Creativity
When it comes to using inner wisdom for making magic, using the creative approach gets results which are true to you.
To create change, most of us have been taught problem solving, which is a great skill for problems, but not the same as creativity. Problem solving is to react or respond to circumstances. Its source is in the problem.
Creativity has its source in, well, source. Creativity is to bring something into being rather than make something go away.
If you seek to create an experience, solving problems will not necessarily create what you really want. In fact, you could solve every one of your problems and still not create what you truly want.
Although there is satisfaction in eliminating problems, and reacting to circumstances, creating what you really want for yourself is a success that satisfies and nourishes you in the long run.
Problem solving focuses on problems. Creating focuses on making something new.
Creation is a divine quality.
Choice
Creation is initiated by making a choice that is your very own.
In much of life you are told what to choose, what processes, activities assessments to use. We make many compromises in what we choose to get along with others.
There is a vast difference between the choice of choosing to write because you love it or writing because someone you want to impress said you should, or indeed writing as an obligation because it is your job.
The most profound magic of your inner wisdom comes with choices you make because you want to. Period. You may add other choices to support the primary one but start with the choice you just plain want!
Many of us have been so conditioned to problem solve and respond to circumstances that we find it difficult to even know what we truly want. Many people answer the question, “What do you want?” with “I want to stop having this situation.”
Focus on the problem is not the same as focusing on whatt you want. Say, I don’t want to be alone anymore. Do I replace being alone with joining a club, a church community, a partnership or a prison?
Often you are prompted with “What do you want instead?” to turn the focus onto your choice. “I want a loving family” is quite a lot more motivating than not wanting to be alone anymore.
The whole process of creating a life you love and succeeding at it, can be started by determining what you really want to create. Start now, by giving some thought to what you really want to be, do and have.
If you think you know what you really want, think about it some more. Is it what you really want?
Or… is it a stepping stone to something else? Do you really want the money or do you want it to buy a ticket to Greece? Do you want to lose 20 pounds or do you really want to find a mate and think you have to lose weight first? Do you really want to write best sellers but tell yourself that’s unrealistic and you can only write on the club newsletter? Do really want that house or do you hope it will benefit your children?
Consider what you want; what you really, really want.
A choice you made yourself is satisfying. You create what you care about. What you care about holds your interest when it goes well and when it doesn’t.
Imagination and Vision
Imagining your choices is the first step to bringing them to life. Imagine what your choice will look like. Imagine the end result.
How will life be with your creation? See yourself enjoying it, the activities, the outcomes, the others involved, the environment. What will people say to you? What will you say to yourself?
Compose a complete scene of the end result of your choice. Imagine it in your mind a few times. The vision is far more important than the words of your composition.
Visions contain lots and lots of information, so notice what critical elements are in your scene and know what you really want.
Envision a couple of variations of this scene in which your choice has already materialized. Now, you have already experienced it in the mind’s eye.
If you wrote out the scene, then be sure to put the writing aside and see it already completed in your imagination.