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Probably the single most difficult
thing to do in life and in our creative endeavors is to hold focus.
That is to keep our mind focused on what we desire to create. The
distractions of the mundane life continually pull us off our focus
and cause us to let go of what we desire to create. We may return at
a later time but it seems as thought we need to start the process
all over again.
There is a well known simple management recommendation that is made
whenever one desires to change something. The recommendation is to
keep the end in mind. In essence it is to create
single point focus for our actions with a clear defined
endpoint. That is easy to do when we know the results that we seek.
If however, we don’t know exactly what we really are looking for, it
is hard to keep the end in mind for we don’t know what it looks
like. It is the proverbial, “I will know it when I find it.” For
example, to desire a good paying job is one thing. To desire a good
paying job which provide a
fulness of being and satisfaction with life is something
completely different. The two are not the same. The question is how
do we know what such a job looks like - especially when we have
never experience it. Similarly, one an desire that ideal lover or an
experience of God. Yet, neither have been consciously experience to
really know what one seeks.
Since any creative journey takes us into the unknown, it is
essential to keep the end in mind in some way so that you don’t get
lost in the journey. Often we know the endpoint we wish to create
for we have an idea of what it we desire to experience. Our
creativity and our creation is the manifestation of a thought or
idea. Yet, often we are disappointed when we do create the idea we
had in mind for we were really seeking was a particular type and
kind of feeling. In actuality the idea we have in mind is only what
we think we want. To be successful in our creative endeavors, we
also need to consider what feeling we desire to have when we get the
manifestation of the idea we have in mind. It is the good job versus
the good job that is fulfilling.
However, when we seek unknown information, we do not really know
that for which we look. We know what it will do for us, but we do
not know and have no idea of what exactly it looks like. We have no
thoughts about it for it does not yet exist. If we did, we wouldn’t
have to seek it and create it. We would know what to do and would
have already obtained it as soon as we wanted it.
The issue is our
creative life energy flowing into an experience of that on which
we focus our attention and awareness. To keep focus and hold focus,
we need to keep our attention and awareness on what we desire to
create. Yet that is difficult when we don’t really know what we
desire to create looks life for we never experience it. This is one
reason why life is so disappointing. We have an idea of what we
want. We work hard to manifest that idea into form and then we find
we are not satisfied for it is not exactly what we wanted. The key
to holding focus is feeling. It is to know what we desire to feel as
that endpoint. It is to use the feeling we desire to create an
internal compass to guide our decisions.
In holding focus, it needs to be remembered that we have a conscious
mind and
nonconscious mind. The nonconscious mind is composed of the
subconscious mind which tends to be reflective of the
experiences of our current life time and what the
enculturated mind
knows. The
unconscious mind which tends to be reflective of all the
experiences we have every had and is what the
transcendental mind knows. To hold a focus, we can use our
conscious, subconscious or unconscious mind. Most try and hold focus
with the conscious mind and that is what is responsible for
continually losing focus.
Creating and holding a conscious
focus
To hold focus with the conscious
mind, we need to develop a
single point focus for our life. That is, we need to become
mindful and aware of how we make every decisions in our life. We
need to be aware if what we choose is taking us toward or away from
what we desire to create.
Since we are creating something not previously experienced by us,
our mind will be of little use for it only knows the past. We need
to base our decision on feeling and what is provided by our
intuitive guidance. We need to create a
clear intention of the end point we hold in mind including the
feeling we wish to experience. That is we need to clearly know what
we desire to create. We need to be very clear on the end point. It
really doesn’t matter what that end point is. We have a
free will
and we are free to create what we desire. However it is recommended
that whatever is create it is something that
serves us and who and what we are, and creates
a life worth living.
In establishing a
clear intention for what we desire to create, we need to become
aware of the feeling we wish to experience with that endpoint. The
feeling we wish to experience is essential for it can guide us
through the unknown when mind loses its usefulness and out runs its
past experiences.
In having a
clear intention for the endpoint and knowing what we desire to
feel, we then create a
single point focus with our life based on feeling and not what
mind thinks. We look at every decision of our life in terms of
feeling. Does the feel of the decision take us toward the feeling we
wish to create or away from it. Or, if there is no discernable
feeling in the decision, ask our
intuitive guidance which way to go. Then
honor the intuitive guidance that we get. If there is no
discernable feeling and our intuitive guidance does not specifically
address the decision, then choose in a way that mind thinks it is
making the best decision possible and trust in what unfolds. That
is, if the choice seems to be wrong because our choice does not give
us what we thought it should, understand that there are no mistakes
in creativity. Rather, we are only obtaining that
minimum set of requisite experience to know how to create what
we desire.
Sometimes we feel nothing because we shut down our ability to feel
the exact feeling we need to feel. Not feeling anything and then
choosing with our mind only seemly to choose wrong, brings our
attention to the fact there is something of which we are not aware.
Either we shut down an aspect of our feeling and/or there is an
aspect of our being or Creation we have not yet explored. If we
pull the string on both why we had no feeling and why our choice
did not give us the results we desire, we can surface what needs to
be address to take us closer to our desired creation.
Although we can do what is described here with our conscious mind,
it can be quite difficult to hold a conscious focus. The mundane of
life and competing
subconscious and unconscious intentions we hold continually pull
us in other directions. The easier way is to create a subconscious
and/or an unconscious intention and call upon our
nonconscious mind to assist us in our creative efforts.
Creating and holding a
subconscious focus
Our subconscious mind is
essentially our
enculturated mind.
It considers of all that we have come to know and experience as a
result of the experiences of our current life. There are intentions,
beliefs and the like which continually influence what we do in life.
