Birthing Your Vision
In the last post, I mentioned that I believe that our creativity is not really a product of our individual selves.
This might sound like a very metaphorical point of view… well, because it is. Let me explain:
The fact is, we don’t really understand yet how reality works. We can only observe around 5% of matter in the visible universe. And of these 5% we only know our fair share of what science agrees upon… which is also not a great deal, so yeah…
According to Nobel Prize Winner Sir Roger Penrose, as his research with Mr. Stuart Hameroff has shown, it is most likely that our consciousness is quantum, which in simple terms means that it most likely emanates from an underlying quantum field. Scientists used to assume that the conditions for a quantum event have to be much different than what is currently found within our damp and moist brain physiology, but Mr. Hamerov, an anesthesiologist from all professions, noticed something peculiar:
Our cells are filled with microstructures called microtubules, which are tiny crystaline structures made from the proteine „tubulin“, which actually could be the perfect place for quantum effects to take place.
Therefore, our brain, filled with billions of these structures (approx. 10.000 per single Neuron), is most probably able to collapse wave functions. Therefore, quantum consciousness does not seem too abstract anymore, even from a scientific point of view. Our spiritual teachings however, have been known to describe this millennia ago.
So yeah, I do believe that our creativity itself is emerging from somewhere else as well…
Therefore, we are merely vessels to receive it, because it wants to be born. It wants to be created and it wants to be shared in order to be seen.
I am currently doing an amazing exercise that I’ve learned from Mrs. Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way”: You sleep with a notebook + pen next to you, and the first thing you do in the morning after you open your eyes, is to write. You write whatever comes to your mind. 1 – 2 Pages just keep it flowing.
And you do this every day, first thing in the morning.
This is the second time around that I’ve picked up this practice, and the results were equally amazing twice. It trains your brain’s creative abilities, so you will find creative tasks much more intuitive.
This is how I will describe it for now. It’s like working out your creative muscle first thing in the morning.
Whenever we’re positively creative, our inner guidance enables us to become something more than our egos, if you do it in a proper way, which would be described as “Wu Wei” in Zen-Buddhism… the art of doing by not doing.
I can’t recommend the morning write-ups exercise and Mrs. Cameron’s book highly enough, but I also want to emphasise the fact that your creativity should not be ignored or brushed away as something unimportant.
It is there for a reason, and I believe that its parts come to those who have the fitting lens to see it, as well as the potential to bring it to reality.
Repressing your creative urges as a creative person will have devastating effects on your mental health. Imagine going to your doctor feeling sick. He asks you why, and you say: Because I can’t live out my creative urges… He would probably not understand, unless it is a great doctor…
Most of us don’t even understand it ourselves really… So I think it is of major importance to bring an understanding to what many would probably see as a flaw. The flaw of not fitting into the box that someone else tried to create for you…
Working on something that you enjoy is a key part of our happiness and our longevity.
The Japanese demonstrate it amazingly in their Ikigai (Life purpose concept), and the West restarted to understand the benefits of Flow and Zen States with Mr. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s concept of “Flow”.
The benefits of spending prolonged periods of our lives in a non-individualistic creative state for mind, body, and spirit can not be understated. And I believe that even with the new upcoming possibilities of being creative through new tools, gadgets, and opportunities, there must always be a creative hub that guides it right…
Let that hub be you!
Being creative is what brings life to us as well as those around us.
Being creative fills grey walls with life.
Being creative is being yourself…
Go make something!