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Implications of the Releasing Your
Unlimited Creativity understanding
The need to become aware of that on which we focus
Make the internal changes first
Creation
does not work the way mind perceives it does
Our current
mind cannot free us from the cage in which it put our creativity
Whatever we think actually traps us
We need to return to a state of creative play
Become aware of the true nature of the body
Body memories
The possibility of a gentle phoenix in any creative endeavor
There are a variety if
implications which arise from the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity understanding. What are
provided here are several of the more important and/or profound
implications that will continually be of concern in one way or
another. They are implications most beneficial to us to begin to
take conscious control over creating the experiences we have. But
these should only be viewed as a starting point. They will allow us
to only begin the process of obtaining conscious control over the
experience we have. If we begin to use the process of
clear
intentionality and allow our
intuitive guidance to guide us, we can expand our
creative
ability and creative power however deep and broad we wish,
including claiming
our
birthright.
The
need to become aware of that on which we focus
(Top)
The first and most import
implications arises from the principle our energy goes where we
focus our attention and awareness. It cannot be overemphasized or
understated. It is essential that each one of us become very aware
of what we think, how we think and why we think the way they do.
This includes what we believe and why we believe what we do. But,
more importantly, we need to become aware of the intention we carry
and what we are really intending in what we do, the choices we make,
how we live our life. It is our intentions, not necessarily what we
do, but why we do it that creates our reality. The why behind the
what we do is more powerful because the why keeps us locked into a
particular direction for our life. The doing is only a means to that
end and there are many ways to achieve any given end.
Make the internal changes
first (Top)
The second implication is a direct
result of
how energy manifests physically, and
how the inner is reflected in the outer. For whatever we desire
and/or wish to create, we need to go within and make the internal
changes first if the are going to make any changes to our external
world. We cannot look to the external world to change first. We must
first make the internal changes. What we will need to change for any
creation whether it is to create a new state of being, some object
or some experience, is beyond our conscious control and
understanding. Any
truly creative endeavor
will take us into the unknown and what has not yet been experienced.
Mind only knows the past and what it has experienced. We cannot
decide what we will, and will not, give up to manifest our desire.
The desire itself will
require specific sacrifices of our internal and external worlds
to manifest. We will have to
surrender
to what our desire requires.
Creation does not work the way
mind perceives it does (Top)
A third implication is that
because of how we think and what we think, enlightenment and/or
understanding of the how the universe really operates is not what we
think it is. The enlightenment and any understanding we experience
will depend on the intention and desire we hold. This is an
extremely import realization. For example, if we believe the
material plane is some how separate from spirit and/or the physical
world is not sacred, the understanding we get will probably be
considered an enlightenment relative to what we knew when we started
and will reflect our starting beliefs about the material plane,
spirituality and the physical world. However, what we will come to
know will only be a facet of the truth.
To see reality for what it is, we have to be willing to give up all
preconceived ideas about reality. This includes the
energy consciousness model
and ideas presented in the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material. This model and the ideas presented are only
a launch point for our own journey of exploration. It is only to
function to give us a sufficient base to
hold the space for another who may wish to pursue their unique
journey. It is an attempt to give us a broad and deep enough
understand to be willing to let go and
step out of mind
to find out the true nature of both our internal reality and the
external world that we experience.
Our
current mind cannot free us from the cage in which it put our
creativity (Top)
Stepping out of mind brings us to the fourth implication. Our
current
mind cannot get us out of
the cage it has put our creativity in no matter how hard we try.
We will have to shatter the vessel of our
ego which we have constructed that contains who and what we
think we are. But we cannot shatter it. We can elect to have it
shattered but we cannot do the shattering. We can create the
conditions to shatter it but we ourselves cannot do it. The reason
for this is mind will always move to protect itself and what it has
created.
Within the
energy consciousness model
presented here, there are three ways to shatter the
ego. One is to have someone do it for us. But we must be careful
as to what vessel they give us to flow into after ours is shattered.
Everyone carries an expectation. If we allow someone to guide us,
they will guide us into whatever understanding they have and we
really don’t know how deep and broad their understanding really is.
