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Initial Realization - Avoiding the
pain of life - We learn to deny
our truth and not live true to the
essence of our being one way or another to one degree or another.
Need to
tell our story to look beyond the story we tell.
Background
Form a
creativity perspective, our true starting condition is we
come into the world in a playful state of being of
childlike play.
Play is what
lies in our true nature and at the Source of Creation
for all is
consciousness at play with itself. When we are born, we
are
free to spontaneously and innocently explore our selves and the
world we experience. Being in this state of play is both Heaven, the
Kingdom of God, here on earth and the
mystical state of Nirvana.
To truly
play is to be unattached and not take what is done
seriously. It is to experience
true freedom. It is to experience
each experience we have like the wind, coming with nothing (no
attachments) and leaving with nothing (no attachments). However the
nature of
mind is to become attached in one way or another to what
we experience. As a minimum we remember each experience we have. The
root of attachment is we remember what we experience. We may
consciously forget or not recall what we experience, but we
nevertheless remember each experience.
Creative play and the desire to creatively play is the
truth of our being and is what lies at the
source/Source of our being.
Loss of
this creative state of play as a result of the experiences of life
and the memories we hold is very profound. It has given rise to what
has been called original sin in some spiritual and religious
traditions. It is a perspective that the human experience is somehow
or in some way less that a Divine experience.
The human experience tends to be seen as something that needs to be
transcended and we must leave it in order to regain Heaven and/or
Nirvana. But nothing is farther from the
truth. We can regain it
here and now if we become
our truth and be able to
freely express
our truth in the world in which we live.
When our spontaneous and innocent
childlike play is thwarted we
suffer some degree of
pain. How much we suffer depends on what
happens. The pain we experience can lie on a spectrum of a mild
disappointment to an intense pain and/or trauma that causes us to
literally lose a part of our spirit.
To protect ourselves from our
pain, we develop response patterns to
life. Initially, the response patterns are directed to protect
against specific types and kinds of pain. However, in time we lose
the spontaneity and innocence to discover and explore ourselves and
our world in one or more areas of our life if not the majority of
our life. Most will have a few areas of where the are still
free to
creative play. Still, others have retained no
freedom. Many who are
seen to be creative are creative only in a few aspects of their life
where they have developed response patters to life that allow those
areas to remain open. There are of course a few individual who seem
to be creative in any area of life - at least what they present to
the outside world.
The major issue is that our response patterns to life are directed
at avoiding
pain. Consequently we never really explore the pain we
have to understand its true source. There is a
gift in pain but we
need to follow it to its source. Rather our response is to move away
from the pain, suppress it or somehow otherwise remove it from our
life. Consequently, there are layers of protective response patterns
to life that overlay the pain of the past. That pain of the past, in
turn, overlays the
free expression of our
creative spirit, the depth
and breadth of our
creative power and creative ability, and the true
nature of our being.
To
free our
creative spirit, we need to (1) find where we have
protective response patters, (2) address the
pain that gave rise to
the response pattern, and (3) explore the free expression of that
aspect of our being that has been held prisoner in the
cage of our own making. Additionally, we need to do this to each aspect of our
life until we being to see the pattern of our life and our
creativity to make the jump past
mind to
true freedom and the free expression of
our truth.
Pain is a gift and is only a warning that some limit or threshold is
exceeded or will be exceeded. The question is, does moving past the
limit or threshold
serve us
and/ or what we desire to create or does
it in some way harm us. We can only know if we know the
truth of our being.
Recommendations to being to
regain our
creative play and becoming our
truth
A note on recommendations: The recommendations made are actions that
have been found helpful for individual who elect to become their
truth and regain a young
childlike playful state of being. In acting
on any of these recommendations, it needs to be noted that being
physical is about
having a physical experience. From a
creativity perspective and
holding
our creativity sacred it has been found that
whatever we do
mentally and intellectually relative to changed in
our life and/or the way we think and believe should be accompanied
by some physical action to
make the knowing experiential. The reason
for the physical action is that physical experience provide a
stronger imprint in our memory to catalyze the change we desire to
create. The easiest way to make a mental or intellectual
understanding experiential is to perform some type of playful
physical act such as a
ritual, ceremony,
metatheater, story
telling, drawing, model creation, toy enactment and the like.
Giving ourselves permission: Our
creative spirit is extremely
vulnerable.
Mind seeks to protect our
creative spirit from is
creative play from being thwarted. We need to
give ourselves
permission to explore our past and address the
pain of the past.
Currently the “door” is locked. We are protecting what we hold
sacred. We must give the guard at the door (our
mind) permission to
open the door. Create a consent form or us a example to sign and
document permission is granted to explore the past and what we may
find. Consider doing a “not doing” exercise to demonstrate we are
willing to
step out of our controlling mind to do what we need to
do.
Exploration of the past - telling our story: Use a
life map or some
similar method to guide the exploration of our life. Iterate the map
and
the story we tell as necessary to go as deep as necessary. The
experience is often experience like
pealing the layers of an onion -
it seem endless but each layer goes deeper. It is also experienced
as a
spiraling around. We seem to go over the same experiences again
and again but at deeper and deeper levels. Eventually, as with the
onion, when all the layers are pealed, nothing remains.
Seeing beyond the story we tell: We need to learn to see our lives
like the honey bee. If we ask the honey bee what it does, it will
say it collects pollen to make honey in the hive. But what is not
seen by the honey bee is that it fertilizes the plant so they can
bear fruit. So too each experience we have in life. We have to look
to being to see the bigger picture and the
larger process of which
we are a part.
Explore creativity to find where we can still creatively
play: Most
of us shut down the freedom to spontaneous and innocent explore
ourselves and our world. However, there are usually a few areas that
we still
give ourselves
permission to be relatively
free. The can
act as a starting point. We need to explore to see where those areas
lie and focus on the creativity they provide. By doing what we are
free to creatively explore, we open the door to a deeper
communication with the
creator/Creator of our lives and our
experiences. In
our creativity, we can talk creator to the
creator/Creator as a creator to creation/Creator. It is in these
conversations we can find guidance to create the Heaven on earth and
experience Nirvana here and now.
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