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The goal of play in creativity is
to ultimately
step out of mind
and past the limits and barriers imposed by
mind so as to explore and look at the true options available to
us in any situation. Mind by its very nature will work to keep
control of any situation and work to keep our options within it
imposed limits and barriers. Losing ourselves in play is about
finding ways to get around the control of mind. Losing ourselves in
play is about using play to enter a state of where we experience a
feeling of freedom or flow in what we are doing. That is, our whole
being is free to flow in what we are doing. Then become so focused
on what we are doing and flowing with what we do, allow the flow to
carry us out of mind. The topic “Ways
to use play in our creative endeavors” provides some ideas on
how to start the process of losing ourselves in play.
There are two primary ways to get out of the control of
mind. One is to be in our feelings and allowing what we feel to
guide our path. The second way is to develop a
beginner’s mind. Beginner’s mind is much harder to develop and
cannot easily be achieved with a conscious mind. To create a
beginner’s mind with a conscious mind, we only create an
approximation to what a beginners mind can do for us. That is, we
create a perspective which allows us to innocently act on what
arises.
To create a
beginner’s mind like state with a conscious
mind we need to become very mindful and aware of what we think
and feel and create a
single point focus for our life based on feeling. Losing
ourselves in feeling is relatively easy for we are so absorbed in
what we feel there is no room for thinking to enter into what we do.
Creating a beginner’s like mind however requires us to see what
thoughts arises and check each thought to see if it leads us to
create the feeling we desire to experience. Then continually to pull
our attention and awareness to what serves us and innocently act on
those thoughts wherever they lead.
The issue we face is that we ultimately desire to create a state of
play as it would be experienced by an young innocent child
living in the wonderment of Creation and at the discover and
exploration of Creation. It is about living in the spontaneity of
the moment and letting the flow of energy within us leading our
effort and being out of the thinking, judging and analyzing
mind. For an adult, that is obviously difficult to do for we do
have many concerns that our
mind finds difficult to escape.
The idea is to move towards this spontaneous state of being without
making this state of being “the goal” to be reached. Otherwise, if
this becomes our goal,
play of what is symbolized
in our heart cannot be obtain and will be lost if accessed.
Rather we will become stuck in
play of the mind. Any goal we attempt to achieve is something
being imposed by
mind. This is why it is said we must use play to lose ourselves
in play and allow the play to turn into creative play. If we try and
create creative play, we are in mind and will never be able to live
mind to experience the creative play we desire to create.
Related topics
Accessing our creative play
A practical method for returning to a state of play
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