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Trust in the creative process
The issue of
trust
Moving from trust to understanding
Areas
of trust to explore
Our ability to trust who we are at our deepest levels
Our ability to trust ourselves in what we do
Our ability to trust ourselves what we think
What we think is key to our creative ability
Our ability to trust ourselves in how we respond to any given
situation
Trusting Physical Creation
Trusting the unseen realms of Creation
Trusting the unseen realms of Creation which includes the unseen
aspects of Physical Creation
Trusting those in world we experience
The
issue of trust (Top)
Probably the single greatest issue
we face in creativity and creating what we desire is trust. The
issue centers around what or what do we trust and why do we place
that trust in who or what we do. Trust is the essential element in
creativity and in any creative endeavor until we learn and
understand the
creative process. Then we operate from understanding.
Trust is no longer needed for then we know.
Trust in the
creative process is especially needed when we are
consciously engaged in the
feminine
aspect of creativity. When we
are conscious and aware of being in the feminine role, we are aware
and able to choose to response to give of ourselves, or not give of
ourselves, to nurture a situation. The issue of trust is about wether or not an we are able to trust the situation as it unfolds.
Can we trust to be in a sufficiently
safe and secure space to
nurture a creation and/or gives of ourselves to the extent
necessary.
The hardest part in trust is to set an intention and act based on
what our
mind thinks and/or as we feel lead to act on based on our
intuitive guidance and we see what appears to be little or no
results. The frustration increases the longer we see little or no
result. More often than not, we tend to let go of what we hold
rather than continue to hold our intention without clear results.
In waiting for results we begin to see how separated our
understanding can be from what we experience. For most of us there
needs to be some physical evidence so that we know the journey is
worth the effort. There is an
anxiety in creation and we are
forced
to walk into the unknown. Often it takes all our energy to just stay
sane in that we seem to irrationally hold to an intention with no
results. We find ourselves puzzled as to how anyone can be asked to hold
an intention without seeing results and some evidence of what they
are doing is manifesting in a desired result. So, rather than
becoming truly creative and enduring the
sacrifice of creation and
sit in the anxiety of the unknown, we go for the quick results. -
that which
mind knows. That, in turn, simply leads us back into the
past in a new way.
Trust is really about learning to truly know something in or about
someone or about something. When we think something is true, we act
on that belief or what we believe until the evidence and/or
situation provides otherwise. When we know something is true, we
just act. We don’t need trust when we know. However when we don’t
fully know something for ourselves we must trust. We trust until we
have the
minimum set of experiences to know. For creative endeavors,
we need to trust there is a
creative process and what we see and
what we think we know until we know there is a process. Then trust
is no longer needed. We know. We them simply follow the process.
Then our creative endeavors can become faster, easier and often much
gentler for we don’t fight the process nor are we frighted by the
process.
It needs to be noted that to know something is different than to
think we know. When we know something we have both the mental
understanding to comprehend and the experience to support what we
understand. There are many things we think we know but we don’t. We
may have knowledge about something but we may not truly know that
something. When we truly know something we are never surprised by
it. We can predict its actions and any expectations we have about
how it will act will be fulfilled.
One of the main reason why the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
material has been developed is to allow our
mind to learn and
understand the
creative/creation process. It is provided so that we
no longer have to rely on trust. Rather we will have understanding
and intimately know the process.
There are several issues that arise to challenge our trust. They can
become significant obstacles in a creative endeavor as we move from
the
masculine role in the
creative/creation process to the
feminine
role. Lost of trust is the probably the single greatest cause in us
not being able to create what we desire. Loss of trust often tends
to center around the
size of the sacrifice the
feminine
aspect of
our being needs to make, what it requires of us and what it means
for our lives. Often fear arises and what is required becomes too
much and we abandon out creative endeavors.
The issue with trust has several aspects. The first and foremost
issue is who or what do we trust and this, in turn is comprised of
two overlapping issues. One of the overlapping issues is our ability
to trust ourselves. It is our ability to trust who we are at our
deepest levels of being, It is to trust ourselves in what we do,
what we think, and how we respond to any given situation. Ultimately
trust in ourselves is about whether or not we sufficiently know
ourselves to totally believe in ourselves.
