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Accessing our creative play
The key to accessing creative play
Accessing our creative passion
Five ways to reenter creative play
Create an experiment
Find or become a rainmaker
Be consumed by passion
Hold a clear intention for a creative endeavor
Clear intention with diversion
The balancing act in creation
Recovering what we lost
Moving to regain what was lost
In talking about creating a
state of creative play, one question
that arises is, “How in the world can we possibly think that the
most
creative state looks like the
play of a very young child for
even if it were true, how do we return to such a state. The play of
child between one to two years old has no cares or worries.
Everything is taken care of for them. They only need to grow and to
play. Nothing is expected of them other than to grow. How can adult
ever be in such a state?”
The key to accessing creative play
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The answer is that as an adult we cannot reach that playful state as
that as a one or two year old. However, we can access equivalent
states if we are willing to be child like. Or, from a more adult
perspective, to be
the Fool described in the esoteric literature and
characterized in the Tarot deck of card who is seen or characterized
as being very child like.
But what does it really mean to be child like? What does it mean to
become this
fool? We say that a child is innocent. However the
play
of a child at one to two years old has not yet developed sufficient
conscious understanding to be the opposite of innocence. Innocence
is a judgement of one who know its opposite. So a child is not
really being innocent. The child is rather just being who they are
and true to themselves in all ways. This is the key to access
creative play and the most powerful creative state of being.
It is
to become true to ourselves in all ways.
Similarly, we say the child is playful. Yet the child has no concept
of work or play. A child at this age does what the child feels like
doing. Again the judgment of what is play and what is work is only
made by one who has experienced the separation. They have
experienced separation from what they are lead to do by their
controlling
mind to do and what their heart leads them to do. It is
work when we push against the natural flow of the situation.
We can go on and on with this discussion for almost any descriptive
term we can give to
the play of this very young child but the child
has no awareness of what we are talking about. A child is just being
who they are. The child is not thinking and judging at one to two
years in the way we adults or even an older child uses our
mind. The
child may have a few ideas of what they like and don’t like at this
time, but overall, the child is just being who and what they are, as
they are. They are simply being true to themselves.
As an adult, to just be who we are and what we are means that we
have to be literally
out of
our mind
as to: who we think you are;
how we think we have to live our life; how we think we have to
behave; and how we think the world works. However this does not
necessarily mean that we are outside our
ego We will still have
likes and dislikes that are unique to our own being and that will
still be fully present in us.
To be
out of mind
is not the same as being crazy or insane although
we refer to some one who is crazy or insane as “out of their mind.”
To be out of mind is to be out of that rational and analytical
approach to life. It means letting go of who we think we are and all
that you have been taught to believe and only be with exactly what
we are feeling. That in itself is very frightening for most people
for the
mind desires to control. To be out of mind means that we
have to be out of control in some way.
Again the expression “out of control” has been given very negative
connotation. We say something is out of control when it is dangerous
and can cause harm such a car that is out of control. However, if
you look at the actions and
play of a young child of one to two
years old they are out of control in the sense they freely move from
one thing to another. They are drawn to whatever attracts their
attention. They are not focus in, or on, specific things. They are
free to move form one thing to another.
As adults, we tend to fear this kind of
state of being for a variety
of reasons. The particulars of which are unique to the individual
although there are general statements that can be made. There are
two most common generalities that we finds why individuals fear this
state. The first is
because of the early memories we had as a child
while in this state. Some of these experiences are traumatic types
of experiences, The second is the enculturated
ego. That is, who you
have come to believe you are. The
ego is afraid it will die if our
consciousness steps out of its enculturated ego. Unless we feel that
we are in a
very safe space, we are normally very reluctant to even
begin to go to such a state where we consciously go against what the
ego desires. The reason for the existence of both of these types of
fears within us will have to be addressed in some way if we are
going to regain our
creative play and return to the
most
creative state of being.
It has been found this creative
out of mind
state is not so
difficult to routinely achieve and enter as one suspects. In fact we
do it all the time. The difficulty is in sustaining this
state of being. The important point to realizes is that the longer we can
sustain the state, the more powerful the creative experience.
Accessing our creative passion
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Accessing
creative play is about accessing
our creative passion. Our
creative spirit, our creative passion and are creative play are all
integrally linked. In essence each is a different facet of the same
crystal. To be able to fully embrace the
play of what is symbolized
in our heart is to allow the free unfoldment of our creative spirit,
our creative passion and to be fully engaged in creative play moving
to that
most
creative state of being.
In terms of accessing and releasing
our creative passion, we do not
need to explore our whole childhood, or what one calls past life
memories. There is only one aspect of our childhood and/or our past
that we to be understand. That is, how and why we lost our ability
to engage in the spontaneous innocent childlike play of childhood to
explore and discover the entire depth and breadth of our creativity,
creative power and creative ability. If we set the intention to
return to spontaneous childlike play and we act in a childlike
innocence to explore and discover our creative passion in childlike
play, we will surface all the obstacles that do not allow us to
engage in such play and simultaneously access our creative passion.
