A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

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In learning to get in touch where we have focused our attention and awareness and/or observing the fears in our life we only need to look at the thoughts we have and how we respond to the situations in life we experience. In looking to work with how we have focused of our attention and awareness we can work at one of three levels. These three ways and levels reflect moving from working with the energy within our being and psyche around a given issue consciously to working with the energy more nonconsciously where the energy is already encoded in a body response.

The easiest level is to work with the thoughts and energy in our mind before we take any actions whatsoever. Working with our thoughts and energy in the mind is about learning what generates our thoughts and how we can go about "gardening" our life so as to create the thoughts which serves us and what we desire to create. Additional discussion is provided in the topic, "Working with our thoughts and energy in the mind"

The second way, discussed here, is to be mindful and aware to see what arises within us in response to our world and work with what arises before we act. This level is discussed here.

The third way, which is the hardest of the three ways, is to work with how we response to what we experience. Our goal should be to become sufficiently mindful and aware to see what arises within ourselves before we act. However, is often hard to do. Here the challenge become how to figure out how we respond to a situation or would respond to a situation before we actually face the situation. Additional discussion is provided in the topic, "Working with how we act in response to what we experience."

Working with what arises before we act

How we respond in the world is based on how we view the world and what we believe about the world. How and what we think and believe determines how we process whatever energy we experience whether that energy is perceived internally or externally. To work with what arises before we act we need to become mindful and aware of what arises in response to what we experience and then pull the string on what arises. We need to pull the string and ask why the particular thought, feeling or response we have as opposed to any other. In this regard, the first action we need to take to become mindful and aware.

In looking to work with what arises before we act there are two areas that are similar but slightly different. One is listing to how we respond to what another says and the other is observing how we respond to events in our lives. Both require us to be mindful and aware and we pull the string on what arise in the say way. The different is when we are listening or responding to another

Listening to how we respond to what another says:: In listening to someone talk we should be able to trust what is said, denying none of it, accept it and let it sit in our psyche. Take what is said at face value until there is some evidence what they are saying may not reflect an aspect of truth in some way. Of particular note, realize we cannot judge the another perceives any aspect of Creation even if we are standing right beside them as they have their experience. What they perceive is what they perceived. The issue about truth is whether or not what they are saying is self contradictory or not consistent. Also, by taking them at their word we keep our mind out of any judgments. Rather, we allow our intuitive guidance to surface as to what it may be perceiving about what is being discussed.

If a response arises within, we need to become aware of what arises whether it be a thought, feeling or a sensation. Our nonconscious mind will reveal what issues we need to address or what "buttons have been pushed," or we have an intuitive insight about something. What needs emphasized is we should not deny what surfaces as, and when it surfaces within us. We need to allow what arise to arise and be with what arise and look to see what is being communicated to us by our noncosncious mind. The feelings and thoughts could run the range of a yes and full agreement, to a completely different picture of what the speaker was presenting, to an emphatic no and need to rebut or refute the speaker’s position. What we need to explore is why we have the response that we do to what is said and why.

Any no, negative reaction, or disagreement that we feel is probably one of three things.. One is a fear and our nonconscious is reacting to defend the belief we hold that the speaker is challenging. If what is presented causes no action or feelings in us and nothing surfaces, it is because there is probably no energy in our psyche behind the issue on which the speaker is talking. If we hold no strong belief on an issue, or no beliefs those typically accompanied by emotional feelings, no feelings will arise in listening to the speaker on the issue. In these cases we are truly free to listen. If there is no energy behind the issue, no denial arises because there is nothing to deny, and there is no feeling of agreement because there is nothing we feel we need to support.

If there is energy within our being about what the speaker is addressing, feelings will surface. We need to trust anything that arises but we don’t have to act on what arises but we do need to honor it. A no or negative response, is most probably reflective of a defensive position or a judgment of some type in that we are not able to just sit in detachment with what is being expressed and just accepting what is. Here we should pull the string on our response because there is an embedded judgment and possible a fear of some type associated with the response. No response, no image, no thought, is the only response that has no energy behind it. Only benign or neutral images carry no judgments or are without some type of emotional "string" attached to the issue or topic. If a negative response arises, we should check to see what if there is a fear that caused the negative response and resolve the basis of the fear. In this way, the context of listening can be used to ferret out many outlaw memories, fears and beliefs to be addressed and removed from our psyche.

