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Our
creative life energy goes where we focus our attention and
awareness. The concentration of our attention and awareness is the
essence of our creative powers. Since meditation is a focusing of
our attention and awareness, it is creative state. The intention we
hold as the reason for meditation will be experienced if we meditate
long enough and face the obstacles that arise in opposition to our
mediation and/or the intention we hold.
Many individuals report wonderful experiences after practicing a
given mediation. Most are usually taught their practice by some
teacher as part of a larger program whether it be a spiritual
tradition or stress reduction therapy. The individuals then believe
that the way they mediate creates the particular experience. In
actuality, what happens from a
creativity perspective is that the mediation focuses our
attention and awareness on the intention for the mediation. When the
mind is sufficiently focuses as we act an necessary, the mind
creates the experience. What this means is that any other technique
that focuses the mind and we act as we think we need to act would
also manifest an experience of the intention we holds. It is just
that the individual used the particular meditation practice.
Similarly, any intention we hold can be manifested. To do so we need
to we properly focus our attention and awareness, act as we feel
necessary, and hold that focus long enough and facing any obstacles
that arise.
The calm and blissful state reported by many when they experience a
place of “no-thing-ness”
can be as easily obtained by leaving mind and surrendering to the
flow of energy within our being. If we can step out of mind and
focus our attention and awareness and simply be present in the flow
of energy within our being without judgment or attachment to where
that energy is leading, there will be a calmness experienced as the
energy dissipates in the physical experience. If we are open to
feeling and have not denied their body and its sensations, this
calmness is also accompanied by a feeling of expansion and fullness
of being. That is, a feeling of the fullness of life and that life is
worth living.
Many try and achieve this calmness by living in the “now.” That is,
living in the moment with mind not worrying about the past or the
future. But to intentionally live in the “now” is to be in mind. To
experience the “now” we must totally immersed in the flow of our
being and out of mind as we knows our mind. The best way to enter
this state of being called the “now” or in that place of total
surrender to the flow of energy within our being is to be in
spontaneous
creative play.
Creative play is not play as many have come to understand play.
Creative play is to do something that is totally noncompetitive even
with our own mind. It is done in a way that it is being done solely
for the enjoyment of what we are doing which no particular end or
objective in mind. To play a game with an end, to draw a picture
would not be creative play for they have an objective. We then allow
ourselves to become lost in that play responding spontaneously to
what arises. This experience will lead you to experience the fullness
of being and what surrendering to the flow within one’s being feels
like. Once you know the feeling, one only needs to live in the
awareness of that feeling. In doing so, our life can become a
single point focus or a
living meditation on the fullness of being and its associated
calmness. In doing so, we can be totally engaged in the world in any
activity and still have an internal calmness and bliss and joy no
matter what is happening externally.
Within this understanding, we use mediation to develop the ability
to discipline and focus our mind. We use it to create mindfulness
and awareness of our own thoughts and feelings. Then, armed with the
tool of a disciplined mind and the awareness of our thoughts and
feeling, we can step out of mind into the fullness of being. Then,
being out of mind and what mind thinks and believes, we are free to
surrender to the feeling of the fullness of being allowing it to
create our path in life and/or explore whatever it is we need to
explore. The result is a life and a way of living much different
than most have experienced life. It is a way of living that is much
more magical and mystical than following the mind. In addition, this
alternative way opens the door to an internal bliss and joy that
never runs dry no matter what is happening in the world.
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