What we will find is that while the obstacles to our play surface to
our play, our
intuitive guidance will feel free to provide us with
the images, thoughts and feelings that will guide us through the
obstacle. Our
body wisdom wants us to become what we need to become,
and have
the experiences you incarnated to have for they are what
give us life and brought us into life. Our body wisdom and intuitive
guidance will effectively guide us there if we allow them. The
easiest and quickest way to allow them to guide us is to enter, or
at least attempt to enter, that state of innocent child like play.
But that is not something we can do with our
mind. Rather, we will
have to
lose ourselves in play that directs us toward
creative play.
We will find in exploring
our creative passion that we don’t have to
explore our entire past or our infinite subconscious. We only need
to address and work through all those obstacles that block us being
our creative passion. Then we will be able to create that
most
powerful creative state. That state can then be used to reclaim and
reconstitute any aspect of our energy or our being that remains
fragmented. Innocent childlike play then becomes a tool we can use
to access our
unlimited creativity and our creative passion whenever
we wish. It really isn’t necessary to completely consolidate our
scattered and fragmented power. Rather, we just need to become true
to who and what we are.
There is nothing wrong with the
physical experience. It is only
one
experience of an infinite experiences that are available to us. If
we can be happy with what is as it is, knowing we can change what is
whenever we wish, we will no long be bound by the physical world and
we will come to the realization there is no need to transcend the
physical. If we cannot be happy with what is here in the physical
world, we will not be happy with what is in any reality. In
addition, we will find ourselves coming back to the physical
experience to learn the lessons in creativity as to why we cannot be
happy with what is.
To learn to be happy with is and regain our ability to play
spontaneously as that innocent child to reenter a state of play,
five ways have been observed that work. However, each of them start
with both a desire to enter
creative play and/or create freedom for
our
creative spirit and give our creative spirit permission to come
out and play. An
adult consent form has been created to help create
this first step. It is recommend one read and sign the adult consent
form or draft an equivalent statement. It is in understanding that
signing the adult consent and release form as a
ritual and symbol of
something much larger we enter one of the more powerful forms of
rituals in which we can engage.
Five ways to reenter creative play
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There were five ways that have been observed to worked to enter
creative play. The approach is to create the situation as described
and then allow ourselves to become playfully lost in what we do.
Create an experiment
(Top): The first way is to design and perform an
experiment to check or verify our beliefs or understanding we have
about Creation and how we create. It is to establish a set of
initial starting conditions and allow the experiment to take a
natural flow observing the outcome as it flows. Creating an
experiment is an excellent way to just observe to see what truths
which are revealed. Or, the experiment can be used to verify
something we suspected as being true but are unsure. In either case,
the experimental conditions give the freedom to be
out of mind
and
the need to control what was happening for the experiment directions
our actions, not our
mind.
Find or become a rainmaker
(Top): A second method is to become a
rainmaker. In essence, this refers to an individual so centered and
sure of the truth within their being and their ability to live it,
that they create a space of truth around themselves that allow the
Divine to manifest in the way the Divine wishes to manifest. In
being true to themselves they can create a space in any environment
in which they find themselves. In doing so, they can create an
environment such that another individual can feel so safe and secure
such that they are free to be who they are and move to that state of
creative play. The problem is it is very difficult to find a
rainmaker. Very few individual have such an ability. It is not
because we all cannot become rainmakers. Rather it is because of the
work involved to hold such a space. So, it may be necessary for us
to become the rainmaker. We cannot give what we do not have. In
becoming a rainmaker who can create the space for creative play of
another, we must first be able to create the space within ourselves
and for ourselves. In doing so, we find our own freedom and are free
to be in our creative play.
Be consumed by passion
(Top): A third way is to be so consumed by a
passion or a love of some thing such that nothing else in the world
seems to matter. The
state of being in passion is the one state that
most makes us look crazy or totally outside of our mind. Rationality
and logic seem to evaporate. As a minimum when we are in passion
will be out of our enculturated
mind and who we think they are for
the passion is what leads, not our mind. Being in passion does not
necessarily mean being in a sexual frenzy or something similar. The
characteristics of the classic “Nerd,” as are many child prodigies,
are typical of one so consumed in the passion of their own world
they are lost to the ways of others. For all practical purposes,
nothing else in the world exist except their passion. They are
out of mind
following their passion wherever it take them. In general, this
is exactly why so many fear passion. Being in passion takes us out
of or mind and outside the world of others. When we are in passion
we are not easily controlled the way the analytical and logical enculturated mind wishes to work, nor the way society desire us to
be..
