
Similarly, we need to explore the types and kinds of feeling we have
and why we have the feelings we do. We need to explore what memories
arise in the feelings we have and/or what judgments or thoughts of
mind arise in what we feel.
To do this exploration, we need to use the body, its awareness and
its ability to sense energy and to feel to access the awareness.
Most choose to do some type and kind of body work or body movement
that either increases the range of feeling and sensations to which
we are exposed and/or the types and kinds of feeling and sensations
we experience.
Metatheater can be uses to access feelings about
situations, beliefs, or surface our opinions and the like. Most
important is the need to allow ourselves to return to a
state of
creative play in our experimentation and exploration and remove the
obstacles as to why we
lost the ability to creative play in that
childlike state of play.
In learning to
open ourselves to feeling, we often are faced with
releasing our
body memories and facing the
pain of the past. In
looking to live this
alternative way and to use the
awareness in what we feel there is one note of caution when we open ourselves to
feeling. It is addressed in the topic, “A note of caution in using
an alternative way and the awareness which lies in feelings.”
To safely travel through the unknown to either explore the unknown
and/or to enter a
truly creative endeavor, an
alternative way to
navigate is also needed if we are going to achieve what we desire.
The answer as to how to navigate also lies in an awareness of what
we feel and learning how to use the awareness and the body as an
energy detector to attune to feeling of the flow of energy that will
manifest our creation. It is to learn to
navigate from the heart. We
can start this process by
calibrating our
internal compass and using
it to guide us in life.
Learning to dance (Top)
After exploring the awareness
available through the
mind and the awareness available in what we feel separately, we
then need to
learn to creatively walk and to creatively dance
between the mind and the heart. We need to become very clear about
what we desire to create and experience. We then need to discern and
surrender
to the flow of energy that will manifest our desire.
Exercises and guidance
(Top)
Exercises and guidance for
exploring the awareness through
mind and the
awareness in what we feel tend to be designed
uniquely to the individual. Generic exercises and guidance that have
need used are provided as they are formatted for the web and are
normally provided in or through the topic of interest. What is
currently available is also provided through the
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Recommended action (Top)
The recommended action is
to set a
clear intention for what you desire to create which would include
living the
alternative way. Or, simply set the intention to live the
alternative way. Ask your
intuitive guidance as to how you should
begin to proceed to create the alternative way in your life and
honor the intuitive guidance you get.
Eat and digest the material
you find on this and related web sites for it will help you to
develop a
creativity perspective and provide additional insights for
your intuitive guidance.
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