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Expansion
Implementing Creative
Step/Guideline #11
Creative
Step/Guideline #11
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Seek to
improve your contact with the Creative Power
Maintain alignment with the flow
Expanding your
creative power and ability - understand flow
Creative
Step/Guideline #11 (Top):
In a way appropriate to your being, such as in prayer,
contemplation, meditation, study, experimentation, rituals, etc, you
have to seek to improve and expand your understanding and conscious
contact with this Creative Power within and without. Seek through
your internal compass to maintain alignment with unwavering faith
with the flow of the creative life energy that sustains your being
and the energy that is flowing to manifest your intention.
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The physical world changes.
Essentially nothing in the physical world remains the same. Nothing
remains static and neither should your relationship with the inner
and outer Creative Power of the Universe. This step is about putting
many of the pieces of the creative together to have them readily
available for use in your life. It needs to be understood if you
don’t exercise what you have you will lose it. It will slowly
atrophy in time. The same is true about your creative ability and
your creative power. Additionally, we are talking about your
relationship with the Creative Power of the Universe. If you do not
consciously exercise your creative power and consciously create, you
will not deepen and develop your relationship with the inner and
outer
creative powers/Creative Powers and the relationship you have
will slowly atrophy. As was said, what you will need to do to bring
a creation into the world will be different that what you do to
sustain it. There will be the need to both maintain and continually
expand your creative ability.
Remember, if you already had and understood the creative power you
need to create what you desire, you would already have what you
desire and give no consideration to have to create anything. You
would already have it. Any creative effort requires you to step
beyond your past to create it and it requires you to continually to
step beyond the past to maintain it. There are things will you need
to learn and understand if you are going to maintain a creation. The
more you can expand your understanding of the Creative Power of
Creation and how you actually create the experience you do, the more
creative power you access. Yet, you cannot allow yourself to become
distracted from maintaining the focus on what you desire to create
you need to keep your focus.
So, there is the need to create some type of
daily practice in a form that best allows you to access a
continual and deepening relationship with the Creative Power as you
know it and experience it,. Your daily practice should also help you
to maintain the focus on the feeling for the intention you wish to
manifest. In doing so, you expand your creative abilities and
powers. Become aware that as you expand your understanding of the
Creative Power you may have to drop, evolve or otherwise change the
techniques and practices that got you to where you are now. In is
much like physically growing up. Although you like the clothes you
wore as a child they no longer fit as you grow. It is not that there
is anything wrong with them. They just no longer fit who and what
you now are. The same is true for your practices and methodologies
especially your relationship with the inner and outer Creative Power
of the Universe. As you “grow up” into your creative powers, you
will find much of your past no longer fits and you simply drop it.
Seek
to improve your contact with the Creative Power
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In a way appropriate to your
being, such as in prayer, contemplation, meditation, study,
experimentation, rituals, etc, you have to seek to improve and
expand your understanding and conscious contact with this Creative
Power within and without.
Here you have to look into your
own being to see what severs and doesn’t serve your creative ability
and what does or doesn’t allow your creative abilities to expand.
You will, of course, need to develop some type practice to maintain
an ongoing conscious contact with both the inner and outer creative
powers. But you will also need to explore those opportunities in the
outer world that will deepen your relationship and/or understanding
with this Creative Power. This could be through workshops, retreats,
books, visits to ancient, historical, geological or sacred sites or
simply visiting a friend or sitting in nature. Use whatever expands
how you experience and perceive the Creative Power. You will have to
do your own experiments in this area to see what works for you.
Maintain alignment with the flow
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Seek through your internal
compass to maintain alignment with unwavering faith with the flow of
the creative life energy that sustains your being and the energy
that is flowing to manifest your intention.
As you become actively evolved in
your creative endeavors and actively engage in life you need to keep
focus. The two area in which you need to maintain focus is flow of
energy that sustains your being and that which is flowing into what
you desire to create. The easiest way is to have both in alignment
but that is not necessary. More often than not, they are probably
not aligned. The important question is, “How much they are not
aligned.?” It they are not aligned you only need to
learn to dance between the two efforts.
