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Inner creative power
Exploring inner creative power
Three aspects to inner creative power
Origins of all our creative power
Finding creative ideas and creative concepts
Accessing
passion
Exploring the deeper levels of our inner creative power
Primary issues to address relative to our inner creative power
Once we access the
feelings to create or the feelings arise based on our past
programming there appears to be two way or two parts to access our
creative power. Observation has shown there appears to be an inner
creative power and an
outer creative power. That is, we have an ability within
ourselves to cause something new and not previously experienced to
come into existence. Similarly there are things we can do externally
or outside ourselves which give us the ability to cause something
new and not previously experienced to come into existence.
Experiencing these two creative powers as separated is nicely said
in an old Arab proverb, “Trust in God but tether you camel.” That
is, there are things the
outer creative powers/Creative Powers are responsible for doing
and there are things the inner
creative powers/Creative Powers
are responsible for doing. We cannot expect one to do the work of
the others. The question is, “When to we look to the inner and when
do we look to the outer, or maybe we need to use both?” Accessing
creative power is about being able to trust our thinking and to come
to know ourselves such that we know when we must go within, when we
must go without or we use a combination of inner and outer to get
what seek.
Most of our experience with these inner and
outer creative powers cause us to think they separate and
unrelated. However, ultimately they are interconnected. This
discussion addresses the inner creative power as a separate power.
Parallel discussions address the outer creative power and how the
inner and outer are connected and accessed.
Exploring inner creative
power (Top)
When many talk about creative
power or accessing creative power they think of creativity and
creative power as having creative ideas which can solve the problems
they face. They see creativity as something we do inside ourselves.
We do something to get an original or creative idea and then act
externally in the world to manifest the idea we have. Most do not
see learning about how the physical world works as necessarily
accessing creative power and lead us to the
bridge point of the inner and the outer. If they think of an
external creative power, they quickly go to concept of God or its
equivalent.
Accessing the external world is not necessarily seen as part of our
creative power. When many talk about creative power or accessing
creative power, what they are really talking about is inner creative
power and what we can do within ourselves to become more creative.
Yet, inner creative power goes much deeper than having creative
ideas which can solve the problems we face.
Creative power is about feelings. Accessing inner creative power
begin with understanding what does or doesn’t allow us to become
passionate and/or enthusiastic about engaging life. Accessing our
inner creative power is normally seen as doing things which cause us
to: become excited, have increased trust and faith, obtain
confidence, become inspired, have new and different thoughts and the
like. In essence, it is about anything that allows us to become
excited enough to step out and bring something new and significantly
different from the past into the manifestation. Some times we do it
consciously but more often than not we do it subconsciously.
Three aspects to
inner creative power (Top)
It is here there is a split in our
inner creative power. There is the aspect of inner power as to what
gives us creative ideas. Then there is that aspect which makes us
passionate and excited about engaging life. Then there is a deeper
part. The deeper part goes to the essence of who and what we are as
opposed to who and what we believe we are as a result of the
experiences we have had in this life. This deeper part goes to the
bridge point of the inner and the outer.
Most of our creative effort, whether done individually or
collectively as in an organization or company, we look to see what
gives us creative ideas. We look find ways to think different and/or
perceive differently to get a creative idea or concept which will
solve the problem we face. Similarly, individually and collective we
look at “motivation” and look to see what causes us to become
excited about the task at hand. Most of what we do to access inner
creative power stays at these levels. However there is a deeper
level.
The deeper level of our inner creative power is reflective of the
human conditions as seen from the creativity perspective. That
is, there are few who have explore the true depth and breadth of the
inner creative power available to us. Most stop somewhere in the
journey in the
valley of contentment. That is, they get pass what issue causes
them to explore into the depth of their being and then stop when the
find a place of comfort. Few continue the journey to its depths. It
is at these deeper levels of our being we access the place where we
create health, or illness, accident and/or disease. It is at these
deeper levels we find we are the creator of our experiences and the
reality of our experience. The question is, “Why would we want to
explore these deeper levels of our being if we can satisfaction and
contentment at shallower levels?” The answer is, “There is no reason
to do so - it all depends on what we wish to create in, and with,
our life.”
In discussing our inner creative power and how we access the
animating energy of life, it needs to be noted and emphasized that
no book, no external teacher, no external authority can tell us
exactly how to best direct our energy for ourselves and the common
good. We, ourselves, must go within and explore our own true nature
to answer that question and whatever answer we get will most
probably not look like what we think we should do or expect. All
that can be done here is bring our awareness to the fact that we are
capable of controlling and directing the energy that sustains and
animates our physical body. We will have to explore the best ways to
do so. What is provided here can only provide some ways that may be
useful in learning how to direct and control that energy. The work
to do so is our choice to make.