If we find ourselves agreeing with the speaker, we need to pull the string here also. There are two reason why would agree. One is what the speaker is saying is supported by our own experience. In this case, we need not have any concern for what we feel. If however, we agree because it is the position our ego wants to take even if we have supporting experience, we need to be careful we are not on an ego trip pumping up the righteousness of our ego and the position we hold. There is a very fine line here and we do need to keep the harness on our ego so that we are served by it rather than lead by it

In looking into the energy that surfaces or, doesn’t surface, in a response that is benign or neutral probably means one of two things. One is that anything that manifests around that issue will very probably manifest as a neutral or an un-noteworthy experience in one’s life. Something manifesting as benign or neutral is like a neutral thought held. Or, the reverse way of seeing it is a benign or neutral thought will probably manifest a benign or neutral experience. Part of the reason why the event will be un-noteworthy is that we have no preconceived notion of whether the experience will be pleasurable or non-pleasurable and we just accept what is and allow the energy to freely dissipate. As such, we manifest an experience in which we are completely open to its outcome.

Another type of neutral respond we may have is a feeling and/or an associated intuitive insight. In this case, there is an energy which surfaces but we are detached from what arises. That is the energy is not originating inside of us but outside of us and causes nothing to arise in us. We are detached from what arises. Here we may find there is awareness about what is being said that we have no way of knowing other than it being an intuitive insight. What we do with the awareness we receive depend on the information in the awareness.

Observe of how we want to respond to our world; To surface how and what we believe about a topic including surfacing and identifying any fears we may have, we simply need to become aware of how we are choosing to act or respond to in a given situation. One question that is always on the table is, "How do we effectively surface the fears, attitudes and beliefs of the nonconscious mind?" We can always asks, "If the beliefs are nonconscious, how can we uncover them?" The answer is much easier than expected. To gain objective self-knowledge, we cannot use our own dreams, attitudes and opinions for they tend to be biased by our mind. Rather, if we do create our experiences and the we create the reality we experience by how and what we think and believe, we need only to contemplate our effect on the world around oneself. It is here we will find ourselves and our inner world.

Our reality is a direct reflection of the beliefs we hold. Most importantly, our effect on our environment is how and what we are creating and manifesting. Usually we see what we want to see and not what is really being reflected back to us. In this regard, our feelings and bodily sensations will tell us if we are refusing to see what is really there. Also, we rarely look at the effects we cause. We seem to only focus on what is reflected, assuming that which is external to us is separate from us. It is why our feelings and sensations cannot be denied, for they are of the moment and not biased by how our mind interprets what we see. If what we believe in the mind creates fear within us, we are dealing with false beliefs and not truths and our false beliefs will be reflected in someway in our external world if we are willing to look. That is, there will be a conflict in what we see as truth and the truth itself causes a revelation.

Consider the following example. Many of us have been taught to believe that happiness depends on outside circumstances. If this were true, our dreams and fantasies, which come from within, would never bring us happiness. Believing happiness comes from without is a limiting false belief. Any fears that we possess and make us afraid it will take us from happiness and anything that we cling to because we think it will bring us happiness, is based on this false belief. If we think happiness comes from without, we are clinging to someone else’s truth about what reality should look like for happiness is determined within.

We create limitations and fears in our lives when we hold to another’s truth above our truth. We can have other people’s truth in our life and we can live by it, but we need to ensure it is also our truth. However, our mind is filled with much enculturation early in life and the truths of our enculturation may not be our personal truth. Until we know, accept and live our life according to our truth we will not be what our heart desires it to be. Rather, we will be living an enculturated life.

We have a free will and we are free to choose our own life. There are no repercussions or no what we could call judgments as long as you live our truth. Although this is a truth of reality, until we go into our enculturated ego to see what truth we live and compare it to what our heart says, we do not have the free will to choose our life because we will be living some preprogramming from somewhere else.

It is quite simple. The enculturated ego is the collection of beliefs of how society and our family wants us to experience life. However, within each of us is our truth and the truth that brought us into this world as to who and what we are and what we are here to do. Until we know and understand the two views of Creation and ways of living, we do not have the free choice to choose what want to do. We need to get in touch with both our mind and our heart and come to know how to discern each view. If for no other reason, we need to see if either of them are what we want. In learning these to views we can begin to see how each is reflected externally and come to see which view is really allowing us to create a life that serves us and creates a life worth living.

Related topics
Working with our thoughts and energy in the mind
Working with how we act in response to what we experience

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