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Reconstitution rituals and
metatheaters
Reconstitution rituals and ceremonies
Reconstitution “not doing”
Reconstitution metatheater
A significant part of
reconstituting
our
creative
ability and creative power begins in our
creative imagination and ends us in our
memories. It being in our creative imagination looking to see what
we do and don’t
give ourselves permission to explore in our own
mind. There are many thoughts, ideas and the like that are unwilling
to entertain simply because of the judgements we have around them.
We must first look to
hold
our creativity sacred in our own mind and
our creative imagination if we hope to reconstitute our creative
ability and creative power.
As we explore our
creative imagination and the thoughts what we do
and don’t allow ourselves to entertain we will begin to see the
memories we have that give rise to our judgements. We will being to
remember things, circumstances or events in our life that give rise
to how and what we believe. As we begin to “clean house” of all the
beliefs, thoughts, ways of interpreting our past that do not
serve us
and/or
hold
our creativity sacred, we will be faced with
processing the
energy bound in the memories we hold. Additionally,
there comes a point in time in which we need to bring our creative
ideas out into the world.
Rituals, ceremonies,
metatheaters and the
like are some of the most useful vehicles to use to process bound
energy and to bring
our creativity out into the world.
The basics of how ritual ceremony,
metatheater and the like are seen
to work is discussed in the topics of “Basic theory giving rise to
using
rituals, ceremony and metatheater” and the “Theory of metatheater
to see the
illusion of mind.”
Reconstitution rituals and ceremonies
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In using
rituals in
reconstitution, it needs to be remembered there
are many ways we can view how we have
shattered
and fragmented the flow of our
creative life energy and have given our power away. Similarly, there are many ways
that we can use to regain it. Reconstitution rituals is probably
best seen in a example. Here we use the “Letting go of the burdens
we carry exercise.”
We can look at how we are robbing ourselves of our
creative power and creative ability by the burdens we carry or the burden others
have given us to carry. In looking at any burden we carry there is
of course the question,“What problem (s) do we face in leaving and
letting go of any one of our burdens?” We can playfully arise at the
answers in doing a little
ritual, ceremony or
metatheater.
We can look at our life and identify as many items as we can that we
feel are burdens we carry. They can be regrets, obligations,
attachments or anything that resembles a burden. For each burden, we
write it out on a slip of paper and addition but the name of the
burden on a list of burdens. We then tie the slip of paper to a rock
of about one or two pounds. We then put the rock with the slip of
paper into a backpack. The backpack is symbol of the load we carry.
Each burden is represented by a slip of paper tied to a rock in the
backpack. We then put the backpack on and start to walk while
looking at the list of burdens talking to someone about the burdens,
what they mean and how we could get rid of them. We walk for several
miles (or at least a long distance) carrying this backpack
representing the life we chose to live at some level of our being by
picking up these burdens. Then at some point, when we get tired
enough, we let go of the back pack after making a commitment to
change our life and identifying a plan of action as to how to get
rid of each burden or to change the burden to lighten it. We cannot
drop the backpack until we make the commitment to change and have a
plan for each burden.
Depending on how have that backpack, when the backpack full of
burdens is dropped, we probably will feel a loss of balance,
uncenteredness, or even stumble without the load. But we will feel a
lightness. What we feel physically will also be what we experience
within our life as we drop the burden. We will feel a freedom but we
will also stumble. We may also find ourselves feeling some anger at
some of the people in our life for giving us the burden that they
did. We may also feel anger at ourselves for having accepted the
burden. However, we do need to take responsibility for our role in
accepting the burden they gave us. We did not have to accept it for
after all, we do have a free will..
We will need to realize that each person only gave us what we,
ourselves, asked to get because of how we came to think the world
works. In this awareness each person has been our teacher only to
show us how we think and what burden we felt we needed to accept. In
dropping the burden and see how and why we accepted it, we can
realize we need not have accepted any of these burdens if we had
been able to see, think and perceive differently. The burdens are
only what we believed we needed to carry. We only needs to remember
in this realization the process that we each play a ole for others.
