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Inventory of choices
Implementing Creative
Step/Guideline #6
Creative
Step/Guideline #6
Background
Evaluation of your choices
Creatove
Step/Guideline #6 (Top):
Make a searching and fearless inventory and evaluation of your
choices, especially related to your creative effort, regardless of
whether you considered them right or wrong, and understand why you
chose the way you chose as opposed to some other choice.
Background
(Top)
You align or don’t align with the
flow of energy that is giving rise to what you desire to create by
the choices you do, and don’t, make. If you are going to create what
you desire, you cannot let what you think and believe take you away
from the flow of energy. Similarly, you cannot let your internal and
external circumstance dictate what you do and the choices you make.
Otherwise you will step outside the path leading you to what you
desire. Hence you need to become very aware of the choices you make
and where, when and why you step out of the flow path.
Becoming aware of your choices and the why behind the choices you
make is much more complicated that we can first imagine. It can be a
long and methodical process where you learn to dance between what
you think and your
intuitive guidance. It is here you will come to
learn and understand how your
mind masks the heart. But to do this,
you will have to become very mindful and aware. You will have to
become very mindful of the thoughts you have and aware of what they
can and can’t lead you. You will have to learn what energy is giving
rise to the thoughts you have and why you have the particular
thoughts you do as opposed to another. You need to probe and explore
the depth and breadth of your
belief structure and your inner world
to see what is creating the thoughts you have. Only then can you
create a piece and calmness that you can take with you anywhere
where you go no matter what is happening in the external world
around you.
Evaluation of your choices
(Top)
Make a searching and fearless
inventory and evaluation of your choices, especially related to your
creative effort, regardless of whether you considered them right or
wrong, and understand why you chose the way you chose as opposed to
some other choice.
To make a searching and fearless inventory and evaluation of your
choices, you will need to review the key events of your life and
look to see how and why you chose the way you did. If you draw a
life map or tell the
story of your life based on these key events,
you can become aware of why the events unfolded the way they did and
your responsibility in creating them, even those seemingly well
beyond your control. If you tell your story, record it into a tape
recorder. You will need the details later. As you see the key events
and the story you tell about those events, ask yourself to see
another way to tell the story--a way that empowers your creative
ability and moves you toward the feeling of what you wish to create.
In other words, you use all the same events but tell your story in a
different way and in a way that empowers you.
One of the more easier ways to do empower yourself is to draw a
second life map however you wish and then use the same events as in
this first map to draw a second completely different life map. In
the first case the map may be geographical map with mountains,
lakes, swamps and the like. In the second map, it may be a map of
wars and battles, a zoo or amusement park, a garden or whatever.
Just make it different. For example, in one case I drew a life map
as a geographical map with continents and islands. In another case,
I drew a bookshelf where each book on the shelf was a different life
event. In a third case, I drew a solar system within a galactic
space. Draw however you feel lead. Just use the same events and the
new events that surface in the process drawn a different way. Look
to see where your past choice in some way denied the truth of your
own being to follow someone else’s view and/or where you were too
afraid to act on what you felt. Describe what you find with another.
As you look at the same event in your life in different ways, you
will become aware of why you choose the way you did and that there
are other options available to you more often than you realize. The
most important thing you will gain in this process is the
realization you do have options as to how you view life and respond
to life. You will find much less is fixed than you first imagine.
The question is, what do you wish to create and are you aware of
what is driving the choices you make.
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