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Using creative play to recreate
oneself
Understanding the influence of age
Determine existing judgments and biases
Determine new aspects of life
If we choose to recreate ourselves in any way
Fruits of the chaotic state of the creative process
Creative play is one of the most
powerful tools and quickest ways to recreate an aspect of our life
if not our entire life. Creative play makes it possible to create
the freedom to sample a new area of life to determine what our
initial reactions are to that new area without the internal and/or
external influences, judgement and expectations. Or, creative play
can be use to see and determine what internal influences and
judgements we possess about that aspect of life, let alone sampling
it.
Understanding the influence of age (Top)
Which ever way we choose to use
creative play to recreate ourselves, we start with focusing our mind
to create that
playful state of a very young child to explore
options. In doing so, what often arises are all the reasons why we
are not free to enter that playful state. Simply exploring and
working through that which arises often give us sufficient freedom
to recreate many aspects of our life. In fact, dealing with what
arises as obstacles to freely enter creative play is a sufficient
recreation of our life. Many of our issue and problem go away in
working towards creating this type and kind of play. A method of
returning to creative play is provided in the topic, A practical
method for returning to a state of play.
In any case, once we create the conditions to step into
creative play, we can couple that play with
clear intention and begin our
explorations to recreate ourselves.
The goal we wish to achieve is the freedom to literally play with,
and sample, all the aspects of an area before we have form any
judgements about what is we are learning and experiencing. When in
creative play, our focus should be allowed to wander to the most
interesting thing or the next thing we need to experience. Our
attention is drawn to the energy that is calling for attention at
the moment to fulfill our desired intention. We need to remain free
to be drawn to the next area as it catches our interest and are free
to go there. No matter how good an option may appear to be that we
discover, we need to be free to explore other options before we
settle in on a particular option. Although the time that we spend in
any one area or on any one aspect may be a while, we nevertheless
must be free to bounce between many different areas settling on
none. Then, over time, we slowly start to be drawn more and more to
fewer and fewer areas. Finally we settle into, or rather focused on,
a particular aspect of this unknown we were exploring.
We need to be aware of the primary difference between youth and age.
In youth there is less fixed focus of our attention and awareness
because we do not have a particular creative end in mind. In aging,
we become fixes and rigid in our views of life and
no longer explore
life as that young child. We tend to focus in on a solution much
earlier. When in
creative play we need to be aware of this fact and
allow ourselves to continually sample different options to see what
is the best option. In time, we will being to see why one particular
options is better than others. Often the option we end up choosing
is not the one we would have selected earlier. We being to see how
limited and biased our mind really was about what the solution
should look like. One of the most challenging things to face in
creative play is to keep the options open and not select any one
option too early.
Determine existing judgments and biases (Top)
Normally the existing judgement
and biases we have do not reveal themselves until we find ourselves
in a situation that call us to response. Rather than being free to
see the situation for what it is, normally we response with our
judgements and biases. To explore and determine existing judgements
we have the easiest way is to create some type and kind of
metatheatric performance around the areas or aspects we wish to
explore. The metatheatric is simply some type or kind of theater
type performance were we creates situations which call forth our
hidden response patterns. It is a meta-theater because what we seek
lies beyond the theatrics we do. Rather we are seeking our response
to the theatrics. In this way we can reveal almost any hidden
pattern we desire. It all depends on how intense we make the
theatrics.
One application of this approach is if we desire to move into some
new aspect of life. We can then create scenarios which are similar
to what we may encounter to see how we response and how we feel
about what we face. We can then look at the feeling which are being
generated to see if we feel an expansion or contraction within our
being. If our feelings are generally expansive, the area we explore
may be a good direction to go with our life. If however we feel
contraction, we may wish to either consider other options or explore
why we have the feelings we do.
Determine new aspects of life (Top)
A second way to use
creative play
to recreate ourselves is to explore areas of life that we have never
considered either as options or did not know they existed. Here
again,
metatheatrics can be used. We can create scenarios for
different aspects of life we have never explored and allow ourselves
to explore in the theatrics. Use of simulations and the like can be
very effective.
Or, rather than use created theatrics we can give ourselves
permission to attended some limited training and/or opportunities
for experience. For example, we may think we wish to be a fire
fighter. It can be arranged to attended some field training with
firemen to see if it is really something we may wish to do. Thinking
fighting a fire is fun but having to dress up in all the gear and
actually try and fight a fire can change our perspective very
quickly.
Of course, there are many things we can get use to doing over time
even when we initially dont like them. However, what is sought here
is where there is a natural draw and a feeling of expansion is
present in what is done. When we are moving in a direction that
aligns with what we incarnated to do, we will feel something quite
different than other feelings. We simply know this is what we need
to be doing or at least moving in the directing that is providing
the feelings even where our mind tells us we are doing something it
is not necessarily finding enjoyable.
