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A dream within
the heart
- an intention for our life
The
dream within the heart
Accessing the
wisdom of the creative spirit
So what do
we intent with our life
The
source of our life
The source of
our creative power
The
source of the direction to our life
Something mind
cannot fully understand
Access the
dream within the heart
Our gift
to Creation
The dream
within the heart unfolds in play
If you explore the creative
process and the source of your creative energy and ability and
observe without judgement, what you will come to see is there is an
intention for your life. In becoming intimate with this creative
spirit and surrendering to the flow of one’s creative life energy,
one can begin to understand this intention for our life. This
intention for our is the reason for our incarnation.
In using the term incarnation, it needs to be understood our
creative spirit is, from a creativity perspective, synonymous with
the flow of creative life energy that sustains us. As discussed
under the topic, “Energy
an invariant within the creativity perspective,” energy can
consciousness can be seen as one and the same. As such the
consciousness that you perceive yourself to be is an energy and as
an energy it never dies. It is only transforms from one form to
another.
It may lie dormant, but never dies. For whatever reason the
consciousness that you perceive as you, transformed itself into a
creative spirit within the body you posses to have a physical
experience.
Our creative spirit and what it desires to create is key to
accessing both the intention for our life and the dream within our
heart. It is said dream within our heart for we each carry within
the source of our being,
metaphorically the heart, what can best be described as a unique
dream, or intention to do or achieve something with, or in, our
life.
In this regard, metaphorically our heart is used to represent four
interconnected things. Or, maybe better said, the heart represent
one thing which has four expressions or is perceived in four
different ways when viewed from with Creation. First it can be seen
as the resting place for our creative spirit. The heart is
traditionally seen at what lies at the essence of one’s being as in
the expression “it lies at the heart of the matter.” Our creative
spirit is at the heart of who and what we are.
Second, since energy and consciousness can creatively be seen as one
and the same, this creative spirit is also representative of the
source of the flow of our creative life energy. This flow of energy
sustains us and provides the energy for all our creative endeavors.
Third, the heart is the location for the intention for our life. The
intention for our life is what causes our creative spirit come into
physical Creation and created the flow of energy that sustains us.
In aligning with the flow of energy we align ourselves with that
intention
The dream within the heart
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The fourth thing the heart
represent is that it represents a dream. The desire to express the
intention for our life and allow it to unfold in the world can be
called a dream with the heart. The dream within our heart and the
intention for our life are like flip sides of a coin. They are
usually perceived differently but they are one and the same. They
just look different for each represents a different focus. If you
look to the past and where our creative life energy come from, you
find the intention for our life. If you look to the future and where
it is flowing, you find a dream to unfold. It represents what we
wish to manifest and experience in life. Aligning with, and
surrendering to the flow of energy carries us to what we desire to
create and the experiences we desire to have. Surrendering to the
dream opens the door to aligning with the reason we came into this
world for we align with the flow of energy that created and sustains
our life. In doing so we align with the reason this flow ever
started - that is, the intention and/or purpose that gives rise to
our life.
When given the correct condition the creative spirit which is
embodied within the flow of energy that sustains us, will germinate,
grow and bear fruit much like a seed. The fruit that comes forth is
our gift which we give to the world. We each carry such a gift to
give and of course, the origins of this gift appears as that which
lies within our heart and gives us a fullness for life and for
being. Without the proper conditions, this dream lies dormant and
never comes forth. So in many ways it can be said there is a fifth
item found in the heart and it is the gift we are here to give.
Yet we can never fully understand with our mind the dream we carry.
Our mind will form and present an image, thought or vision as to
what it thinks this dream/ intention is. However, mind forms such an
image only as the result of the experiences it has and it does not
have the experience to fully understand what it is here to do. As
such, this dream or intention goes well beyond what mind is capable
of understanding and fully comprehending. This dream/intention can
only be felt through the alignment with the flow of creative energy
within one’s being.