Expanding
your creative power and ability - understand flow
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To really know anything, you have
to have to become it in some way. If you wish to know what it is
like to be a coal miner, you can’t read it in a book or watch it on
TV. You have to go down in a coal mine and work as a coal miner to
get a real feel for what it is. How long you have to be there is not
as necessary as having been there. Some people can spend thirty days
in a mine and get thirty days of experience. Some spend thirty days
in mine and get one day’s experience thirty times.
We all have heard the old proverb that you cannot understand an
individual until you walk a mile in their shoes. We have also how
only someone who has been through the problems you have been through
can really understand what it is like. You can empathize with
another because you have had similar experiences that allow you to
relate to what another is experiencing. But you really don’t know
what is experienced till you personally experience it. Although this
thinking is not always true, it is true more often that not. This is
why so many industries have developed simulation and/or simulator
training to give as real as possible an experiential understanding.
Most or at least many, desire to have some kind of relationship with
the Creative Power of Creation. But most never consciously take that
step relative to the Creative Power of Creation to meet it face to
face to have that personal relationship. To understand the Creative
Power of Creation, you will have to go to the source of your being
where you can become that
creative powers/Creative of Creation and experience it
first hand. Otherwise you will always have only a classroom
understand and not really understand it or how it works.
You need to do your own experiments as to who and what this
creative powers/Creative is to you and what does and does
not make it alive in your life. You have to be able to trust. You
will have to be able to trust that you are free to experiment and
you will not be abandoned in your efforts or because of your
efforts. You have to truth that you will not be penalized or somehow
punished for experimenting. There are no judgements on what you
choose to do, but there are consequences. Whether you judge the
consequences good or bad is another issue.
The consequences are not judgements. To jump off a building to
understand gravity will have consequences. To drop an object off a
build to understanding will have similar but different consequences
and these consequences will not be as damaging to your body. You can
always find a way to explain what you feel you need to explore and
keep it safe. But whatever you do, safely or not, there are
consequences. But there is no judgement on what you do from the
Creative Power of Creation. The only judgments are those that you or
others in your life make on what you do and the consequences you
experience. The Creative Power does not judge. It just is what is
and acts in accordance with what it is.
Now here is an extremely important point about understanding the
creative powers of the Universe and will be hard for most to
instantly understand. There is a
masculine and feminine aspect to the creative process. It is not
about being male or female and how society defines what it means to
be male or female. Rather it is about what give rise to the flow of
creative energy that manifests any creation and when experienced
within oneself can give rise to sexuality. It is about the function
of the masculine and feminine the way the masculine and feminine
function more like the ways the positive and negative poles of a
batter operate to produce an electrical current. All creation
results from a flow of energy so all creative efforts will have a
masculine and feminine aspect.
Without a flow of energy there is no creation to experience. If
there is not flow of energy, there will be nothing to animates what
is created. In this regard, in any flow of energy there will be a
masculine and aspect and a feminine aspect to create a flow of
energy and to sustain that flow for the duration of the creation. In
this regard the masculine is what gives rise to the creation and the
feminine is will nurture the creation and sustains the flow.
Depending on what you desire to create, you may be drawn to learn
about these masculine and feminine aspects.
To truly understand and access the creative powers of the universe,
most will be very surprised as to what they will be asked to
experience in one way or another. To understand these aspects, you
will find it necessary to give up or suspend what you think and
believe about what it means to be male and female both from a
biologically perspective and a social and cultural perspective. It
will cause you to give up what you think about what it means to be
masculine or feminine including your ideas about sexuality. To the
best of your ability, you will need to purge yourself of what you
have experienced and how you came to think and believe what you do
about these subjects. You will need to face these topics as
completely new as possible. Parts will be much like the past and
what you have experience but, most often, with a new twist. Much
will also be different and the implications quite profound.
Your exploration will take you to understand why mind is considered
masculine and the heart as feminine. It will shed some light on why
many of the concepts of God are masculine and the earth and our
bodies are seen as feminine. However, for most of our creative
efforts, the issue of understanding the masculine and feminine
aspects of the creative process will never arise. They will arise
only when you choose a creative endeavor where what you desire to
create causes you to totally change your life and the identity form
which you have been experiencing life. The web site “Sexuality
and Creativity” addresses some of the issues in the area of
sexuality for those who seek to change their life.
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