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Adult creative state of play
Adult creative play
The issue of mind
The issue of an adult body
Adult creative play
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An adult creative state of spontaneous and innocent childlike play
of discovery and exploration can exist and will exist if we allow
it. It is an ability that never leaves us.
Creative play is the
essence of our being and inherent
to our nature. Creation Itself is only Consciousness at play with
Itself in the spontaneous and innocent childlike play as
Consciousness discovers and explores the true depth and breath of
Its Own creative abilities.
As an
individuated point of consciousness, each of us have shut
down, forgot or otherwise fail to use this ability because of our
own thinking as to how we think the universe works and who and what
we think we are. We have put our true identity into
a cage of our
own making.
Most have shut down this ability because of their early life
experiences. Those of us that didn’t shut it down early in life shut
it down later in life because we perceived life as being serious as
opposed to a play. This, of course, is only natural. The physical
experience is an intense experience and is most often be perceived
as painful with
pain lurking at every corner. We perceived there are
life and death issues.
Yet in the wholeness of Creation there is no death. There is only
dissolution and reformation into a new creation. Because we often
face
pain for whatever reason in the discovery and exploration of
life the flow of our
creative life energy is thwarted and we are
hesitation to allow it to freely flow in that direction again. More
often than not we develop a response pattern to life that constrains
the flow of our energy so as to avoid a similar experience of pain.
However, it is only when we are free to live the truth of our being
and flow in full alignment with our creative life energy that we
regain this ability to play.
Our
creative life energy/creative spirit is our most valuable
resource. When it is fully embraced it is characterized by
passion.
The term passion refers that intense, extreme or overpowering
emotion or feeling and/or a strong desire for some thing. The kind
of passion characterized by our
creative life energy is the kind of
passion a drowning person has for air. That is, we will die if we
don’t get it. It is that intense desire to play and be in the sense
of
wonderment and “Ah” that
very young children display before they
become conditioned by their care gives to do or not do something. If
we don’t experience it in life a part of us does die. In fact, more
often than not, the most important part of us dies.
This state of innocent
wonderment and “Ah” is tied to the
most
creative state one can enter. We carry this state into the world
with us when we are born. We all have been there. We have all used
it to some degree at sometime in our life. As an adult this creative
state of play still exists but it looks slightly different. It looks
different in the adult.
However, because adults in our society have been educated and
enculturated to channel our
creative life energy (our creative
passion) into particularly acceptable forms (careers, hobbies, etc.)
rather than remain “out of mind” leaving the creative life energy to
flow into the exploration of life itself we
lost this creative play.
We channel it into wherever we think it should be based on mind
rather than learning to follow its lead . In doing so, in many ways
we kill the
passion. The more we are out of alignment with this
energy the more we erode our conscious
creative power and creative ability and direct more and more of it subconsciously. The question
that can be asked is, “Why do we do this? Why do we lose the
innocent creative playful state and our passion for life?” The
answer to this questions is that we fragmented and scattered our
creative life energy by how we choose to respond to life
(consciously and subconsciously) by the choices we make to remain
safe, satisfy our care givers and the world in which we inhabit.
Although we shut aspects of our creative play down throughout life,
most have
shut down this ability because of their early life
experiences. If we
return to the state of creative play as an adult
it will look different than that of a child for two primarily
reasons. One is we have an adult mind and the second is we have an
adult body and there is a variety of reasons why each will affect
what the play looks like.
The issue of mind
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First the mind. All that we do and have done in life is not lost or
wasted. As an adult we have gained many experiences and skills that
can be quite useful at expressing
our creative
passion. However,
other experiences, including many of the habits we have developed to
respond to life have to be shed and use the wisdom about life we
have gained to make room to develop new habits and talents. As a
child one’s experiences are limited.
All a
very young child in play can do is be lead by their
body wisdom and
intuitive guidance within the environment the find
themselves to express their creativity passion. If they are thwarted
in any way, they usually don’t have any other way to express
themselves. As adults, we have more options. Normally if we are
thwarted on one path, we an find another to achieve what we desire
to do. However, if we default to the patterns we developed in
childhood, rather than looking for another path, we will accept or
believe we cannot do what we desire.
The expression of the
creative life energy of the heart as a child
within a child’s body and with a child’s mind and its set of limited
experiences and education will be characterized by its mind quite
different than that exact same creative life energy expressed as an
adult with an adult body and the adult mind and its corresponding
experiences and knowledge. The images, thoughts and/or feelings that
arise from the subconscious in response to the energy will be quite
different in the adult. One needs to understand that any child has
very limited ways of expressing what it is they feel and wish to do.
They have not yet learned the variety of ways of the world or ways
in which the world can be experienced. We, as an adult, have a much
greater set of experiences and knowledge to draw upon. Additionally
the adult is responsible and has an awareness of choice unavailable
to the child.
