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Creative ability and creative
power
Creative power
Creative
ability
The issues
we face
Creative power lies in feeling
Mind is of limited value
Our perspective
Be aware of our assumptions
Accessing creative power
Key to
creative power
The bottom line
Exercises
There are two parts to our
creativity. One is our creative power. The other is our creative
ability. Creative ability is different than creative power. The two
are integrally linked and often seem inseparable but they are
different. Creative power is about using the energy aspect of
energy consciousness. Creative ability is about using the
consciousness aspect of energy consciousness
Energy is the ability to makes something happen or to cause an
effect. Creative energy, or energy directed into a
creative endeavor, is about causing something new, previously
unseen or significantly different from the past to come into
existence.
Power is energy expended over time. Creative power is about having
the ability and power to manifest a creative idea. It is to make something happen or to cause an effect
over a period of time and/or how fast or slow it happens. In
particular it is about the power to cause something to come into
existence which did not previously exist or is significantly
different from the past in a fast of slow way and to sustain that
creation. Creative power is about consciousness directing a flow of
creative life energy
by how it focuses its attention and awareness
Since creative power is an energy flow, it is experienced in feeling
and as feeling. Creative ability is the knowledge, understanding and
ability to discern the flow of energy which will give rise to our
desired creation and/or direct the flow of creative energy into what
we desire to manifest. Creative ability is also about having the
knowledge, understanding and awareness to become the cause.
Creative power (Top)
Without a flow of energy, there is
nothing to cause the movement to animate a creation. Without a flow
of energy there is no
creation/Creation.
Creative power is about how and what we feel and why we feel, and
don’t feel, what we do.
Our creative power lies in
feelings. It lies in what we feel and allow ourselves to feel and
what we
give permission to ourselves to feel. Without some feeling,
nothing happens. We need to have some feeling for what we do.
Otherwise we will not act. What we feel does not just happen.
Feelings arise from sensing a flow of energy. When we feel we are
sensing a flow of energy. In learning to discern what we feel, we
can access the flow of energy and direct it into our creative needs.
Creative power is about a flow of energy and the
passion to act. To access
our creative power, we need to be open to what we feel at each and
every level of our being. We need to become aware of what we feel
nonconsciously that may be directing us in life. We need to explore
what methods allow the greatest feelings to arise within our being.
For large tasks we need enormous feelings that will last years. For
small tasks, we need only a little feeling. It is much like learning
to fuel a rocket. We need to ensure it has enough fuel to last the
journey we wish to take.
Creative power is about accessing the internal and external flow of
creative life energy
available to us. To access our creative power, we need to develop
our creative ability. We need to develop understanding. With
understanding, the power we have is amplified. Without
understanding, our creative power becomes a rudderless ship at the
mercy of the currents and the winds of Creation. We simply respond
to life rather than becoming a conscious creator.
Creative power is about
passion, desire and dissatisfaction. The greater the
dissatisfaction the greater the desire. The greater the desire the
greater the
creative tension available to cause a flow of energy. Remember,
energy flows as a result of the tension between the separation of
opposites much like an electric battery. This is why many only
become truly creative when they are in
pain. It is where the separation from the pleasure they seek
becomes so strong they are willing to
step out of mind
to do whatever it takes to regain the pleasure.
It is said desire is the root of all our
pain. To make such a statement is not to understand that
gift that lies in pain. Desire and energy are the
raw materials of creation/Creation. To become desire-less is to
rob ourselves of our creative power and our ability to create. The
issues is not desire. The issue is what we desire, why we desire
what we do, and that which we hold rather than release. Answering
these questions in turn takes us back into our
belief structure. To become a conscious creator, we need to “pull the string”
and explore the “why” for what we feel. (why do I feel this as
opposed to something else?)
Creative ability (Top)
Creative ability includes many
seemingly different things. Our creative ability includes:
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What we understand about our
feelings, the ability to discern the different feelings we have,
and how we direct what we feeling based on our understanding.
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Our understanding about how
creation/Creation
does or doesn’t work. This includes what we understand about how
the world works, how we work and what we understand about what
we feel is related to both.
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Our creative ability lies in
the development of our mind is and how it is focused to direct
what we feel. and whether or not we are willing to follow our
intuitive guidance to act. We do not need a conscious knowledge
to act in a
truly creative endeavor. Our intuitive guidance and
body wisdom are more than adequate to lead us.
