What is the creative spirit

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What is the creative spirit

What exactly is the creative spirit

The effects of the creative spirit are real

Our creative power and ability as a spirit

Our creative power and ability as a flow of energy

Equivalency of energy and consciousness

Our belief structure - adjusting the flow of energy

From the Our Creative Spirit home page: What is best described as our creative spirit is the source of our creative power and creative ability. It is what supplies the creative life energy and passion that catalyzes all our creative actions and our life to create what we desire. It influences all that we do. Its free and unfettered unfoldment is what allows for an inner satisfaction with life that never runs dry no matter what is happening in our life. Although it is an extremely powerful influence in our life, surprising few consciously tap into what it has to offer us in life. Most of us are unaware of its existence. (More on... what is the creative spirit)

What exactly is the creative spirit (Top)

It is said above, “What is best described as our creative spirit is the source of our creative power and creative ability.” In actuality, this is not quite true for the source of our creative power and creative ability can also be seen and/or experienced as a flow of energy.

What lies within each of us, at the essence of our being, lies the source of our creative power and creative ability. It is synonymous with the flow of life and a flow of energy that flows from the Source of Creation that flows within your being and needs to be protected. It can be experienced and/or described as flow of energy, a unique individualized spirit, or a combination of both. What this means is that whether we perceive this ability within our being to make things happen as a creative spirit, as a flow of energy, or only as consciousness, it is about out ability to create. The relationship of consciousness and energy within the creative perspective is discussed under the topic of “Energy - an invariant within the creativity perspective.”

This creative spirit, which is within each of us, is not quite the same as the concept of spirit as used in spiritual and religious traditions. It is not the traditional concept of spirit that resides in most theologies where one could say that a human being is a spiritual being having a physical experience. Although similar to the traditional concept of spirit, it is much different. It is profoundly different. I had to have my understanding of myself and the way I thought the world worked completely shattered to even begin to understand it. It is not separate from the physical, nor does it seek to transcend the physical. Rather, it is intimately tied to the physical conditions we create and manifest every day in our life. Since the creative spirit is much different than the traditional concept of spirit and how we think about a spirit, one must find a way to safely step out of what one thinks and believes about themselves and their world and the unseen world. If one is ever going to truly see and experience what this creative spirit that lies within their own being really is and what it desires to accomplish one has to find a way to step out of mind. The creative perspective can help one to do this.

As discussed in the topic “Energy - an invariant within the creativity perspective,” consciousness and energy can be described as different forms of the same material of Creation. For all practical purposes they can be seen as one and the same. They are only viewed and/or experienced differently. How you choose to view this source and experience it will determine two things. One is your view will determine what you can create with it. The other is your view determines whether or not you feel a separation and/or alienation from life or experience a wholeness and oneness with life and between what you think and believe and what you experience.

The effects of the creative spirit are real (Top)

Whether you take what is said here about the creative spirit as being a sprit or as a flow of energy within our being literally or figuratively only as a metaphor, it does not matter. The effects are real and it has a tremendous impact on our life. You can explain it however you wish. However, some explanations or descriptions offer a more powerful vehicle for a accessing your inherent creative power and ability.

Our creative power and ability as a spirit (Top)

The source of our creative power and ability can be called a spirit for it has characteristics of a spirit. As a spirit, it has a personality unto itself. I call it a spirit for I had other experiences in life years earlier that allowed me to recognize what seemed to be entities that existed apart from, separate from, or different than, one’s normal self. When I first encountered it within an individual, it was like an entirely different person. Yet it was not a separate entity. It was only a part of this individual that was so unexpressed that it appeared foreign and separate from them and had the potential to completely and radically transform their life. If this creative spirit within our being is not properly protected you will create conditions that do not serve you. What you create can run the spectrum from mild dissatisfaction with life to outright accident and/or illness and in some extreme cases, death itself.

Experienced as a spirit, this playful creative spirit is found within each of us. It is accessible through feeling and your intuitive guidance. This playful creative spirit is what gives us the capacity and ability to create a life worth living. If allowed, it leads us to nurture and sustain the life it creates in a way that provides for an unfettered unfolding of that spirit. The essence of how to nurture this creative spirit is to hold one’s creativity sacred and to seek those life experience which one’s creative spirit leads one to experience which allows one to feel a feeling of expansion within their being. That is you know and can feel yourself expanding beyond who and what you think you are and into life in a bigger and deeper and in a more profound way.