Origins of all our
creative power (Top)
The
role of consciousness is to be the cause of our experiences. It
is to be the cause of creation. Our internal creative power arises
from what we think and believe aligning with the flow of our
creative life energy, the
feminine aspect of our being. From the perspective of the inner
creative power and
outer creative power being separate, external creative power is
access through the experiences of mind and our understanding of how
external creation appears to work. But to access and use the
external creative power we still need to have the passion and energy
to act on what we know about the external world
At a very shallow level, we can access creative power through mind
by rearranging what we think and believe to get creative ideas. We
can then act to manifest those ideas. At a deeper level, our
internal creative power is accessed through
surrender to the flow of energy that sustains us and flows from
the Source of Creation. However, most of us are trained to access
creative power by our
enculturated mind which has been trained to do our bidding in
the external world and harness our inner feminine to supply the
energy to do that bidding. Nevertheless, in the end, our creative
power ultimately comes from accessing the
inner feminine and learning how to use the feminine power and
feminine aspect of the creative process to support our actions in
the world.
Finding
creative ideas and creative concepts (Top)
The main issue in finding creative
ideas is that the mind that created the problem we face will not
provide the solution. To find the solution we seek, we need to be
out of mind
and in a state of creative play. How we get out of mind is our
choice. Many refuse to change their thinking until they become
desperate and/or it becomes so painful they have no choice but to
look outside what they think and believe. A “not doing” practice is
probably the quickest way to get out of mind. As for entering a
state of creative play, that will depend entirely whether or not we
are willing to face the pain of the past. It is the pain of the past
that is associated with the lost of our creative play why we
shutdown our creative play in the first place.
To find those creative ideas and creative solutions, we need is to
explore how and why we think the way we do. We need to become
mindful and aware of the thought we have and pull the string to why
we have the particular thoughts we do in a given situation. We begin
the process with observing the thought we have, the choices we make
and the longings we hold in our mind and our heart.
Accessing passion (Top)
Accessing passion is about
learning to understand what allows us to feel. To access our
creative passion we must be open to feeling at every level of our
being. How we choose to open our being at each of these levels is
our choice. What we will need to do at each of these levels will be
unique. We can use the advice and recommendations of others and
maybe even allow them to guide us. However, ultimately it is our
journey and on we know how and what we feel in any situation. We
must free to discover and explore what we feel and why we feel what
we do. For most of us we will have to face the pain as to why we
shutdown our ability to feel the subtle energy of Creation. Most of
us will have to explore what really makes us excited about life and
what is it we need to do to feel a passion for life and for living
for it is only in the passion and feelings to act that we become
creative.
Exploring the deeper levels of our inner creative power
(Top)
Exploring the deeper levels of our inner creative
power starts with holding our creativity sacred, returning to a
state of creative play and being free to explore and experiment with
what we feel and look to our intuitive guidance as to how to proceed
in our exploration of the deeper levels of our being.
The key understanding about our inner creative power and beginning
this deeper journey is that our
creative life energy goes where we focus our attention and
awareness. If we direct the energy based on our ego needs and see
ourselves separate and an observer of Creation who stands apart from
Creation and others, we will be directing the energy away from
exploring the deeper levels of our being. To stay in what we think
and believe, we nourish and nurture our
ego and the ego does not allow us to see Creation for what it
is. As discussed in the
creative/creation process, we are part of a larger process. The
ego arises from the experiences we have had and, as such, is the
result of the larger process we wish to explore. As long as we feed
the ego, we stay within the process.
However if we can step
out of mind
and transcend our
ego identity and who we think we are because of the experiences
we have had, we can being to see the
creative/creation processs. We can come to understand how we are
a
detached witness having a particular experience. In this
awareness we affect and influence everything we think about and how
we choose to observe Creation. Here we will begin to channel the ourcreative life energy
in a different way. As a detached witness, we will change ourselves
and all of Creation. Here we being to step into the true depth of
our
creative power and creative
ability.
Primary issues to address relative to our inner creative power
(Top)
The primary issue we face relative
to access our inner creative power is to learn to create experiences
which
serves us and will create
a life worth living We need to become aware of the fact we can
channel our energy in a way that is best for us and others or in a
way that is ultimately destructive to ourselves and others. The only
question is, "How do we chose to channel it?"
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