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A practical method for returning to
creative play
Three “level's” to creative play
The need for differing perspectives
Returning to the depth of creative play is a reconstitution of self
The Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines and the approach recommended
here
An approach to returning to the depth of creative play
Concepts for moving creative play to its deepest level
Creativity perspective and holding our
creativity sacred
Clarity of intent
Give ourselves permission to play
Consciously choose to claim our birthright
Consider exploring our limitations in the area of question.
Step out of mind and follow our intuitive guidance
Surrender
Trust
Creating passion
Remove expectations and allowing all cards to be played
Not doing
Create the process your desire
Give freely to the sacrifice
Become aware of what we are experiencing
Address what arises from the past
Take ownership
Become unconditional
Summary
Returning to
creative play is
really about finding a way to consciously
step out of mind
to step
past the limits and barriers of
mind. It is to enter a spontaneous
and innocent childlike play of discovery and exploration of options
and possibilities for the situation we face. Or it is to explore the
depth and breadth of our
unlimited creativity to access our
creative power and creative ability. In either case, we will need to become a
detached witness as we do our exploration.
Creative play reflective of the spontaneous and innocent
child like
play of exploration and discovery is the door way to both
understanding any aspect of Creation and to create any, and all,
experiences we may wish to experience. To fully embrace this
particular state of play at every level of our being is the most
powerful and
most
creative state one can enter. Creative play is the
key to
the journey into the exploration and discovery of the depth
of our creativity and creative power.
It does need to be noted that returning to a
state of creative play
and a spontaneity and innocence in our play is optional. It not
required for us to access and use our
creative power and creative ability for we use them all the time at a subconscious level It is
only required if we wish to consciously access them. We can never
lose our inherent
unlimited creativity. It is
our birthright.
However, our creative power and creative ability will remain
nonconscious unless we choose to make them conscious. The
journey
into the depth of our creativity and creative power is really only
about making what we do
nonconsciously conscious.
It does need to be noted, we can choose to go into
creative play and
return to this state independent of creating any other type and/or
kind of experience. That is, we can set the intention to do nothing
more than experience creative play and/or the depth of creative play
with no other intention or desire. Then with the tool of having the
ability to enter creative play whenever we choose, we have both a
way to live our life and/or a tool to use creativity whenever we
wish.
Three “levels” to creative play
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In talking about
creative play, two things needs to be understood.
The first is that the
creative power and creative ability we can
access is determined by the level of creative play we can enter. The
deeper we can enter creative play, the greater creative power we can
access. The second is there is a spectrum to creative play this
spectrum runs through what can be perceived as three levels to
creative play.
At one extreme of the spectrum, and reflective of the first level,
is any play that moves us out of
play of the
mind and past the
limits and barriers
mind imposes based on its past experiences.
The second level of play is to enter
play of what is symbolized in the heart and totally
surrender to the flow of our
creative life energy giving the space for our
creative spirit to freely unfold and
to lead our life rather than our enculturated
mind. It is for what
is
symbolized in the heart and the feeling of the
fulness of being
to intend the direction of our life as an
internal compass and
mind
attend to the details to make it happen. The second level of play is
to return to the
state of being in which we carried into life. It is
to
become that playful young child but with an adult
mind. It is to
enter the adult creative state of play. Here we relay on our
body wisdom and
intuitive guidance and
what the heart wants more than
what the
mind wants.
The third level of play is at the other extreme of the spectrum and
past the
play of what is
symbolized by the heart. It is to move
toward entering the
most
creative state of being. It is to take our
creativity one step further. It is to return to a type of
play
characteristic of the Source of Creation. It is to realize we are
the
source/Source of
creation/Creation at play. We are
consciousness/Consciousness at play with itself.
The need for differing perspectives
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In moving into deeper and deeper levels of
creative play to access
greater creative powers the approach is essentially the same. The
types and kind of issues that are faced are in essence the same.
What changes are the size and intensity of the issues.
Analogously, it is diving into the ocean. The ocean is water and at
any level we are only dealing with water. However, because the depth
of the water increases as we go deeper, we need to take different
types and kind of precautions as we go deeper. We cannot expect to
dive deeply and return what life we find to the surface without
repercussions of some type. We need to be adequately prepared to
work at the deeper levels and know how to bring what we find back to
the surface.
What is interesting about this
journey into the depth of our
creativity and creative power is that as we move from the shallow
levels into the deeper levels, we learn what we need to do for the
next step as we go deeper. It is a self generating, self teaching
phenomenon. We are given what we need for the next level of
exploration at the level we find ourselves. We only need to be open
to learn exactly how we created the conditions at the level we find
ourselves. That understanding then points the way and provides the
guidance to the next level. We only need to become observant as to
what conditions are changing and what techniques need to be modified
or employed to deal with the changing conditions.
In the analogy of the going deeper into ocean water, the changing
condition we face is the change in water pressure. In moving into
the depth and breadth of our
creative power and creative ability,
the changing condition is perspective. It is our perspective and how
we think
creation/Creation works that functions analogous to the
water pressure. The perspective we need to hold to experience our
increasing creative power and creative ability becomes harder and
harder to hold. This is because the experience of Physical Creation
are designed to direct us away from our own creative power and
creative ability and create more of a
victim consciousness and keep
us in a childish (not childlike but childish) creative consciousness
rather than becoming an
adult creator consciousness. In the same way
we cannot readily bring a life form from the depths of the ocean to
the surface, we cannot readily bring our aspects of our creative
power into Physical Creation. It can be done but certain changes to
our environment must be made.