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Understanding there is
an awareness that lies in what we feel and behind what we
feel and being open to accessing that awareness and the
information it has for us.
Our
mind is a powerful creative tool which allows us to focus our
attention and awareness. Mind is what allows us to
become the cause the to be a conscious creator. How we focus our
attention and awareness causes feeling to arise or die and become
nonexistent. It is our ability to focus our attention and awareness
that allows us to
create something our of nothing. With our mind, where feelings
did not exist we can create the most intense
passion. Similarly, with our mind, we can turn the most intense
passion into nothing.
Creative ability is about knowing how
to dance and how to consciously or
nonconsciously intentionally become unbalanced and then return
to balance. It is dance between knowing how to
step out of mind
to find the
creative solution. Then step back into
mind to direct the flow of our
creative life energy
as a
single point focus into what we desire to create
for the environment in which we find ourselves.
Creative ability is determined by our
belief structure - is not on only what we think and believe
(both consciously and
nonconsciously) but how what we think and believe integrate to
determine how and what we think. How what we think and believe
creates the perception we hold.
Without the proper perspective we will never find what we desire. To
expand our creativity, our creative ability and creative power we
need a perspective that can encompass the level of creative ability
and creative power we need to access.
In this regard, the recommendation is to adopt a
creativity perspective.
It is a perspective and associated
belief structure where we hold our unique creativity sacred and
all else malleable. Each of us can become aware of when we give our
creative ability and creative power away. Doing so creates a
victim consciousness in one or more aspects of our life.
Additionally, we each need a “model” or “story” of Creation that is
expansive enough to contain the depth and bread of our creative
ability and creative power. Otherwise the model/story we use limits
us to the boundaries of the model/story and we never access the
potential available to us.
The question we all face is, “what is my unique creativity and what
does it look like?” What works for one will not necessarily work for
another. More often than not, it is not what our
mind thinks. What
mind thinks it our creativity is only mind’s best
characterization based on the experiences we have had. We need to
give ourselves permission and allow ourselves to experiment
without judgement or bias. We all will
need to do our own experiments to explore the depth and breadth
of our creativity.
The
issues we face (Top)
There are several issues and
problems we face relative to our creative ability and creative
power. The are: creative power lies in feeling;
mind is of limited value, our perspective and be aware of our
assumptions.
Creative power lies
in feeling (Top):
Our problem is most of us are not taught our creative power lies in
what we feel. Although feeling is inherent to our being, many of us
do not make the connection that our creative power lies in our
feelings. Most think our creative power lies in what we know. What
we are taught tends to be that our creative power lies in what we
know. Since we must ultimately direct what we feel into something,
we think our creative power lies in our
mind and the choices we make. But it needs to be understood it
does not matter what we know, how much we know or how little we know
and how much we want to choose one way or another. Unless we have
the feeling and
passion to act, we will not create anything.
Mind is of limited value
(Top):
In a
truly creative endeavor mind is of limited value. We need to
realize that in truly creative endeavor, we have little or no
understanding of what we desire to create. A true creation has not
been previously experienced. If we, are unwilling to
surrender
and follow the flow of energy through our
intuitive guidance, our creative efforts will seem random.
However, if we think we know what we need to do, our creative
efforts will be random. The reason for this is creation takes us
into the unknown and beyond what our
mind has experience. But, the more experience mind has in
creating and we understanding the
creative process and the limitation of mind in a creative
endeavor, our actions will both seem, and be, less random The key is
to learn to
navigate from the heart and allow the flow of energy to intend
the direction of our life and allow mind to attend to the details to
make it happen.
Our Perspective (Top):
The single, most significant issue that prevents us from accessing
our
inherent creativity is our perspective. That is, the
theory/understanding we have about creativity, who we are and how
creation/Creation
works. What has been found is that more often than not, we do not
have the understanding to truly understand the experiences we have -
especially the experience of our own life.
It has been observed individuals routinely have profound creative
experiences, many of them
mystical experiences of highest order. However they do not have
the understanding and/or
belief system to truly understand what they have experienced
when they have the experience. Sometimes they never understand it.
The issue of the need to have a proper perspective is so profound it
started a
journey and exploration into creativity. It was the catalyst to
find
an alternative way for people to get past the
illusion
mind creates that keeps us from accessing the
truth of our own being and access our
unlimited creativity
to create what we desire. In the exploration of creativity, no
perspective was found sufficiently broad enough to encompass the
true depth and breadth of our inherent creative ability and creative
power and what is available to us. The evidence suggests one was
never created simply because we simply did not explore our
assumptions about what it means to be human.
