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Utilize our creativity and creative
passion
Background
Consciously choosing to use our creative passion
Getting
started in exploring our creativity
Exploring creativity
Exploring some real issue
Escaping the cage of our own making
One approach to explore our
unlimited creativity
and/or access
our truth is to use our
creative spirit,
our creativity and
our creative passion.
Background
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We all have within us a
creative spirit which desires to creatively express itself in
some way. In particular, to create the experience our awareness
incarnated to experience. It will do so consciously or
nonconsciously. Knowing this, we can use what we are drawn to
create consciously or nonconsciously as a means to access this
creative spirit and
our creative passion.
Or we can use what arises in our life to see where we are or are not
tracking what this creative spirit desires to create and adjust our
lives accordingly.
When we pursue and follow the unique expression of
our creativity, that is, that which draws us to uniquely create,
it can lead us to fulfill the
intention for our life. In aligning with, and fulfilling the
intention for our life, we are aligning with the
truth of our being. In the awareness of
our truth we can being
to experience the depth and breadth of creativity that is available
to us.
Two sets of issues arise to prevent us from accessing
our creative passion.
One set are the issues around our enculturation and how and why we
lose our ability to play.
Creative play is essential to be able to freely express our
creative passion. The second set issues is what
mind perceives to be our creative passion. The
mistake most often made in utilizing
our creativity and our creative passion is that we find some
type and kind of creative endeavors in life that seems satisfying or
fulling, and out of which, we can create a career. We then think
that the career we have is the complete expression of our creative
passion or it is the way we need to express our creative passion.
However, there is nothing father from the
truth. Our creative passion cannot be fully expressed in a
career. This is one reason why there are so many things which
challenge us to become more creative in, and with, our life. We are
multidimensional and we need to be able to create across all
dimensions of our being.
To access
our creative passion
to see what it really is, we will
need to become a detached witness. We need to be able to observe
our life, observer
our creativity and what we create with our life in full
detachment yet in the awareness at some level of our being, for one
reason or another, we have created the experiences we have. Unless
we can become a
detached witness we will be unable to see the
truth of our being because
mind will continually interject itself as to what it thinks and
believes.
We need to be able to stand back observing our whole life and ask if
the life we have is
a life worth living. If we feel our live can be better in any
way or in any part, we have yet to live the full expression of
our truth and fully express
our creative passion.
We only need to choose to explore and
pull the string on any dissatisfaction we feel and we will find
there is much more to
our truth and
our creativity that we originally imagined.
Consciously choosing to use our creative passion
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To consciously chose to use
our creative passion
to access the
truth of our being, we start by exploring
our creativity to find the types and kinds of creative activity
that seem to be most fulfilling. However, whatever we do
should be playful as much as possible. We need to be able
to move into a
creative play within a
safe environment in which we allow ourselves to move into a
spontaneous and innocent
child like play
The creativity with which we start does not need to be an external
activity. In fact, it is probably preferred if when start with our
creative imagination and explore its limits and
boundaries. We look to see types and kinds of though we do not allow
ourselves to entertain because of the judgments we have and/or what
we believe. We should be free to play in our own creative
imagination. If we are unable to be free in our creative imagination
we will not find
freedom in the external world.
After we have explored our limits and boundaries within our
creative imagination , we can being to look to see how to bring
our creative expression into the world. We can use things like
games,
rituals,
metatheater, dance, music, art, sculpture, theater and the like.
We can also begin to see what our creative activities feel like and
practice consulting our
intuitive guidance as the best ways to being our ideas into the
world. We will needs to spend some time learning to use our
intuitive guidance, learning our
inner language and see how our intuitive guidance communicates
to us and what symbolism it uses.
In exploring our
creative imagination and looking to see what we can bring
into the world we should look to see if there are ideas and
activities that are more exciting than others. We should also look
to see if there are areas where our
intuitive guidance is sharper and/or more profound that other
areas.
