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Nature of mind in the creativity
perspective
Mind as a switching station
The limitations of
mind and the minimum set of requisite experience
Using
mind in creative endeavors
Holding our creativity sacred
The concept of
mind as used in the
creativity perspective
and within the
energy consciousness model is similar to its everyday use but
has some salient differences. The basic concept of mind and its
relationship to consciousness is discussed in the topic “Mind
and Symbolism of the head.” The salient issues of mind relative
to creativity is discussed in the topic “Nature
and issue of mind in creativity.” This discussion is focused
more on how to use mind in our creative endeavors and how it can be
used to
hold our creativity sacred.
Mind as a switching station
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Within the
energy consciousness understanding, energy and consciousness are
one and the same. In essence, whatever energy is, consciousness is.
Whatever consciousness is, energy is. Whatever consciousness
believes, energy is. Whatever energy is, consciousness believes as
existing and/or experiences as a creation. As a result, energy
readily forms itself into what consciousness thinks, believes and
desires whether or not consciousness is awake and aware of this
fact. The form that energy takes is then experienced by
consciousness as an experience of
Creation/creation.
Mind is the property of consciousness that hold the memories of
the experiences of consciousness. We will not and cannot escape it.
But we can learn to work with it. Mind and the
ego it creates are often seen as something to transcend rather
than vehicles of creation to be understood and utilized. Mind and
ego are to be savored, enjoyed and effectively and properly used.
Our
mind is always changing by what we experience for every
experience we have changes how we view the world. Some experiences
reinforce the view we have whereas other experiences causes to
change what we believe. Nevertheless, in any one moment, mind is
changing. Mind synthesizes and assimilates all that has been
experienced into a view or perspective from which consciousness
perceives Creation. Based on that perspective, consciousness makes
choices, decisions, judgments and the like. These choices,
decisions, and judgements, in turn, determine the flow of our
creative life energy and what consciousness experiences. In this
regard, mind acts like a switching station for the energy of
creation turning it one or off and/or directing it in one way or
another. The goal within the
creativity perspective
is to do it consciously.
The issue with
mind is whether or not it holds onto what consciousness
experiences and holds and
binds our creative life energy within a fixed and rigid form.
Or, does it let go and allow the energy to freely flow to be
available to create the next experience. This is why many esoteric
traditions encourage individuals to live in the “now” or be fully
present in the moment. In being present to what is, as it is, we
step out of mind and reduce the ability of mind to hold us to
the past and/or binding our
creative life energy to the past. There is nothing wrong with
holding a particular thought if it is what we desire to create
and/or experience. This is the whole basis of
meditation and crating a
single point focus.
It needs to be understood we cannot “forget” our memory or remove
it. But we can free it from holding any energy. Whether an
experience is painful or pleasurable, the memory of that experience
hold no energy unless we allow it to hold energy. Some of the most
joyful experiences can become painful if we realize we have been
betrayed in that joy. Similarly, there are painful experiences which
can be remembered in tremendous freedom and/or provide enormous
growth in our ability to feel and create what we desire. All
memories of themselves are neutral. They can be seen simply as a
piece of a movie for which we have no attachment. It is our thinking
and beliefs and how we hold or release what we experience which
determines what our memories hold. The goal is not to judge our
memories not allowing them to hold energy and it is to learn to use
them to create
experiences which serves us. What serves us allows us to move
into the fuller experiences of the infinity of our own being.
Who and what we are is the sum total of all that we have been and
what we have been will always be with us. We need to transform the
experience and/or what we think and believe in some way such that we
hold it differently. We hold it in a way that it not longer holds us
and
binds our creative life energy and creates
pain in our life. Remember, within an existing creation, energy
is neither created or destroyed, only transformed. This includes all
of our memories and all that we are at every level of our being for
all they are is energy held in a fixed pattern or form.
We only needs to understand
what serves and does not serve our
creative spirit and to create something that serves it. What
ultimately serves our creative spirit is to have the experience we
incarnated to have. We know what we have to do to fulfill that
incarnation by the experience of the
fulness of being in what we do and/or feel full of life as a
result of what we do.
The limitations of
mind and the minimum set of requisite experience (Top): The
limitation of
mind is that mind cannot know what it has not experienced. Mind
only knows what it has experience. It does not know the unknown.
Mind is only the collection and composite of our past experiences.
Mind does not know what it has not experienced. It can characterize
what it has not experienced only to the degree it has some other
experiences that has attributes which overlap that which it has not
experienced.
What
mind has experienced is not necessary what one has experience
with their body and the whole of their being. It is the difference
between a classroom experience and a laboratory experience. There
are things we know but never have experienced. It is possible when
we have an experience of something we know, we may not even know if
we know anything about what is happening because we never made the
connection between what we know and what we experience. Many what
are called mystical experiences are like this. Our mind has one idea
what the experience is like whereas the experience is different than
mind expects so we don’t recognize it when we have it.
Relative to creative endeavors, what we do in our
creative imagination is the equivalent of the
classroom experience and the manifestation of that idea is the
equivalent of the
laboratory experience. The two can be quite different. We will
have to experience the two and how different environments affect the
manifestation if we are going to manifest what we desire. Some
environments are readily supportive of our dreams, others do not.