It must be remembered that consciousness defines itself by the
experiences it has. In many ways, although we grow into adulthood
and a mature body, many of us remain in child like attitudes,
responses patterns and approaches to life for they are how we have
defined ourselves. Unless we go back are redefine ourselves, we
carry this childlike patterns our entire life and never realize we
are sabotaging our own efforts.
Rather than remain or being open to the unlimited possibilities of a
situation from which the adult can choose to respond, we define
ourselves and our response to the situation by the experiences we
have had. Unless we are mindful and aware, more often than not, we
usually we default to the to ways we know rather than stepping into
the unknown. Although we are an adult with a tremendous number of
options, we allows ourselves to be limited by our own past.
In this regard, it also must be remembered that the mind will
characterized the energy the body experiences in the best way it can
based on the experiences it has had. So, another problem is that
whatever creative passion we feel, mind characterizes what we feel
by what we have experienced. This is a much more subtle way we allow
the past to continue to define us in the future and this issue is
more difficult to get around unless we are willing to allow our
body wisdom and
intuitive guidance to lead us for we have no way of
knowing what experiences we need to ensure we have correct
interpretation of the energy.
Although mind may improperly characterize what we feel, the
intuitive guidance and
body wisdom will provide an immediate correct
response if we act on what we are intuitively feeling. If our mind
improperly characterized the energy we feel, but we move in the
direction the energy is flowing, the intuitive guidance and body
wisdom will not find it necessary to correct the image of the mind
until the image we have begin to take us off course. Whether the
image of mind is literal or figurative doesn’t matter for it leads
us in the correct direction. As soon a the image causes us to go off
course and out of the flow of energy our intuitive guidance and body
wisdom will provide a new feeling to create a new image. It is a
self correcting process if we allow intuitive guidance and body
wisdom to lead. However, if mind steps in and judges and biases the
image, then the corrective information of the intuitive guidance and
body wisdom are essentially blocked and become unavailable.
Both as an adult and as a child we are capable of being
out of mind
to let the
creative life energy flowing within our being to flow
into the exploration of life itself and allow our
body wisdom and
intuitive guidance to lead. The child does it quite naturally for
they have little developed mind to define itself and to interfere.
The adult is faces with dealing with the
ego and the ego tends to
protect itself rather than change or lose control. If ego allows
body wisdom and intuitive guidance to lead it both the adult and
child will lose control and we have to redefine ourselves as to who
and what we thinks we are because we will come to see that our
identity, the ego, cannot possible possess the depth and breath of
the wisdom of the intuitive guidance and body wisdom. Hence the ego
struggles against our intuitive guidance and body wisdom although
the body wisdom and intuitive guidance provides more protection for
they have our best interest at heart more than the ego ever could.
The reason for this is the
body wisdom and
intuitive guidance access
the depth and breath of our infinite being and the interconnection
of all things in the oneness of the universe.
Ego, on the other
hand, can only provided information from the limited set of
experiences we have had and remembers that it uses to define itself.
Although it will be more difficult for the adult to get
out of mind
and the ego, we are fully capable of doing it if we intend to do so
and we are willing to work though the obstacles that may stand in
the way. In doing so, we will find the rewards quite satisfying for
they can access an
inner satisfaction, bliss and joy that never
runs dry regardless of what is happening externally.
Because the adult has a greater range of experiences, the expression
of the
creative life energy of what is
symbolized in the heart as a
child within a child’s body and with a child’s mind and its set of
limited experiences and education will be characterized by its mind
quite different than that exact same creative life energy expressed
as an adult with an adult body and the adult mind and its
corresponding experiences and knowledge. The adult simply has more
life experiences to draw upon in which to characterize what they
feel. However, it cannot be overemphasized adults are only
theoretically better able to define what they are sensing and
experiencing. If the habits and response patterns as a child are not
the problem often the sensing and feeling is a problem because most
adults have raised the threshold of what we sense and feel so we
don’t feel
pain. Or worse yet, we numb and deny the pain and any
subsequent sensations and feelings through some type of addition. In
any case, it needs to be understood the images, thoughts and/or
feelings that arise from the subconscious mind in response to
characterizing the energy each experiences will be quite different.
Additionally, compounding this problem of how we characterize the
energy we feel both as an adult and a child is that our perspective
has, and will, change over time. We are a
creative living process
continually redefining ourselves. As we gain life experiences, the
are usually better able to define what we experience. However, the
“I” is not frozen. It continually evolves and defines itself based
on it experiences but it is selective in what it chooses to define
itself. All the experiences it has are not used. Only selected
experiences are used to define who and what
ego thinks it is and how
it has been harmed or hurt by the world. In more way that first
realized, it is only because we experience what we do in the same
body that keeps the identity that we have. Otherwise, we would see
the evolution of our own being. It is only because in thinking we
are our body that does not allow us to see that we change ourselves
by each and every experience we have.
