A Recipe For Creative Juiciness

I will admit that like my spiritual journey, my journey through the creative has been studied, considered, and lived for many decades now. I have pondered long the nature of creativity and I have been a careful firsthand observer of it.  Over the years I have had pieces of the puzzle,  I knew deep down that there was a way to help make creativity FLOW instead of merely flash for a few short seconds.

When I awoke many new  pieces of the puzzle came into view.  When the bliss field emerged as a part of my experience more as a steady state  experience I realized that what we call the human orgasm is part of a larger spectrum of bliss energy that is wildly creative and that once we awaken and can properly ride this bliss wave without falling off of it or needing to bleed it away through sexual union (this doesn’t happen in awakening, but that is itself another blog entry), this same baseline energy can be used in the same way that the flow of energy in a river is used as long as the water flows.  What I am saying is that in awakening energy that is orgasmic in nature flows through every corner of your being, the proverbial genie in the bottle being released and bathing the entire body in the rich nourishing flow of what the Hindus call prana. It is the very locus of ecstasy, of expansive states of consciousness, of the very essence of self transformation and of intense, wild and wonderful creativity.   Its just that in our unawakened experience that we only see this high level energy as expressed through the orgasm as being the only way to experience such high levels of energy, that we can become biased as to what is or is not possible.  When you awaken, you can open up the floodgates to inspiration.  Ask anyone who has gone through this experience.  I know people who began writing music, writing poetry,  designing clothing, artwork, etc.  In my case it fueled a whole new direction for my business which was a hot glass production studio.  I wrote short stories, children stories, music, poetry, and began a journal that turned into a book several hundred pages later.  It has also helped to illuminate the nature of creativity as being essentially an intimate encounter with the two “opposite” forces within the body, within the self and soul that we call yin and yang.

The elusiveness of the creative state is really not elusive at all once you understand how it works. We have allowed ourselves to become alienated from a fundamental instinct or way of being that is native to who and what we are.  We are operating with only half engines on full.  We can in truth live in a constant state of inspiration as the next dimension of experience unfolds in experience. There is a way  for the creative to flow unhindered. It involves the two seemingly opposite aspects of your being reaching  unity within you.  When these two forces come together, some very interesting thing happen. I have experienced ongoing creative energy flow continuously for years at a time. The nature of creativity means every corner of human endeavor is littered with creativity.  Its not that art is the place where we feel creative, it is that human experience rich and rewarding moments of creativity in every single facet of experience.  We ARE creativity.  It is in our blood bones and nervous system and souls.

When you understand the nature of creativity, it becomes much easier.  To learn more about this, read about it in my upcoming book Waking The Infinite.
 



In it, I go into the relationship that both the yin and yang energies have as purely etheric and nonphysical manifestations of cosmic consciousness and how the physical body then is designed to be a perfect biological mechanism for the expression and conveyance of that energy physically.  I also explain how the etheric or pranic current moves through the body and how it intersects with the nervous system, informs it, modifies and enriches it once kundalini is awakened in a more or less conscious way.  I also show how the two brains that we possess themselves are mirrors of this cosmic couple and how we can in a very practical way, learn how to marry them in order to discover that moment when the two explode in that moment of genesis, the moment of inspiration.  I further explain that it is possible to actually LIVE in a constant state of inspiration and what effects or benefits that this has. This is nothing short of learning how to ride a wave of bliss and wonder that these two energetic currents create when the consciousness of the individual is able to focus the energy in the arena of the conscious self.  Learning this is about learning the correct type of balance of feeling necessary to generate the physical chemistry needed to support the etheric or nonphysical state that those who are interested in awakenings seek to do for themselves and for the race as a whole.

These energies are all around us all the time.  They have always been and shall always be.  In awakening we make a lot about how we awakened, that the energy “rose” in us.  What “rose” in truth, was our own awareness of a universe that was, right out of the gate of creation, awake and aware with this vibrant boundless energy.  The truth is, it has the power to change your life tremendously and for the better if you are engaged enough to recognize what it is that seems to stand in the way of your realizing this state.

