Creative ability is about becoming mindful and aware

It is to awaken and becoming aware of the cause effect chain  and how to become the cause of the effect we experience.

It is to become aware and awake to the thoughts we have and the decisions we make

It is becoming aware of how and what we think and believe and why we believe and think the way we do.

It is about becoming aware of why we have the thoughts we do as opposed to any other and why think and believe the way we do as opposed to any other way.

Our creative ability has two parts - what we know and what we are free to explore

There is what we intellectually know and then what we experientially know.

Creative ability is about is what we know about how things work based on what we have experienced.

Michelangelo performed many experiments with light to see how it cast shadows and did or didn’t illuminate certain aspect of what of he was observing. He did these experiments to be able to capture the effects of light it in his paintings. He had to watch and observe light to know how to paint light and the shadows it cast.

We will have to do our own experiments to come to understand and gain the minimum set of experience to know what we need to do to create what we desire.

On this point, our intuitive guidance and body wisdom can lead us to the experiences in the fastest and easiest way. The wisdom of the lessons learned from others with make it the gentlest way.

Piecing together the true depth of our creative ability is like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle.

Until we get the minimum set of experience we will be unable to see the true depth and breadth of what is available to us.

It is journey to obtain those experiences and our intuitive guidance can lead us there, but we will need to honoring the intuitive guidance we get.

There is a ritual we can do that represents both our commitment to the journey and what we may encounter.

The ritual is to assemble a jigsaw puzzle symbolic of the journey we will take and to set the intention to open ourselves to see what it is we may experience on the journey.

Have someone give us a 100 piece jigsaw puzzle were we do not know the image or picture in the puzzle.

Piece together the jigsaw puzzle

Be aware of the type and kind of difficulty you face in piecing together the puzzle.

When done in a group, it has been observed that often what an individual faces in piecing together the puzzle is representative of what they may encounter on the journey - in particular whether or not help is needed and in what form. For example, some only need help in getting started. Others simply need help in seeing how the pieces fit together. The type kind of assistance the individual needed in piecing together the puzzle was reflected of the type and kind of assistance they eventually needed in their journey.

Our creative imagination  is key to our creative ability.

We need to be able to explore, at least in our own mind, beyond any limits and barriers we may think exist or we perceive as existing on what we desire to do.

Only in moving past the rules, barriers, limits and the like we perceive are we able to enter the world of possibilities.

The creative goal is to make the impossible possible, the possible probable and the probable a certainty.

The mind we have which created the problem we face is not the mind which will not solve our problem.

Mind only knows what it has experienced

Only in knowing how to step out of mind will we find the solution we seek.

There are no mistakes in a truly creative endeavor. There are only learning experiences as to what does and doesn’t work.

Because of the experience we have had in life and how our creative spirit has been thwarted when it tired to freely express itself, we create response patterns to life to protect ourselves.

However, what we use to protect our creative spirit ends up becoming a cage of our own making that imprisons our creative spirit.

Our cage is unique and only we can remove the bars.

But we must address all six sides - four sides laterally and the top and the bottom of the cage.

The sides of the cage are about the freedom to move around in our life

The topic of the cage is about how we how we plug ourselves into the unseen realms of Creation and our concept of God.

The bottom of the cage is about how we plug ourselves into Physical Creation and our concepts of sex and sexuality.

Many believe, and it probably can be shown, we do create our experiences by our thoughts, how and what we think we believe, and what thoughts we are and are not willing to act upon.

But where does this our creative power to create with our thoughts begin and end?

Many say God created the world.

That may very well be true.

But if God created the world, and we create what we experience with our thoughts, where does God’s power end and our power begin?

What about each of us? If we create with our thoughts, what thought created us and for what reason?

Did God create us or did we think ourselves into Physical existence?

We can look at this as a spectrum. At one end, all the creative power lies in God and at the other end of the spectrum all the creative power lies within us. Were does God power end and ours being? Or are they one and the same - we are only the creator/Creator experiencing its creation/Creation as many mystics say.

If God created our life, is not our life Its will and should we not be living the life It wanted us to have even if we create with our thoughts? But how do we know God’s will for our life to live it?

Our mind only came into existence after we were born and God will for us exists outside and before our mind came into existence?.

The alternative view is that we thought ourselves into Physical existence.

If we somehow thought our life into Physical existence, for what purpose did we do so?

What did we desire to experience that we came into Physical life?

The answer, however we look at it, is in what we feel and what gives us life and pulls us into life.

It really doesn’t matter who create our life. The issue is what causes us to feel life, feel alive, gives a fullness of life and/or a desire to engage life.

The creative ability we can access all depends on our creation story. That is, what do we believe about Creation.

Our Creation story is what places the ultimate limits and barriers on our creative ability.

Our Creation story is what caps what we think and believe is possible

Exploring and discovering the depth and breadth of our creative ability and what we think and believe all starts with the story we tell about Creation and our own creation.

The real question we face is, "Does our Creation story make us victims or does it empower our creative ability and creative power?"

Where did Creation come from?

What is the human being within Creation?

Is the story we tell of Creation our story or something we have been told or learned of another?

We need to look to see if we can separate out the parts of the Creation story we tell that are ours and the parts that are what we have been told about Creation. If we don’t really know which is which or we don’t really know how Creation got started, we need to be honest with our selves and say so.

For that which is our story, what is the basis of why we think or feel Creation got started the way it did.

How do we know if we are correct or not?

We need to look at our Creation story and see where the creative power lies.

We need to look to see if the Creation story create a victim consciousness or does it empower the us become a conscious creator?

Does our Creation story truly give us a free will or are we only free because we are permitted to be free as discussed in the topic, "Heaven, the Kingdom of God and Nirvana." There is a big difference.

Most Creation stories involved some type and kind of understanding about God

The issue here is not to debate God.

Each is free to believe what they wish

There is no desire to change what one believes about God as such.

But we do need to look at where we think and believe our creative ability and creative power stops and that of God starts.

That stopping/starting pint will determine what we can and can’t create.

Imagine a spectrum. At one end, God has all the creative ability and creative power and we have none. At the other end is God has given us all the creative ability and creative power to create both create what we experience and create the reality in which we experience it.

We need to describe the best we can where our creative ability and creative power stops and Gods’ starts or vice versa. Where on the spectrum do we believe our creative ability and creative power lie?

Whether what we do here in our creative imagination  is real or not doesn’t matter. We are going to explore an option.

An alternative view to where our creative ability and creative power starts and stops

God can be whatever we choose God to be

The idea we will explore here is God has given us the creative ability and creative power to both create our experiences and create the reality of those experiences.

That is, each of us, at some level of our being, either chose or agreed to participate in the experiences we have.

The Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective is one way to see how what is described here is possible.

If this is true, what does this mean about how we need to go about creating what we desire?

That is, what we now experience is a result of the fact that we hold beliefs and a way of thinking that have created what we experience.

The question is, "How do we need to change what we believe and think to create something different?" That is, we have no one to blame or to look to as causing what we experience. They are only the occasion for what we ourselves have desired at some level of our being to experience.

The recommendation is to do guided meditation asking "Why are we here?"

Create a guided meditation using the "Sample guided meditation format" based on this question.

Have someone read the guided meditation or record it for playback.

In doing the guided meditation become aware of both what we feel and what images, thoughts and the like that may arise.

Do the guided meditation.

Contemplate the results of this guided meditation. Specifically look from where did you originate or your purpose of being here?

For what purpose did you come into Physical Creation? In doing this part of the exercise you can expect your reason for begin here is completely different than any other individual. After all, we are unique.

Is there anything in particular we wish to experience while we are here?