Developing your Creativity by Finding True Love

Last time I spoke of the brain's role in developing creativity, this time I go to the heart.  In the following post I explore the heart's point of view on creativity and how to work with creativity to bring about growth.

Everything in existence is being created, maintained or destroyed. While these states may appear quite different they each share the same infinite and perpetual source. That source is creativity. How can creativity, the quality of bringing something into existence, be the source of destruction, you ask?

Creativity is the source of all manifestation, without judgement or labels. Therefore, creativity manifests destruction as equally as it manifests construction. Hurricanes and tulips are “brought into existence” from the same source. True Creativity comes from within and expands outward in all directions. Creativity is always in the state of becoming. From within we begin as cells dividing and expand outward in all directions (space and time). Coded into this beginning is our own destruction.

The most important point about Creativity is it is activated by LOVE.

Love is the energy that puts creativity into motion. This is where our limited understanding of True Love trips us up. This isn't flowers and chocolate and stars in the eyes kind of love. Nor is it necessarily “feel good” kind of love. The love I am talking about encompasses all of that, but is not that – just as the ocean can't be defined by the drops it is made of, it is those drops but so much more.

True Love is selfless devotion, right action and discernment.

Example –

Through love a farmer plants a seed.

Focusing his attention on the seed and devoted to its growth.

His caring action and wisdom feeds and waters the seed.

The creativity of the seed moves outward in all directions in search of the best conditions that will encourage (or love) its creative process.

The love of the sun, earth and farmer spur the process. Without this devotion and attention the tiny sprout would be destroyed.

The sprout grows to a tree, develops fruit and seeds and through love begins its destruction.

Through love the tree returns to the earth feeding the sunlight of its existence to the soil.

The soil, in turn, provides its love to other seeds.

Becoming more creative is simply remembering that we are IN creation sourced from LOVE.

• Love your problem. It exists to help move you into new areas – why not love it for that. Consider that for a moment. Feel the difference between loving the problem as something to move from vs. viewing it as something to get rid of. Feel the spaciousness that provides.
  
  
• Love the space between the problem and the eventual solution. This means loving where you are in the process of becoming. Continue filling that “place” with love and be fully present during the transition from problem to solution. Do this and you will find the stumbling blocks are there for you to stand on so you can see farther and greet the solution with open arms.
  
  
• Love whatever is offered during this transition phase - from problem to solution. Imagine this transition is improvisational theatre. The golden rule of improvisation is you MUST use everything. Accept whatever is given to you and whatever you “discover” during this time. Ask yourself, “how is this related to my problem” and, “how can I use this as a tool to take me somewhere closer to a viable solution?”
• Let go! Accepting and loving where you are in the process is critical. By loving where you are you are letting go of any expectations of where you “should” be. Without expectations you freely allow the solution to come into existence.
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• Use catalysts to encourage solutions
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• Love all solutions that come up. This doesn't mean that all of the solutions are right for the given circumstances and criteria. It only means that all of the solutions are gifts created from love and therefore should be met with that same loving energy. This is where we can get really confused about what is meant by “love.” Remember that love is also right action and discernment. If you are truly devoted to the problem love will converge on what is right for it in the present.
  • Also, note that love is the energy behind creativity and creativity is the source of creating, maintaining and destroying. Therefore, even the best solution will eventually come to an end so it may love what is next. It is also likely that some problems will need to be creatively destroyed through obsolescence or restatement.