Our creative power and ability as a flow of energy (Top)

Alternatively, your creative power and creative ability can be seen and experiences as a flow of energy that what gives rise to life and that which we experience it as life. Aligning with, and feeling the flow of energy, is what gives rise to passion and the passion for life and for living. It is what enthuses our entire being with life. The passion we feel is only the experience of this flow of energy. In this view, you could say that we each are a flow of energy that has become aware of itself. We are a flow of energy unfolding within the environment in which we find ourselves. In a different environment, we would be different and we would perceive ourselves differently except our essence would never change.

As an energy, this flow of energy is easily manipulated, controlled and managed. We do it all the time. As an ability, this creative spirit or flow of energy is always available to you. Whether you consciously can access a sufficient amount to create what you desire is the question. This creative spirit, as an energy never dies. It only transforms. However, it can be rendered dormant or inoperable. It can even be perceived as disfunctional. If you do not properly protect this flow of energy you will scatter your creative energy and be unable to focus on what you desire to create or you will simply divert your energy into actions that do not serve you. What you create can run the spectrum from mild dissatisfaction with life to outright accident and/or illness and in some extreme cases, death itself. It can become so bound, entangled or diverted because of what it has experienced that it becomes dormant and essentially lifeless creating the impression that it doesn’t exist and we seem to be powerless to create what we desire.

This flow of energy represented by the this creative spirit is both the source of our life and the source of our creative ability. As a flow of energy, life is something that is felt and with which one must align through feeling. You cannot think you are in the flow, you need to feel it. When you align with this flow you experience an inner freedom. Some experience this inner freedom as bliss or joy. Some experience it as an expansion within their being. What lies within this creative spirit is something that mind cannot see for mind is a product of its unfoldment and the experiences it creates. In some cases, mind is frightened by its unfoldment for mind does not control it.

Equivalency of energy and consciousness (Top)

So, from a creativity perspective, consciousness and energy are one and the same thing, just perceived differently. Whether described as a flow of energy or as a creative spirit, these two descriptions are equivalent ways to look at our creativity. It is this understanding that makes the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity approach different than many other approaches to creativity to create what we desire. This understanding of the relationship between consciousness and energy and is where the power of the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity understanding and methodology lies.

In essence, equating energy and consciousness means the entire creative process from start to finish can be seen as an energy balance. It requires the transformation, whole or in part, of an existing internal form and a corresponding outer form and/or expression of energy into what we desire. The inner form is perceived by consciousness as feelings and thoughts based on how and what we think and believe and why we believe what we do. The external form is perceived as the expression of the life we live in our body and the world we inhabit. To understand the connection and relationship between the inner and outer gives one an incredible creative ability. Accessing this ability starts with understanding and surfacing our beliefs structure.

Our belief structure - adjusting the flow of energy (Top)

To better understand the relationship between our belief structure and how we direct this flow of creative life energy or the creative spirit, we can us a river analogy. The river banks is what controls the flow of the river and defines the river. They are represented by our belief structure - who and what we think and believe and why we think and believe the way we do. The flow of the water is what we feel. It is the flow of our creative life energy or the creative spirit within our being. The flow of the river is what contains the power of the river for within in the flow is the ability of the river to make something happen. It will flow as directed by the banks of the river - that is by the choices we make in how will we live and express our life.

We can change and redirect the flow by the choices we make which is analogous to adjusting the banks of the river. Of course, the choices we make are determined by our belief structure. In this regard, mind can be seen as a switching station for the flow of your creative life energy. We turn the flow of our creative life energy on or off and/or direct it in or out of a creative effort simply by our belief structure and the choices we make. In the outer expression, the expression of our creative spirit is the life we live with the constraints on our being and the environment in which it finds itself. It is in understanding the relationship between the inner and the outer that will allow us to create what we desire.

There are various implications of this understanding that can be used to allow one to create what they desire. Some of the more important implications to the creation process used within the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity approach based on this relationship between consciousness, energy and one’s creative abilities are noted on this and related web sites. The only real constraint you will find on creating what you desire are the conditions in which you start. Often you will find you will have to transform these starting conditions in addition to or even before you can create what you desire.

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