All we can do is let them guide us and if we do not have the depth
and breath we would like and the end of the process, find another
way and shatter ourselves again. On this point of not knowing if the
understanding of another
serves us,
we only need to remember, “We know a tree by its fruits.” Look to
see that for which they stand and how they respond to life based on
the position they espouse. Do they walk their talk and live their
truth and is it something that allows us to feel and expansion
within our being or do we find ourselves shrinking to meet their
expectations.
The second way to allow our
ego to be shattered is to follow the
passion of our own
heart,
our creative passion,
wherever it leads. However, unless we can be in spontaneous and
innocent
childlike play
of discovery and exploration, we will always seem to be mislead by
what we think is the heart for
mind
will mask the heart. Our heart, can be, and is frequently,
controlled by our
enculturated mind.
It must be remembered that our
heart
is representative of our
creative spirit and the flow of our
creative life energy manifesting. Our creative life energy flows
directly from the
source/Source of being/Being. However, our
mind interjects itself
creating an illusion of separation and diverts the flow before
our energy manifests to fulfill the
intention for our life. Consequently, we must be out of
enculturated mind
to know, feel and see the
true passion of the heart that our creative spirit
incarnated to experience.
We can destroy the
ego by pursuing what we think give us fulfilment and use what
gives us
passion for life and pursue that objective. If this journey
gives us a hollowness, we know it was the
mind masking as heart. If the passion begins to glow brightly
and we become more and more enthusiastic, with a greater and greater
fulfillment within our being, then it is
our
true creative passion.
If we find we have been mislead by
mind, we simply need to ask ourselves what gives us
passion and pursue that new objective and continually iterate
the process. It may take some time, but it in the end we will get
into
our
true creative passion. This process is only dependent on how
strong our mind is at controlling and
masking the heart. An alternative to this process is
to set the intention to enter the state of spontaneous and
innocent
childlike play
of discovery and exploration and work thought all the obstacles that
arise. As we pursue this play, we will be naturally lead to our true
creative passion. The more we align with our spontaneous
creative play
the more we will be aligning with
our creative passion.
The third way to shatter our
ego is to commit ourselves to manifesting a creation that is
larger than our
enculturated ego. In particular, it is something that our
enculturated mind
thinks is impossible. In choosing such a task, we then explore
within ourselves what changes we must make within ourselves to
manifest a new external world based on this task. Conceptually it is
simply enough.
The problem we face is anything our
enculturated mind
chooses is really an
ego decision. It leaves our ego in control at some level no
matter how noble an idea we choose. Anything that we choose is
ultimately from our ego. For example, to choose to sit and
meditation to enter a particular state, become a certain type of
being, or to transcend the
enculturated ego leaves the ego in control. We will create the
experience we desire that appears to be outside the ego, but the ego
is still ultimately in control. The only way to move beyond what our
mind has constructed is to
surrender
to something. It is to surrender to preferably something larger than
ourselves beyond the limits and beliefs of mind.
This is one of the main reason why so many spiritual and religious
traditions require some type and kind of
surrender.
However, the surrender that is required to destroy the
ego must be to surrender to something of which
mind knows nothing about. To surrender to a tradition, any
tradition, is to surrender to a known and leaves mind in control at
some level. Hence the recommendation to surrender to a creative
endeavor for a
true creative endeavor
takes us into the unknown where mind has no knowledge of what to
expect.
Based on what has been observed in the
exploration of creativity, the only way to
surrender
to something that does not become a trap either created by our
enculturated mind
or the enculturated mind of another is to surrender to the intent
for our current life. The intention our life existed before we were
born and before our current enculturated mind developed. If we
surrender to the flow of our
creative life energy that is manifesting that intention, our
current
mind has no way of gaining control over what we do.
Additionally, since the
intention for our life is our intention, we cannot be mislead by
it. The only things that really exists larger than our
enculturated ego is why we incarnated into physical creation in
the first place. Other than that everything we or another can think
is of the enculturated ego and the product of the experience that we
have had in this life. If we pursue why we are here until we get an
answer of which we have no doubt as to its truth and that answer to
the “why” lead us to
our creative passion,
we will shatter our enculturated ego.
On this point, it can be added that if we try to “figure out” with
our current
enculturated mind
the
intention for our life we will fail. We will fail simply because
the intention existed before our
current
mind existed. Our current mind does not have the
minimum set of experiences to understand this intention.
Understanding this point, takes us back to
our creative passion
and the feeling of the
fulness of being.