What needs to be understood here is a perspective that is needed to
explore the depth and breadth of our inherent
creative power and creative ability. Then we need to have a different perspective to be
able to bring a consciousness awareness of the creative power and
creative ability back into the everyday world. The perspectives are
different. This is why it is recommended we adopt
creativity perspective that
holds
our creativity sacred. Holding our creatively
sacred will allow us to change our perspective as necessary to
address what needs to be addressed.
Returning to the depth of creative play is a reconstitution of self
(Top)
If we enter
creative play and move toward the play of what is
symbolized of the heart we will naturally begin to reconstitute our
creative power and creative ability. In essence we piece ourselves
back together. We will begin to quite quickly see where we initially
allowed ourselves to bleed away our
creative life energy and our
ability to be in the
most
creative state of play. Additionally, we
will being to see into the
illusion of
mind we used that made us
unable to see how we had created both our experiences and the
reality we experience.
The very
young child in play moves to perform their play
subconsciously for their consciousness is still undeveloped and too
preoccupied in learning to manage their physical body and/or it is
too preoccupied with the
wonderment of discovery and what they are
discovering. Yet it is this subconscious play that our
body wisdom
gives to us as a ready made solution for stepping out of the
illusion of
mind that we have created by how and what we think. We
do so through what we feel and be
open to feeling. Even as an adult,
we can readily enter this innocent playful state. But to do so, we
need to address the reason why we ever left the
most
creative state
of play.
The problem we all face is that we, like a child, our
creative spirit is
extremely vulnerable in this
creative state of play. We
are easily hurt and our play is easily thwarted. In this regard, the
most
creative state, it also our must vulnerable state. It is in the
creative state of innocent play, being in a state of
wonderment and
“ah” that we suffer our greatest
pain--although that pain will not
necessarily register consciously and/or physically when it occurs.
The way the process of losing the
play of what is symbolized in the heart works is quite simple. We focus our attention and awareness on
some playful activity fully consumed in the exploration and
surrender
to that activity. All of our
creative life energy is
flowing in a given direction. Then, suddenly something occurs that
thwarts our activity. It may be that we fall and feel physical
pain.
We may cause the displeasure of those around us perhaps even to the
point of being physically punished. Or we suddenly find ourselves
alone and extremely self conscious because our activities have
become so out of place in the eyes and judgment of those around us.
Sometimes as adults or as a child with conscious awareness, we
become disillusioned because our efforts do not unfold the way we
wish and do not bring the exact results we desired. Or, our action
do not bring the expectation we had as to how we thought things
should happen. It is like this entire flow of energy suddenly slams
into a brick wall and we are thrown directly back into our face.
Any of these responses to our playing begins to cause us to doubt
and shy away from freely
surrendering to the
flow of the energy
again. They cause us to doubt the
wisdom of our
creative spirit and
doing what we felt was correct and enjoyable for us. More
importantly, we begin to doubt that feeling of freedom and play that
we were experiencing and allowing to lead us. We slowly begin to
live our lives bases on external comparisons and judgements rather
than follow our own internal wisdom and freely surrendering to that
joyful flow that comes from within our being.
Each of the comparisons and judgements that we make with the
mind as
to what is acceptable or not acceptable involves a denial of who and
what we are. Any denied we make of ourselves causes a crack in the
vessel we have created that contains who and what we think we are.
We then divert our energy to further repair our ego identity we have
created for ourselves. It needs to be understood, there is no
problem or issue living in, and with, the expectations of others
and/or with comparison with the external world. It is only when they
cause us and/or require us to deny the truth of our being do they
become a problem. When this occurs they require us to step out of
the joyful flow that comes from within our being when we are engaged
in what is correct for ourselves and a unique creation expressing
itself.
Relearning to creatively play does not require a transformation.
Rather it is about shedding. We have only encapsulated ourselves
with a set of beliefs about reality and why we cannot play. We only
need to accept ourselves as we already are and whatever it looks
like. The more we can accept who we are, the judgements of our
conditioning will fall away and more of ourselves will be revealed.
In doing so, we will find more and more of it is to our liking. The
only real difficulty is that we have been conditioned not to accept
ourselves for who and what we are. We spend our life trying to
become something or somebody other than we already are. We see
ourselves as lacking and needing to obtain something to meet the
expectations we have been conditioned to meet. However, when we
accept who we are as we are, our own
internal guidance allows our
transformation to occur and in fact, making it somewhat gentle.
The Fifteen Creative
Steps/Guidelines and the approach recommended
here (Top)
What is described below can be use separately or in conjunction with
the
Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines. The Fifteen Creative
Steps/Guidelines were developed to be use with another where each
desire to recreate an aspect of their life but are not interested in
exploring creativity and/or necessarily accessing and releasing any
one aspect of their creativity let alone exploring the depth and
breadth of their
unlimited creativity. Nevertheless, one can use the
Fifteen Creative Step/Guidelines where their intention is to return
to
creative play. The unstated assumption behind the Fifteen
Creative Steps/Guidelines is that the individuals will continue to
use most of their
creative power and creative ability in a
nonconscious way.