The other overlapping issues is our ability to trust what is
external to us. It is to trust Creation and all that is external to
us - that includes trusting Physical Creation, trusting the unseen
realms of Creation which includes the unseen aspects of Physical
Creation, and trusting those in world we experience. Trusting
Creation is also about our ability to trust the
creative process
that it will allow what we desire to manifest. We may trust Creation
but we do not necessarily trust there is a creative process that we
can follow and get what we desire.
Moving from trust to
understanding (Top)
The issue we face about trust that
tends to interfere with our creativity is really not learning to
trust. We can and will trust whenever we choose to trust. Rather the
issue we face is to obtain understanding such that trust is not
needed. If we can fully trust, we have no need for understanding.
However, if we cannot trust, we need understanding to allow us to
trust until we develop the knowing.
As defined, trust is a confident reliance on the integrity, honesty,
veracity or justice of another. It is to have confidence and/or
faith in something or someone. Trust is seen as a confidence in the
reliability of persons or things without careful investigation. Most
of the issue of trust center on the fact that much of what we trust
requires faith. Faith, in turn is about beliefs and what we do and
don’t believe. When we know something, we don’t need faith. We know.
Faith, as defined is confidence in, or dependence on a person,
statement, or thing as trustworthy. Faith is about having trust.
Faith is belief without need of a certain proof. It is anything
given adherence or credence allegiance or fidelity. We talk about
faith in God, a system of religious beliefs or in testimony about
God as recorded in Scriptures or other religious writings simply
because what we are asked to believe about God cannot necessarily be
proven.
On this point, God is perceived as infinitely vast. Our
minds are
finite and cannot know the infinite. We think we cannot be expected
to fully know God. Here again, when we know something, we don’t need
faith and we don’t need trust. If we know God we would not need
faith in any concept of God. When we experience the
Source of Creation through something like the
Ultimate Accident, we can come
to find we can know what the concept of God is trying to address. We
will come to see that it is our mind is what stands in the way of
knowing the Source of Creation and understanding the
creative/creation process. We will find we must move into our
awareness as a
detached witness to know our
inner and outer creative
powers/Creative Power available to us through the Source. In that
knowing, we have no need of trust, or faith.
It is stated above issues of trust in creativity has several
aspects. The issues of trust are reflect in our ability to trust:
who we are at our deepest levels; ourselves in what we do; what we
think; ourselves in how we respond to any given situation; Physical
Creation; the unseen realms of Creation which includes the unseen
aspects of Physical Creation; and those in world we experience. The
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity approach is to provide available
information on the
creative/creation process so as trust is replace
by a knowing based on observation and/or verification, understanding
and knowledge for each of these aspects. However, creativity is an
experiential subject. You will have to become creative and purse
some creative endeavor to turn the information provided here into an
experiential knowing accompanied by an intellectual way of
understand what is experienced.
The depth and breadth of our inherent
creative power and creative
ability that we access and explore will be determined by what we
choose to create. If we wish to know the true depth and breadth of
our creative power and creative abilities, we will have to think
big, very big. It will need to be
something that takes us into the
infinity of our being to create
it. To attempt something that appears impossible to
mind to create
is a good starting point.
To address the issue of trust, each of us need to decided where we
rely on trust and where have the knowledge, understanding and
experience to know. It is to have both
parts of any knowledge. That is, what we know includes
both the intellectual/mental understand and the experience that goes
with intellectual/mental knowledge such that we develop a knowing.
Areas of trust to explore
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The following provides a starting
point that can be used to gain the knowing described here to replace
the need for trust in each of the areas of the issue with trust.. Of
course, we each have to do our own experiments and applications to
make the intellectual/mental knowledge provided here experiential.
Our
ability to trust who we are at our deepest levels
(Top):
To become a conscious creator, we all need to ask and answer the
question, “Who am I really?” At first glance, it would appear there
are as many answers to this question as there are people. Because we
are all unique and each have a different perspective on
creation/Creation and of creation/Creation
we will each need
explore our own uniqueness and discover for ourselves as to the real
answer to this question.
