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Response patterns
Implementing Creative
Step/Guideline #3
Creative
Step/Guidelines #3
Background
Accept the response patterns
that rob us of our creative power
Learn to
trust your internal guidance
Creative
Step/Guideline #3 (Top):
As you explore you creativity, you will need to admit and accept
that you have developed response patterns to life that render part,
if not a majority, of your conscious creativity powerless such that
you are unable to access a sufficient creative power to create what
you desire. Trust that your internal guidance is more than adequate
to guide you to change the response pattern to something that better
serves your creative needs.
Background
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There are two types of response
patterns of life that rob you of your creative power. One is simple
and straight forward and is about attachments. The second part is
how the free flow of your creative spirit has been bound because its
play was thwarted in the past. These are more difficult to address.
Your creative power is currently directed toward creating and
supporting the experiences you currently have. Because of how life
events are interconnected, your creative power becomes entwined and
entangled in such a way you cannot easily extricate the creative
power that you need to create what you desire from what you have
created . These entanglements are the attachments in your life to
things you wish to hold onto. These include both your memories and
attachments to the things you have created, physical or otherwise.
Attachments ultimately arise from how and what you think and believe
and why you think and believe the way you do. You need to look at
that to which you have attached and why.
There are things we hold onto because we think we may need them
again. We like the easiness that comes when we don’t have to
redevelop something. For example, it is easy to keep a shovel in the
garage with the expectation you will use it again rather than
needing to go out and buy another shovel when you need it. However,
to hold a shovel that you will never need again only because of an
attachment to that shovel and/or the job on which you had work with
it is a different issue. Nevertheless, in either case, and although
the shovel may be small, the shovel does take up space. Enough of
these “small”things lives little space for the new. If you keep all
these “small” things in your garage, you may not have the space for
a new car to satisfy your current desire unless you get rid of all
that you are storing to make room.
In the same way things take up space in our garage, our attachments
take up or occupy our creative life energy. You must first
understand how your creative power is entangled in your existing
experience to free a sufficient amount to create what you desire.
However, to understand how your creative power is entangles you must
first realize that it is entangled. Then explore where and why it is
entangled and identify those habits have often developed around
these entanglements.
The second part where you have developed response patterns because
you create spirit was thwarted in some way. Here we are talking
about creating a safe space for one’s creativity to be free to come
out and express itself. Here again, you can’t being to explore the
response pattern until you admit it is there. Some additional
discussion on the response patterns that thwart the free expression
of our creative spirit to enter the
most creative state of being is discussed under the topic of “Developing
a Creativity Perspective.”
Accept the response patterns
that rob us of our creative power
(Top)
As you explore you creativity, you
will need to admit and accept that you have developed response
patterns to life that render part, if not a majority, of your
conscious creativity powerless such that you are unable to access a
sufficient creative power to create what you desire.
Our creative power and ability comes from the free flow of our
creative spirit. It is very vulnerable and will shut itself down
when its play is thwarted. Our creative spirit starts out in freedom
seeking an environment which allows it to freely create only to find
it is thwarted in its efforts, controlled and put into a box not of
its choosing that keeps it bound throughout life unless we can
figure out how to set it free.
It is quite natural and happens to all of us to one degree or
another. We simply learn to respond to the experiences we have in a
way that protects the creative spirit the best way we know how. Yet,
in protecting this creative spirit, we stifle it and prevent its
free unfoldment. More often than not, there is a level of pain we
feel when our play is thwarted and controlled. In order to protect
ourselves so we don’t feel that pain again, we develop response
patterns to life to protect this spirit. As a child, we had little
experience in life and little sophistication to properly protect
this creative spirit without causing it to withdrawal our creative
power. We develop childish response patterns that we never go back
and change. More often than not, rather than creating a pattern that
allows both the free unfoldment of this creative spirit and protect
itself, we limit our creative spirit and keep it bound.
Most often we are unaware we have them and may not even recognize
them for what they are when we experience them. Yet, we wonder why
we do not find the creative ability to do certain things.
One way to discover the patterns we have is to see where our
creativity seems to be limited or held back and explore to
understand why and how it is limited. A second way to discover the
patterns we have is to create
meta-theatrical discussions and/or performances to view the
response patterns we developed to respond to life. Whenever we are
faced with a situation, we overlay one of the response patterns to
life we developed. In doing so, we do not see reality for what it is
but rather we see what our response pattern tells us about what we
experience. Hence, we live in an illusion about what is and do not
see reality for what it is. To see our illusion, we only need to
create some type of a theatrical production, a meta-theater that
allows us to respond as though the production were real. Then in
responding to the theatrical production (the created illusion) as
real, we can see the reality of the illusion of our mind and the
response pattern we use to respond to life. Then in the awareness of
the illusion we carry, we can change it. Once we discover these
patterns, we can then change it and/or deal with the issue that
creates it in a more adult and mature way. However, we must first
admit they exist and being to look for them and ferret them out.
Learn
to trust your internal guidance
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Trust that your internal guidance
is more than adequate to guide you to change the response pattern to
something that better serves your creative needs.
What cause you to shut down your creative power is inside you. In
this regard, nothing outside you causes your creative power to shut
down. You may have had an external experience to which you responded
and needed to find a way to protect yourself. Nevertheless, your
mind threw the switch by the choice it consciously or subconsciously
made to shutdown the flow of your creative life energy in a given
direction. Only you can throw the switch to restore the flow.
Since, mind shut that energy flow off to protect itself, it is not
going to willingly open it unless it has some guarantee it will not
again be hurt. If it is understood how to allow the energy to flow
again, it would have already done so. So, your mind cannot, and will
not, give you a way to restart the flow of energy. However, your
intuitive guidance can. You will need to go to your intuitive
guidance to find the solutions you seek.
To use your intuitive guidance, you need to first set the intention
to change the response pattern you uncovered. Then ask your
intuitive
guidance, “What does it look like, what do I need to do to
recreate and/or transform the response pattern to something that
better serves my creative needs?” It will provide the direction in
which you need to move and you will need to
honor your intuitive guidance in a
suorephex to move in that direction.
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