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It
is said that one of the characteristics of
creative play is to be free from the judgments of the
mind and not
to take one’s actions seriously. To be free of the judgments of mind
also means to be free of any obligations. What this in turn means,
is that to become free of an obligation can give great freedom. So
the freedom gained when an obligation is lifted can be experienced
as play or playful. However, the freedom we feel when obligations
are removed will not necessarily give us the type of play that
enhances our creative abilities although we may think you have
entered a very creative state.
The key point here is that to be free is to be spontaneous and
innocent in one’s movements without any imposing judgments about the
movement which includes moving in a direction we choose to move.
When obligations are removed, if we move toward or away from any
experience because the obligation is removed, that movement is not
being spontaneous and innocent to explore and discover. Rather, it
is only another level of control imposed by
mind as a result of past
experiences.
For example, supposed while we are living at home we needed to keep
our room extremely neat and clean because of parental demands. When
we move away and live by ourselves, we are now free to keep our room
messy. We are free of the obligation of having to have our room
neat. However, to consciously or subconsciously keep our room messy
as a demonstration of our freedom to do what we wish is not freedom
of movement. Freedom of movement would be to explore and discover
what level of tidiness and messiness that truly fits our unique
creative needs and abilities. It is to do both. It would be to
playfully create a mess and playfully cleanup to see where the
balance point lies in our life for what we desire to create.
To playfully create a mess and playfully clean up the mess would be
to not take the mess we create or the clean up seriously and with
judgment as to what is right or wrong or one is somehow better than
the other. Strict controls will stifle our freedom where as lack of
controls do not provide the discipline to bring our desired creation
into manifestation. There is a balance point that we will have to
explore and discover that fits the situation we face and what we
desire to create
The bottom line here is that whenever a burden or obligation is
lifted, we will have a freedom within our being. The question we
need to look at is whether (1) the freedom we feel is only a result
of a dropped burden and there is a flow of energy that is carrying
us that we did not consciously choose to create or (2) the flow of
energy we feel is something we, ourselves created and desired to
have and desire to go where it lead.
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