There are many views as to who we really are and the Releasing Your
Unlimited Creativity has its view. The recommendation made here is
to
allow
effectiveness to be our measure of truth and use whatever
view is effective to create what we desire. However, it is also
recommended that we truly explore whatever view we take such that it
is not a view that we adopt . Rather it is a view that we have
verified as true for us. Otherwise we will be
giving away our
creative power and creative ability in ways we are not aware and
we would not be
hold
our creativity sacred.
The recommendation made here as to how to explore who we really are
is to
hold
our creativity sacred and start from there. If we truly
are the creative beings that is discussed in this material, our own
creativity will lead us to the understanding if it true. If it is
not true, then we will discovered where and why we are limited. That
in turn will also reveal who we are. In any case, we will have a
knowledge and understanding of who we are based on our own
experiences. That in itself provides access to a tremendous amount
of
creative power and creative
ability for we will learn to take responsibility for what
we are responsible for creating and leave to another or others what
they are responsible for creating.
Our
ability to trust ourselves in what we do
(Top):
Here we need to learn our own
truth. We need to learn
the dance. In
particular, It is to learn the dance between the truth of our own
being and our enculturation and experiences of our current life. It
is to know what we need to do that
serves us and the life we desire
to create. In knowing that we are served we have no doubts as to why
we do what we do.
Our
ability to trust ourselves what we think
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Here we need to look at the source of our thinking. This is not
about knowing things and what we know and having accumulated
knowledge. It is to understand how and why we think the way we do.
It is to know what we have personally experienced and verified what
we have taken from other. It is here we must become wise and look
carefully at the
lessons learned by other in creativity and
hold
our creativity sacred. We as individual don’t have time to test all that
we can obtain from others. So the issue what are we going to accept
without our own experiences and what will we need to test for
ourselves.
What we
think is key to our creative ability
(Top):
Our
creative
ability is our ability to knowhow to access our
creative passion
and the flow of
creative life energy and to take the
creative power inherent in that flow and direct it into what we desire to
create. The question is can we trust our own thinking. Do we know we
are operating from our own
truth or are we operating from
enculturation and programming received in our current life. Once we
know our own truth and what
serves us, we need to know what we think
and believe and how we think and believe to know that what we choose
to do will be able to direct us to what we desire to create.
To know our
truth to trust what we do is one thing. To know if our
thinking supports what we desire to create is another. We may know
we need to do something. However our thinking based on our
enculturation may cause us to be unable to do what we know we need
to do. That is, it causes us to look in the wrong direction or act
in a way that does not serve our creative endeavor.
There is the 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
power/Creative Powers are responsible for doing. It is not so much
what we believe but how we think that often causes us to look to the
external world to do what we must do in the internal world and vice
versa. To be able to trust our thinking is to come to know ourselves
such that we know when we must go within and when we must go without
for what we seek, need or do.
Our ability to trust ourselves in how we respond to any given
situation (Top):
Here we need to become mindful and aware to see if we are responding
based on our
truth and what we truly know or responding based on
habit. We may come to know our truth and come to know our thinking.
However, how we respond in any moment may be driven more by habits
of the past created before we come to know our truth and our
thinking. Habits and response patterns normally lie in the
subconscious. Unless we work at becoming mindful and aware, we will
response out of habit and previously developed response patterns.
Since the habits lie in our
subconscious if not the
unconscious,
they are not something we will access and address by talking about
the past or even doing analysis of our past. Rather, they arise in
response to the situation. Normally we never see or even know what
our response pattern will be until we are faced with a situation
where we are asked to response. The only way we really know what our
response will be is to be placed in a situation where we are
required, or rather, prompted, to response.
This gives us two options. One is work at becoming mindful and aware
and hope that in the moment we are asked to respond to something, we
are awake, mindful and aware enough to catch our response before we
make it. This is very difficult for most of us to do. We response so
fast we become aware of our response only as we are responding.
Then, of course, some of us are not awaken, not aware and not
mindful such that we never really realize how we are responding and
that we do have options.
The other option is to create things like
metatheater and create
situation to specifically see how we will response. Then, when we
surface our response pattern, explore the origins of that pattern
and the thinking, beliefs and experiences which are causing us to
respond as we do. If we can get at the underpinning of our response
we have the possibility of changing them in a faster, easier and
quicker way rather than having to continually experience them and/or
work to ingrain a new habit to overlay the old.