If we
surrender
to
our creative passion
and allow it and/or the
fulness of being to lead us where it may, although we may
seeming jump from thing to thing without order, we will begin to see
a pattern. It is a pattern that we can piece together that will give
us a fairly good idea of what we are here to do. We need to explore
no farther than that unless we choose to do so. What we will also
probably find is that we are more than willing to surrender our
enculturated ego to live this
passion that we find simply because it is so enjoyable. It will
give us an
inner satisfaction that never runs dry no matter what is
happening in our life and our external world.
Whatever we think
actually traps us (Top)
The fifth implications is a subtle
effect that can be very enlightening or another trap. A trap harder
and more difficult to escape that if we had never pursued it. In
realizing we are a
creative living process, we can realize we have a
choice. We can choose to be constantly evolving in an understanding
of ourselves and the world in which we live. Or, we can choose to
recreate ourselves based on the past or some fixed idea we have as
to who or what we should be.
We can continually evolve for nothing remains fixed and we are
infinitely creative being. However, in doing so we will always seem
to be in chaos. Consequently there is a natural tendency to “make
sense” out of what we experience in an attempt to make our life a
little more predictable and less chaotic. Our attempt to “make
sense” usually results in some
story we tell about ourselves, a
story we tell about Creation, or, some theory about reality, like
the scientific theories that we employ. All theological and religion
explanations are just as much stories and theories as anything else.
Some are just more effective than others at creating certain types
and kinds of experiences.
If we hold tightly to whatever
story we tell, personal, religious,
or scientific, it become very difficult to evolve our thinking as
the experiences we have in life continually stretch us past the
limits of our own thinking. If however, we
give ourselves permission
to modify and evolve our thinking neither denying the truth within
our being nor the truth of the external world but merge the
understanding into a wholeness, we will be given a composite
integrated understand for where we are in that moment of time and
how it all fits together. This is the world of
shamans and
mystics.
It is what will happen to each of us if we allow it. Each of us will
synthesis within our own being how we perceive we create reality or
how reality was created.
Mind will always find a model that fits what we ask it to fit.
It needs to be remember we are a being of
unlimited creativity and
we will create an experience of whatever we desire as
supportable by
the environment in which we find ourselves. However, the wholeness
we experiences only exist to the depth and breath in which we are
willing to explore the oneness of Creation.
We need to
return to a state of creative play (Top)
The sixth implications is that to
know who we really are and the depth and breath of our
creative
ability and creative power is to know we are ultimately
consciousness at play with itself. In this realization, we will have
to relearn to explore in the innocents and
freedom of
childlike play
the full range of our consciousness. This means we need to be
free
to explore our conscious and
nonconscious mind and our body and the
myriad of ways that we interact with the external world. Spontaneous
and innocent play is the
most powerful creative state of being. It
offers us all the
mystical experiences that we could want.
In this realization is also the realization that we can’t leave the
world in which we currently find ourselves. By
design and
intent, our
body hold us
to the
physical experience of a human being. As adults we seem unable to
live in the world and explore this world like a innocent child.
There are an enormous number of reason that we can give as to why we
can’t.
So what is one to do? The answer is to first realize that we are
split between these two world - the world of the way that we need to
be to live and survive in the world, yet simultaneously we need to
be like that innocent child exploring both our internal and external
world in intimate detail to find out who we really are. How we
actually do this play is unique to our being and our needs and each
of us will do it quite differently.
What we will need to do is to spend some time exploring the world
symbolized
by
our heart
and
play following the flow of our
creative life energy that is sustaining our being. We will need
to find a
safe and secure space in which to play and probably
someone who can act as a
rainmaker to
hold the space for us. Once we
get a feel for what this world of our
creative play
looks like and
how our
creative spirit communicates to us will see how this world symbolized by the heart
is different from the view of the
mind and how we can or can’t live in that world in our every day
mundane life. In this understanding of the difference between these
two worlds, you can then, in our own unique way,
learn to walk in
balance in an way that meets our needs of
childlike play
and what we wish to create in the world and the world in which are
find ourselves. In time, we can make the world in which we find
ourselves more and more the world of spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery and exploration. It only takes some time to
evolve one into the other.