What is provided here is more focused for those individuals who
desire to return to a
state of creative play and use
creative play
in their creative endeavors, explore creativity and/or explore the
depth and breadth of their own creativity. The unstated assumption
behind this approach provided here is that the individuals using
this approach ultimate desire to become conscious creators of their
experience and the reality of those experiences.
In essence, the
Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines and the steps
provided here cover the same concepts but in a different way.
Concepts for moving creative play to its deepest level
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Creative play and the
play of what is symbolized in the heart lead
us to the
play of Creation
and the play that created Creation. As we
move our creative play into the play of what is symbolized in the heart, we will find what is inside of us is as infinitely vast,
diverse and as complex as the external world we see before our eyes.
In fact the
inner and the outer are reflections of each other. It
has been found there are a variety of concepts that have been
compiled as creativity “Building Blocks” that can be used to assist
us in developing creative play and that we will need for the
duration of the
journey if we decide to explore the depth of our
creative power. They are available in the topic entitled “Creation Building
Blocks.”
Even if we do not choose to explore the depth of our creative power,
these concepts are helpful for establishing a
state of creative play
for any creative endeavor. Ultimately, we will need to explore them
in some way as we move along the
creative play spectrum. The key to
using these concepts to return to creative play and/or the
most
creative state of being is to begin to explore these concepts in
play and then allow oneself to become
lost in the play.
The concepts have been arranged as
building blocks to be used and
pieced together as needed. They can be studied in parallel to the
approach provided below, studied separately or used as needed.
However, many of the concepts will be needed before we get too far
along on the
journey and they will carry us through the journey
We can start the
journey whenever wish and at any point we find
ourselves and we do not need to study these concepts. As said above,
the journey is a self teaching journey. We will learn what we need
for the next step at the step we currently find ourselves. However,
it has been found having an awareness of these concepts makes it
easier to learn what we need at the step we find ourselves to
prepare ourselves for the next step. (More
on .... the building blocks)
An approach to returning to the depth of creative play
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To move toward returning to the
most
creative state, the following
set of steps and related concepts have been found to be the
minimum set to take the
journey into the depth of our own creative power.
They are not steps as such but following the sequence provided
provides for an easier use.
They are also not steps in the sense they should be followed by
mind. That is, mind trying to create each of these steps. Rather we
need to create a style of life and approaching life that allows
these to become our way of being.
Look at these as individual lesson that can be studied and practiced
much the way one would learn to practice different scales or musical
Keys (such as the Key of C, Key of D, etc) on a musical instrument
or with the voice. Each scale requires some different figuring of
the instrument or change in the voice. Each is practiced separately.
Then in the composition to be played or sung, they all come together
as needed. Such an approach should be taken with this material.
Practice each separately and allow them to come together in
improvisational play in the creative endeavors undertaken.
The recommendation made here is to see yourself as
becoming a
musician and learning to play an instrument, an instrument of
creation/Creation. The instrument is you’re your body and your
being. It can be seen as a four stringed instrument consisting of a
spiritual, mental, emotional and physical string. Each string must
be tuned and learned to be played. Then as the musical composition
requires, the four string are played together to create a melody.
The melody is the life you experience by how you play these four
string - either with
mind or what is
symbolized in the heart.
Creativity perspective and holding our creativity sacred
(Top): First and
foremost, we need to adopt a
creativity perspective and
hold
our creativity sacred. Adopting a creativity perspective causes us to
focus our attention and awareness to see and observe the creative
principles of
creation/Creation. Learning to hold our creativity
sacred allows us to protect our most important assent of the
journey. The
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material is
provided to assist you in developing a creativity perspective and to
hold your creativity sacred. The recommendation is to use what is
effective in your life to create what you desire.
Clarity of intent
(Top): Unless we are capable of freely entering creative
state and have the self confidence to address whatever arises as it
arises, we will need to set the intention to allow ourselves to
return to this state of play as a creative objective and then clear
all the obstacles that stand in our way.
To consciously return to this state of play, that is,
step out of mind
and allow our
creative life energy to lead, we simply get
clarity on what we desire to manifest and then set and hold the
intention. We need to establish
clarity of intention. We need to
set
a clear intention and
hold our intention for the duration of the
journey. We need to hold our intention an unwavering focus of
attention and awareness allowing our
body wisdom and our
internal guidance to lead us to create whatever experience we desire. If we
do not know how to use and/or access body wisdom and
intuitive guidance we will have to spend some time learning how to do so.
To get clarity of intent, it is recommended we write out the
intention and iterate it until the words feel correct. Here again,
what we feel and what feeling we desire to have is more important
that what our
mind thinks we want.
What needs to be understood about entering
creative play and/or
exploring our
unlimited creativity is that we may or may not have a
clear insight into the path we need to take and what the outcome may
look like. As such, all we need to do is set the clearest intention
possible and iterate the process as we get further clarity as to
what we wish to create.
We need to remember, the process of using
intuitive guidance tends
to work as though we are crossing a stream using stepping stones in
a deep, thick fog. We cannot not see the next step until we take the
one directly in front of us. You will have to step into the fog and
trust the
creative process. We have to be free to become that
proverbial fool.
