Painful transitions 

A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2009 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

For any creative endeavor, there is a required sacrifice of creation. Relative to removing what no longer serves us, there are inner and outer things which need to be discarded. As a result of how our inner world is reflected in the outer, some part of our existing inner and outer world will need to change. Since any true creative endeavor takes into the unknown beyond the experiences of our mind, our mind will not know exactly what will need to be sacrificed. If we are willing to let go of what needs to change and/or be removed from our life, the creative process can be without pain. However, if we hold onto what needs to be released and no longer serves us and what we desire to experience, we can expect discomfort if not pain.

Our pain arises from resistance to change in some way through our attachments. Inherent in the creative process is the need for some of the existing form needs to dissolve to make room for the new. Resistance to change arises from mind in some way or another not wanting to let go what needs to change. Relative to our current world and way of living in our current world, resistance often arises around the change the normal way things are done and/or how we have identified ourselves with our current role, job or position and we see that identity somehow dying.

There are two ways to approach the resistance. One way is to address it and confront it head on. The other way is to discern the source of the resistance and address the resistance at it root. Exactly what this means and what will be encountered is dependent on the source of the resistance. In many case it will involve things never considered as being impacted by the change. In this regard, some times the cause of the resistance is illusionary and only a perceived threat. At other times it goes to the very fiber of what we believe about ourselves, our job or the organization or organizations of which we are a part.

Here the ability to detach from what is occurring to look beyond the obvious and into the interconnections and influences on what is occurring is essential. Here one often finds unexpected connections and interrelationship including embedded assumptions all involved parties may be carrying. By addressing these non obvious connections and interrelationship much of the resistance can be eliminated if not removed.

The recommendation is to look to explore the origins of any pain we feel before we move to numb and/or suppress the pain. This does not mean to endure the pain. Rather, it is about the need to ask and being to pull the string on the origin of the pain before we act to mitigate the pain.

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