When we try and make a choice opposite our subconscious mind, and we
are
open to feeling, we find ourselves faced with feelings and/or
contrary thoughts we create a sort of discussion if not argument in
our conscious mind. We begin to debate our choices and feelings of
obligation, duty, disappointing others and the like often arise.
Two possibilities arise here to making holding focus easier. One is
to create an emotional experience through ritual, metatheater and
the like to create a memory of our intention. That is, we have the
memory of setting the intention and the deep desire we have to
fulfill it. This memories then lies in our subconscious continually
influence our conscious mind. However, our intention may conflict
with other subconscious intentions and/or beliefs. This brings us to
the second possible . It is to address competing intentions or
obstructing beliefs.
What we will find as we move to create an emotional memory of
setting our intention is that all that oppose such an intention will
being to arise as we move to act or surface relatively immediately
after we create the emotional experience. Doubts, judgements,
illness and the like will being to surface. If we dismiss them and
don’t address the reason why they arise, they will lie dormant
continually arising when conditions are correct to interfere with
what we desire to create. However, if we address them as they arise,
it is like cleaning house to make room for new furniture. We simply
replace the beliefs and de-energize the emotional filled memories
that are not
serving us and recycle the one that are useful.
To remove the emotional filled memories we ,of course, will need to
address the
pain we may feel in these memories and/or other reason why they
are emotionally packed, such as fear. We may find we have to go back
and do a
soul retrieval and retrieve pasts of ourselves we left in the
past. How we choose to face that pain and process it is our choice.
But the fact that it arises relative to our intention indicate that
at some level of our being it is an obstruction to the free flow of
our
creative life energy to create what we desire. Unless we face
it, it will continually obstruct what we desire to create.
Depending on the
pain and sadness we have experienced in our current life and the
depth and ingrainedness of our enculturated beliefs, creating a
subconscious focus could take quite some time. However it needs to
be realized that none of this effort is wasted. Anything we do to
free our
creative life energy bound in past experiences give us a greater
creative power and creative ability to use in any future creative
endeavor.
The ultimate goal is to create true freedom and the free and
unfetter flow of our
creative life energy. It is to be able to be free like the wind,
coming with nothing and leaving with nothing and each experience we
have fully savored and
the energy dissipated. This of course is an ideal goal since the
experience of creation is about
binding the free flow of our creative life energy. It is to bind
our energy into a from to have an experience of what we create. Yet
it behooves us to free as much of our creative life energy as
possible in any situation we face. We need to recycle our past
keeping what is useful for the next creation and releasing the
remainder.
The easiest way to address the subconscious is to: (1) learn to
become a
detached witness; (2) learn to our
intuitive guidance and our
body wisdom; (3) learn to return to a state of
creative play and (4) use our
creative imagination to it fulness and experiment and explore
possibilities and then bring them into form through creative play to
see what will work and not work in our world.
Creating and holding an
unconscious focus
Our unconscious mind is
essentially our
transcendental mind. It considers of all that we have come to
know and experience as a result of all the experiences we have every
had in this or any other life or existence. There are intentions,
beliefs and the like which continually influence what we do in life
and these are what gave rise for the
intention for our life and our reason for being in
Physical Creation.
Dealing with the unconscious mind is slightly different than dealing
with the unconscious mind. Not because the nature of that of which
we work is different. Rather it is because the unconscious lies so
deep within our being It is like trying to raise a fish that lives
two thousand feet below the surface of the ocean to the surface. We
have to allow for the fact that our unconscious beliefs are deeply
buried. Rather than raising our unconscious to the level of
consciousness, it is easier to explore the unconscious at its
depths.
There is nothing new about trying to explore our unconscious at the
depths of our being. Spiritual, religious, esoteric and mystical
traditions have been doing it for centuries. This, of course, bring
up the first and primary issue of exploring the unconscious. Our
unconscious is infinitely vast and we are
infinite creative being. We have to be very clear on why we
desire to explore the unconscious and what process we are going to
use and why we choose that process over any other. There are many
techniques the readily get us into the unconsciousness however they
all will not be useful for what you desire to access.
Exploring the unconscious is an intention and journey unto itself.
Although some discussion is provided for exploring the unconscious
mind is provided in related files, the recommendation made here is
two fold.
The first is that there is an
intention for our life and a reason for us being here. The
intention for our life arises from our unconscious mind. It is a
safe place to start if you wish to explore the unconscious.
Exploring the intention for our life will cause us to explore and
learn techniques that can be use to explore deeper into our
unconscious past the intention for our life.
The second recommendation is that before we start the journey into
the unconscious, we need to consult our
intuitive guidance relative to our creative endeavor and what we
wish to create. We need to ask our intuitive guidance as to what we
need to explore if anything concerning what we desire to create and
who it will help us to hold focus. It is very possible there is no
need to explore the unconscious and it is simply an
ego trip. If it is necessary, our intuitive guidance will help.
Now there is nothing wrong with taking an
ego trip into the unconscious. But what we will surface is ego
based and will not necessarily be useful in developing our creative
power and creative ability or help us in our creative endeavor. It
will be useful in strengthening our ego and what we think we know.
Remember, the ego is a creation of our past experiences and who we
think we are. The tools we need for creativity need to be able to
take into the unknown. Ego tends to keep us fixed to the past and is
limited use in creativity.
It needs to be remembered, the unconscious is infinitely vast. What
you end up finding may very will cause you to experience what the “Proverbial
Story of Five Men” who sought to explore the world of the
mystic. In fact , you may stumble into the
Ultimate Accident.
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Setting an intention
Exploring our mind
Desire and clear intention
Single point focus
Conscious, subconscious and unconscious focus
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