From a
creativity perspective, the intention for one’s life is
extremely important for it create an undercurrent for our life and
for our creative power and ability. To deny the free flow of our
creative spirit in any way denies the dream and its unfoldment. The
denial is also a denial of the primary aspect of one’s own creative
power for the dream is related to the intention which gave rise to
our life. If one does not access this dream and/or move toward
manifesting that dream in some way, they will never experience their
full creative potential for the dream/intention is the source of our
life and our creative power and creative ability.
However, for most creative needs, accessing the dream of the heart
is unnecessary. Usually we live the dream subconsciously and that is
sufficient for most of us. The time and place of our incarnation
coupled with our early life experiences is usually sufficient to
create the conditions to access the dream at a subconscious level.
It is when our mind enters the picture and we start listening to the
outside world as to what is and isn’t important for our individual
life that we loose focus and get off track. In this regard, the
dream only becomes important for most when one’s overall life does
not appear to be working, there is a deep inner dissatisfaction with
life, or one is driven to one or more significant addictive
behaviors, and/or there is some kind of healing one seeks to obtain
at some level of one’s being. The reason for this is that it was
found that if one does not align consciously or subconsciously with
this dream/intention in some way one will never find an internally
satisfaction no matter what one does and how successful they appear
to be in life.
To access the depth and breadth of our creative power this dream
within the heart must be awakened. When we are not aware of the
dream much of its power tends to lie dormant. Usually it lies
dormant as a result of the conditions of the life which it
experiences. As a result of the nature of physical Creation which
continually draws us away from the necessary internal focus, few
ever have the space for this dream to be free to unfold naturally.
Most only drift in or towards the general direction required to
manifest this intention. This is because they are carried by a very
deep slow moving undercurrent as a result of this flow. Through this
undercurrent one can normally access a sufficient level of
creativity energy to create the life they have choose to live.
To be truly active, this creative spirit needs to consciously be
called forth by another and given a safe and secure space to freely
unfold true to itself. It is here in understanding this dream we
each carry that one can
learn the dance of
creation/Creation and how
and why we each need another to call forth our creativity and/or to
awaken that dream to bring it to life to unfold. Our own heart can
give us answers and a wisdom about life that cannot be found
anywhere externally.
The key to accessing these answers about life and the life giving
wisdom lies within our being. It is the unfoldment of the our
creative spirit that longs to come out and creatively play. As is
discussed under the topic, “Characteristics of the Creative Spirit”
the our creative spirit must be able to play for it is only in play
one can discover and explore the options and paths that are
possible. Without the freedom to play, this creative spirit cannot
find its way in the world and the dream will never unfold. Or, if it
does unfold, it will be stunted in its growth and most probably be
sterile and unable to produce its fruits. It may grow and unfold in
the world but it will not bear fruit and the inherent gift will not
be given no matter how creative the individual may appear to be.
Accessing
the wisdom of the creative spirit
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As discussed under the
characteristics of the creative spirit, there is a
life giving
wisdom available to each of us. One of the quickest ways to access
the creative spirit and its wisdom to learn how to unfold the dream
within the heart is to realize that your breathing as the outward
manifestation of your animating life energy. Your breathing is the
minimum energy used to keep you alive. As long as you are breathing,
you are essentially alive. A good part of your brain can be dead,
but you will be alive as long as you continue to breathe.
You are alive for a reason and this minimum sustaining energy within
your breathing carries the information as to why you are alive and
why it continues to sustain you. This is the main underlying reason
why so many esoteric traditions recommend you focus on your
breathing. It is a doorway to focus yourself into your reason for
being here. So it only makes sense to learn to communicate with your
creative spirit to understand both why you are here and what it
would like you to do in any moment.
By calming yourself and focusing on your breathing, you can ask
yourself in the moment, “What do I need to do to fulfill the
intention for my life?” Your intuitive guidance will provide you
with an answer. However, most of us carry more than one intention
for our life We all have picked up intentions based on how we think
the world works and what we have been told as to what is important
in life. So it is important to become very clear and precise in what
you ask. To ask, “What do I need to do in this moment?” your
intuition will most probably default to the most energetic conscious
or subconscious intention you hold. That is not necessarily the
answer you seek. So it is important to become very clear and precise
in what you ask for you will get an answer. You may not like the
answer you get but you will nevertheless get an answer.
