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It sounds rather contradictory to
talk about being in the freedom of
creative play and yet to
experience an obligation and/or burden. Nevertheless, this condition
will exist unless we get past the
intention for our life and enter
the
most
creative state of being as discussed in the topic, “
“Creative play - movement, flow and true freedom.” The obligation in
creative play arises from the fact that we enter creative play
because we have an intention we wish to manifest. The creative play
is a tool we use to help us to manifest that intention. In this
regard, we are not technically completely free and experience
true freedom. We are obligated to look for those solutions which satisfy
the intention we hold.
What needs to be understood, is the
creative process is cyclical and
never ending. We cannot escape it. It is an illusion to think we
can. Who and what we are is a product of the this process. We may
change the form as to what is created, but we cannot escape the
process. We can appear to start the process wherever we choose to
enter the process to look at the process. This, in turn, causes us
to think there is a beginning and/or an end.
Look at the process as a piano making a musical note. We typically
say the music starts when the hammer hits the piano string and we
hear the note. However the process that makes the note started
before the note existed. It started when the hammer was raised off
the string to strike the string. If the piano is continually playing
the note, never stopping, the hammer continually rises and falls
onto the string to produce note after note after note. In this case,
there is neither a beginning nor an end, just a continual process.
But, we can look at any part of the process to look at a complete
cycle which will give the appearance of a beginning and an end.
True freedom arises out of this awareness. It is to realize that we
will always be a part of some
creative process. There will always be
deeper undercurrents that grab us and carry us. True freedom arise
in realizing the
role of consciousness is to be the cause. In
becoming consciously aware that we are being carried in a never
ending process, we have the option of stepping out of any existing
process to create a new process, a new flow of energy to carry us.
The only question is what flow of energy will better serve what we
desire to create - the existing flow in which we find ourselves or
the one we create.
Most will start the
creative process from where they are. As such,
they start from some existing created form or experience. The
creative process can start with an identity we hold, an occupation
or a physical location we wish to change. More often than not, we
start looking at the creative process as a result of some “disaster”
or desperation when the existing form has been, or is being,
destroyed. Most start looking to become consciously creative as a
result of a divorce, job termination, an accident, a forced move or
some other type of perceived setback. It needs to be noted and
emphasized, where we start to look at the process and why we start
the process has a great influence in how we perceive the process and
how much freedom we find.
If we choose to become conscious to escape a
pain we experience and
do not explore the origins of the pain, we severely limit our
freedom and what we can create. In essence, we only look at one
direction - away from the pain. But if we never explore the root
cause of the pain, it will only return at a later time in a new way.
True freedom is about being able to explore all options. At some
point in time, we will have to face the pain we try and escape.
It is a known fact that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
It can only be transformed. The
creative life energy within our
being, that gives us the ability to create and energizes our
creative actions, is bound in our existing creation - that which we
are currently experiencing. It must be released from the current
experiences we created. For
something to be created, something,
whole or in part, must be destroyed for it is only in the destruction of the existing form
that the necessary energy to create the new is released.
The realization and
experience of this released energy is
chaos. It is the dissolution of the old
form into the new. The chaos is then followed by reforming the
energy into a new form. In the reformation part of the process, the
energy flows into the new form according to the blueprint we
consciously, or subconsciously, establish. The energy solidifies or
“fixes” itself into the form we give it and subsequently manifests
in the new creation in accordance with the blueprint only to have
the process continue ad infinitum. However, through all of this, the
essence of the material of creation never changes. Only its form
changes.
Our problem here is that if we do not completely dissolve the
existing form, it simply get put into whatever we create. The root
of our
pain if not faced, simply get put into any new creation.
To understand exactly how we create and how we continually remold
the past in a new way, we need to understand the
creative process.
In looking at the creative process of
creation/Creation, we can
find a variety of analogies and images that are used to describe the
process. These many analogies are used to describe the process or
parts of the process. Each emphasizes a different aspect of the
process. Some are more complete than others.
Yet, for whatever analogy is used, we need to stand back and try to
see what the analogy is actually trying to communicate and not take
the analogy literally. Unfortunately, many believe the analogy
rather than seeing what the analogy is trying to communicate. No one
image adequately addresses all that needs to be understood about any
one step in the
creative process. Only in the conscious experience
of the creative process do we come to understand what the analogies
and descriptions are trying to communicate. There is no other way
than to consciously and directly experience it. But to do so, we
must be free to experience the process in
creative play. We must be
free to explore and discover what can be revealed as we travel
through the process if we really want to understand it. Otherwise,
the entry of
mind, its judgments and what it thinks and believes,
will mask the information we seek.
This is what occurs if we try and escape
pain without truly
understanding its cause. There is a
gift in pain. Unless we
understand how pain is a gift, we will never be able to become a
conscious creator. The reason is this is we will allow our fear of
pain to determine what we see and experience rather than seeing
creation/Creation and the creative/creation process for what they
really are.
In experiencing the creative/creation process, some see the
creative process and the
chaos which is created as entering a wild forest or
going out into the wilderness. Here we become wild. We become a wild
man or woman. We abandon the limits and boundaries which hold the
existing form in form as the old form breaks down to create the new
and free the energy for the new creation. We live without limits and
boundaries for some period of time. Some see this part of the
process as craziness. Yet this is only the
chaos of
creation/Creation. It is a well defined part of the
creative/creation process. In any case, the freed energy will almost
immediately begin to flow into a new form and the boundaries and
limits for the new from beginning to take hold. The new form is set
by the boundaries and limitations
mind imposes on the free flow of
the energy within your being It is within this chaotic process we
need to have
true freedom.
