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In the discussion entitled “Body
Consciousness” is stated: “...since energy molds itself in
response to the desires of consciousness, there is an
desire/intention by a consciousness which brought our consciousness
and our particular body into incarnation. Alternatively said, our
body is the manifestation of that intention. The
intention for our life gives rise to a flow of energy that will
act as an undercurrent that guides and directs our entire life.”
If we do not work with the
intention for our life, a part of us will always be outside of
both our understanding and our control. There will always be a pull
in a way that our
mind may not necessarily want to go. Yet, when we align with
this intention there is a tremendous
passion in our lives, a
creative passion, a passion to create. As discussed in the “The Rain-River Analogy for the Creative/Creation Process”
the intention for our life sets our creative passion.
Traditionally the heart has been described as the seat of one’s love
of life and in life, and represents the
passion and enthusiasm that animates life. If we are fully in
our passion, we have
all the fuel we need to create whatever we wish. If we have
little passion for what we do and/or for life, we have minimum
energy to bring a new creation into existence. We may function well
in our job and/or satisfactorily meet the expectations of those
around us, but we will not have the creative inspiration nor the
magnitude of energy that accompanies our
creative passion. Similarly, many individuals perform very
creatively with great energy but the individual never realizes
their passion because they are not following where their
creative passion leads. Rather they channel what creative passion
they have into what is acceptable to the world around them and they
may be actually
manifesting a dream another impregnates in them.
If we follow the
passion which arises from the
intention for our life with unconscious awareness it tend to
make us look either crazy or driven by some irrational goal. When
accessed through a conscious awareness this
creative passion will manifest as an enthusiasm and passion in
the form of a desire to transcend the ego. It transcends the ego
because the desire and passion arise from something that existed
before
mind and the associated ego arise from the experiences of our
current life.
Surrendering to the
passion that arises from the
intention for our life can be the safest, most gentlest and fun
way to transcend the ego that humanity has ever be know. To live
one’s
creative passion is to live in the
most creative state of being. It is to be in the spontaneous and
innocent childlike play of discovery and exploration of one’s own
creativity to create and manifest the intention for which one
incarnated. Our passion is unique and unlike anything that has ever
existed before. Living and freely expressing this passion is the
source of
our charisma and the gifts we give to the world and ourselves.
For many individuals, the
creative passion has its draw backs. When we tap into it and
being to flow with it, it is not just something that we like to do.
Nor is it or even something that necessarily gives us a great thrill
in life. Rather it is something that pushes us forward and will
cause us to overcome great obstacles. More often than not this
creative passion may by seem more of a burden that a thrill. Yet, in
spite of the obstacles, we will have an internal satisfaction the
never runs dry. We internally know what we to do and you do it.
Our
creative passion will take us to where there are not necessarily
any external rewards. The external world may not realize or readily
accept what our
passion creates. We have no ideas if what our creative passion
desires to create will, or will not, be acceptable to those around
us until we get there. We have no guarantees as to acceptability
when we live our creative passion. Our creative passion will take us
into the unknown. There are no reference markers available for what
we desire to create with this creative passion looks like manifested
in the current physical world.
Our
creative passion is something from which we can never retire. It
is something that may even lead to our death to achieve its
fulfillment. For some, death may be preferred than having to live in
the agony of an unexpressed creative passion. The intensity of a
creative passion may be so strong in wanting to come out and be
expressed that if the physical body and/or the world in which that
creative passion finds itself forces it to be limited or live in
limitation, it may destroy that world, the body it is using, or
destroy itself.
If unexpressed it may render the our creatively lifeless. Or,
creatively, we becomes a walking zombie when it come to creating and
taking creative risks for we lose our ability to discover and
explore the unknown. We end up living in the safety and security of
the know, fearing changes and anything that upsets the status quo.
In many ways our
creative passion can be frightening to the ourselves and to
others. It will control our life if allowed and we will not be
controllable by society, our family, or even how we think. It is
something that flows from beyond our
enculturated mind and how and what the external world is capable
of conceiving. Although this energy may be frightening, it needs to
be understood, that if we look very carefully at the energy aspects
of our being and our
creative living process within our being and the desire our
energy has for expressing its creativity and uniqueness, suppression
of this energy is ultimately the root of many addictions, depression
and other disfunctions that “steal our emotional energy. ”
Suppression of this energy is the suppression of the life itself
that flows within us.
Some interpret living our
creative passion as that “perfect” job where money, education,
locations, family support, experience and the like becomes
irrelevant. It is just something that we enjoy doing and something
that really excites us. This definition has many of the
characteristics of creative passion and can function as a good
approximation to creative passion if we stay at the mundane level of
existence and think only in terms of our physical existence.
However, doing something that we find enjoyable and even exciting if
it is not creative and causing us to manifest an experience or
something that did not exist before may sever as an escape from our
creative passion. It may actually be an addiction do as to not feel
what our creative passion calls us to do.
Our
creative passion will always take us to the edge of our being
and the limits of what we think we are capable of doing and take us
into the unknown. If what we find enjoyable in life does not take us
to the edge of our being and the limits as to who we think we are
and how we think the world works, we are not in our creative
passion. We may want to look at the possibility we are just in an
addictive behavior and using the pleasure and excitement we get only
as a diversion of what we consciousness incarnated to do.
A true
creative passion cut across all aspects of our being and
including our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical being. In
this regard, no part of our being will remain unaffected by our
creative passion.It will stretch all our limits for we are an
infinitely creative being with an infinite consciousness.
