YOUR HIGHER CREATIVE MIND

No one really knows what consciousness is or how it comes to be -- it’s a mystery.  Creativity is also a mystery.  Of both realities there are many theories … yet little comprehensive understanding. So over time I’ve formed this basic view.

Consciousness and creativity are bound together like two sides of a coin.  Consciousness is of itself creative in that it’s the process by which we create experience; every perception and thought is a creation forming our sense of reality, and it happens instantly and automatically.  

But this doesn't mean that we’re automatically creative in the usual innovative or artistic sense or that we’re automatically actualizing our best possibilities.  These are quite another matter. To be creative in these ways, one must deliberately shift to another mental gear in which we better set and maintain creative intention; perceive more openly and clearly; sense more intuitively; more freely and easily discover and explore new possibilities; and better regulate behavior.

I believe that, on a brain level, all this happens due to our becoming more able to utilize our Prefrontal Lobe (the brain’s seat of higher mental functioning). And I also believe that, to deliberately make it happen, one essentially learns to enter a kind of ‘self-surrender’ state – a momentary ‘letting go’ of one’s ordinary thinking ego-self; this allows one to connect with a higher, freer and wiser level of self.

So the key lies in learning to surrender one’s usual ego self, at least temporarily.

Creative people may be accused of have big egos driving them to accomplish great results, and this may often be true. But at the moments of actual creative insight or impulse, I believe they slip into a non-ego blissful state, something similar to ‘no mind’ meditation. Then they become receptive to flashes of divine inspiration.

This is what I believe is often not understood – most of us have the capacity to slip into this higher creative consciousness state. We’re always just a blink away. But we need to learn to relax, let go, and momentarily transcend our ordinary ego consciousness state. Then we can truly live creatively.

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.

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EXPLORING MIND POWER

Thoughts trigger electrical ‘storms' in the brain and produce chemicals that regulate our state of being.  They also guide our choices and actions, which lead to the results we get.  Our thoughts are very powerful indeed.  

Yet consciousness and thoughts are nowhere to be found in our physical universe.  But still we know they exist.  And like all things that exist, they must be a form of energy; a form of energy, as I see it that is free of time and space.  I say this because there are so many unusual life events that seem best understood in this way, such as the following:

Have you ever tuned in to the exact words a person was about to say and spoken them first?  Or have you gotten an e-mail or phone call from someone soon after thinking of them?  Or do you frequently tune in and pluck creative ideas ‘out of thin air’?  Or have you had a sudden inexplicable awareness that a loved one was in trouble ... and later found it to be true? 

Most of us have experienced these kinds of events; ideas seem to be picked up across distances. Further, scientists have noted that separate societies, with no contact, have simultaneously come up with the same inventions and ideas ... seemingly telepathically.  Animals also have demonstrated this ability.  It’s been observed that after a species in one part of the world has learned a new behavior, like making a tool, the same species in another part of the world suddenly knows how to do it, too.

These examples don’t prove anything of course.  They’re merely thought- provoking observations.  Yet put together, they suggest, if we’re open to it, that the power of consciousness and thought may be much greater than we can prove.  Perhaps some truths can never be proven and we’ll always have to rely on intuition and observation to judge what is true.

So put the need for proof aside and make this experiment: intensely focus on a person in your life and keep having positive thoughts about them.  Then see what happens.  You may find that your mind has much more power than you presently believe.

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.                                                             

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HOW TO MANIFEST YOUR DESIRES

Have you tried Creative Visualization and found that it didn't work? What many don’t realize is that Creative Visualization is much more than picturing what we want in our mind, it’s our consciousness state that makes the crucial difference.

When visualization is driven by feelings of lack, neediness and non entitlement, we reinforce the negative experience of not getting or having. This then becomes the expectation of our subconscious, undermining our ability to manifest what we seek. Thus we may only partially get, or not get at all, what we seek.

Because Creative Visualization is a creative focusing technique designed to guide us subconsciously as well as consciously, for it to work well we need to be energized by spirit and highly charged with confident feelings, i.e., an inner sense or knowing that one is on course to getting what’s sought.

When operating from spirit we’re more aligned with truth and sense what’s clearly most feasible and fitting for ourselves and don’t waste time visualizing what’s inappropriate or unrealistic for us. Operating from spirit also makes us more intuitive, leading us to the right places at the right times, and gives us a more focused will to stay on track.

So the key to successful creative visualization lies in being positively charged and attuned to spirit – thus we’re intuitively as well as consciously and subconscious guided toward manifesting our visualized goal.

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.

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