Additionally, as discussed under the topic of
intuitive guidance and
honoring intuitive guidance, the image or thought presented by mind
will not necessarily be correct. However, the direction you need to
travel is correct.
When it come to creating with our creative life energy, we each need
to realize the energy we have available above this minimum energy is
ours to control and direct as we chose. There are no judgements on
what we choose but there are consequences. However, this minimum
energy sustains you for a purpose and it has its objectives as to
what it would like you to do. We say “would like you to do” because
you have a free will. How you use your life and the energy that is
given to you is your choice. This includes the minimum energy that
is necessary to sustain you for you can end your own life it you
choose.
This creative life energy gives you the ability and potential to
change and transform any aspect of your life or your reality. For
you to work with this energy, it is essential that you are free to
choose to respond to whatever occurs in life and that you do not
live your life to please another individual or because someone
wants, or requires, you to live a certain way. Examples include your
employer, a spouse, significant other, society or any other
collection of “other” individuals. However, most of us have learned
and been programmed from our earliest age to please and meet the
standards of others. These habits we have learned run very deep
within our being and continually mask what lies within our heart.
So
what do we intent with our life
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So what do we intent with our
life? What is life really all about? That is a question only you can
answer. The intention for your life may be nothing more than to just
have a physical experience. It may be to just to see what being
physical feels like. Or, the intention for your life may be to have
a particular physical experience for some specific purpose. It may
be to create a new form of government or a new form of music.
In any case, as you explore the intention for your life and the
dream within your heart, you will find an intention for your life.
You will also find that you either created it or you agreed to
experience it at some level of your being for one reason or another.
No one has forced you to be here. You are not a puppet on a string.
You are only fulling some intent that you have created within your
being.
How and why you have that intention is really irrelevant. You are
here and from a creativity perspective it is recommended you allow
the flow of energy that is guiding your life to
fully dissipate in
the experience you have. But what is very is relevant about this
dream or the intention for your life are four things. Two of these
are contained in the description that the intention for your life
can be described as a dream within your heart. The are, it is the
source of our life, it is the source of our creative power, it is
the source of direction for our life and it is something mind cannot
fully understand.
The source of our life
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The first thing is that this dream
or intention for our life is the source of our life. It represents
the concentration of the creative energy and power that brought one
into life and is what supplies the direction and flow of energy for
one’s creative spirit to unfold into life if it is in no way
thwarted in its actions. It is what gives you a passion for life and
for living. It possesses a life giving wisdom that can be used to
manifest the intent for your life
It is said to reside in the heart for it is what ultimately gives us
life and is the source of our life and creative power. It is much
the way our heart is the source of the flow of the life blood that
keeps or physical body alive. So, metaphorically, the heart is the
proper organ to be seen as holding this dream or intention. It is
the reason why you are here and the creative energy you possess is a
direct result of this intention.
On this note of creating life, the creative spirit will create
conditions of health and/or disease or illness to give us the life
the experiences, we have chosen to experience, in one way or
another, at some level of our being. Although mind may think the
actions of this unfolding creative spirit are reckless, damaging if
not outright stupid and suicidal, the reverse is true. Mind thinks
it knows how to give life but does not really know how to lead us
into life. In reality mind only knows how to sustain the past based
on the experiences it has had and seeks to protect the life it
knows. Yet, in seeking to protect the life it knows, it stifles and
suppresses the unfoldment of life.
Mind knows how to lead us to what we like and away from what we
dislike. It will look for a way to make life more enjoyable and
pleasurable. It looks to correct and or prevent conditions of
accident, illness and disease but it does not know how to create
life itself. Mind does not realize the accident, illness or disease
we experience, may be the life we desire to experience and/or be the
vehicle we need to get the experience we desire. Mind looks to see
what sustains life or preserves the life that currently exists and
it has even figured out how to clone life, but it does not know how
to create life for mind does not really understand what life really
is.