So creativity will play a role in the book simply because as an artist I recognize that the power of awakening is the same power as the flash of inspiration.  The sad thing is that those (including myself who am a visual artist)  in the arts call it the " flash" instead of the steady state flow or the dwelling place or something else that would suggest that the experience is continuous.  What do you think the flash of inspiration stretched out into a daily experience would feel like?  How do you think such an experience would change your world?  (the answer, at least for me, is "radically") The fact remains, it just isn’t.  We still are beings that find this part of our experience to be something of a mystery.  It need not be.  By learning how to turn this faucet on you can learn how to bring fulfillment in your own life as well as inviting in the force that can dismantle lifetimes of dysfunction and trauma and hurt from your light body.  And if you didn’t know already, the light body records ever single thing that ever happens to you, at least of an energetic and emotional nature.  We are fast realizing that while the brain may be the locus of recording memories, it may in fact be more of a biological switching system for nonlocal as well as locally recorded or imprinted experiences which we call memories.  The realization is fast upon us, though, that the body itself records past emotional impacts, and by learning how to erase those impacts from our energy memory, we actually free up the energy system of the physical and etheric bodies to operate in a way that is far more optimal, efficient, healthy, and clear.  When awakening hits most people, they are bowled over by the experience and are in wonderment over the power of the experience.  And yet, in time, people who learn how to move through their awakenings in a successful and fulfilling way find that this same intensity is itself more a steady-state experience that is the new way of being for humans.  What is on offer for us is a truly incredible way to be and to feel every moment of the day.  To get there is the “work” that so many talk about, which in truth is merely a surrender of those patterns, beliefs, and old feelings that stand in the way of a clearer flow of the cosmic in your seemingly tiny frame here on Gaia…..which is herself a speck in a sea of specks.  And yet, even on the micro-scale, the atomic scale, everything still vibrates with knowing.  This knowing may be beyond science at the moment, but everything in our world is alive.  It may not be what science call sentient life, but it is certainly what the ancients observed is part of a universe that lives and breaths in its own way.  When you consider that energy is conscious, the whole universe, bound together by energetic forces (an atom is mostly energy, not matter), then you can perhaps begin to appreciate the impact that this has.

In-spire

When you breathe, you breathe in the substance that will feed your body the oxygen that your cells will need for life.  For your body, without this oxygen, you would be dead in a matter of minutes, your body starved of one of the most fundamental elements for its vitality and being in the physical.  In the same way, your energy body, which is a mirror of your physical body in so many ways, also breathes.  It does not breathe in air, but it breathes in a subtle energy called prana.  In meditation practice, breath work is a big thing because when your body breathes, it stimulates the flow of life force energy which is a substance that is not unlike air.  In a very real way, air and paean are mirrors of each other.  IN just the same way that the body is the soul made flesh, oxygen is the body of prana.  The two are connected.  When you breathe in your body, you can feel something inside of you let go and you get this lovely flow of energy move through you.  Slow gentle breathing when you are relaxed can lead you to the most beautiful currents of energy flowing through you energetically.

Energy has within ti consciousness.  Energy so far as I have been able to see, is aware.  The more energy that is accumulated within our awareness, the more aware we become.  When your breath is slow, your body might not be quite as alert.  In fact, you often will begin to yawn.  Time to go to sleep, or yawn more in order to stimulate more air coming in.  More prana, too.

When you breathe, you are saying something so basic within yourself about life.  You are saying yes to life.  You are accepting life into your being, into your body, and you are also bringing prana into your light body as well.  As you inspire energy, you expire something else.  In the body you expire carbon dioxide.  The energy has been transmuted, and so is prana transmuted by your light body as well.  Nothing goes away, nothing gets used up, it is simply an exchange of energy.  But when you do this, you say yes to the grace that is firmly situated in prana.  Prana is the perfect form of compassion; it is given unconditionally to all.  When we realize just how unconditional this energetic presence is, it has a curious ability to help us to open up more, to say yes to the possibilities in our being, and we become less guarded and more open.  The old logjams begin to melt away, the harder spots soften and wintery icebergs flow with the flow that is the presence of the pranic flow.

it is interesting, too, because this is precisely the path by which most artists experience creative inspiration.  it is also the path by which physicists have that "Eureka!" moment. It is not something that is limited to art, or physics.  It is fundamental to all of life here.  When we open up, when we flow, when we cease fear and hard feelings, something remarkable begins to happen.  In the mirror of the soul, the body, both sides of the brain light up and begin talking to one another. The subtle body begins to merge its seemingly opposite ends of itself into a unity, that of the feminine and more masculine currents of awareness.  When this happens, a very simple and basis energetic transformation occurs.  In the body it feels like bliss, and this bliss has a very high vibration.  It shakes us loose of so much that does not belong.  When the force is strong enough, it can shake away things that no longer serve us and leave only the essential in place.  However this happens, or why, we need only to let go.  In that simple act, we do the same thing that children do when their world comes alive with the worlds within; they imagine.  They create.  There is a lot we can learn from children.  Breath can be unifying while also breaking away hard knots or frozen places.