Hold a clear intention for a creative endeavor
(Top): The fourth way is
through holding a
clear intention for our life or to achieve a
particular end. Clear intention can best be described as a focused
play. We hold very clearly in our
mind where we wish to go but we
leave our mind to
surrender to the flow of energy and leave the path
entirely up to the energy of the situation. We only ask ourselves
how each of the choices we make helps, hinders or is neutral in our
progress towards our intention. Obviously, we make the choice that
helps us achieve our intention as often as we can with the neutral
choice being the preferred choice over any choice which takes us
away from what we desire.
Over time we make more and more choices in favor of our intention.
This is done usually by eliminating the ones that are clearly
hindering our progress. Then as the hindrances become less and less
we start look more carefully at the neutral choices shifting as many
as possible in the direction of our intention. Over time, our life
is consumed by this intention. Analogously, we essentially take
ourselves out of the world and placed ourselves into a specific room
build around our intention so that are then free to be lead to what
ever catches our attention and the next thing that needs to be
addressed can rise to meet us.
Clear intention with diversion
(Top): A fifth way is through the use of
clear intention coupled with diversion. We set an intention and go
into a state of play and do something completely different that what
our intention would suggest. Yet we always hold to the intention.
Then in the spontaneity of the moment, the next things that needs to
be addressed relative to our intention surfaces in the order of
priority. We only need to be observant to catch the insights. In
this process we really only need to address the next thing that
arises before us and see how it relates to our intention.
In this fifth way, miracles, synchronicity, chance meetings, what
every we like to call them, seems to be the mode of operation. It is
as though the universe does the work for us. In this fifth way it is
best to use a partner who can play with us but their focus in on
observing and listening to us such that they help us to capture the
insights as they arise. With the help of another we are not overly
distracted by the diversion such that we get totally lost in the
diversion.
Obviously, this fifth approach is more powerful the more we are
capable of being mindful and aware of our thoughts and what we are
encountering in life. In this fifth approach, there will still be
the mundane that we need to attend but much of the work is
eliminated. The use of diversion with clear intention is very much
like the old Arabic saying “Trust in God but tether you camel.” If
we tend to the things that we need to do, the rest will be done for
us. More often than not, we spend enormous time and energy in life
focusing on what is not our responsibility.
What diversion in play does is that it allows our attention to be
drawn to that part of our life experiences that are calling for
attention in the moment that will lead us to our intention. Usually
what needs to be done next to manifest our intention within the
natural flow and unfoldment of that intention is not something on
which we would choose or think to focus if we used the traditional
narrow and controlled focus that we have been taught in life. The
reasons for this is that we do not have the wisdom of the universe
consciously available to us to know what to control when we choose
our focus on what we think is the next step.
Mind only knows the
past. A creative endeavor takes us into the unknown. When we are
focused on what we think is the next step, we are not able to see
the natural flow path for events for mind overlays the past rather
than allowing us to see the truth of what is.
The balancing act in creation
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Clear intention in both the fourth and fifth ways discussed is sort
of a controlled play. We allow ourselves to play and move freely and
creatively in those areas that help our intention but consciously
act on the information or situations that come to us and choose to
step in and change the hindrances that may appear. It is a very fine
balancing act because the same control that we use to remove our
hindrance can be used to control the things that are helping us.
When we start to control the things that are helping us, we stifle
the energy and impose expectations.
In this approach we dance between and intense focus and total
distraction. We only need to understand what actions we take support
our intention. We only need to ask ourselves “What action do I need
to take to support my intention” and then fully step into the action
losing ourselves in the action. Stifling the energy of play bring us
back to the issues of how we
lost the ability to play and being in
the
most
creative state. In understanding how we lost it, it gives
some ideas as to how to recover it.
Recovering what we lost
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Exactly how we
lost our ability to be
creative play, fail to allow
our
creative spirit to freely express itself, fail to live our
truth, avoid living what is
symbolized in
our heart, and/or fear
living and expressing
our creative passion is unique to each of us.
What exactly we need to do retain our ability will be similar
unique. In working with individuals to regain their ability to
creatively play there are several topics and issue seem to routinely
arises. The following are topic provides a list of available topics
on play and discuss some of the more reoccurring issues.
Topics on or about play and creative play
Moving to regain what was lost
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One point that needs to be realized about the
loss of play is that
more often than not we stepped out of our play to satisfy the people
in our life. This is very important to realize because the people
who are currently in our life are based on who we currently are and
how we currently perceived ourselves. As we explore our creativity
going to deep creative states of being and learn to use the creative
we access, we will become different. As we become different, some of
those individuals currently in our life may not like who and what we
are becoming. It is recommended the following type of intention be
set. Tell the Universe, God, the Creative Powers that be in whatever
way we understand, “As I become different, those who do not like
what I am becoming are gently guided to where they are safe and
secure.” Then, trust that those who do not like what we are becoming
will leave our life for some reason. Those that stay, even if they
complain about what is happening to us, do not ultimately oppose
what we are becoming. In fact, they may be looking to us as an
example of what is possible to guide them into their own creative
power.
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