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As stated on the “Meditation
Concepts and Principles for Creativity” Home page: From a
creativity perspective, there is nothing special about meditation
and the associated types of practices. You can achieve the same
results in other ways. Rather meditation is an effective creative
tool. (More on ...meditation as a creative tool)
As discussed in the topic “What
is meditation”: Meditation is the conscious focusing and
direction of one’s mental attention and awareness in a particular
way to achieve a particular end. As a result of the
creative process, and how we create our experiences and the
reality of those experiences, meditation and related practices can
function as and effective creative tool.
The meditation concepts and techniques used within the Releasing
Your Unlimited Creativity technology are based on the
energy consciousness model for understanding the Universe. The
principles and concepts applicable to meditation are briefly
summarized here and discussed in “Energy
consciousness concepts and principles for meditation.” This
model is based on the understanding that energy and consciousness
are different aspects of the same essential material of the Universe
out of which all else is created. Energy and consciousness are seen
to exist in a duality much like the wave-particle duality of light
found in physic and this energy consciousness can be experienced as
energy, or as consciousness, depending on how one chooses to
observe.
Within this understanding, energy goes where consciousness focuses
its attention and awareness. The longer and more passionately
consciousness holds a particular focus of its attention and
awareness, the greater the possibility of creating an actual
experience of what is held. As consciousness holds its focus, the
improbably becomes possible, the possible becomes probably and the
probable becomes a certainty.
To consciously utilize this principle of creativity found within
energy consciousness it is important to learn to control and direct
the focus of one’s attention and awareness. Then hold a focus with
unwavering faith as passionately as possible. In time, what is held
will manifest as an experience in a way that experience is most
easily manifested within the environment in which your find
yourself.
It is most important to understand this last statement. What you
hold will manifest in the best way possible based on the
environment. In another environment, the experience you have could
be quite different for the same focus of your attention and
awareness. Often it is not that what you desire to create and
manifest that is impossible. Rather, the environment in which you
find yourself cannot support what you desire. It is as simple like
trying to plant a tropical fruit tree in the Northern of Southern
most latitudes expecting it to grow. Sometimes you have to change
your environment to manifest what you desire. For the tropical fruit
tree environment, you would either need to move towards the equator
or build a hot house that can control the environment to simulate a
more appropriate climate.
Within this realization, meditation becomes an extremely important
creative tool. From a
creativity perspective because of
how we create our experiences, meditation can be used as a
creative tool in many ways depending on the intention one sets. What
most use meditation for is addressed in the discussion “Variety
of Reasons to Meditate.”
Since meditation is the conscious focusing and direction of one’s
mental attention and awareness in a particular way to achieve a
particular end, if performed as a practice over time, it embodies
the essential creative process of holding a thought over a period of
time. What one needs to understand about meditation is that it is a
creative state in that it focuses our attention and awareness.
Meditation seeks to hold a
clear intention with a
single point focus. As such it can be a very effective creative
tool. One can create an experience of that on which you meditate. Of
particular interest in creativity is that it is away to achieve any
understanding that is primarily directed inward.
Many do create an experience of the intention for why they meditate
but they never realized exactly how they are using meditation as the
creative tool to create that experience. If they did, they could
then pursue the root desire as to why they are even looking to
meditate for that root desire is already a meditation for their life
and directing their life. That deeper intent is what lead them to
mediation in the first place.
What needs to be understood is we have conscious and subconscious
intentions. Those intentions are creating the life we live because
they are what we hold. Meditation as used by most, involves
consciously choosing a reason to meditate and then creating an
experience of what is desired through whatever meditation process
they use. Mediation is only the conscious addition of another
intention to all the other intentions we hold It tends to become
more powerful because in meditating, one has to block out all other
activities to mediate. That, in turn, captures a greater share of
our time and the flow of our creative life energy into what we
desire to create through meditation.
Yet, any thought we hold is a meditation. The question is whether
our not our body movements align with the meditation we hold. Many
people work at a job and in that job are always thinking about what
they will do on their time off because they dislike their job. Here
a thought is held - the enjoyment of an activity on the weekend -
that is not supported by one’s actions because one’s actions are to
perform the job for which they get paid. As such, the work is not as
productive, nor of the quality and safety, that could be had if the
work was the focus of one’s attention awareness. Obviously, the
weekend, where one’s thoughts and desires can be aligned with what
one actually does, provides a much more powerful life experience
that just thinking about it while doing something else. It is to be
noted that it is here, the need to be able focus of our attention
and awareness on the task at hand to find creative solutions to the
problems faced in the workplace that lied at the start of the
author’s
conscious journey to explore creativity.
The primary goal of mediation as a creative tool is to become
mindful and aware of our thoughts. In being mindful and aware of our
thoughts, we can continually look to see if our actions are
supporting what we desire to create. In being aware of how in, or
out, of alignment are actions are with what we desire to create, we
can make the conscious choice to change what we are doing. Whether
or not we can change what we do and how difficult it may be is
another issue. But unless we become aware of what we do and why, we
cannot begin to get conscious control over what we create.
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