In many ways our
creative passion is like a light house that shines brightly
before us guiding us and calling us into that unknown both keeping
us away from dangers yet allowing us to always know where you need
to be going even if we have never been their before - that is, in
the flow of the
passion itself. For others their creative passion looks more
like a navigation start that will always lead true. We just need to
get out form the under the clouds of any storm created by
mind to see where we need to be going no matter what sea we sail
on and how turbulent and stormy the external world is around us.
When we enter life, we are naturally aligned with our
creative passion. However, it is rare that anyone consciously
accesses their creative passion before they have been enculturated
socially. As an infant, our creative passion causes us to explore
the world to define ourselves and come to some understanding of who
and what we are. However, very early in life we are faced with
survival needs. We learn to satisfy our early care givers and align
with how they see the world. We do not have the knowledge or
physical strength or ability to live our creative passion. We must
align with the world in which we find ourselves. This adaptation
process is inevitable. The only question is, “Do we get through the
adaptation process and get to consciously experience our creative
passion and be allowed to act on it in consciousness or do we mold
ourselves to the reality in which we find ourselves before becoming
consciously aware we have a creative passion never to express it?”
The sad thing about this process is that if we enter life and never
consciously live or experience our
creative passion we will never miss it. We can become very
excited about many things in life and become very passionate about
things. But we will not live your creative passion. However, what we
will find is one of two things. One is that there will be what can
be described as
longing in our heart and/or a
pain in our heart the remains unfulfilled because an essential
part of our being has been lost. Although we may not consciously
feel the pain, we go through life searching for something, a thing,
a person, or a deity, but we know not what. Or we will go through
life meeting all the success criteria and become extremely
successful in our eyes or the eyes of the world yet seem unfulfilled
in some way. We will feel something is missing or there is a
hollowness about what we have achieved. We will be haunted by the
equivalent of the question, “Is this all there is to life?” Then
again if we lack abundance in our life, physically, mentally,
emotionally, or spiritually, we may spend our life struggling to
survive and never realize there is something deeper within our
being. It is usually only after we obtain our abundance that we
begin to realize there is something missing.
Some individuals long for what can be called a soul mate or that
companion who will fulfill this longing. It cannot be found in
another individual. Others have a very deep spiritual longing,
similar to longing for a companion, but here the
longing is for a beloved of Divine origin. However, in the
oneness of the universe, the Divine longing is only for a part of
one’s own being that has not been fulfilled. Still others simply to
numb the
pain and longing through some type of distraction or some
addictions. All this longing evaporates when we live our creative
passion.
We need to understand, we are the manifestation of the
creative life energy of the universe and the energy itself is
creative. We, in turn, are the expression of the creative life
energy. In being this energy, we too are creative and have a
passion to create. If we cannot live our
creative passion we are denying the essence of our being and the
essence of Creation itself and that which created us. Remember,
creativity is the language of consciousness. The language of the
energy of which we are is creativity. If we cannot become the
embodiment of the creative being we are, and communicate through and
in our unique creativity, we will always long for that creative
portion of our being. We will always be seeking something but not
exactly know what it is. What it is we long for and seek is our own
creative passion that passion that lies embedded in the energy
of our being.
If, and when, we experience the full depth and breadth of our own
creativity, we can never live the way we lived before the
experience. We find we must live to be the embodiment of this
creative life energy and be the embodiment of the
passion that lies within this energy. Our
creative passion, as with many other aspects of our being, can
be lived in the full expression of our creative life energy or We
can live where it minimally impacts our life and creativity. How
much of our creative passion we embrace and how much we allow it to
express itself in our thinking and our actions is a function of how
we have come to define who we are, how we think the world works, and
what is it we need to achieve in life to become “successful.”
The dream that accompanies our
creative passion, that
dream of the heart, will appear before us as a guiding star in
our life as an inspiration for our creative passion. When we live
our creative passion we will surface the dream of our heart. Often
this dream will reveal itself as if we are standing on top of a high
mountain clearly seeing the valley below and knowing where we need
to go and how we are going to get there. But then as we start our
journey and descend into the valley, we no longer will have that
view available to us. But we will have that memory to assist us on
our path.
To descend into the valley we will need some form of compass and
some landmarks to assist us on our journey. The feeling of the
fulness of being and/or the fulness of life we get by expressing
and living our
creative passion functions as that
internal compass and our
intuitive guidance provides us all the landmarks and course
changes we need to make. However, if we don’t know the
intention behind our life, we will simply pass by what we came to do
when the opportunity or opportunities present themselves. We need to
have access to the
dream of our heart to have the information we need to know when
we need to act. We will find it and it will grow in clarity the more
we live our creative passion.
Once we have a conscious experience of our heart, that is, our
creative passion and what gives us a feeling of a
fulness of being and full of life, we understand what it looks
like for us. We are each a unique creation. We only need to use that
experience as an
internal compass and reference system to guide us through the
external world. If we observe carefully as to what guides our
decisions, we will discover that following the
mind and the mind’s criteria of success will give a
disappointment and disillusionment. Following the mind will not
necessarily create a lack of pleasure but rather a sense that
something is unfulfilled and incomplete. In following the heart, our
creative passion, we will ways have an internal warmth no matter
what happens externally. When we live our heart in alignment with
our creative passion, we return to the Universe the gift of life
that was given to us while finding an internal bliss and
inner satisfaction within ourselves that never runs dry no
matter what is happening to, or within, our external world. However,
living in
passion does not necessarily guarantee we will live the
intention for our life. We has to choose to live and manifest
that intention. It is then we access our creative passion.
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