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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