The anxiety of any process is always reduced when we can turn the
doing aspects of a project over to someone else. There is a
cause effect relationship that if we plant a seed in fertile ground with
the correct climate and nutrients it will grow. All we need to do is
create the correct process and turn the manifestation of our
intention over to the process. Here again, use what is provided here
for it will help you along the way to find that correct creative
process for what you need to do. Then, of course,
allow
effectiveness to be your measure of truth and use what is effective
in your life.
Give ourselves permission to play
(Top): What needs to be clearly
understood, we shut down our ability to feel
pain to protect
ourselves in one way or another. To reenter
creative play, we need
to
give ourselves permission to play. We need to do something to
show our
mind that we truly want to return to play. For example, it
is suggested that you read and sign the sample
permission form which
is provided for this use.
Consciously choose to claim our birthright
(Top):
To claim
our birthright
and access and release our
unlimited creativity, we have to choose
to do so. Although we are entitled to our birthright as a being of
unlimited creativity and we may evolve into a
state of being where
we are fully prepared to accept and be that birthright, we have to
choose to become it.
Creation is about choosing to create.
Our birthright is to become a
conscious creator. Since our birthright is to create our experiences
and the reality of our choice, we first have to choose to create
something to experience our inherent creativity. If we don’t
consciously chose to create something, we cannot consciously
exercise our creativity. We need to create from the knowing that we
can create any reality of your choice.
We figuratively and literally need to become the Creator of the
world we experience and we figuratively and literally need to become
the Creation. In allowing ourselves to become both we will
experience the fullness and wholeness of
creation/Creation. We will
become all that is and that arises form that proverbial still point
from which all creation forms and in doing so we will experience All
That Is, as it is.
As discussed in the “Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective,”
Consciousness shattered Itself into an infinite number of fragments
in order to create a playmate of Its equal. We are one of these
fragments destined to become a
creator/Creator fully equal to the
Creator in every way including losing ourselves in our own
creation/Creation.
To become the Creator, we need to choose to have that experience of
the Creator. Unless we choose for it to happen it will not happen
because creation is about learning to use our
free will to
consciously create the reality of our choice. Unless we choose,
nothing will happen. We can wait for an eternity for
our birthright
to be given to us and nothing will happen. We have to choose to make
it happen and take full responsibility for what we create.
One of the more powerful and effective techniques we can use to
fully claim
our birthright is as follows. Set the intention to
experience
our creative passion and to create something larger than
ourselves that transcends our
enculturated ego and that is based on
something we love to do
Consider exploring our limitations in the area of question
(Top): We
cannot always solve or overcome a problem as it exists in reality
because we cannot surface what we
nonconsciously believe about a
topic. Since what we seek is buried in the
nonconscious
mind, we do
not know were to look for the beliefs that may govern that topic
because of how beliefs are so integrated and interwoven. But, we can
create a way to surface what we believe about any topic, subject or
aspect of our internal self or the external creation we experience.
By creating an imaginary world or an imaginary space through our
creative imagination, we can explore any and all aspects of a given
topic. How we response and feel as to what the imaginary creation
presents will allow is to
bring those feelings back into the real
world and understand what we believe
about any topic and how our
creative life energy is or is not free
to flow.
The way we do this is to creates an external experience and then
responds to that creation as if it is real. Since the experience is
created, we will they see how we are perceiving our experiences and
be able to see the filters we are using to color the experiences
that we have. However, what we feel is real and is the reality we
experience. That may be frightening and cause us to withdrawal from
the experience we are creating. In any case, as we begins to see and
understand the filters we have, we can begin to see the reality of
what is, as it is. This is the essence of the use of
metatheatric
performance in our creative endeavors.
Step out of mind and follow our intuitive guidance
(Top):
Since
mind only
knows that past, in any creative endeavor we have to be willing to
step out of mind
as to what we think allowing ourselves to move as
close as possible to entering that
childlike state of play and allow
our
intuitive guidance to lead our efforts.
We then need to ask our
intuitive guidance a series of questions
similar to “What does the first step I need to take look like to
manifest this intention, or what does the manifestation of this
intention look like, or what must I do?” Then take the input from
our intuitive guidance as literal, for it is the best
characterization of the energy behind the intention that our
mind
can provide, and play it out as real. We need to construct a
literal, figurative or symbolic set of actions that best represent
what our intuition provided. Preferable, do it literally. If for
some reason we can’t do it literally, do it meta- theatrically or
symbolically. This is extremely important. Energy must be processed
and
allowed to dissipate. That is, it must be acted out physically in
some way in some physical experience to dissipate.
To make a clear flow path for all our
creative life energy, we will need to allow the energy of the
images of our
intuitive guidance to be processed. The actions we take will
help to allow the energy to flow and be dispersed. The greater the
emotion in what is done the greater the
energy dissipates. As we act on what is provided by the
intuitive guidance, feelings, thoughts, ideas, obstructions and all
kinds of things will arise that are somehow associated with our
intention. In this case, the intention is to return to that
play of what is symbolized in the heart that
lies at the Source of Creation.
We will need to process what arise. That is create a physical
experience where the energy can be dissipated. As we playfully work
through, synthesize, and organize our experiences, we will find we
know what we need to do and how to it in order to manifest our
intention. We then simply do what is required and continually use
and iterate the process as we proceed on our
journey to regain our
creative play. What we will find is that we get there earlier that
we could have imagined.