In actually, when we see the underpinning, the issue is not so much
to destroy or change the habit. Rather, it is to realize the type
and kind of situations which give rise to the response. In that
awareness, we can become more mindful and aware to not place
ourselves in certain situations. Or, we see the situation unfolding
into a situation of the past and divert the flow of energy before we
have to respond based on the past. What option is best depends the
habit and the type and kind of situation we face. Often it is easier
to just become aware of our response and be aware and willing to
deal with the consequences than trying to change the pattern.
Trusting Physical
Creation (Top):
Creative ability lies in understanding the situation we face and how
to respond to that situation.
Creative power lies in our ability to
feel the need to act. Creative ability lies in understanding how
that creative power needs to be directed. If it needs to be directed
inward, we need to know how and why we think and believe what we do
and what we need to change within to address what we desire to
create. If it needs to be directed outwardly, we need to understand
how the world we inhabit works.
In this regard, there is the physical world we face and the social
world. To understand the physical world we need to develop a basic
understanding of how Physical Creation works. We need to explore
Physical Creation and learn how it operations. We need to get past
superstition and look for those principles that apply anywhere,
anytime and any place and not dependent on the user and their human
characteristics. We cannot base our action on partial
truth, There
is a cause effect relation to the flow of energy in any situation.
We need to understand that
cause effect relationship if we wish to
move from simply responding to what we experience to become the
cause of the next experience.
We must spend some time studying Physical Creation. What should we
study? It depends on what we desire to create. What is provided in
the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material are some concept
and principles to help understand the
creative/creation process. To
know exactly what we need to study, the best approach appears to be
to ask our
intuitive guidance and then
honor the intuitive guidance
we get.
Trusting the
unseen realms of Creation (Top):
The issue here for humanity has been that being in a physical body,
there are things we do not see and experience because the energy is
outside the range of sensitive of our bodies as physical bodies.
Humanity has come to believe the unseen realms of Creation are not
normally accessible to the human being. We tend to believe in
special individual who can tap into these realms. We believe there
are great teachers, prophets, mystics and the like who have access
to these realms and what they say is what we should believe about
the unseen.
However, this is not the
truth of reality. We have only believed we
are limited by our bodies. We have failed to come to understand the
truth of our being and to realize we all have the ability to access
the unseen realms of Creation. We do so by how we focus our
attention and awareness and realize what we experience will be
determined by the
environment in which we find ourselves.
We are
localized in Physical Creation. That which has a facet of
being physical, we will experience as physical. That which has a
facet of being physical has a portion of its localized energy
overlapping with the localized energy of Physical Creation. That
which does not have a facet of being physical will be seen and
experienced in the non physical and characteristic of an experience
in our
creative imagination . We will be aware of that nonphysical
aspect if we have the previous experiences to understand what we
experience.
Our problem has been we have not had a model or way of understanding
Creation that has allowed each us to routinely access the unseen
realms of Creation in a way the acknowledges the uniqueness of our
own being. To access and know the unseen realms of Creation, we need
to find a model for Creation in which we are comfortable that
adequately addresses the uniqueness of our being and its
relationship to the unseen. We then need to do our own experiences
to see if the model or understanding we are choosing to use does in
fact allows us to do what we desire. Here we need to
allow
effectiveness to be your measure of truth.
The recommendation made here is to
hold
our creativity sacred and
use the power of
clear intention to lead us to such a model and way
of perceiving Creation. The
creativity perspective and the Releasing
Your Unlimited Creativity material can provide
an alternative way to
view Creation. Whether it is a way that best suits our individual
creative needs entirely depends on our own uniqueness and what we
desire to create. It can be used as a starting point for exploring
the unseen realms of Creation and using our
creative imagination .
Trusting the
unseen realms of Creation which includes the unseen aspects of
Physical Creation (Top):
The unseen aspects of Physical Creation provide a door way as to
understanding the unseen realms of Creation. The unseen aspects of
Physical Creation provide
bridge point. It provides us some
understanding as to how to work with energy that lies beyond the
normal range of the sensitivity of a human being but still lies
within Physical Creation. In understand what needs to be done to
work with unseen physical energy we can come to some understanding
as to how to work with the unseen energy of Creation.
