Expanding Creativity

Ironically (or is it synchronicity?), I came home from studying under Joey Klein, my spiritual teacher, this weekend to find a few pages to read for design, which happened to coincide with what I was taught. My teacher spoke about acknowledging human emotions, and we focused on substituting that emotion for a state of being during our meditation. We also used forgiveness towards others and ourselves, which is important because self worth frees the mind of fears.

Fears seem to rob people of their highest potential, like an artist thinking they will never be good enough to work for their favorite designer. I believe everyone is creative, but not everyone knows they are creative. “Knowing” you’re creative comes first, then “experiencing” creativity comes next, and then “being” creative happens. This requires an open mind. An open mind requires shaping the mind from concrete to play-dough to rid the mind of “the story”, which consists of negative thoughts about yourself and the world around you. The story also becomes a comfortable pattern for the mind, like when an artist/designer believes they are only able to come up with a creative idea at the last minute before deadline, then that’s what happens.

Transforming the mind in an expansive, positive and constructive way comes with altering the mind’s perception of the world, which creates an enlightened mind. Training the mind to be in a state of love eliminates the trap of emotions the mind tends to fall into. From experience I’ve noticed in the past that I would only work on a creative project when strong emotions were present within me, such as breaking up with a boyfriend, or receiving a gift that triggered the “happy” emotion. Now I enjoy waking up early to work on a painting, or adventure out on a photo shoot because I trained my mind to be in a state of joy, love, etc. These states of being turned on the faucet to my creativity, and I noticed many artists and designers are trapped by their emotions, which block the flow of creativity.

I say “happy” and “joy” are different because when someone chases happiness they’re connected to endless desire that can never be met. Happy is an emotion because it’s connected to the ego, which always wants something. The state of joy keeps someone content, no matter what activity or setting they are in, and joy expands the mind rather than contracting. If everyone practiced transforming their mind from emotions to states of being, then I believe they would have the potential of endless creativity.

Distance

I feel you from the inside
Nothing feels real anymore
Real lives within

I see you
Yes I really see you
For what you are
Do you see me?

Flick, flick, light
Light me up inside
That fire grows with your breath
Breathe me in; let me in
Don't think
Can't break this
Please don't look away

His soul walks through me
Layers within his makeup
Deeper now, you've got it
Look past
Just feel

But you begin to shape your eyes
around those wrists and hands
Hands that shape around strings
And strings that sing; sing like angels

Hush.
Draw your thoughts away
I feel the touch of the hand behind my ear
But it's only in my mind; how could I forget?
This blueprint sits dusty within the file cabinet
The file in my head; shut the door again

No strings attached
Only to guitars that get to hold your hand
I'm not afraid to feel

I'm vulnerable in front of this window
Yes, I left the shade down
At least it's not a wall
If your sunshine climbs through,
then I'll take that rock we found
Remember the heart shaped one laying peaceful in the sun?
Its hole exposed expressive possibilities
of what could happen--chained around your neck, or us falling into disaster

Well, I'll throw it so hard through that window
Break now, break, break
Glass will shatter only if your light was true
True like sunbeams that love the earth without conditions
Even through clouds...
Fully exposed, with my heart so true
I will breathe you in without the room full of windows

But your light seemed to be fluorescent,
only becoming on certain areas of my face
This awkwardness makes my stance look funny
And your eyes tend to look away
Thinking of my flaws?
I will not be offended,
for I know I am love..no not loved...
I AM LOVE

Until you realize the gift you can give,
I'll sit so quaint in the sunbeams
that sew its warmth to my fire.

Smiling From The Inside

It's quite challenging to communicate
this soul that is me and my hand that writes.
They look to be gliding along so effortlessly.

But inside my conciousness feels what is truth
My mind knows what is thought

Who I am gets lost in translation.
Ink cannot expose me
and only thoughts can judge me.

Mother nature recognizes my being
and she knows my ball of light is calm
So we speak through our feelings
as she loosely tangles her windy fingers upon my hair

My gasps of air are long and fulfilling,
exchanging peace with rays of sun
Hearing the musical dance between daffodils
expands my heart with grattitude.

My light inside laughs delicately,
enough to fill my chest with joy
This body of mine cannot keep up,
excitement like this is rare

As my pupils grow large
my soul escapes to dance among the wind and grass.
I realize how aesthetic this being is:
who can be one with life
and float among Heaven on earth.