Mind is a product of life and as such it has difficultly
understanding its creator, the experience of life itself and the
flow of energy that gives rise to life. Here again, surrendering to
what arises from within is frightening to most for they have never
learned how to discern what is their personal truth and what they
need to experience as opposed to something they have been lead to
believe based on their environment and the experiences they have
had.
The source of our
creative power
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The second thing is that this
dream or intention for our life is the source of our creative power.
Since it represents the concentration of the creative energy that
brought you into life and is source of your passion for life and for
living, it is the source of your ability to do, to create and to
make things happen. Aligning with the intention that brought you
into the world allows you to access the source of your creative
ability for your creative power is directed towards manifesting that
intention. In many ways it is like aligning with the current flow
and direction of the river. It also provides the door way to
optimize and/or increase your creative ability for it come from the
source of your being and through that doorway you can access the
Source of Creation. In aligning with the dream we access the source
of our creative power and the Source of Creation for the flow of
energy that sustains our being flows from this Source. But it can
only be felt and one must be open to feeling to access it. We must
feel its pulse and its flow of energy. Mind will not properly
understand it and that is one reason why it is said to be dream.
Mind can understand it as a dream but most often not a reality to
unfold.
Your creative spirit desires to manifest this dream or intention
with the life you have. Relative to what this creative spirit
desires to create, the function of mind is to figure out how to
create a space within the world to manifest this dream. However you
do have a free will. You are free to choose however you wish to
unfold the dream of your heart and you do not have to unfold this
dream. Since you have a free will you are free to create what you
wish. There are no judgements on what you choose to create. There
are only consequences to what you create for the time and place in
which you live. However, unless you access it, you will not access
the total creative power available to you and you will be unable to
fully understand what you possess and why there is a unknown pull in
your life. In some ways it is like buying a car or a truck for a
specific purpose. You now have a vehicle for your original
intention. If you choose to do something else with the vehicle now
that you have started your journey you may or may not have an
adequate vehicle for what you now desire. You will have to check out
the attributes and features of the vehicle you have to see if the
vehicle can do what you now desire it to do and learn how to use
these features for your new desire.
When you access the source of your power, you can come to an
understanding as to why you carry the intention that you do. Then in
the wisdom of that understanding you can choose to live or not live
the intention for you life. What you will gain is the ability to
access the depth and breadth of your creative power. If you do not
access the flow of energy that is pushing you towards manifesting
this intention to things will occur. One is that you will not
optimize your creative power but only using a faction of it. The
other is there will be a constant pull or undercurrent in your life
which brings us to the third item that is relevant about the
intention for your life.
The
source of the direction to our
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The third thing is that there is a
direction to for our life. The flow of energy that brought you into
this world and is sustain you is carrying your some where. Relative
to a creative endeavor if what you desire to create is not in
alignment with it, will not have access to the full creative power
available to you and you will either be opposed by it or have a
“drift” to your effort such that you always seem to have to correct
for something you do not quite understand. It is like trying to
cross a body of water that you think is calm when in reality there
is a current to it. If you are aligned with the current, things go
faster. If you are opposed to it, thing are more difficult to do. If
you are at cross purposes or cross directions, you will have to
correct for its pull or you will drift past your target.
When we do not consciously allow this creative spirit to lead our
life it will create conditions subconsciously to push us toward its
purpose. One result of this is that we may feel a deep internal
struggle, longing or even pain which we may try to numb. If we try
to numb the pain rather than addressing the root of its origins, we
set ourselves up for developing one or more addictive patterns in
life to suppress what we feel. How significant an addiction we
develop and whether or not it is damaging to our being depends on
the significance of the pain we feel.