Become aware
of the true nature of the body (Top)
The seventh implication is the
most profound and most important implication. In particular, it is
the most important understanding within a category of aspects of
reality that are implied in many ancient esoteric and spiritual
traditions but never really taught and/or emphasized. It is the
nature of our physical body and what it actually represents.
All that we experience in life, no matter what, is colored or
filtered by the view from our body and the past experiences we have
had in the body. Although we are not our body, our
creative spirit an how our
creative life energy manifest in creation, our
creative
spirit/creative life energy are integrally connected with our body.
As a result of
how the inner is reflected in the outer, our
consciousness is reflected in our body and the world it experiences.
As a human being, we cannot escape our body for whatever we
experience is communicated to another by and through our body. We
communicate by how we move, how we speak, the smells we release and
the energy we radiate. The problem for humanity appears to have been
that we have never understood the reason why we are here in physical
form and what it actually represents. That is, we have not fully
appreciated
what it means to be physical and have a physical
experience.
It is only in current times that we are able to see the
wave
particle nature of energy, the equivalence of energy and mass, and
the
relationship between energy and consciousness. What is only
recently being understood is how the body is both our consciousness
and energy manifested. That is, the our
creative spirit made
manifested in a physical experience. We are not a body inhabited by
a spirit or a spirit having a physical experience. Rather, we are a
flow of energy that has become aware of itself that can exists as
unbounded energy or manifested in a bound physical form. It is
analogous to the way radiant wave energy can be converted to
manifesting as a particle with mass. Alternatively said, the body is
our
creative spirit as it appears to have its desired physical
experience.
Although it is said in some traditions that our physical body is the
“temple” or repository of the spirit, no traditions were found to
truly embrace the body as something special and having a specific
purpose. Most traditions, if not all, emphasized the need to somehow
learn to transcend the body and transcend physical reality to enter
a painless state of existence. Many, if not most of these traditions
foster a way of being and thinking which put the
mind and what mind does over the body. They tend to emphasize
the spirit as the ultimate state of being and a spiritual state of
being or the attainment of non physical reality the goal of
existence. Many see a
heaven, the Kingdom of God or Nirvana as a
something or some place transcendent or above the physical and
unattainable in the physical.
To deny the body and/or down play the body and physical reality in
any way is to deny Creation. It is to deny the wisdom and the one
who created Creation and the physical experience. It doesn’t matter
whether that Creator is the consciousness within your being, God, an
unseen Force or any other Creator that we choose. To deny the body
is to deny the wisdom which created it.
No tradition was found that acknowledged and admitted that there is
an internal guidance system and
internal compass within our being
that we can access and utilize to guide us in life and that is more
than adequate to guide us through life and into the experiences that
we incarnated to have. Most tell, direct or suggest there is a
preferred path other than following what lies within our own being.
None were found that encourage and teach an individual how to follow
their own internal guidance in all that they do. From the
perspective of the
energy consciousness model,
to deny the
body wisdom is to deny the power of consciousness to
create and to deny the way that energy manifests physically. In
doing so, we deny our own creative power and give our creative power
away
to become a victim rather than the creator that we are.
Many traditions talk about a “Plan of God,” an unfoldment to
Creation, or a purpose for our existence and/or a lesson we are here
to learn. Some say there is some cause for our current existence
such as karma or other reason. However, none seem to talk about the
specific intention for our particular and unique body. That is, none
address why we have the particular body that we have and not
another. For those traditions that do talk about these things, they
do little to demonstrate they truly act on this understanding.
From the perspective from within the
energy consciousness model
of the universe, it needs to be understood there is a specific
intention for our unique body and it has a
wisdom unto itself that
in many ways independent of our
current
mind. The
intention for our life which gave rise to our particular body is
vitally important to us. It is the reason that our unique
individual
consciousness chose to
incarnate into
Physical Creation and what our
consciousness desires to accomplish. This intention is responsible
for choosing
our body as the perfect vehicle for its expression. In
this regard, the key to the
intention for our life is our body and
what it feels. There is
an awareness within what we feel only
accessible through our body that will allows us to know what we need
to do with our life.
The unfoldment of the
intention for our life as a way of being and experiencing
reality can best be described and experienced by our
mind as a dream that lies within their
heart.
