A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2008 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

From a creativity perspective, when all that has be explored in the exploration of creativity in the workplace and exploration of our individual inherent creativity is condensed down, and we clear away the particulars for any situation, there are three simply principles that need to be understood to know how to create safety and/or quality, in the workplace and/or a satisfaction in life. They are (1) the fullness of being and what gives life, (2) the intention we hold and (3) the mismatch between the flows of energy created by each.

The first is that there is what can described as a feeling of the fullness of being that accompanies what gives one life and gives one the desire and passion to live life. The feeling is of being full of life and/or overwhelmed by life and what one is doing or does. It is about what gives us life and makes a life worth living. This feeling lies at or within the source of our creative power and lets us know when we are in alignment with our creative spirit and what it desires to create.

The key to our creative power is feeling the fullness of being is about knowing what gives us a fullness within our being and makes us feel life is worth living and gives us the desire to engage life. This feeling leads to life and what is life giving. Accessing our creative power is about being able to return to this state of what gives life. When in this state there is a nonconscious alertness and awareness available through our intuitive guidance that comes with the experience of this state that can be taken into any other state. However, it fades with time and the "sharpness" about what creates life is lost over time. Most lose the conscious use of their intuitive ability early in life.

To create a safe and quality life or safe and quality effort in any endeavor there is the need to be able to routinely or periodically return to this state and to ensure the awareness of what gives life is not drained. In many ways it is like the way many pharmaceuticals work in the body. We have an initial spike that slowly or rapidly clears over time. As such, we need to create a dosage and an intake rate that gets us the correct level and then maintain that level over time such that we create a steady state condition.

The second is that the intention we hold is both (1) the focus of our attention and awareness as to where we are directing our creative spirit and energy and (2) it provides a conscious awareness and alertness about what we intend. When we have a clear intention we are consciously aware and alert to that on which we focus and not distracted. The intention we hold attunes our conscious awareness to those conditions, circumstances, thoughts and the like that will help us to create what we desire. So we need to become aware of our intention, including our nonconscious intentions and hold a very clear intention for what we wish to create. Nonconscious intentions function no differently than consciously held intentions. We are just unaware of how they have focused us and how they are directing our life.

Now there is one thing that needs to be understood about intention. We cannot lie to ourselves even if we think we can. To lie to ourselves and not feel the untruth we have to numb what we feel and that, of course, numbs the feeling to know what gives us life. Whatever we say our intention is, we must really desire to create. To know if we really desire to create something we simply need to look and see to what we are aware and alert and look at the actions we take in life. They will let us know were our attention is really focused and what is controlling and directing our life. Most are being directed toward security and to protecting their creative spirit based on the protective response patterns they developed early in life as a child and as they move through life. Some of them patterns actually hinder the creative spirit more than they help. Yet, few go back and develop patterns that both better serve bthe protection of this creative spirit and its free unfoldment in the world.

We cannot create safety when we do not desire it. We cannot create an accident free workplace unless we desire it. We create what we desire with passion and with our creative spirit behind it. We only need to look at our life and see what is unfolding to know what we desire. If we wish, we can look at the number of "close call" or "near misses" that we have relative to what we choose to create to know how effectively we are focused. For example in safety, accidents and incidents would tell us that we are not effectively focused on safety. We may say we intend to be safe and even do lot of actions that we think brings safety but we are not really focused on creating safety. The record does not show the results. The number of "close calls" or "near misses" would tell us that we are not focused on safety and catching things before they go too wrong but we could do better and need to have a more effective focus of attention and awareness. If we were really focused on creating safety, there would be no incidents because our attention and awareness would address the cause well before they even occur. We would always be watching, aware and awake looking for that which is not normal or out of alignment of what it should be. The same is true for any aspect of our life and anything we wish to create. Look at the results life is giving us. We say we intend to create happiness in our life. Look to see how often we are happy. Is there no happiness or does happiness come and go. Or, are we always happy such that there is never the need to desire to create happiness because we have it.

The third is that what we consciously or nonconsciously intend may or many not be aligned with what gives us life and that which makes a life worth living. This misalignment will result in a separation within our being and causes us to divorce ourselves from our own creative spirit. There is a price to pay for any creation and there is a price to play to live in separation or wholeness. Yet, there is a given amount of energy flowing into our being in any moment. One does not cost more than the other. They just reflect different uses of the energy we already have. That energy will manifest in some way. The question is to what is it being directed to create and is it being directed into separation or wholeness.

Our creative spirit is much like race horse that is unsurpassed in its racing ability. It can be harnessed and used to run a race or it can be used to harness to pull a wagon. Although it can pull a wagon, and it may do very efficiently, it is really a waste as to what that horse is capable of doing and does nothing to tap the real spirit of the horse. The part of our creative spirit that is not free to unfold in a conscious way will unfold in a nonconscious way. Although you may harness our creative spirit to pull that wagon but the energy that is not allow to flow as that race horse will create something. The issue is what will it create and how will what it creates challenge us to more fully engage the creativity we have.

There are two factors at play here. One is how significant is the misalignment and how much of the creative spirit is demanded to do what it is being asked to do. If the misalignment is small or only a small fraction of the creative spirit is being used outside of what this spirit desires to create, one will never notice anything. Life will seem to flow pleasantly along even when misfortune occurs for we can easily handle it and continue to flow along. However the more significant the misalignment is and/or the more significant the amount of energy which is called forth to do other than what the creative spirit desires to do there will be discomforting if not outright pain. When there is outright pain, one normally looks to the source of the pain and/or numbs the pain. Numbing the pain without looking to its source will eventually result in some type of addictive pattern. Whether or not the addictive pattern becomes destructive depends on how and why the pain is numbed. As for the discomfort, it can lead to tiredness, inattention, lethargy, depression, a detachment and separation from what one does and a variety of other things one does where one is not fully engaged in what one is doing.

The way to find balance is to move as close as possible to our optimum creative power found in aligning with the natural flow of our creative life energy and yet creating what our mind desires is to learn to walk or dance between the two views much the way we walk through life.

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