But the fact our current environment does not support our creative
endeavors only means we may have to change the environment to create
what we desire. This relationship is further explored in the topic “Environment and the
Unfoldment of a Creation”
Any experience
mind has, it characterizes the best it can based on the
experiences it has had. Education has been so powerful because it is
a way to learn from the experiences of others. There is the
proverbial statement, “an individual learns from their mistakes, a
wise individual learns from the mistakes of others and a fool never
learns.” We can learn from the experience of others but we need to
understand knowing something in mind is not necessarily the same as
actually having directly experienced it and/or its implications. To
think of throwing a ball to hit a target is a different experience
than actually throwing a ball. To exercise our creativity and to
experience what we know mentally we will have to do our own
experiments with what we know to know the truth of what we know for
ourselves as opposed to regurgitating the truth as stated by others.
We will have to do our own experiments to make what we know in mind
a experiential knowing. This is especially true relative to our
creative power.
Mind, at least as we normally know it and experience it, is the
produce of the experiences of life that we have had. As such, any
new experience one has may, or may not, be properly characterized by
mind. Unless one has a
minimum set of requisite experience to understand a new
experience, mind will improperly characterize or describe what it
experiences. As one gains the pieces to this minimum set of
experiences, mind will more accurately characterize what it
experiences. Hence, whenever one experiences something that is truly
creative and has not been previously experience, mind will be hard
pressed to provide an accurate interpretation of what is
experienced. Other than discarding experiences it does not
understand as it sometime does, it will look to its past to find
that experience or those experiences that most look like what is
currently being experienced. Additional since what it faces is
unknown, it may find itself projecting some or all the fears on that
unknown rather than looking objectively face the true hazards that
it may face.
Using
mind in creative endeavors (Top): As was above, within the
creativity perspective
and the
creative process to create an experience we desire the
mind can be seen as a switching station which channels and/or
directs our
creative life energy into or out of the experience we desire by
how we focus our attention and awareness.
There are three ways to use
mind. One is to allow the heart to intend the direction of our
life through the use of the feelings within our being and allow mind
to attend to the details to make it happen. That is, to align with
the in
fulness of being and what makes you feel alive and full of life
that we experience when we are
out of mind.
Then allow mind to attend to the details to keep in alignment with
that feeling. If we allow the fulness of being and what gives our
life and pulls us into life to intend the direction for our life
this means we align with the flow of energy that created and
sustains our life. To live where the heart intends and the mind
attend to the details, mind “throws all the switches” or chooses a
way of thinking and believing that allows all the creative energy to
flow to manifest what the
heart desires.
The second and third ways to use
mind is for mind to intend the direction for our life and there
are two ways for mind to intend the direction of our life. In either
case, mind throws all the switches to allow the
creative life energy to flow into creating what mind wants. What
is different is how mind throws the switches. The second way to use
mind is for mind to intend the direction for our life is for mind
continue to do what mind thinks needs to be done until we create
what it desires. This approach tends to be trial and error and tend
to neglect what we feel. This is the way most of us think about
creating and is typical of the way we create if we asked some how
they would consciously create something. However, we can’t really
create if we rely on mind for mind only knows the past and what it
has experienced. Here again, creation is about bring into existence
something not previously experienced.
The third way is for
mind to hold a
clear intention and then allow the
energy generated by that intention to guide our actions into and
through the
creative process. In this regard, this third way for mind to
intend the direction for our life is almost identical to allowing
heart to intend and mind to attend. The difference is whether we
choose the flow of energy that sustains our being direct our life or
they choose to have the flow of energy generated by the intention
mind holds to direct our life. Otherwise the two approaches are
identical. Yet what each creates is profoundly different.
Which method you use depend on what you wish to create. These three
ways of using
mind lay the foundation for the three levels to the Releasing
Your Unlimited Creativity technology and the
dance between heart and mind. Mind intends and does what mind
thinks needs to be done is more characteristic of the first level of
the technology. Because of the nature of mind and its difficulty in
properly characterizing a new experience, for any creative endeavor
the approach at his first level is to assist the individual to get
more into their intuitive guidance and
out of mind
rather than continually relying on mind.
Exploring the depth and breadth of our creativity is characteristic
of the second level is focused on allowing what is
symbolized in the heart
to intent the direction in life and
mind attending to the details to make it happen. This is done by
looking to align with the
intention for our life or to manifest the
dream within our heart. This is done because in looking to align
with the intention for our life we both optimizes the
creative power available to us and simultaneously we move toward
the source of our being and the
Source of Creation for that is where the intention for our life
arises.
The third level of the technology is about becoming a conscious
creator and knowing how to
dance between heart and mind such that one becomes very
intentional but allows heart to lead the actual
creation process from the source of our creative power.
Holding our creativity
sacred (Top)
To
hold our creativity sacred, we look for those activities in our
life which allow us to experience a growth, broadening, or expansion
of our
creative power and creative
abilities. Some experience this growth and broadening as
enlightenment. Others experience increased awareness. Some
experience the
siddhis and related psychic abilities. Some access and release
their
charisma. We each will experience something different.
Hold our creativity sacred usually entails several steps. The
first is to access the
intention for our life to know where it is leading us or become
aware of what gives us a feeling of
fulness of being and use it as an
internal compass. The second step is to look for those
activities that allow us to continually become greater than what we
perceive ourselves to be. It is to continually move past our own
imposed limits. It is to become comfortable moving past our
limitation at any level of being. The third step is to study and
become knowledgeable in how
Creation/creation works. Then use that knowledge to create a
world and a life that
serves the depth and breadth of the person who we currently
think we are and to create the experiences that allows us to further
expand ourselves into the infinity of our being as an
infinite creative being.
Related topics
Mind
and symbolism of the head
Nature and issue of mind in creativity
The problem of mind and the experience of the Source of Creation -
the trap of mind
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