Surrender
(Top):
In stepping
out of mind
to follow our
intuitive guidance
we are, in essence,
surrendering to the
flow of the energy giving rise to our desired creation. We
need to do what lies at hand doing what needs to be done because it
is the correct thing to do,
In
surrendering, we need to be fully present at one with the energy
manifesting and sustaining our being with no limits, no boundaries
and no expectations that are the usual control techniques of the
mind to control the energy of the universe. Unless we experience the
surrender
to our
creative life energy we will not come to the
understanding of how the creation process actually works. The reason
for this is our mind will be interfering, judging, interpreting and,
in general, imposing itself in the process preventing us from
experiencing the process as it truly is.
Trust (Top):
In
surrendering to the
flow of energy giving rise to our
creation, we need to
trust the creative process. We must fully
trust
the outcome to destiny that our intention will be met.
Learning to
trust the creative process is not easy and not something
we will learn to do by reading a book or information from any
source. To learn to trust the creative process we need to create
something and use the process and see it for what it is, as it is..
We can start small and attempt to move to bigger and bigger
creations. However, in choosing to start small,
mind will gain
control over the effort. Whatever mind chooses will be something
mind thinks is safe to choose. Hence mind is in control. The best
thing to do is to find someone who will support our creative
endeavor and then choose to create something we think is impossible.
We don’t choose something that is necessarily impossible to create.
Another could have done it before us. But it is something that
appears impossible for us to create.
For example, learning to fly or sky dive could be a starting point.
It is something we, as an individual, may currently think is
impossible fo us to do. But then once we do it, we have stepped
out of mind
and have stepped past what we thought and believed.
Creating passion
(Top): Nothing happens without energy. Creating
passion is
about accessing the necessary energy to create.
The
creative life energy of the universe is passionate and is
passionate beyond belief. We will have to live and be that
passion.
The energy of the universe is a creative life energy and as life, it
wishes to sustain itself, propagate itself and create life. That is
why living organisms have a strong will to live and protect
themselves and to procreate. The creative life energy within its
being wants to sustain itself and continue into future.
We need to look for
our creative passion. But it is not accessible
from the
mind but through our feelings what give us life. We need to
access that flow of energy that brought us into life and creative
and sustains our live. We need to begin to experience it as much as
possible in the spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery
and exploration.
The more of our energy we can put into such a
state of being, the
greater our creative potential. Alternatively said, the more
passionate we can become about what we are creating and being in
this state of play and
wonderment, the greater the likelihood of
manifesting our intention and the greater the likelihood of us
revealing our true creative potential. The more we move away from
the freedom of that play the more difficult it is to create what we
desire.
Remove expectations and allowing all cards to be played
(Top): This has
been said and characterized several different ways. No matter how it
is said, in essence it is the same - we must move out of thinking
and let ourselves be available to just response. In doing so our
flexibility increases dramatically and we are able to move and
respond to what presents itself.
To consciously create our reality and the experiences we have and
explore the depth and breath of our own being, we must allow the
universe to play with a full deck of cards. That is, we must allow
the universe to have all the options that it chooses to play and we
cannot keep any of the cards off the table. We keep cards off the
table by our judgements, fears, biases and the like. That is why it
is so important to be
out of mind.
This expression, playing with a full deck, comes from the fact that
any time we play a game based on the use of cards. It can be a deck
of cards like playing cards, a tarot deck or simply a deck of cards
that we draw from a stack in a game such as the “Take A Chance”
and“Community Chest.” stack of cards in the game called “Monopoly.”
If any stack of cards is missing a card, we are not really playing
the game as designed. We have to allow all the options that have
been worked into the game that we are playing. So too with conscious
creating and creating the reality of our choice. We have to allow
all the options. We have to allow all the cards to be on the table.
What keeps the cards off the table is what we judge as acceptable
and not acceptable, good and bad, right or wrong and especially what
we like and don’t like. We need to understand that the Universe only
uses what we allow on the table. Any judgement we hold forces the
Universe to work within that judgement. To allow all the cards to be
played, we need to take our judgements and expectations off the
table and allow the universe to be free to arrange things as it sees
fit. The Universe is wiser than we are whether we believe it or not.
Look at the world that has been created without our assistance and
the assistance of the human
mind. That same wisdom that created the
world as we experience it is available to us but only if we allow it
to be available.
Whether we realize it or not, there is a way we create an
illusion
in our life that fails to allow us to see reality for what it is, as
it is. We then use that illusion to create the reality of our choice
from what is. The way we do this is that we create a perspective
about how the universe operates and then do or do not let the
universe have the freedom of moment to change our current world into
the form that we desires.
To create what we desire, we must be willing to let go of everything
and anything that stands in the way of that desired creation. More
often than not it is not the universe that stands in our way but our
own
mind. The universe is infinitely intelligent and yet infinitely
stupid. The Universe can give us exactly what we want as we want it
because it has the intelligence to figure it out how to get it if we
let it. However it is infinitely stupid in that it can’t figure out
how to get around the obstacles that we place in its path. It can
overcome all the obstacles that are not of our making but It can’t
get past our obstacles for it will respect and not violate our
free will.
It has to be that way.
All physical expression is dualistic.