It is what give rise to a
passion to
create, for life and for living. However this dream/intention can
only be manifested if we live in alignment with, and follows the
flow of the
creative life energy within the heart and the
body wisdom. In
many ways from the perspective of the intention behind our life, our
consciousness is only along for the ride as a
detached witness. Yet,
we learn from the earliest days of our life to have mind step in
based on what is has experienced to direct the flow of our creative
life energy resulting in an
illusion created by mind that we are
somehow separated from the
Source of Creation.
The single most profound, and it might be added, unexpected,
important implication of the
energy consciousness model
is the need to learn to love and appreciate our body as it is and to
become intimately familiar with
our body and its wisdom. It has a
wisdom and understanding all to itself. This wisdom can guide us to
the experiences we need to have to fulfill the
intention behind our
incarnation that brought us into this world. Unfortunately we cannot
experience the truth of these statements unless we
give ourselves
permission to experience them and step out of our
enculturated mind
and
enculturated ego to see and experience the truth of this wisdom
of the body for ourselves.
If we can believe and accept these statements, we can readily learn
to follow the
body wisdom. It will allow
our creative passion
and that what give us a
passion for life and for living to guide us into the fulfillment
of the
intention for our life. If we cannot accept these statements
for one reason or another, it would appear that the only choices we
will have is to do deny them and live our life the way our
enculturated mind
and
enculturated ego thinks we need to live life. Or, we can find
some way to transcend our
ego,
do our own experiments and find the truth within these
statements ourselves.
To live from the perspective of the
body wisdom, we will have to be
willing to live in the unknown. We will have to be able to live not
knowing where we will be lead from moment to moment. We will
literally have to feel our way though life allowing the
fulness of being to be our
internal compass. We may go years
without a change in course for our life. Then suddenly find that we
cannot plan one minute to the next. We may find that the only
approach to life that will work is to be in that spontaneous and
innocent
childlike play
of discovery and exploration. Yet, no matter
how uncertain our life would be, we will find an internal joy, bliss
or
inner satisfaction that never runs dry no matter what is
happening in our external world. In doing so, we will find we are in
that state of
wonderment and “Ah.” Here again, this is all something
that can only be experienced and
we are free to choose as we wish.
The only proof that can be offered is that all of the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material arose in acting on the awareness and
information that lies within and beyond the feelings within the
body.
Body
memories (Top)
An eighth implication is that our
body has memories or it can be said our body stores memories. In a
way analogous to the way energy can be converted to mass, our
creative life energy forms the body and
molds it in response to
our environment and the experiences we have. Analogous we can look
at the body memories as being a composite of something like mental
habits, conditioning body reflects as in learning to play a musical
instrument, dance or any physical activity and how stem cells from
into particular tissues based on the environment in which the cells
are placed. In the end, our body remembers.
We create our experiences by how we
bind the free flow of our
creative life energy. Given the
equivalence of energy and
consciousness, any experience we have imprints both our
mind and our body to create a memory. We tend to be aware of our
mental memories but not our body memories. Where mental memories are
remembered as a thought or image, body memories are remembered as
feelings and through feeling. How much energy any particular memory
stores depends on what we experience the experience we have. Some
experiences are traumatic where as other experiences seem
unimportant. Yet they all provided imprints. The more we act,
response or exist in a given way or live in a given environment, the
deeper and more layered the imprint.
When we act to create something new, these memories will continue to
haunt us until we do the work to
release the bound energy and form a
new pattern. Analogously we can look at it as retraining our muscles
from one way of acting to another. If we do not release the bound
energy, we will always be pulled back to the very past we are tying
to escape.
The possibility of a
gentle phoenix in any creative endeavor (Top)
The ninth implications and most
exciting implication is the
possibility of creating a gentle phoenix
for whatever we choose to create in life. As a result of the nature
of the
creative process any
creative endeavor
requires a
sacrifice. Exactly what needs to be sacrificed depends on
what we wish to create. How big a sacrifice depends on how much of
our life we desire to recreate or how much of our life will need to
change to manifest what we desire to create. In understanding the
creative process and the types and kinds of things which influence
our creative activities, it is possible to create a
faster, easier
and gentler transformation for any creative endeavor. But it needs
to be noted that creating a
gentle phoenix does not necessary mean
there will not be
pain, work and effort. It only means faster,
easier and gentle in relation to not creating a gentle phoenix.
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