We create our experiences by playing these roles for ourselves and
others and they in turn, for us and themselves.
This is only one example of how
rituals can be used. We can do
rituals for any aspect of our life any where we have given away our
creative
ability and creative power to call them back.
Reconstitution “not doing”
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Not doing is a simply set of exercises where we create an experience
or a set of experiences that are completely different from how we
defined ourselves. The exercises that we do are things that we as we
defined ourselves would not do. To look for what not doing may look
like in our life we simply need to ask ourselves, “Is there is
anything in life where I said, ‘I would never be caught dead doing
that!’” well, then do it. That is not doing. Not doing what we would
never dream of doing if we lived within the ego that we have
created. Normally the purpose of not doing is only to show to our
own psyche, we are capable of acting, being and doing more that we
have defined ourselves to be able to do.
Not doing for
reconstitution is slightly different than normal not
doing. Normal not doing is about learning to redefine ourselves. Not
doing for reconstitution is about learning where we have given away
are
creative
ability and creative power. It is to explore where we
are not free in one way or another.
If we are
free, we can do anything as though we are in the
spontaneous and innocent
playfulness of a very young child. When we
are older, there are types and kinds of things that cause a whole
series of feelings, judgements, opinions and concerns suddenly arise
when we consider them let alone doing them. The questions which
arise are, “Why are we not free? and “From where do the feelings and
judgments come?”. In exploring these areas, we can use this
information to understand where we are not free and where we have
somehow bound our
creative
ability and creative power. Not doing is
about going into those areas where feelings judgements and the like
arise and where we are otherwise not free.
When we become aware of where we lack freedom in our life, we will
become aware of how and were we have given away our creative power
to someone or something that lies out side our being. We cannot take
back our power until we become aware of were we have given our power
away.
Not doing help us to transcend the limits and boundaries of
who we think we are. It can assist us to identify what controls we
have placed on our life even if that area of life lies outside our
normal boundaries.
As with any
not doing practice, we should become very aware of what
we are thinking and feeling about what we are doing. Especially be
aware of the judgments and feelings of uncomfortableness that we may
have. We need to become aware of any physical reactions in our body
and/or suddenly surface memories from the past. Whatever happens and
arise be aware of it and ask ourselves to understand why we have the
reaction or reactions that we do.
Reconstitution metatheater
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Closely associated with the
not doing practice is
meta-theater.
Where as we use not doing to explore areas where we are not free to
move,
metatheater is about discovering and uncovering the response
patterns we have that rob us of our
creative
ability and creative power. Often the metatheater we do is the same as a not doing. At
other times they are quite different.
Meta-theater is based on the fact we live in reality and respond to
the world we experience based on our illusions about reality and how
we think. If we create an illusion, a theater, and we respond to our
role as if it were real, then we would be showing the reality within
our being and how we perceive the world. The main difference between
the use of
not doing and metatheater is the metatheater is focused
on looking at the illusion of our response patterns and/or the
beliefs we carry about how we respond to life.
Meta-theater can be used to reveal any aspect of our being that we
chose. Meta-theater can be most powerful where we have a pattern in
our life and we don’t really know or understand how we have created
that pattern. Thorough a series of well designed theatrical
performances based on what is known about our response pattern we
can look at the pattern from a variety of angles and perspectives.
In time, we can pin point exactly what type and kind of situation
triggers the response and how or why we are denying our
creative
ability and creative power. Once we discover how and where we deny
our creative ability and creative power, we are then free to find a
way to reclaim it.
Obviously the more the
meta-theater can be done and allowing oneself
to surrender to the role in the spontaneous innocence of
childlike playthe more enjoyable and revealing it can be.
Related topics
Rituals
Metatheatic performance
Not doing
practice
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