In the past, as a child we entered innocent child like play and
suffered the displeasure of our early care givers and those
pains
and fears will continually arise as an adult. Any time as an adult
we are faced with any situation that causes us to consciously
remember or subconsciously remember feeling of the past, we will
response in the response pattern we developed to protect ourselves.
In this regard, as an adult, we must allow our existing images of
the past to dissolve. We need to realize all those who created the
limits and barriers that exist in our mind are no longer present in
our life or at least in the way they were for we are no longer this
defenseless little child . We are free to live the way we choose to
live and express ourselves. We only need to create a
safe and secure space with ourselves where we can be exactly who we already are and
then response to the world from that place of inner knowing and
safety. Otherwise we will always be responding to the world based on
our past and what we think is going to happen rather than being
present to the situation at hand.
We simply needs to understand that any child has very limited ways
of expressing what it is we feel and wish to do. Whether it be to
express the
pain we feel or express
our creative
passion. As a child
we just didn’t have the understanding and experiences of life to
find alternatives when any given response to life is thwarted. We
had not yet learned the variety of ways of the world or ways in
which the world can be experienced and find other paths and other
options. Rather than finding another path to express our creative
passion, we develop a response pattern to shut down our
passion.
Hence as an adult will need to both reawaken those aspects of our
creative passion that have been shut down but more importantly, we
will need to break and/or replace the response pattern of shutting
down our creative passion. Otherwise is doesn’t matter how much and
how often we reawakens our creative passion we will keep shutting it
down.
We, as an adult, have a much greater set of experiences and
knowledge to draw upon. No part of our
creative life energy needs to
be shut down for us to protect ourselves unless we choose it to be
shut down. Yet the habits many of us carry from our childhood shut
down our response to life when we are thwarted in our efforts rather
than finding another way around. The way an adult’s mind is capable
of framing the energy it experiences is much deeper and broader
because of our knowledge and life experiences than as a child. In
this regard we can have a much richer, fuller and more diverse way
of experiencing the energy that is sustaining our being and creating
a vehicle or way for it to freely flow into manifestation. As a
result of this diversity of ways, as an adult we have much more to
discover an explore than a child ever had.
Many
schools of thought say we live in a world of infinite
possibilities. Yet, in reality even they don’t embrace the reality
of these possibilities simply because it is
too much to be believed
so the mind limits itself only to what it is capable of
understanding. To live in this world of infinite possibilities, we
must be
out of mind
and the only really safe way to be out of mind
is to be in a state of spontaneous and innocent childlike play of
discovery and exploration for that is the way we came into the world
before our current mind developed itself.
The issue
of an adult body (Top)
The second reason why the play of an adult will look different than
the child is that the adult has an adult body. An adult body is
different than that of a child in two primary ways. One is that it
is usually physically larger, and that of itself is important, but
it is also mature. The body is no longer growing but finds itself
repairing the structure that has been created. Additionally a mature
body does function somewhat differently. For example, hormone
balance is different.
What does need to be noted here is the difference between growing
and repairing. It can be very subtle but very profound. Whenever
something is changing, it is subject to the influences of its
environment. For example, when a tree grows, the amount of rain
affects the spacing of rings of the tree in its trunk. When
something is repaired, a smaller and localized portion of the whole
is affected by the by the environment in a way the rest of the
structure is not.
The subtle influence can be seen if we think external influences as
how a magnetic field affects a piece of iron as it cools. If the
magnetic field is present, the atoms of the iron align to create a
magnetic. If the magnetic field is not present, the atoms align in a
more random way and the iron is not a magnetic. However, in either
case the piece of iron functions structurally the same way.
So to with our bodies. As our bodies grow and/or change, it is
effected by its environment. If we are living in great stress as a
child or as an adult that stress gets built to one degree or another
into our structure by how our atoms are aligning much like the atoms
of a magnetic. Although the stress may predominately localize in a
given organ or tissue, as a child, the stress will also get held in
the parts of our body that are growing. As an adult, that stress
will get held in the parts of our body that are being repaired.
Hence the adult and child will be affected by the stress differently
and that stress will stay with a person in those affected tissues
until they are changed under an influence that can relieve the
stress. Hence as we deal with the
pain and sufferings as we faced as
a child, we may have pains in body locations that we can’t explain
as the stress is relieved in processing the memory. As an adult, the
memory will have less affect on our body because less of our body
was changing. Here again the effect is subtle and is usually masked
by other things occurring in one’s life.
