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Walking is something we learn to
do subconsciously and we can learn to be quite proficient at it with
little effort. To walk, we go out of balance to the left (or right)
and then catches ourselves from falling returning to balance. Then,
allowing ourselves to go out of balance to the right (or left) only
to again catch ourselves returning to balance to start the process
all over again.
What needs to be clearly understood is that we walk forward by going
into and out of balance. We fall either to the left or right and
then in the opposite direction. Obviously, we must catch ourselves
before we fall too far. In time, we never notice that we are going
in and out of balance. However, when we are learning to walk as that
young child we have a tendency to fall down.
As a little child, neither the child nor the care giver who is
watching the child thinks twice about falling. It is part of the
process. The child simply picks themselves up and tries again. The
care giver freely gives the child permission to try to walk.
Frequently the care giver will even try and help the child but
ultimately the child needs to learn to walk themselves. No one can
do it for the child. It is something only the child can experience
and must face. The care giver can really do nothing for them. If we
never allows ourselves to become out of balance, we will never learn
to walk. If we never learn to walk we become confined to a very
limited world.
Fortunately for us, we usually learn to walk before our conscious
mind fully develops so we do not have fear to deal with. If we were
consciously aware of our falling, we would being to fear falling and
not be willing to step out and learn to walk. Fortunately, that does
not happen.
Yet, it is also unfortunately for us that the experience of learning
to walk and going into and out of balance is accomplished by most of
us long before we became conscious of the process. The reason is
that most of us do not necessarily remember the part and the
associated feelings where we were constant falling and picking
ourselves up again. It is a valuable experience for we feel that
same types and kinds of feeling in our creative endeavor when we
create anything new.
Fortunately, there is another experiences that many of us have had
that is similar to learning to walk. Many have a conscious memory of
learning to ride a bicycle. The process is the same. Here again you
must learn to go in and out of balance but only now we do it on a
bicycle to learn to ride bicycle. In learning to ride, we frequently
fall down, unless of course if they have training wheel to help us
through the process. Yet, even with training wheels we must take
them off at some point and learn to balance ourselves without any
assistance.
When we do learn to walk we find we are free to walk in any
direction that we choose where we are able to physically walk. It is
only because man can walk that he has been able to explore his
physical world to the extent that we have done. Without that freedom
of movement to explore, we would never have moved from wherever we
come from.
After having learned to walk, in time, most of us have also learned
to run and to dance. To run an dance are just more advanced and more
intricate forms of going into and out of balance. If we allow
ourselves to cooperate with others, we can also learn to play with
others in our walking, running and dancing.
As we all know, life offers much less freedom of movement if we
cannot walk, run or dance. On this point, if we were able to walk in
all directions but had to confine our walking to only one direction
we would be very bored if not also very frustrated. Similarly, if we
could walk, run or dance and not be allowed to so we would be even
more frustrated. Physical confinement has been one of the most
popular ways throughout history of making individuals conform to the
standards. We control another by restricting the movement of the
other.
In many ways individually and collectively, we forcibly confine
others and then use our ability to give them their freedom to move
them in the direction we wish as a reward so as to condition them
the way we want them to be. If you look carefully at yourself,
others and society, you will see that we all use our ability to
control another person’s freedom to move as a way of controlling
them and getting them to do what we want them to do. Sometimes we do
it consciously. Other times we do it subconsciously. But, we,
nevertheless, all have done it to some extent and, probably still do
it and/or will do it.
Freedom of movement is essential to the development of one’s being.
Yet we control it and control others much more than we realize. Many
times we tell ourselves and the other that the control that we
impose is for their own good when in reality it is only our desires.
We learn the feat of walking with our physical body at the earliest
age of our life and take walking for granted. Similarly, most of us
also learn to run but few do it routinely for few of us have the
need to run. Others learn to dance, but again, it is not something
done routinely by most people. Yet, relative to our creativity, most
of us never learn to do the same within each of the two creative
aspect of our being - our mind and what is
symbolized in our heart. We never seem to realize that just as
we learn to walk physically and as a result we, as humanity, have
explored almost the entire physical planet and beyond, we must learn
to walk spiritually, mentally, and emotionally and most importantly,
creatively in these four areas. Just as we can run and dance
physically, we can also learn to run and dance spiritually, mentally
and emotionally and we need to do so if we really are to be free.
Most importantly, we need to walk, run and dance with the creative
life energy within our being itself.
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