You can only know the direction to where this intention is leading
you by feel, in hindsight and extrapolation, or until you get the
minimum set of requisite experience to properly characterize it by
your mind. You can align with it instantaneously by feel if you are
open to what you feel and can discern what you feel. Hindsight and a
review of your life, may or may not work depending on whether or not
your path is metaphorically straight or curved. Similarly the
minimum set of requisite experiences depends on how varied your life
is and how varied were the types and kinds of experiences you have
had. The more diverse the experiences you have the faster you will
can begin to see the intention for your life. The contrast of the
experiences provides the context for the awareness to arise.
Something
mind cannot fully understand
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Fourth thing is that this
intention is described as a dream. It is a dream in that it is a
desire embodied within a childlike creative spirit that longs to be
free to unfold true to itself much the way we hold a precious dream.
It is a dream in the sense it is an idea, image, feeling or
awareness of something we desire to experience or create in a life.
It acknowledges there is something we are here to do and experience
and our lives will never feel fulfilled unless we are moving toward
the fulfillment of that dream or desire. However, mind will not
readily know the intention for your life contrary to what it may
tell you.
This dream is beyond the understanding of mind as one knows their
mind unless they consciously seek to understand it. It will not be
something one stumbles upon. It is something to which one must open
oneself to feel. As has been said, mind cannot properly characterize
what it has not experienced. It only knows what it has experienced.
Since mind has yet to fully experience the intention for your life,
it cannot fully know that intention.
The reason for this is that the dream we carry is reflective of why
we incarnated or localized our creative spirit into our body. The
flow of energy within one’s being that brought one into life and why
that flow of energy even exists existed before your mind, as you
know it, became aware of itself and its environment. Mind, as we
know mind, arises after our incarnation and as a result of the
experience we have in the body. To fully understand the intention
for one’s life, one must fully live the life that was intended. But
mind only knows what it has experienced so mind may piece together
the minimum pieces to understand the intention. It will not fully
know the intention until it is lived. Mind cannot give you the
answer you seek in this area. To understand the dream that lies
within our heart, one must find a way to step outside their mind and
consciously experience the energy unfolding that intention. Then, in
the awareness of that flow, you can move back to the source of that
flow and find that intention. You can access the consciousness the
created the flow and understand its intention.
Access the dream within the heart
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The key to stepping our of mind to
access this dream is through feeling and what the body senses and
the subsequent intuitive guidance that rises as a result of what we
sense. If one is observant and discerning, they can feel the flow of
energy within their being that gives them life. They can know by
feel whether or not the decisions or actions one takes is supportive
of their life and/or is in alignment with this flow of energy. Most
do not become aware of this dream within one’s heart because for a
variety of reasons we are not open to the depth of feeling necessary
to become aware of it. Additionally, we often do not learn to
discern if the energy that gives rise to what we feel arises from
within our being or from without.
When one is in alignment with this flow of energy and living the
life that the creative spirit creates for an individual will move
toward an understanding and an awareness that leads to an unending
inner satisfaction they will seem to never run dry no matter what is
happening in the external world. Many experience this inner
satisfaction as bliss, joy, calmness within or something similar.
Living the dream of the heart allows one to look back over the life
they have lived and say, “It is good - I have been well served.”
When they are not in alignment with the intention and its resulting
flow of energy and their choices have not consciously choose to step
out of that alignment, they will probably feel discomfort and pain
in some way at some level of their being. It is here one finds
wholeness. To experience the wholeness between mind and heart as
opposed to separation within one’s being, one must allow the heart,
unmasked by mind, to intend the direction of one’s life and unfold
this dream and have mind attend to the details to make it happen.
One can go off and live a secluded life and find a deep inner
happiness. Yet, that does not mean their dream goes into the world
and they can have the same happiness in the middle of the chaos of
the external world. We incarnate to be in and with Creation, and to
fully participate in Creation. We are not here to be separate and
secluded from it. It is why we have physical bodies that force us to
interact with the world. It forces us to breather air, drink water,
eat food and mate with another to sustain the human chain. We are
here to participate and engage in the creation process. Yet,
although we need another for our dream to unfold, often the one who
creates the space for our dream to unfold may never be aware they
are doing so. This is why the role of the other is so often missed.
