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Solving the puzzle of our life
Our
life is a communication
Our life is an
ongoing, unfolding communication
Piecing the puzzle together
Creating
a perspective
Reconstituting the whole
Importance
of the reconstituting the whole exercise
As the
creator of the creation we experience, the experience of
creation involves the
need for us to forget how we created our creation and
to become lost in our creation. Becoming a conscious creator is
the reverse of this process. It is to piece together the puzzle we
have created as to how we have created the experiences we have. In
essence we have created a puzzle to be solved.
We each are in
infinitely creative being who has
fragmented and shattered our creative power by the experiences
we have had. To regain our wholeness of being and access our true
creative power, some where, at some time each will have to find a
safe and secure space
with someone we feel we can trust to share the depth and breath of
our secrets and events that have shatter and fragmented our creative
power at each and every level of our being. This will ultimately
need to be done for whatever method we choose to access our
unlimited creativity.
In piecing together the puzzle of our life as to how and why we have
created the experiences we have in order to access the root cause,
we need to realize two things. One is that
creativity is the language of consciousness. The other is we are
a
creative living process in a process of continually unfolding
and recreating ourselves.
Our life is a communication
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In understanding
creativity is the language of consciousness, we can being to
understand the life we live is a communication to us and the world
something our consciousness desires to communicate. In this
realization, we need to become aware of two things. One is we cannot
look to single individual events as to what is important in our
life. What is important can only be seen in the context of the
whole. We need to be able to stand back and look at our whole life
to see what picture is being painted.
The reason for this is our life unfolds in a linear fashion - event
follows event. Analogously it is like painting a painting. Brush
stroke follows brush stroke but any one brush stroke does not reveal
the painting. We need to stand back and look at the whole picture
and all the brush strokes together.
The second thing of which we need to become aware is that what our
consciousness desires to communicate can only be done through the
experiences we have had. We may not have had the
minimum set of experiences for our consciousness to be able to
fully communicate what is desires to say. As such, we need to be
prepared to look at the events of our life as either symbolic of
something larger or as only a approximation to some deeper
communications. Here the context of events and/or the repetitive
nature of similar events in our life become important. If our
consciousness cannot communicate what it has to say one way, it will
look to find another way. All the ways it finds to communicate may
be inadequate individually, but collectively the events reveal the
deeper statement.
Our
life is an ongoing, unfolding communication
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In looking at our life, we need to
be very aware we are a
creative living process. We are recreating ourselves every
moment by every experience we have. Some experience reinforce the
past and/or what we already know. In this cases, we never notice
that we are an unfolding process. Other experiences pull us outside
the past and causing us to rethink what we known. These experiences
allow us to see we can, and are, continually recreating ourselves.
In looking at our life we need to understand it is a process
unfolding. As a
creative living process, how we piece the pieces of the puzzle
together today may be very different tomorrow. We should expect that
the meaning and interpretation we give to our life at age twenty
will be very different than at age fifty. This means that how ever
we interpret our life, we need to realize we will need to iterate
that interpretation as more information becomes available.
But even thought our life is in the process of unfolding, there is
great merit to be obtained by looking at what has been created up to
any one point. As we look at our life at different points along the
way and iterate the process we can being to see a direction to our
life. We may not be able to see a particular end point but we can
see the all overall picture is pointed in a certain direction and
each iteration narrows the focus. Of course is needs to be noted the
direction may not be linear. The “direction” may be more of a spiral
or circulation as if we are in a dance coming back to a starting
point and starting another verse. In seeing any pattern, we can
begin to anticipate where we need to go next and make the
transitions in our life easier to understand and less painful than
they would otherwise be.
Piecing the puzzle together
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One of the more powerful analogies
for our life is to see it something like a creative jig saw puzzle
that we need to piece together. Each event is one of many pieces.
However, rather than have all the pieces available to us at once
they are given to us one at a time. What is important here is that
although all the pieces seem to fit together before we have all the
pieces, any one pieces could change how all the other pieces go
together.
We can use this analogy of a jig saw puzzle in two ways. One is to
create a perspective and the other is to use it as an approach to
understanding our life.
Creating a perspective
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Since we are going to piece the
puzzle of our life together, it is appropriate to create a
perspective or mind set that allows us to embrace what we will face.
To create the perspective we can create a ritual were we piece
together a jig saw puzzle to metaphorically represent what we are
going to do.
For this exercise have someone obtain for you a one hundred piece
jigsaw puzzle. Have them give you only the pieces such that you are
totally unaware of what the pieces will look like when they come
together. Put the puzzle together to symbolically represent
embarking on a journey to piece together the puzzle of your life.
