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From a
creativity perspective,
victim consciousness, or a victim mentality, is to give away our
creative power
and/or deny our
creative ability in a way that does not
serves us. It is to think and believe anything or anyone is
responsible for what we experience when we are in some way,
ultimately responsible. We allow something other than our own
awareness to take control over our life.
From the dictionary perspective, a victim is typically seed as one
who is killed, injured, or subjected to suffering. Or, it is one who
is swindled or tricked. They are duped into actions that do not
serve them. Or a victim is a living creature sacrificed to some
deity or as a religious rite or someone sacrificed for a cause.
To be conscious of something is to be aware of something, mentally
awake to something or somehow internally known. In this regard,
victim consciousness is about being aware and awake to the fact
and/or internally knowing that in some way, our life is not our own
and it is controlled by circumstances seemingly outside of our power
to control. We in some way perceive our lives being sacrificed by,
or for, the interests of other. What is important out victim
consciousness is that, more often than not, it is a subconscious
perception and understanding. It runs as an
undercurrent in our life and shadows and influences all our
creative activities.
As a subconscious condition, we are not aware of exactly what is
causing us to feel like we are a victim but we are aware that for
some reason we cannot access the
creative power
we need to create what we desire. Or, for some reason or another,
what we desire in life eludes us or is continually being taken away
from us. In one way or another our
creative power and creative
ability in some way seems to be being held hostage by someone or
something thing. The victim consciousness is simply holding the
belief that we are, or have been, a victim.
There are
reasons for this victim consciousness and we do not remember the
conditions that first caused us to assume or take on a victim
consciousness. When we have an experience of victimization we feel
that someone external to us causes our
pain.
From a
creativity perspective,
victim consciousness is about not realizing that our
creative life energy flows to create an experience of where we
focus or attention and awareness. Victim consciousness exists
wherever and whenever we unwilling shift the focus of our attention
and awareness on something we do not choose on which to focus.
Rather, we are forced or significantly influenced,
consciously, subconsciously, or unconsciously, by some outside
forced in some way to focus our attention and awareness the way we
do. Additionally, we can have a victim consciousness at any level of
our being, spiritual, mental, emotional or physical or in parts of
our being. That is, we free to create what we desire up to a point
and then something does not allows us to create beyond that point.
A victim consciousness can be created though the use of force and
violence, gentle persuasion or the granting and/or withhold of
things that are needed and/or desired, especially things of
pleasure. For example, membership in, and acceptance or denial of
such acceptance by, one’s tribe, family and/or society are routinely
used to create a victim consciousness. Something this
unintentionally but it is often done intentionally. When one has a
victim consciousness, we identify with the external world and we
work to define and to protect who and what we come to think we are
based on the external world.
The
creativity perspective
is a perspective where we
hold
our creativity sacred. It is to embrace the depth and breadth of
our
creative power and creative
ability. It is to see and understand how it is possible that we
are the creator of the experiences we have and the reality of those
experiences. It does not deny that there is a Creator of the world
we experience which we can call God if we choose. But it is to see
that we are
creations
within Creation and that we have a
free will.
We are free to create whatever we choose to create within the bound
of Physical Creation. There is no judgement on what we create.
However, there are consequences on our actions and what we create
for the time and place of our creation. If there were any judgement
on what we create we would not have a free will. We would not be
free to choose and, in many ways we would only be
puppets on a string.
To act from the depth and breadth of our
creative power and creative
ability is act with the understanding that we create our
experiences and the reality of those experiences. Those in our life
are only there to give us the experiences we desire. If we do not
like the people in our life, we must go within and ask, “How is what
I think and believe about life causing me to have the experiences I
have?” Then, as we reveal to ourselves what is causing our
experiences, we can change what is giving rise to what we
experience. If we blame others for what we experience in life but do
not take responsibility for creating at some level of our being the
desire for the experience which they provide, we simply create a
victim consciousness and put our creativity into a prison or
cage of our own making.
What needs to be remembered is that we are a
creation
within Creation. We have agreed to participate and change with
the flow of Creation. We allow things to happen to us for the
experience of Creation as it currently exists. Sometimes we like
what we experience, some we don’t like it. But the fact that we
agreed to participate in Creation does not make us a victim of
creation nor does it rob is of our
creative power.
We are not powerless. We only need to go within and explore as to
why we have chosen the type and kind of experiences that we do.
Our enculturated programming and experiences in life have a
significant influence on how we are responding to the world. We tend
to be in a victim consciousness we think and believe we are at the
mercy of them. When we meet the world on its terms as a creation. It
is the cause of what we experience. Here we tend to have more of
victim consciousness where we are at the mercy of creation. In
essence the world tells us, ‘This is who and what you are and this
is what I, the world, wants from you.” We, of course, believe what
we see external to us and give the world what it demands of us.
Victim consciousness is not to see
pain for what it is. Pain arises to warn of the hazard. However,
much of the pain we feel the pain is because we continually put
emotional energy into the attachment that must leave our life rather
than letting it go. It needs to be remembered in any creative
endeavor, and our life is a creative endeavor, there is the
sacrifice of creation. Some of the existing form must be
sacrificed to make room for the new. If we don’t let go of what we
need to let go, we simply create pain and interfere with our own
creation.
If we don’t let go of what we need to let go, slowly over time we
create what appears to be a pearl with
pain. That is, the irritant which causes pain becomes coated
with the emotional energy. However that energy, if not released,
gives birth to a life of its own and the pearl turns into a egg
which hatches into a monster in our life. When then think we need to
fear pain and the what is causes to happen in our life. The fear of
pain begin to control our life and we run from the pain never
looking at the attachment what causes the pain to arise in the first
place. In doing so, we create that victim consciousness and give our
creative power
away. We run form the external threat rather than looking at the
true hazard that is present. We do not necessarily need to cause
ourselves pain if we can begin to view from a
creativity perspective
and
hold
our creativity sacred. We need to allow our
creative spirit and the flow of our
creative life energy that sustains us to experience
true freedom. That is to become like the wind - coming with no
attachments and leaving with no attachments.
Ultimately the most important issue we will face relative to our
creative ability and probably the most difficult and, in some
ways, frightening. is “where do we currently believe the
creative power/Creative Power
of the universe lies and why do you believe what we do?” It is the
answer to this question that determines whether or not we possess a
victim consciousness and whether or not we have given our
creative power
away to an any thing other than ourselves, whether that other be
animate or inanimate.
Most of us view our life events as things that happen to us. That in
turn leads to a victim consciousness about life. From a
creativity perspective,
we can
pull the string and ask a series of “why” questions beginning
with, “Why would I create or agree to participate in such an event?”
You don’t have to believe we actually created the event but what we
will see is how circumstances caused the event. In that
understanding we can being to see how we do have options for our
life that we had not previously considered. That in turn, makes all
the difference and become the first step in becoming a conscious
creator. That is we see options and have the choice to try or not
try to pursue those options.
When faced with an undesirable experience or condition we need to go
within and explore deep within our own consciousness to see what is
creating it for
our inner world is reflective of the outer. We need to transcend
the idea we are our body or we are a spirit having a physical
experience. We need to give up the belief that we are being held
prisoner or captive by something, or someone whether it be a person,
a virus or bacteria relative to an illness, or even God, in any way.
We need to embrace the idea that we are perfect creators. We have
created the condition we experience because of something we
consciously, subconsciously, or unconsciously think and believe and
or we are participating in something in which we agreed to
participate. In dong so, we escape victim consciousness and a victim
mentality and open the doors to accessing and releasing your
unlimited creativity.
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