If we
choose to recreate ourselves in any way (Top)
If we choose to recreate ourselves
in any significant way and/or access and release our
unlimited creativity, we will
enter a chaotic state in our life. This state is
symbolic of the
mythical phoenix burning itself in the fire of its
own nest. In essence we become the Phoenix. For those not familiar
with the Phoenix Myth, the Phoenix was a mythical bird that would
consciously consume itself in flames to be reborn new from its
ashes. It is discussed in the topic The Phoenix.
If we
surrender
to the
chaotic state of creation and allow ourselves
to be with the chaos, over time we will gain a focus with this
state. Within this focus we will have a unique understanding and
experience of the unmanifested realm within the Source of Creation
and what it means to us. Yet, as discussed in the topic, The
problem of mind and the experience of the Source of Creation - the
trap of mind although we experience the Source, we will not be able
to effectively communicate what we experience to another. If we let
go all that mind thinks and believes we will find ourselves creating
a new creation based on our own unique understanding and experiences
of who and what we are.
This seemingly
chaotic stage is as thought we are the
scarab
sampling, eating and digesting all that is laying around us only to
metabolize this material into our being and out of our being flows a
new creation, a new life. When we figure out what we need to
eat from
life that really sustains our being, we
focus in on that activity and spend less and less time exploring.
Again as the
phoenix, we rise from the ashes of the understanding we
have gained in the destruction of our
enculturated self, that nest
we build representing who we think we were that we found so much
comfort.
The deeper the exploration of the unknown, the longer the
chaotic
process seems to take for there is so much to explore. However,
usually what happens is that our mind enters the picture. We begin
to judge or place expectations on our efforts rather than to explore
in pure play for as long as it takes. By having to meet the
deliverable that our mind or an external influences places on our
actions, we never find what is the natural and preferred focus for
any situation or area of understanding.
Fruits of the chaotic state of the creative process
(Top)
To fully understand an unknown, we
must be allowed to play in that unknown as that
young child being
drawn to whatever arises as the next item if we are truly going to
understand what that unknown has for us. The only role mind really
needs to play is to hold a fixed and unwavering focus on why we
entered the creative state in the first place. That fixed focus will
guarantee that we do not get lost in our exploration and we will
recognized what we need when we find it.
Two things get revealed in this seemingly chaotic exploration
process. One is that what we finally focus on within the process
tells us a lot about ourselves and what lies within our being. It
reveals to us as to how we have channeled our energy such that our
the outer world reveals our inner choices. That fact that we do not
stay wondering around endlessly in this chaotic state is because of
the conscious and
nonconscious focus we hold. We need to realize
that it is to what we are eventually drawn, tell us about the deeper
composite intention we carry. Our conscious intention is not
normally the only intention we carry. We normally do not wander in
this state of chaos endlessly. Eventually we do end up focusing. We
can use that on which focus to reveal our deeper desires. We then,
of course, need to iterate the process as we reveal our
nonconscious intentions. We can
continue to peel the layers of our nonconscious intentions if we
wish or simply go with that on which we finally focus.
What is interesting is when our mind wants to find focus but the
intention we hold keeps us in the chaotic process exploring. It is
here we feel we will go, or are, crazy. Yet, in the end, it is only
a prolonged exploration of the unknown. When we do find what we seek
in the chaos, life will fall into place. Until then we can expect to
remain in the chaos. On this point,
we need to be careful for what
we wish because it is our wish and desire
that may be keeping us in the chaos until we can find out how to
create what we desire.
This particular fact is the main reason why the
conscious journey to
explore creativity which gave rise to the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material ended up taking so long. It was initially
thought the second half of the journey was completed
after
approximately nine years. Yet it continued until the
minimum set of
experience necessary to meet the initial intention was met. The
topic, Why the second half of the journey took nine years
discusses this aspect and the
illusion of mind and the story it
creates about what unfolds in our life when we do not have the
minimum set of experiences to understand what we experience.
Another way of saying this is that we are
multidimensional. Some
aspect of our being will remain in the
chaos of creation for as long
as it takes us to get the
minimum set of experience to understand
how to create what we desire where as other aspects of our being may
appear to be completely normal. Sometimes the chaos will switch from
one aspect and/or dimension to another or spill across affecting our
entire being. In essence, some aspect of our being will be in chaos
until we understand how to create what we desire.
The second is that we do become focused within the
chaos. In
understanding that we have become focused we can see the reason for
that focus and that reason lies within our being. We being to see
how we created the focus that we have and how and why we have
removed other options from our life. We begin to learn how we have
created our experience.
The final point of which we needs to be aware is how safe we feel to
be able to explore. For a child, a play room is quite different than
a living room, a kitchen or some other type of room. As children
growing up, we become aware we have a different range in the
permission that is given to us to explore depending on where we find
ourselves. So too with us when we attempt to enter a creative state.
Different environment provide quite different permission for
exploration. Where that permission comes from is another question.
It may come from an external authority or own past as to what we
are, or are not, allowed to do and/or where we have, or have not, be
injured and/or harmed. What we need to understand is what is keeping
us from being free to explore is whatever we are drawn to explore.
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A practical method for returning to a state of play
Future lives - be careful what you wish for
Why the second half of the journey took nine years
Ultimate goal of our journey into play
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