The issue of working with unseen energy centers around having
properly calibrated instruments. In this regard our
body can be seen
as an energy detector sensitive to a specific range of energy. In
learning how to use the body as an energy detector and with the
understanding of the
equivalence of energy and consciousness, we can
begin to see and learn how to use the
non localized aspects of our
being and our
mind. They too can be used as an energy detector. In
fact, the mind can be tuned much the same way we can tune a radio or
television to specific types and kinds of desired experiences.
Trusting those
in world we experience (Top):
Trusting those in the world we experience is about facing our social
world. But trusting our social world is much more complicated than
understanding the physical world. We all share a common physical
world and the rules and laws of the physical world are the same for
every one of us. It does not matter what we believe, who we are, or
who we think we are. We all are subject to the same physical laws of
Physical Creation. With a little effort, they are not too hard to
learn and we can even verify them if we wish.
However our social world is different. From the view point of being
a human, we each are a separate independent reality sharing a common
physical experience. What goes on in our inner world is complete
unique to us and unique to each individual. Although our energy and
consciousness operate the same way since we all raise out of the
same “stuff” of Creation, our inner reality is determined by our
mind. It is determined by the experiences we have had, what we think
and what we believe. As such it is impossible to hope to gain the
level of detail about any one individuals as we can about Physical
Creation. The only common ground with any other individual is they
are sharing in a common physical experience. We can use that fact to
our advantage.
We can use the analogy of the
pair production phenomenon to
understand how a
non localized energy manifests into physical mass.
We can look at the
implications of the pair production phenomenon
used with the
equivalence of energy and consciousness to show us how
our inner world of consciousness can be reflected externally as
energy. It is in that link that we can use the fact that
creativity
is the language of consciousness and the physical external world an
individual experiences is a communication from the consciousness
which created it and it is communicating information about the
consciousness which created it.
This understanding allows us to see how it is possible in the
oneness of Creation and everything arising out of the same “stuff”
of Creation that the individual or others our life are only there
giving us the experience we desired to have. Moving from learning to
trust those in the world to experience the knowing they are there to
give us the experience we desire to have is probably the most
difficult aspect of the
creative process to understand and accept.
Making this understanding a knowing that is true for us is going to
be difficult unless we are willing to do our own experiments and
creatively play with this idea and its implications.
The key to getting past trust in the world we experiences it to know
the person who stands before us is only there to give us the
experience to which we, consciously or
nonconsciously, agreed to
participate in, or we created and desired to have, at some level of
our being.
The problem for each of us is that we are all an independent,
individualized consciousness and
infinite creative being sharing a
common physical experience. Our
creative life energy
localized in
our
physical body hold us all accountable to the “rules” of the
common physical experience. This is why the body and understanding
what the body feels is so important. It is these feelings and a
discerning awareness of what we feel is what allows us to work with
the “rule” giving rise to all of Creation not only Physical
Creation. Providing a way to understand how this is done is the
whole basis for creating the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
material. The Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material can be a
starting point for exploration of these aspects of Creation until a
more appropriate and useful understanding can be found.
The
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective provides a way to
begin understand how it is possible that we are these
individualized, independent
infinite creative beings and yet
interconnected with all of Creation. Quite simply, to create the
experience of Creation is the function and purpose of
mind. It is
the
“illusion” of mind that gives rise to the creation we experience
collectively and individually. Hence understanding how and why we
each focus our attention and awareness in the way we do with our
belief structure and the way we chose to think becomes essential for
this exploration.
It needs to be understood, we are never separated from any aspect of
Creation. It is all an illusion that we are separate. Creation is
very real. Creation is not an illusion. The illusion is that we
believe what we experience is not something we ourselves created. It
is the role of
mind to keep us in that illusion. To see the
truth
of what is, we must find a way to allow ourselves to
step out of mind.
We ultimately do that by being in what we feel and be
open to
feeling. But when we are in what we feel we are the threshold of
creating. So we must be careful how we choose to response to what we
feel for we may just begin to create something we don’t really want.
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Manifesting a creation
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