We are in the physical world so
the Universe, God, the All That is, or whatever we like to call
“It,” that Cosmic Consciousness from which all forms, that we
experience will be dualistic. A long as we are in a physical body we
will experience it that way for that is the nature of physical
Creation.
This is an extremely important concept. The universe in its infinite
wisdom cannot get around the obstacles that we ourselves create that
interfere with what we desire. Only we can remove them. It most
cases, that means stepping
out of
our mind
and
ego and allow our
intuitive guidance and
body wisdom to lead. We need to figuratively
and literally put all the cards on the table and allow the Universe
to play with a full deck. It does need to be noted that it is us,
not the universe that is trying to play without a full deck.
Not doing
(Top): There is an effect of telling
our story over and over
again. The effect is to create the future in the image of the past.
We need to interrupt the story and not continue the process if we
hope to escape that story. The easiest way to escape its effect is
to do something other than our story allows or something that is not
how we define ourselves. It is to do a
not doing. Not doing is to do
other than who and what we think we are. It applies to movement at
each and every level of being. It applies to body movements in
addition to ways of being for body movements are ways of being. Not
doing allows us to see and experience the world differently than
what
mind has experienced or it is based on doing other than
what
mind wants and
how
mind has identified itself.
Create the process we desire
(Top): If we understands the
creative/creation process we can address creating a process to manifest our creation
in the quickest time, and gentlest way possible. The “Building Blocks” are many of the principles that have been observed within
the creative/creation process. Many can be brought together in any
particular way to create what we desires. Others, of course, follow
the sequence of events in the creative/creation process.
When we create, we follow the
creative/creation process and apply
these concepts in way or another. When we don’t consciously
understand the
creative process we apply them
nonconsciously in an
unknowing fashion. In doing so, we becomes the servant of the
process whether we realize it or not. In this case we become bound
by the process because we don’t know what can be changed without
changing the essence of the process.
In understanding the
creative/creation process, we understand there
is certain sequence to events and certain concepts and principles
are more important at certain time than other time. For example, the
anxiety of the
chaos of creation, and the
sacrifice of creation
occur a specific times in the process. In some ways the process is
“hurry up and wait.” There may be a large amount of destruction of
things in our life and then the it seems to take forever for the new
to emerge.
It is much like planting seeds. In spring much efforts into digging
the soil and planting the seeds. Then we must wait the entire
growing seeing for the harvest to come. In may ways creation is like
this. There are times of great activity and then we must wait. If we
understand the
creative/creation process we can being to structure
our life around the process and take much of the
anxiety and worry
out of the process. Additionally, we can be better prepared for
times of high activity and find ways to amuse ourselves while we
wait for the creation to grow and bear fruit. Then of course at
harvest time, we can expect to be very busy.
We may not be able to change the
creative/creation process which we
need to experience. But, if we apply the creation principles such as
those found in the
Building Blocks consciously, we become the
creator of their experience at many different levels and make our
life more enjoyable even through things like the
chaos and
sacrifice of creation.
Give freely to the sacrifice
(Top): The essence of creation is to transform
an existing manifestation of energy into a new form to create the
creation we desire. This is the required
sacrifice of creation
within the
creative/creation process. If it doesn’t occur, the
energy will not be made available for the new creation.
There are a variety of ways that energy can be processed. In
general, the energy at any level must be allow to flow to completion
or into manifestation. Energy flows according to the
path of least
resistance.
If the flow of energy is blocked in one direction, it will flow into
another. Energy that is blocked subconsciously will flow according
to the
path of least
resistance according to the beliefs of how we
creating our currently reality. The results may or may not be
pleasant depending on what we believes and how the energy needs to
flow to
dissipate.
In any case, as perceive by the conscious
mind, the energy will be
seen flowing in an uncontrolled fashion. However, that is not the
case. It is just flowing the
path of least
resistance according to
the obstruction and landscape
we create within our own being and
reflect it externally by how and what we think and believe. By
adjusting ourselves to the flow and be open to changing our beliefs
as necessary, we can greatly reduce the
pain,
anxiety, and seemingly uncontrollableness of the flow.
Become aware of what we are experiencing
(Top): Since we do not know what
we subconsciously and unconsciously believe (otherwise it would be a
conscious awareness) we needs to realize we are not be seeing
reality for what it is. Rather what we perceive is colored by our
nonconscious beliefs.
What needs to be realized is that in any situation that we
experiences, the only thing that we really know is real, and as
real, is how and what we feel. Our body and what we feel does not
lie. Our
mind may mask what we feel but what we feel is revealing
the truth of the situation. We may have many opinions, judgements,
and thoughts as about what we experience. But the only thing that is
real are the sensations we have. They are showing how the energy is
actually being dissipated in manifestation.
Normally we have a real experience and then respond to that
experience based on how we view ourselves and our external world
thinking we are experience the reality of what is. Rather than
viewing reality for what it is, as it is, we only experience the
reality we ourselves create within ourselves.
We are universe unto
ourselves whether we realize it or not. But what we feel is real and
we have created it in some way. We need to explore the feelings and
body sensations we have in any given situation for they tell us what
is really happening.
What we need to understand is that
our inner world is reflected in
the outer world. What we experience externally is a reflection of
something internal to us. Many of the experiences we have externally
arise from the desire we have to
experience Physical Creation as a
human being. That is, they are
only experience to give us the human experience. Yet, many other
experiences we have are specific experience we desire to have to
either meet the
intention for our life or we believe we need to have
become of how we have been programmed to approach life.