Married to God

You have made a mockery of this world.
A world we were to be married in: to experience one another.
But dark veils cast a comfortable bed around the waters of emotion where you swim among the sharks rather than the dolphins.
Can you even see the sun or feel its warmth from under the pressure and the static sounds that your mind has lured you into?
Some seek the false sun, which wraps its vines around their necks, so no truth is unveiled.
You say you want peace, yet you ralley and yell; speak words of stone and syllables cold as the walls holding up the colosseum.
You cannot intervene in choices, for that is why we came here: so you can be the candle in the sun and know the truth that you too are God.
I know the type-ones who speak, yet do not act. They keep a drug of choice, which grows beneath their beds, while the television fades with screams of troubled spirits fogging up the screen.
You claim those "righteous" ones to be effective, but what are they rising up to? A new way to reach higher into the false illusion of bliss?
If you just remembered the place of perfection, the place of the absolute, whence you came, then drugs would become forgotten; you and God would be married. That love would live inside and grow to be your family, your lover, your friend, the source you live for and live from. You can be fulfilled in every moment of now.

Go for it, and leave behind the static, put down your walls around yourself and just love. Then the walls between conflicts will fall like gravel to pave the way in the warmth of our oneness.

The Light of God

I believe there is a light of perfection emanating from the body where the body’s center of gravity is located. Gravity has been hypothesized, why can’t this light I speak of be? The light of perfection connects us to all beings because it is God, which is the life force that moves us day to day through life. The idea of Theistic Evolution or Intelligent Design could be a possibility for the basis of creation. God, or the creator, I believe is pure energy that reflects from living things, and this energy has evolved higher and higher through the ages, just like all living things. I believe our energy, or the light of God inside us, has collectively created what came to be today.
While human consciousness evolves, so does their light of perfection, which reflects back to the main source of “God” energy that furthers the life process. Science and religion don’t hold hands because science, like the idea of Theistic Evolution, studies the creator's creations, and religion was made by humans. Strange, huh? But no scientist can capture the life force that drives humans to follow their chosen paths or love passionately. This love is the light of perfection inside us, which is unconditional love because “God” energy is forgiving and only moves forward, like the evolution of life. The wind and gravity cannot be seen, but we know it’s there. This energy inside us can be magnified through different types of meditation.
When someone sits quietly by themselves they can enter into the center of their being and reconnect with the core of life. Meditation balances the physical and the unseen (“God” energy in one’s body), like the battle between science and religion, which helps them to evolve into higher consciousness. I believe that physical is the illusion and thought and energy exist as the truth. Truth can naturally be felt by humans in the gut when something feels wrong, or someone has hurt them, which is felt in the body’s center. The light of perfection in the body’s center knows only pureness and love. So when life brings pain, your God light, or “higher self”, knows that something is wrong because humans are meant to live positively and love unconditionally with no boundaries. This energy of your “higher self” has an abundance of love, so humans do not put restrictions on who to love, or they will miss out and not evolve consciously, like we’re supposed to. When one is balanced inside and connected to life through their higher self, they move through life easier with more grace, like the long process of the earth’s evolution. Humans are still evolving, so why hit the brick wall at the end of the road and stick to one religious belief, when ALL humans have the ability to grow from the inside through exploring and reflecting life with mediation.
Maybe all humans, billions of years ago, derived from the same energy source that created the first single-celled organisms. Humans may not have developed for some time after that, but the energy source had to grow before we were created, which is why humans should practice “evolving” their consciousness within themselves even today to reflect a better world. Whatever energy humans send out to the world, it all comes back full circle. For example, the first humans were from Africa with dark skin, and in many years humans may come full circle and return to having dark skin. Everyone is connected to God and possesses the same potential to be greater than they already are. Take a look sometime at the rays coming through the cracks of a wooden fence, and then look through to the other side. What do you see? You see only one source that created all those beautiful rays. The source of God inside us is evolving, like a rubber band ball, because conscious thoughts lead to growth and new ideas about life. This lifetime is only a drop in the bucket of who we really are inside. As seen in science, humans have come a long way physically and psychologically. The light and energy of God inside us also continues to evolve, which expands further outward while emanating brighter and brighter, and human consciousness rises. The consciousness flows and reflects to continue to create the natural processes of life.

Beating My Heart

I love you more than life.
For I look upon the night sky as a life with you, encompassed in an array of ever-lasting light as a star together.
Trapped with me in the abyss of golden light looking onto the lives of others, my heart would be still with yours.
The look in your eyes emanates a love so powerful that engulfs my spirit to plant a seed in my heart which could grow a rose that blooms the life I once missed.
I would no longer desire the essence or sight of a flower for the petals of love inside would be more beautiful.