As we explore creative activities we should look to see what type
and kind of creative activity really provides a
fulness of being, and excitement about life, and
passion for life and for living. Most of us will need to do a
series of different types and kinds of physical creative activities
to see if one is more appealing than others. In particular we need
to look to see which feel as thought they make us feel more alive or
desiring to do more of the same.
Getting started in exploring our creativity
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In getting started in exploring
our creativity, two things should be done in parallel. One is to
start exploring different creative activities. The other is to put a
real issue on the table to be solved and use the issue to learn
about how free we are or are not free to explore options.
Exploring creativity
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What needs to be realized is our true
creative
passion will not be revealed until we can begin to live the
truth of our own being. Anything we think is
our creative passion
will be in error because
mind only knows the past and what it has experienced. Living
our truth is not a current experience of mind. So whatever mind thinks
is our creative passion will be in error to the degree we have not
been free to express the
truth of our being. Hence the
recommendation to explore different types and kinds of creative
activities.
In exploring different creative activities, we need to pay attention
to what we feel. We need to become aware of what types and kinds of
creative activities make us feel alive and give us a fulness of life
within our being, a
passion for life, a passion for living. We also need to be come
aware of what aspect of the activity gives us the feeling of being
alive. As we do this, we will need to do two things. One is to move
deeper into the aspects of the activities that are making us feel
alive. We need to feel alive as possible with a
fulness of being. The second is to address the issues that
raises. In exploring creative activities that make us feel alive
issues from the past as to why we have not lived
our creative passion
and/or the
truth of our being will arise. We will need to face and deal
with those issues if we wish to access our creative passion and
our truth.
Exploring some real issue
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Look at some real issue we need to address and/or face in life. As
this exercise is performed, be aware as to where we are unable to
pursue options and why. Also be aware of the issue from the past
which surface to be addressed. We need to look at any judgements we
may have about the process, what arises and what we feel in doing
this exercise.
The first part of the exercise is to look at what
mind has to say about the solution and what should be done. We
need to go into the
creative imagination and explore options. We have mind’s
opinion as to what needs to be done in what we think. The question
is can we create five other options? We need to do some brain
storming type exercises to see what is possible. We need to become
aware of options we discard and why we discarded them . Are they
options that really will not work or are they options for which we
have judgements, opinions and the like the prevents us from acting
on the options.
The second part of the exercise is to look at what our
intuitive guidance has to say about the solution and what should
be done. We need to go to our intuitive guidance in a variety of
different ways to see. One way is to ask our intuitive guidance
directly, “What do I need to do or what do I need to become to
address this issue?” Then look to see what our intuitive guidance
provides as an answer. Our intuitive guidance can also be asked to
lead us to information on the topic or look to our
body wisdom and see what our body is communicating about the
whole process or what particular body part may be trying to
communicate to us.
The third part of the exercise is to do a
guided meditation to see what surfaces about the problem and
what our
creative spirit has to say. A generic guided meditation format
is provided in the topic, “Guided
meditation format.”
Compare, evaluate and discuss the results of the three sets of
information. Which set seem to be the one most based on the past and
past thinking? Which seems to be the most original? Which seem to
address the root issue? Look at the process of how we are choosing
your action to implement. Become aware of what we think about the
other options and why we are choosing the one we do and why we
discarded the other options. Ask ourselves if we are really allowing
ourselves to live the
truth of our being by the option we choose.
Escaping the cage of
our own making (Top)
In looking to explore
our creativity, we need to realize we have place our creativity
in a cage of our own making as a result of the experiences we have
had. When we think of breaking out of a box or a cage, we think that
if we have a door to the cage or break out one or more of the sides
we are free. However, relative to our
creative spirit, our creativity and our
creative
ability and creative power, nothing can be farther from the
truth. We need to address all six side of the cage or box. In
particular, we will need to address the top and bottom of the cage.
What we will face and what we need to do for the top and bottom of
the cage is addressed in the topic, “Addressing
the top and bottom of the box.”
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