By becoming aware of what we are experiencing we can go with and
check with our
intuitive guidance to see what is cause the
experience to arise. If we focus our attention and awareness on what
we experience and pull the string we can surface many of the beliefs
and patterns of think of both our
enculturated
mind and
transcendental
mind. Those that serve us we can retrain. Those that
do not serve us we can choose to change and/or replace with beliefs
that better serve us and/or allow us to create
a life worth living.
Address what arises from the past
(Top): What keeps us from entering
spontaneous and innocent childlike play, are all the reasons why we
lost the ability to be in this state. To get there, we will have to
work though all the reasons why we lost our ability to be in this
state of play or all the reason why we have chosen not to live in
this
state of being. Hence, we will need to return to the issues of
child hood.
Additionally, the deeper and boarder the
creative play we wish to
enter, the deeper and broader the issues we face. There is a very
good chance that experiences from one or more previous existences
that still reside in one’s memory. They may also surface for
resolution. Their surfacing can be quite surprising and startling to
the individual. One reason is that they will have no understanding
from this current life as to where these memories come from. A
second reason is we may be very surprise that we carry such memories
and they are very puzzling if we carry no beliefs in this current
life time that we lived before in some other realm of existence or
even in Physical Creation.
As for what surfaces in response to our intention that do not come
from this life, whether we believe these memories are previous human
lives, memories that lie within the genetic composition of our body,
simply energetic aspects of the human collective that we have tapped
into or simply the energy of reality itself expressing itself in us,
it doesn’t matter. Relative to us being able to live in a state of
spontaneous innocent childlike play, they are real as any memory we
have in this life and must be addressed if we are going to have the
freedom to be in a state of innocent
child like
play.
To create anything that we desire, we must somehow address all the
obstacles (perceived or real) that stand between our current state
and hich we desire to create. With a
clear intention to access the
quickest and gentlest way, our
intuitive guidance and
body wisdom
will lead us on this path. We only need to be willing to
surrender
to our intuitive guidance and body wisdom. This, of course, means we
need to learn to become comfortable
out of mind.
For a particular creation, we only faces the obstacles to that
particular creation manifesting and being sustained in your existing
world. We only need to address what arises. We don’t need to go out
of our way to explore our past or all the reasons that may have
cause our
creative play to shut down.
There are two sets of issue that will arise. One are all the issues
that act as obstacles to the manifestation of what we desire to
create. The second set of issues are all the obstacles that do not
allow us to sustain what you have created. They are different and
each set will need to be addressed as they arise. The method use on
one will not necessarily work on the other.
The obstacles that stand in our way are usually the response
patterns we developed and use to protect ourselves from harm or
injury both as a child and as an adult. Many of them response
patterns that we use to be liked and accepted, initially as a child
and then later as an adult. We will need to explore each of our
patterns as they arise for they usually arise in sequence rather
than all at once.
What we will find is that each and every experience of the past that
is binding our
creative life energy does not readily surface. Rather
the experiences will rise either collectively as a composite “best
fit,” “best representative experience”or as selected real
experiences that are most representative of what needs to be
addressed. The most energetic items surfaces first and then the
other obstruction surface sequentially according to the energy that
they hold. However, the subsequent memories actually seem more
powerful and seem to bind more energy because they lie deeper in our
psyche and are controlling our
creative life energy at deeper levels
that the most energetic. The most energetic memories are away on the
surface trying to express themselves and free the bound energy. That
is in fact, why they are on the surface. It is only our denial of
what we feel and sense in any given situation that keeps them bound.
As we give ourselves permission to play and let go, they come
screaming to the surface for resolution.
The less energetic memories in many cases do not arise until we
experience some environment that allows them to surface. This is why
certain locations and/ certain types and kind of experiences are
more powerful at surfacing the experience. We may find we go our
whole life thinking we have done well at learning how to enter a
state of spontaneous innocent
child like
play and then all of a
sudden in a particular situation we have an experienced that
surfaces a huge amount of blocked energy. This is why doing a
ritual
or other simulation such as a
metatheater of what our life may look
like is so powerful. They help to create an environment to allow
these deeper energies to surface in the playfulness of the ritual
rather than unexpectedly surfacing in a real situation. To surface
these deeper and less energetic memories that are
binding our
creative life energy, we either need a real experience in the proper
environment or a simulated experience in an equivalent environment.
Relative to the ability to surface energy
binding memories, reality
and a virtual reality are one and the same as far as the memory is
concerned. The only issue is that when the memory surfaces do we
address what needs to be addressed and release the energy. Or, do we
continue to deny what needs to be done and push the energy back down
below the surface.
What needs to be understood is that energy follows the
path of least
resistance. Our
creative life energy that is flows out from the
inner most realms of our being to be expressed in the world must
flow past or around all these energy
binding memories. If the energy
is not able to flow freely to response to the situation at hand but
rather must flow as channeled by these memories we greatly reduce
our ability to response and greatly reducing the options available
to us. As we address these experience and act according to our
intuitive guidance, we will feel ourselves reconstituting and
consolidating our energy. We will feel stronger and we will feel
more energetic. We will see and experience much a greater latitude
in our life and many more options open to we than what we could have
previously imagined.