Be aware of our
assumptions (Top):
We need to become aware that
it is in our assumptions we find our problems. All assumptions
are based on the past experiences we have. On this point, believe it
or not, what we think and believe is actually an assumption on our
part.
At the most fundamental levels, Creation does not work the way
our
mind perceives reality. Yet, we keep trying to force reality to
be what we want it to be. The struggle between what is and
what mind wants and perceives gives rise to much of th
pain we face in life.
Contrary to what we come to think and believe about creativity, most
of us, including those who profess to know, do not have an adequate
perception to enter a
truly creative endeavor and have our
mind to know what to do. By its very definition “to create” is
to bring into existing that which is original, not previously seen
or experienced, or significantly different than the past. To think
mind knows is only an illusion. Mind only knows the past and what it
has experienced. To create is to be outside what mind knows.
Anything we think and believe about creativity, our creative ability
and creative power, and/or how to create whatever we desire is
probably in error. The question is, “How big is the error and how
significantly different is what we desire to create from the past we
experienced?” However, what does appear to be known for any creative
endeavor is the overall
creative process.
Accessing creative power
(Top)
To access creative power there are
several things that we can do. Probably the first is that we need to
allow ourselves to become mindful and aware of what we think and
feel in the moment. We need to become aware of the relationship
between what we are feeling and the thoughts we are having. They are
more connected than we can every imagine yet simultaneously more
disconnected that we could imagine. Often what we think gives rise
to what we feel is not the true cause.
We need to become aware of our
belief structure. We need to become aware of what we really
think and believe and understand why we think and believe what we
do. Our belief structure and how we think acts both to filter what
we feel and bias what we feel. How and what we filter and why and
how we bias what we feel has a tremendous impact on the creative
power we can access.
To access our creative power, we need to become aware of the
creative/creation process, how Creation works and how we work.
We each need to intimately explore our own inner world and develop
and
intimate relationship with our
creative spirit. No one can do that for us. We need to know what
serves us and what
a life worth living looks like to us for otherwise
cannot access the
passion and energy we need to create. We need to
understand the life and what serves us is most probably unique to
us and may not look like what serves any other.
To access and effectively direct
our creative passion, we need to understand what we think
and believe, how we think and believe and why. We need to realize
and understand how it can be said we are the creator of our
experiences and the reality of those experiences. In this regard,
the more conscious creative ability we desire the greater the depth
we need to explore these questions. The greater the creation, again,
the greater we need to explore these questions. To be come aware and
understand these things we need learn to observe and become the
detached witness to see ourselves and the world as they are, not how
we think they should be.
All the rituals, prayers, meditation practices, yogi positions, and
education given to individuals tend to be based on what
mind thinks.
They tend to ultimately be based on ways of thinking that allow us
to become excited and create feeling at some level of our being.
Often what is give is given to create certain types and kinds of
feeling or they are there to neutralize feelings. What is created
depends on how our attention and awareness if focus by what we use.
Often what is given to individuals is to control the creative energy
individuals can access. In directing how and individual focuses
their attention and awareness the creative energy that is released
is direct into the service of the one who created the technique
being used. Few are taught how to direct and control their
creative life energy with their own thoughts. Few are taught the origins of
their thoughts and to explore their own thoughts to understand why
the get passionate about what they do.
All creative power starts with the
inner creative power. We first
have to feel the desire to act. We then determine through our
creative ability whether or not it is best to access the inner
creative power,
outer creative power or a combination of both.
It has been observed most of us are not generally taught how to
consciously raise the feelings within our being and what we can use
to raise our feelings. Rather, the
inner masculine is castrated by
the enculturation and socialization process to direct our feelings
toward what society finds acceptable.
Similarly we are not taught to look to see what really
serves us
and
helps them to create
a life worth living based on our own heart and
the uniqueness of our being. Rather, most are taught to serve a
system of some type - religious, spiritual, social or cultural.
Rather than teaching us about our own
creative spirit, how to access
it and how to manage it, we are taught to follow whatever our
“teachers” direct whether those teachers be care givers, social
elders, state person or the like.