We do not see nor understand the role we play for another and they
role they play in our own life. Only in awareness can we see how
much we need another.
In any case, when one accesses their creative spirit and allows the
dream within the heart to unfold true to its nature, one’s entire
life is transformed. Moving to manifest the dream forces us to move
from where we are and the world we created, that has not allowed the
unfoldment of our dream in the past, to move in the fastest way
possible to a world in which the dream can unfold free and
unfettered.
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When, and if, this creative spirit
is free to play natural to its being without the imposition of the
judgements of the mind, the dream will naturally unfold. When
permitted, the dream will unfold within the actions of this powerful
creative spirit and the actions of this playful creative spirit will
be the dream unfolding. When given the correct condition the dream
in the heart which is embodied within the flow of energy that
sustains us, will germinate, grow and bear fruit much like a seed.
The fruit that comes forth are our gift which we give to the world.
We each carry such a dream and a gift to give. Without the proper
conditions, it lies dormant and never comes forth. To deny the free
flow of our creative spirit in any way denies the dream and its
unfoldment and the denial is also a denial of an aspect of one’s own
creative power.
The dream within the heart
unfolds in play
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As discussed under the topic of the
playful characteristic of the creative spirit, this creative spirit must be
able to play for it is only in play one can discover and explore the
options and paths that are possible. Without the freedom to play,
this creative spirit cannot find its way in the world and the dream
will never unfold. Or, if it does unfold, it will be stunted in its
growth and most probably be sterile and unable to produce its
fruits. It may grow and unfold in the world but it will not bear
fruit and the inherent gift will not be given no matter how creative
the individual may appear to be.
Since this creative spirit will playfully explore options, the
creative spirit can be very frightening to one’s mind. It is
frightening for that spirit seems to disregard the experience of
mind. It seems to blindly enter a creative effort disregarding all
the fears of mind. Mind finds it very difficult to control this
spirit when it is released. Yet, rather than learning to flow with
this creative spirt, mind seeks to break the spirit as one would
break the spirit of a wild horse so it can be harnessed to pull a
wagon or ridden. To make its job easier, mind will mask the heart
and mask seeing and facing the spirit within one’s own being. Our
mind is afraid that if this spirit is released, our life will not be
our own.
The paradox of the dream
This is the paradox of the dream. If we access it and surrender to
the dream, we appear to our mind as losing control over our life and
creative ability. Yet, in accessing and surrendering to the dream,
we access an indescribable freedom. It opens the door to an
understanding and awareness which can lead one to an internal bliss
and joy that never runs day no matter what is happening in the
world.
Surrendering to the dream opens the door to aligning with the reason
we came into this world for we align with the flow of energy that
created and sustains our life and we align with the reason this flow
ever started - that is, the intention and/or purpose that gives rise
to our life.
From a creativity perspective, if one does not access this dream
and/or move toward manifesting that dream in some way, they will
never experience their full creative potential. It is here in
understanding this dream we each carry that one can learn the dance
of creation/Creation and how and why we each need another to call
forth our creativity and/or to awaken that dream to bring it to life
to unfold. The dream must be awakened for us to access the depth and
breadth of our creative power for much of its power tends to lie
dormant as a result of the conditions of the life which it
experiences. Yet, as a result of the nature of physical Creation,
few ever have the space for this dream be free to unfold naturally.
Most only drift in or towards the general direction required to
manifest this intention because they are carried by a very deep slow
moving undercurrent as a result of this flow and the can access a
sufficient level of creativity energy to create what they desire in
life. To be truly active, this creative spirit needs to consciously
be called forth by another. There are two reasons for this. It is
the awareness of these reasons that this creative spirit need to be
called forth is what makes the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
so different than other methodologies. But to understand the first
reason as to why there is the need for another to call forth this
dream one must understand the vulnerability of the creative spirit.
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