If you are going too fast for our
mind to assimilate and digest all
that is happening to us in this process we may feel overwhelmed,
suffocated or drowning by the amount of energy that is bursting
forth within our being. Again, we only need to follow our
intuitive guidance and it will lead us safely. If we jump in with our mind,
our mind will response from a perspective and habits of what worked
in the past and that is exactly what we are trying to destroy. If
our mind steps in, we have a very good chance at manifesting a
wounding,
an accident, an illness, a disease or some other life
disrupting event that forces us to shift the direction of our life
at least temporarily. How big the wound, accident, illness, disease
and the like depends on how great the mismatch between where our
energy is trying to flow and where our mind wants or tries to
control an direct its flow.
If however we flow with the energy and can stay
out of mind, from
the
mind’s perspective we will be riding a roll-a-coaster, going up
and down, in and out and all over the place and probably will have
equivalent experiences of the
Dark Night of the Soul. From the
heart’s perspective we will be in a joyful and blissful flow that
remains with us no matter what happens in our external world.
What needs to be understood about the memories, feelings and
sensations that arise in relationship to the energy that is bound is
that the energy is not released unless we act on what arises. We are
not in control of the process that cause the energy to surface
because the energy is flowing in the
path of least
resistance. When
it surfaces, we can be in control as to how we choose to act on that
energy but not how and what it surfaces. However, we must have
sufficient mindfulness and awareness to be able to choose to act on
the energy to
dissipate the energy before the habits of the past
attempt to gain control.
Our first response, or rather our automatic response, will almost
always be out of habit and will be to somehow suppress the energy
and/or otherwise deny the energy. That is what we have done in the
past and why the energy is still present within our being. For
example, many times we get body sensations but rather than asking
the sensation what information it is trying to express about what we
are experiencing, we deny the sensation.
The best way to
dissipate the energy is to allow the energy to lead
and to ask our
intuitive guidance as to what you need to do
dissipate the energy. Simply ask something like, “What does the
dissipation of this energy look like?,” “What do I need to do to
dissipate this energy?” or “What does the next thing that needs to
happen look like/” Then act on what you get as literally as possible
trusting it is what needs to happen.
We know that we will be trying to reestablish our ability to be in
spontaneous childlike play and we know past memories and experiences
that are obstructing this play are going to arise. We just need need
to address what arises. The awareness we need to address what arises
and the intention behind our actions can themselves lead us to the
correct space and correct individuals for what we will need to do.
Take ownership
(Top): We need to take ownership for our life. To take
ownership is to consciously establish the blueprint as to how our
creation will unfold. In addition to creating and holding a
clear intention it is to imprint our memory and catalyze our actions. The
two primary ways to create an memory imprint and/or catalyze our
actions is to use
rituals and
metatheater. Each of these are
discussed in the topics “Ritual and Ceremony” and “Metatheatric
performance” respectively.
Become unconditional
(Top):
Mind lives in a world of conditions, control
and expectations.
Creative play is about become innocent and
spontaneous to response to what is, as it is. To do we must become
unconditional. We must drop all our demands and expectations. We
must let go of all hope that any happiness will come from anything
externally. We have to look to the happiness to come from within our
being.
We are already are complete and need nothing external to us for our
own internal happiness. We need to look to create true freedom. We
need to allow each person that enters our life to come like the wind
and leave like the wind - completely free and unattached. Anything
that they bring into our life should be unmasked and unexpected
fully savored and experienced in the moment. Then released to allow
the next experience to occur.
Summary
(Top)
The goal of the approach described here is to see our whole past,
both its pleasure and its
pain, the good things and the bad thing,
and realize nothing has touched our awareness. It remains as empty
as the sky, utterly void of all that we have experienced. Similarly
we can see the future and the threat of pain or the desire for joy
is meaningless. Nothing leaves it mark on our awareness. It remains
unchanged. In this awareness the
journey is complete and we remain
untouched within from all that we experience. In this awareness the
future becomes meaningless. All is simply
consciousness/Consciousness at play with itself/Itself. True play
has no meaning. It is simply play. The meaning to play is the
experience of the play, not what the play creates. The only real
choice our
mind has in this awareness is to: go to sleep; forget
what is learned. learned wake up and enjoy the experience at hand
and allow the
journey to start all over again. This is what we do,
have always done and always will do. The only question we need to
ask ourselves is, “Is what we are dong creating
a life worth living?”
If the answer is “yes,” we need to realize, there is no time but
this time, there is no moment but this moment. This moment is the
perfect expression of the beliefs that we hold at this instant. We
are perfect, we are the perfect expression of our beliefs. If we
like who we are, enjoy life, have a deep enthusiasm for life and a
passion to be, and our current experience of Creation
serves us
and
creates
a life worth living, we have found our bliss and we need do
nothing. We should enjoy it and make a toast and give gratitude to
the experience of life and
wonderment of the universe. We already
are our heart’s desire.
If the answer is, “no,: then we probably feel life can be better. We
then we may want to consider exploring our
creative power and creative ability to create
a life worth living. In entering the
journey of exploring our creative power and creative ability, we may
want to enjoy it and make a toast and give gratitude to the
experience of life and
wonderment of the universe for in the end, we
are only
consciousness/Consciousness at play with itself/Itself.
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