If we remain in the chaos with
true freedom, we remain at the
Source
of Creation where all and anything is possible. However, it is not a
state in which we can reside as long as we are in a human body. The
desire and the
intention to have a physical experience which gave
rise to the body we have controls the process. If we try and remain
in this state while in a human body, we will most probably go crazy
or we will have to deny the body as many spiritual traditions
suggest. But then we only defeat and do not honor our own truth for
incarnating. That in turn does not create true freedom for we live
with a denial within our own being.
The new limits and boundaries which we experience coming out of the
chaos are determined by the intention we consciously or
subconsciously hold in entering the play and any judgments of
mind
one makes about the chaos as it is experienced. If we bring our
fears into the chaos and become afraid in some way, that fear gets
encoded and embedded within the new creation. If we bring into the
process anger, you will get anger embedded in the outcome.
Ideally, to enter the
creative process and the
chaos of
creation/Creation we would empty oneself of ALL that does not
serves us
and/or that which we are holding onto from the past that should
be recycled.
Clear intention coupled with mindfulness and awareness
is extremely important. They are essential to the process if we are
going to gain conscious control of the process. In addition to
setting a clear intention for what we desire to create, we should
set a clear intention to figuratively “clean house” and flush out
and remove all the ways of thinking and associated beliefs that do
not serve what we desire to create. It is to
hold
our creativity sacred and look carefully at all that is interfering and/or
compromising our creative endeavors and all that does not creatively
empower us. However, most of us cannot let go of the past. So when
we enter the chaos and subsequent reformation of any creative
endeavor, rather than becoming completely free, we carry the past
with us. This tends to be the burden of the past we are always
carrying with us.
A poorly understood fact of how we create is that it is the
limitations and barriers we impose on our creativity and the flow of
the
creative life energy within our being are what allow the
creation we experience to form and manifest. This is true for any
experience we have whether it is spiritual, mental, emotional or
physical. However, few sufficiently “clean their house” and let go
of the past so we are continually holding ourselves bound to the
past.
Often the experience of these limits and barriers themselves gives
rise to the feeling of obligations or burdens that we perceive in
our lives. The essence of the
creative process requires us to
consciously or subconsciously hold or rather impose limits and
boundaries on the free flow of the energy as a
single point focus to
create what is desired. It is here we pick up a cross, a burden,
which we carry for the duration of our creative journey. The process
of forming our new creation is like a journey exploring an unknown
continent. In this journey you will travel across figurative
mountains, valleys, plains and rivers which represent all the trials
and joys we encounter to reach our destiny of manifesting our new
creation. However through all of this we carry a cross for it is the
burden that allows us to form the new creation.
Often this burden is carried subconsciously where it is experienced
only as restrictions on what we can create. Some experience it
consciously much like the obligation a mother or father feels about
spending money on their children’s college education when they would
rather be spending the money on something else. They know there are
other things they want to do but they know they can’t do them and
have to do what is required. Others only feel its presence as some
indefinable constrain on their lives that restricts their freedom of
movement and continually forces them to travel in a given direction.
In any case, eventually we arrive at a place where we can see the
truth, whole or in part, of what we carry. It is as though we arrive
at a ridge where we can clearly see we have arrived and we have
created what we desire and can set our cross down. In seeing the
truth that the limits and boundaries are what
mind imposed on our
life to create the life that we have, we are able to put down the
cross we carry. In putting down the cross we experience the freedom
of it being released and we are free to experience the creation we
have created by carrying those particular limits and boundaries. If
we are aware, we can use that freed energy to create a creation of
an experience of even greater freedom.
Each creative endeavor which we undertake will have a period of
chaos and reformation. The chaos will be seen and experienced as
great freedom and even wildness. The reformation into a new creation
will be seen as a burden or obligation and can be perceived
consciously, subconsciously or only as an awareness of feeling.
However, it is a burden only if we see it as a burden or obligation
for in reality we are only in the process of creating what we desire
and holding ourselves accountable to what we desire at some level of
our being.
In regard to the obligation encountered in play, some see this
process as a struggle and more of a warrior’s journey. It is a
warrior’s journey in that it takes a warrior's strength and
discipline to stay focused. It takes a warrior’s skill and agility
to fight to stay aligned with the flow of energy to manifest their
creation when the mundane of the world and the status quo of the
world are continually trying to pull them away from holding a focus.
What we experience in the
creative process will be like will be
unique to us. Whether it is a journey though a wild forest followed
by the burden of carrying a cross or a warrior fighting to stay on
their course, or something completely different, will totally depend
on our own view of Creation and creation. But it doesn’t matter what
analogy we use to describe what we experience. We will experience a
burden of some type because the
constraints themselves are
determining the creation we experience and
are essential to the creative process.
The goal is to learn to not seen holding focus as an obligation or a
burden. It is to see it as an exercise of our
free will to create
the experiences we desire to have. We can do this if we choose that
on which we focus. But to do that, we must get past both our
subconscious and unconscious programming.
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