As a result of the body differences, the energy experienced by that
adult and the child will be characterized quite differently. If we
remember that the
body is an energy sensing device much like a
antenna it is rather obvious the adult body is a larger energy
sensing device (of course unless one is a midget) and will sense the
energy quite differently than the child for the child’s body is
quite smaller. The adult simply has more mass to use to sense the
energy. This of course true if we are
open to feeling and have not
shut down the sensing abilities of the body and we allows ourselves
to feel what the body is actually sensing. Many have suffered
pain
early in life and they have raised their threshold of sensation such
that there is much the body senses but they no longer feel.
In addition to a greater sensing ability, the body is no longer
occupied in growing. It has achieved its desires size and the
essence of its strength abilities. Although one may need to develop
both the body strength and in inherent abilities, once the body
matures, all these become available if one desires to use them. With
a mature body one has both the mental and physical abilities it
needs to go and physically change one’s environment to what one
desires. That is something one is not able to do as a small child.
Because growth is not occurring, the chemical balances are different
and once can expect that they will sense their environment different
because the chemical processes are functioning in a slightly
different way.
Having a mature body allows for a greater depth and breath of
physical experiences. But it must be remembered that an adult body
is not a child’s body and it functions somewhat differently that a
child. A mature adult body will have the element of sexuality and it
will come up as something you will need to discover and explore. To
know who we really are and the depth and breadth of our creative
abilities, we will have to explore in the innocence and freedom of
child like play, the full range of your consciousness, and its
conscious and nonconscious mind, and your body and the myriad ways
it interacts with the external world including sexuality.
Sexuality, as anything else, will be somewhat different from
individual to individual and what works for one may not work for
another in quite the same way. In regards to this mature body, the
adult needs to realize that their play will feel and be quite
different than that as a child. If we are going to remain in that
state of spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery and
exploration and engage in the creativity that flows from the essence
of our being, sexuality will be something that we have to allow
ourselves to be freely explore the full range and depth of both the
consciousness aspects of sexuality and the physical aspects for the
two are integrally connected.
Additionally, sexuality will be influenced by
our creative
passion
and the inability to express our sexuality will greatly affect our
creative passion. If you deny one, we deny the other. If we deny the
exploration of our own being at any or all levels, you will deny our
play and the truth of our own being that we are a being with
sexuality. It does need to be noted that in regards to sexuality we
are not talking about what is colloquially called “free” sex or sex
without responsibility or promiscuity. Rather we are talking about
the free express on our
creative life energy as it is expressed in
and through our sexuality and the freedom to explore that expression
without denying it or suppressing it.
It needs to be clearly understood and emphasized that the limits we
impose on one aspect of our being, we impose on the others. We are
not a compartmented and segmented being no matter how much we have
compartmented and segmented our life. In the same way the
nonconscious mind and conscious mind are interconnected in the
patterns they utilize so too is our consciousness and our body.
We only need to take full responsibility for your actions and accept
the consequences of them within the current world we inhabit. The
universe itself offers no judgement on what we choose or how we
choose. Otherwise we would not have a
free will. However, we do have
to
become adult about our creation
and to
take responsibility for what we do and realize and accept the
consequences of we actions.
How we choose to explore our sexuality is, was and always will be
our choice, but we will have to some day, some lifetime explore the
fully range of what it means to have a physical experience in a
human body. Here it needs to be noted, our conscious mind is not
qualified to lead the exploration. It will only get us into trouble.
It needs to remain out of the way. Our
body wisdom and intuitive
guidance will do quite well in a very safe and natural way, if we
can step aside and allow it. This by the way is true for each and
every level of our being. including sexuality. But for most, if
sexuality is involved in any way, mind finds it very difficult not
to jump in.
In exploring the depth and breath of our body and our consciousness,
it is realized we can’t leave the world in which we currently find
ourselves and we can’t live in and explore this same world like a
innocent child. So what is one to do? The answer is to first realize
that you are split between these two worlds- the world of the way we
need to be to live and survive, yet simultaneously we need to be
like that innocent child exploring both our internal and external
world in intimate detail.
How you actually do this is unique to our being and our needs. Each
of us will do it quite differently. What we need to do is to spend
some time exploring this world of what is
symbolized
by the heart,
pursing
what the heart wants and following our
creative life energy
that is sustaining our being. All we need to do is to find a
safe and secure space to allow ourselves to do the exploration. If we ask
the Universe, God, or however we view the powers that we believe
control our world for a safe and secure space to explore the depth
and breath of our being, a person or place will be provided.
However, we will need to allow our
intuitive guidance to lead for
what is provided may not, and probably will not, be anything that is
at first acceptable to the mind.
Once we get a feel for what this world of the heart looks like and
how our
creative life energy communicates, we will see how this
world of the heart is different from the view of the mind. We, in
our own way will
learn to walk in balance to do the
dance between
heart and mind in a way that both meets our needs and what we wish
to create.
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