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One of the most important things
to realize about creativity is that mind only knows the past. It
will characterize whatever it perceives, including the energy giving
rise to the thoughts we have, based on the experiences it has had.
This means that any thought we have is not necessarily an accurate
representation of the energy we sense. The more the experience we
have is like the past, the more our mind properly characterizes what
we experience. However, the more what we experience is not like the
past, the more inaccurate our mind becomes at characterizing what we
experience.
To create means to bring into existence something not previously
experienced or significantly different from the past. Consequently,
anything mind thinks about what needs to be done and/or its
characterization of the energy we feel leading us into creative
endeavors will be inaccurate. It is essential that we learn to play
with and explore the creative thoughts we have to get some idea as
to how and where it may be inaccurate. However, most of us have been
thwarted early in life when we stepped out to explore ourselves and
our world. We either suffered pain or felt the control of our early
care gives as to what is considered right and wrong. As a result, we
developed response patterns of life to protect ourselves and we
learned to control our explorations. We no longer felt free to step
out and challenge the prevailing authorities.
The most typical example of such a pattern is where an authority of
some type was the occasion for the us to feel spiritual, mental,
emotional or physical pain. To avoid feeling that pain again, we
developed a response to any energy that appears similar to what
caused us pain. Hence, rather than being free to explore the energy
we experience, we moves away from it. In doing so, we rob ourselves
of our own creative power. Often the
accident, illness, disease and
the like arises in our life simply as the excuse for us to take back
some control over our life and our creative power. Accident,
illness, disease and misfortune is often the way our subconscious
forces us to take back control over our life where we are unable to
live true to who and what we are. There are very few reasons
available for an individual to tell an authority figure “No, I don’t
want to do that” without suffering some type of consequence. Loss of
acceptability is probably the greatest consequence. However, saying
“I am sick” or “My car broke down,” or “I had an accident,” are ways
we can say “No” to what is asked of us.
Our problem is that our mind is not compartmented even though we
like to think so. Our fear and protective response patterns that
prevent us from exploring our external world also keep us from
exploring our internal world. Many of us cannot give ourselves
permission to explore options and alternatives to their own thinking
in our own mind. We cannot seem to look at the “What if’s?” This,
“What if I lived this way rather than that way?,” “What if I
believed this rather than that?,” “What if I walked in their shoes?”
In reality, almost all of us have developed one or more
thinking
addictions (patterns of thinking and believing) that do not allow us
to feel and/or explore our own inner world. These patterns, in turn,
interfere with our creative efforts. The
most creative state we can
enter is the spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery
and exploration of oneself and one's world at each and every level
of your being simultaneously. We have experienced that when we were
very young, before mind developed its judgments about what is or is
not acceptable. However, as our mind developed and our spontaneous
and innocent play was somehow thwarted, we developed response
patterns to avoid feeling the pain of being thwarted again. Whether
or not the response patterns we developed very early in our life
interfere with what we desire to create and how they impact our
creative efforts depends on what we desire to create and may or may
not become an issue.
It has been observed, for any particular creative effort we
undertake, all we really need to do is to follow the
Fifteen
Creative Steps/Guidelines for whatever it is we desire to create.
The response patterns that interfere with what we desire to create
will surface naturally as we work through the steps. As we work
through what arises, we may experience new found freedom and/or even
a rush of energy within our being that has been describe by many as
the
Kundalini.
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