Allow yourself to become aware of the difficulties and frustrations
you feel in trying to piece the picture together when you have no
idea what you are trying to solve. Become aware of the false starts
and all the different ways you try and solve the puzzle. Become
aware if there are any techniques you discover that make solving the
puzzle easier - or more difficult.
When you complete the this task, check to see if you really desire
to piece your life together to access the depth and breadth of your
creativity. If piecing the puzzle together was enjoyable although
frustrating, then you will enjoy piecing your life together. If you
found the experience totally unrewarding, understand that the
process of piecing your life together may be just as unrewarding.
Ask yourself if piecing your life together is truly something you
desire to experience.
Reconstituting the whole
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Reconstituting the whole is about
consolidating our creative power. It is about finding and collecting
the pieces from where we have fragmented, shattered and scattered
the pieces. What is recommended here needs to be done in conjunction
with some other exploration technique such as “Becoming
our truth,” “Utilizing
our creativity and creative passion to access our unlimited
creativity,” or “Surrendering
to the flow of our creative life energy.”
Start from where you are now. Draw a
life map as to how you got to where you are now in life. You can
write a story about individual events in your life but draw some
type and kind of map. Ensure each of the stories your write about
the events in your life are clearly represented in some way. For
example, you can draw a simple straight line road map where there
events you write about are towns along the way. The larger the event
in your life, the greater the size of the town. But what need to be
reflected on the life map are individual events clearly separated or
capable of being separated. For example, your life map could be a
tree where life events are represented by the branches or the
leaves.
After drawing your
life map, share the story contained in the life map with someone
whom you can
trust. Only drawing the map is insufficient. We each need to
tell our story to someone. It needs to be realized in the
interconnectedness of Creation and the Oneness of the Universe,
there are ultimately no secrets. We have to be willing to embrace
that fact. Having secrets only keeps us in the illusion of
separation. We will have to reveal our secrets to someone eventually
if we wish to become free enough to access the depth and breadth of
our creativity and/or become
our truth. Whatever we are not free to
tell another will limit what creativity we can access. We will be
keeping our creativity captured in a cage of our own making by the
secrets we cannot tell. That in turn will limit what we can
consciously create in, and with, your life.
After you tell your story reflected in the
life map, redraw each event on the map on a single sheet of
paper. You can cut the life map into individual pieces if you wish,
but you will probably find it more fun if you leave the life the map
to come back to it later in your journey. These pieces represent the
pieces of the puzzle you have at this point in time. You will add to
this collection of pieces as new pieces which are revealed or your
understand you need to go back and add or somehow change one of the
pieces in your original life map.
As you live your life and follow your chosen method to access the
depth and breadth of your creativity and/or to become
your truth,
add events to your collection of events as you remember them.
Remember, you are a
creative living process recreating yourself every moment. What
you remember will allow you to change your perception of yourself by
how you remember the event. As you have new experiences in life you
have the option of recreating your life and how you interpret all
that is of your past. Capture what you learn as individual piece.
Reworking old pieces as new insights occur and adding new pieces as
they are revealed.
From time to time, look at all the pieces you have and assemble them
into a composite
life map or picture. Look to see what has or has not changed.
Look to see what new events you remembered that were never in your
original life map. Redraw your life map based on what you have to
date and retell your story.
For the
life maps created and the story we create and tell as to how the
events have occurred two notes need to be made. The first note which
can be avoided if we can become a detached witness is that we may
begin to notice we seem to be haunted by the past in two ways.
One way we are haunted is our interpretation of the events in our
life are, in part, determined by how we feel in the moment. As we
review the past, we create the occasion for either feelings about
the past or feelings we experienced in the past to surface. Whether
we are consciously aware of what we cause ourselves to feel doesn’t
matter. Often what surfaces are subtle feelings of which we are not
consciously aware. If we feel pain, discouragement, sadness, anger,
or anything that does not make us feel fulfilled, feel we have a
life worth living, and/or a feeling to freely engage life, we will
interpret our life in a way that does not really serve us. We then
begin to believe this story we tell about our life and live our life
according to this story. That in turn causes conditioning to the
body which brings up the second way we are haunted by the past.
The
most significant issue we will face in reviewing our past,
working to become
our truth and/or access the depth and breadth of
our creativity is
body memories. In understanding the relationship
between energy and consciousness, it is a rather obvious conclusion
our body will hold memories as does the mind.
Most are familiar with mental memories and habits. Some mental
memories and habits are the result of intentional conditioning and
others are the result of simply doing something a particular way
repeatedly. Body habits and muscle memories are similar and
similarly developed but tend to be a little bit more subtle. They
are subtle in that we will not necessarily have a conscious
awareness of them when they surface for we tend to remember them
through feeling and what we feel in a given situation.