You can concentrate on your breathing anytime you want to feel the flow of prana.  It is as simple as feeling how simple and nice it is to breathe.  Just try it sometime.  Don't try to wind up with a result, just observe.  So often, we try to achieve something when we do this.  Try simply observing and seeing how you can feel more relaxed, more blissful or calm.  You know how people so often say when we are upset that we just need to BREATH!???  Well, that is because of just how basic breathing is in helping to regulate how we feel.  Let prana work for you.  Feel how you melt into this place and I bet you might just find yourself in this beautiful place that is the inspired state...

Surely other people can serve to inspire you, but what is really going on is you are surrogating that person's will for your own.  Its a bit like how much better you might feel after just going to se the doctor and having the doctor tell you that everything is going just great.  Moments before s/he said this, you might have been tied up in knots.  You basically said to yourself that you needed an outside authority to tell you what was already something true even if your own ego or rational mind could not consider it.  In the same way healers know the power of suggestion, and they also know that when someone comes to them for a healing, the person is putting their belief in that person.  In the previous post I mentioned a little bit about belief and its power.  When we can turn this belief around onto ourselves that we can feel the power or energy that was ours all along.  But so often, we just don't believe we can reach it on our own.  Maybe, like one of my students told me when I asked her why she didn't do more art (she was a Chemistry major) she told me this story of how she grew up immersed in art and had an experience in elementary school where a teacher did not recognize her obvious involvement and talent.  She felt hurt, betrayed, even, and decided she would not return to art ever again.  She went into science and there she stayed until she sat, teary-eyed in front of me admitting that indeed, she was an artist deep down inside, but that she had let this experience sour her against letting herself create.  Oh, she might have been a Chemistry student nearly totally immersed in her studies, but her creative spirit oozed out of her as she would attend festivals to dance and listen to music.  She was such an unlikely science type, but in this world, we are each made up of many different likes and focuses.  But somewhere, she allowed the words of another to shut her down.  It was certainly her own choice, and often we forget it was us doing the choosing.  We are social creatures and we thrive on the support of others.  We grow under the positive words of others and sometimes we also wilt.  Those who survive such wilting gazes and words are those who have a singular vision and belief in what it is they are doing.  Sometimes, that is what is needed in order to follow your dreams.  And, it seems, it is also how you can allow inspiration into your being.  When you can reach a place of lack of fear, openness and willingness to take in that wonderful breath of a feeling, the kingdom is all yours.

I am mindful of this with a child who is so involved in art.  I want her to do what it is that she wants to do, not to do what she feels others will approve of.  While I know that she alone will be the one to determine what it is she is going to do, the closer we are to our now great wish and our own bliss, the closer we are to the source of life within us.  I encourage her to step back when she feels uncertainty and look plainly at it and see if she can determine where this uncertainty is coming from.  This uncertainty is what chills us and slows the flow to our own inner fountainhead.  If you are always considering what others will say, its very likely that you aren't hearing your own heart speaking.  Cast away fear, be bold.  You might not feel you have great ability or skill or gifts, but I promise you that people of lesser skill have gotten along famously by making up for it with their passion and desire to BE in their bliss.  Grandmother Moses, a painter from this past century never received a single art class or tutoring on how to paint.  By all measures, she was almost amateurish in her technical ability, and yet, she is one of the great painters of our time.  Why? She had passion, she had the willingness to follow her own star, her own truth.  She believed in what she was doing, she loved what she did, and she simply kept at it.  Van Gogh was himself unknown in his day and his work was looked askance by many, yet he stayed doggedly true to what he loved.  There is evidence that he taught himself how to draw and paint.  He stuck to it.  If he had let accolades be his only measure of success, he would have ceased his masterworks that the world was not just ready to SEE long before there was a man we now know as "Vincent."  Einstein himself was a patent clerk and was sitting on a trolley car imagining what it would be like to be a particle of light moving away from the clock tower when the universe struck him with such force that his head began to spin.  he then spent years working on how to do the math to present this novel idea that came in that moment of inspiration so easily.

It seems believing in yourself is a biggie.  If you don't, who will?  And inside of yourself is all the means you need for letting in that luscious rush of pranic life force that will bring you to a place of perfect in your day.

Happy perfect day!