When we consciously know how to cause feelings to arise within our
being where no feelings previously existed, we
create something from
a seemingly nothingness. In doing so, we have the key to our own
creative power. Similarly, when we consciously dissolve feelings, we
access the key to our own creative power.
The key to our creative power is to understand we have the ability
to causes feelings of any magnitude to arise within our being.
Similarly, we have the ability to dissolve the most passionate
feelings and cause them to become nothing. That power lies within
us. We can consciously choose to decided what we become passionate
about. However, most of us operate from our
nonconscious
mind and our
enculturation
Most of us do not consciously create feelings. For example to say we
love someone or something is much different than having the feelings
that go with such worlds. If people truly loved and created the
associated
creative passion, our lives and the world would be
substantially different. Most of us feel and become passionate
nonconsciously based on our enculturation and early programming. Or,
we are drive to become passionate based on what the ego desires and
what it wants and/or doesn’t want. Most of us are held prisoner to
what we feel. Many deny the feelings we do have and try and suppress
what we feel and end up developing
addictions or addictive behavior.
Few have been
given permission to explore the feelings we have and
look into their origins. Even fewer of us learn to create feelings
as a
detached witness based on conditions as they are and what we
intend for our life. Yet this is where our real creative power lies.
Key to creative power
(Top)
The key to our creative power is
to understand, all creative action starts in, or with, our feelings.
We need to feel something before we act to create. We have the power
to create and discreate any feeling we wish. We can create the
deepest feeling of love or the deepest feelings of hate or revulsion
and we can discreate them when they arise. We create them and
discreate them consciously and
nonconsciously. The question we need
to ask ourselves and
pull the string to explore the answer to access
this key is to ask, “Why do I have the feelings that I do as opposed
to any other or why have my feeling about _____ left me?”
When we explore the true origins of our feelings or way we suppress
feeling or what causes them to dissipate, we access the key to our
creative power. In that awareness of why feelings arise and where
they go, we hold the key to create and dissipate any feeling we
wish, any time, anyplace. However, most of us really don’t want to
know the answer to where are feelings come from and where they go.
If we do, we have to become responsible for what we allow to arises
within our being and what we allow to dissipate. Most importantly,
we will feel we came here to do something and that will cause us to
seemingly loose control of our life, at least from the view point of
the
enculturated mind.
Most of us suppress what we feel for we do not wish to face what
those feelings mean for our life. Many of us end up with
addictions
rather than feel what we do. Yet, until we explore what we feel and
understand their origins, we will not get creative control over our
life and access the key to our creative power. Only we can explore
our
nonconscious mind to understand what is giving rise to what we
feel. We can use the help of another but we must do the exploration.
The easiest way to explore our
nonconscious mind is to create a
clear intention for what we wish to access and then ask our
intuitive guidance as to how to go about doing it. Then
honor the
intuitive guidance we get and
pull the string as to why we get what
we do and iterate the process as much as necessary until we find the
answer. In doing so, we access the key to becoming a conscious
creator. Until we do so, we will be continually recreating the past
in a new way and be at the mercy of our past experiences. Our
creativity will remain in
a cage of our own making and we will live
in a
victim consciousness for we will have given away our creative
power to our own past experiences.
The
bottom line (Top)
In accessing and releasing the
depth and breadth of our creativity and creative powers and creative
ability the following needs to be understood. Our creative power
lies in feelings, what we feel and what we don’t feel. Our creative
ability lies in what we understand about our feelings and how
Creation does or doesn’t work.
To access our creative power, we need to be
open to what we feel at
each and every level of our being. We need to become aware of what
we feel subconsciously and/or unconsciously that may be directing us
in life. We need to explore what methods allow the greatest feelings
to arise within our being. For large tasks we need enormous feelings
that will last years. For small tasks, we need only a little
feeling. It is much like learning to fuel a rocket. We need to
ensure it has enough fuel to last the journey we wish to take.
Each of us will need to spend some tome to do our own explorations
and
need to do our own experiments as to what our creative power and
creative ability really look like. Otherwise, without the
exploration, we will be unable to access the depth and breadth of
our creative power and creative ability. How we choose to do our
exploration and who we choose to help us is our choice.
Exercises (Top)
The following exercises have been
helpful to individuals getting started in accessing and expanding
their creative ability and creative power
How do I feel in this moment exercise
Discerning person truth exercise
Calibrate the internal compass exercise
Access our
intuitive guidance exercise
Pulling the string exercise
Exploring our focus exercise
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