Body memories tend to shift the feelings we have in a given moment.
Our mind interprets what we feel as a result of what mind is aware
of happening. More often than not, mind tends to associate the
feelings the body has with what is happening externally. When mind
does this it never becomes aware of the body memories. That, in
turn, allows all that mind is thinking to become captured by the
past even when mind thinks it is free to create something new.
Freedom is a feeling.
True freedom is to be like the wind, coming with nothing (no
attachments) and leaving with nothing (no attachments). Unless
we are in that feeling of freedom when we are acting to create
something new, we will only be recreating the past in a new way.
This is why the
creative state of play of becoming like the spontaneous and
innocent
play of very young child freely discovering and exploring itself
and its world is so important.
The goal of reviewing our life events is to become free of the past
and the feelings that bind us to the past. This bring us to the
second note about reviewing our
life maps and the story we tell. We need to take the role of the
creator of the experiences we have. Unless we do so, we will never
find freedom. Otherwise, we will be a victim in one way or another,
to one degree or another. Our creativity, creative power and
our truth will be held captive in
a cage of our own making in any area and in any aspect of our
life where we do not allow ourselves to see ourselves as the creator
of the experience.
When we look at the experiences we have had in life we need to see
ourselves as having created that experience at some level of our
being or we agreed to participate in that experience. Whether or not
we believe we created or agreed to participate in the experiences we
had doesn’t matter. We need to ask our intuition such questions as,
“If I am the creator of the experiences I have, why would I create
such an experience?” In asking such questions we get insights. The
insights we get allow us to begin to see relationships between
events in our life and the world around us that we would otherwise
never be able to see. We will begin to see more is occurring than we
first could imagine.
We need to iterate the process of drawing our
life map and telling our story as we continue our journey into
the exploration of the depth and breadth of our creativity. But we
need to start telling the story as the creator of that life. As some
point we will have a profound awareness. It is as though we can see
through time and space relative to our life. We being to see are
role for ourselves we never knew we had. We will being to see the
meaning of our life and what we are here to do. But this awareness
is not something we can access through our mind. Rather we will
stumble upon it. Suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, our entire
life makes sense and that understanding transcends our current life
and the experiences we have had. It is here, in this awareness, we
will need to claim what we find and appropriate name it.
This becomes Step five, “Declaring
Oneself,” in the approach to access our
unlimited creativity
entitle, “Becoming
our truth.” Although this step brings us to Step five of the
“Becoming our truth” approach, we need the work of the earlier steps
and the types and kinds of experiences we have in the other
approaches to get the life experiences to construct our
life maps. Without the work done in any of the approaches we
will not have the information we needs.
When we know who and what we are from this awareness, we can then
choose to become the conscious creator and decide what it is we
really desire to experience.
Importance of the reconstituting the whole exercise
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This exercise is important for
several reasons. One is our attitude and perspective about our life
changes from time to time. Often what we think about ourselves is
based on what is happening in our life at that point in time. It is
important to see whatever we believe about ourselves is not fixed in
concrete and often determined by the events we face. Similarly,
within the context of our life, even tragic events have a different
flavor and meaning when views from a broader perspective.
A second reason why this exercise is important is that we forget. By
capturing events as we remember them, we being to see how fluid our
thinking can be and how seemingly forgotten events have a great
bearing on what we think and believe about ourselves, others and the
world we experience. Here again, by piecing together the pieces we
see them in context and often that context causes us to give them a
different meaning and impact in our life.
The third reason is we can arrange the pieces however we desire.
There is a time line as to how we received the pieces. However, how
they are assembled into a context is our choice. We can piece the
pieces together in whatever fashion we wish. We can create a story
that empowers us and our life. Then again, we can use the pieces as
justification for anger, a victim consciousness and the like. But,
however we assemble and interpret the pieces, it is our
interpretation and our creation. So there is no reason why we cannot
interpret the pieces in the most freeing and empowering manner.
Most importantly, we can realizes these are our pieces and they
belong to us and no one else. It is our interpretation as to what
meaning we give them. There is no more empower experience to see how
we are the creators of the life we experience for we are in control
of interpreting any experience we have and how we will respond to,
and remember, that experience.
Lastly, the importance of this exercise is we become different. We
cannot look at the events of our life and tell our story without
becoming different. The question is “How different do we allow
ourselves to become?” There is a nature healing that goes with
telling our story. If we tell our story in the awareness we can
change our story by how we interpret the events in our life, we
being to see how we create both the experiences we have and the
reality that goes with those experience.
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