If You Believe You Know All About Yourself, Look Again!
We humans are amazingly creative. Our main problem with our creations relates to our choices of what to create. Very few people pause to evaluate how their creativity will affect them and others. Even fewer reflect on how their creativity affects our world. Most people are unaware of how they affect everything around them, thus they create without consideration for the impact their creativity has. Our lack of self-knowledge creates the main disturbances for our creativity.
“The creative process requires both creation and destruction. Everything is energy so nothing is actually destroyed. The form of energy is changed like ice melting into water. You may create a thought and destroy it in seconds. In both your creation and destruction of a thought you changed the form – from neutral energy to a conscious thought and then back to neutral energy.” –Meditation: Key to Spiritual Awakening
Our first step in self-knowledge is to see that we are spirit, part of the Cosmic Consciousness. Our next step is to see that our body is our spiritual vessel to create through in the physical world. We each have a great deal more power than we acknowledge because of our lack of spiritual awareness. Our actions, emotions and thoughts all affect not only us but those around us as well. If we do not pause to see what we are doing, we create without consideration for ourselves or others. When we allow our emotions, such as fear, to run our creativity, we have a destructive impact on everything in our lives. Then we try to find out who is causing the problems, and usually choose someone besides ourselves to blame. This behavior creates more fear, and thus more disturbance. At this point, we try to control everything in our environment to feel safe, and instead create chaos.
Spirit does not have any emotions, but bodies communicate with emotions. When we are creating without this knowledge, we are not in charge of our creativity. We can turn within, during meditation, and observe the impact of our body’s emotions, such as fear, on our spiritual creativity.
Let’s Begin Within Ourselves.
First, are you acknowledging your fear? If you believe you do not have any fear, then you are lying to yourself because all bodies have fear as a survival device. Fear can be helpful in any emergency or threatening situation, but it is disturbing in most other circumstances. Once you have acknowledged your body’s fear, look at what is causing the fear. It could be fear of an expectation that you cannot meet, or of starvation or loneliness, or of someone else’s emotions, homelessness, a financial crisis, health issues, earth changes, or of any number of things occurring now. The important thing is to acknowledge your fear so you can face it and do something about it.
Once you see your fear, look at how it is affecting you and those around you. Recently a friend was afraid about finances, and because of her fear she affected her co-workers with confusion and disruption so they could not do their work effectively. She was helped to meditate on her fear and heal herself. After turning within and becoming aware of her creativity, she changed herself and her world began to change. She started to look for a better paying job, became more supportive of her existing work group, and regained her personal power to create what she wanted.
You can create a great deal more of what you want when you turn within and gain control of your creativity through self-knowledge. If you believe you know all about yourself, look again. You are growing and evolving spiritually and physically. You and your body may become confused with all of your changes and try to keep things as they were to feel safe. Self-knowledge is what you need to see clearly and move gracefully through the maze of this rapidly changing world. Meditation is the key to inward focus and the best way I know to experience self-knowledge. Meditation also helps your body feel safe so you the spirit can regain control of your creativity.
