Creating… life without compromise

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How much of yourself are you willing to compromise? Sometimes I fear, too much.  Too much to the point we lose our health, our dreams and our drive to be us.  So I ask. “What do you want?”  Perhaps you may begin at the start – not knowing…

You can’t invest your life spirit in a compromise.

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Robert Fritz 

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Part one: Life Without Compromise

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Fritz on dreaming big…
‘Recently someone wrote to me.’

“Dear Robert – in your earlier books that I have just discovered (and greatly admire) you advocate dreaming big, not settling for a compromise, not confusing what we want with what we COULD have had… but in your last video at Wise Pond, though, you recommend setting “workable” goals instead! How do you define workable? and overall, I am confused.”

And I wrote back:

“No need for confusion. You don’t play Mozart on your first piano lesson. To be honest about your aspirations and values, you cannot compromise. To learn how to achieve them, begin with workable steps that enable you to build capacity to create more and more of what you want. Just like in music, so in life! What is reasonable is to learn how to create what you truly want without compromise. What is not reasonable is to surrender to lower expectations without ever having a chance to explore the fullness of your life-spirit, your creative nature, and your true aspirations and values.”

Enjoy the entire post by Robert Fritz from March 10, 2012.

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If you liked this post, finish the program
with the remaining three parts here:

Part two

Part three

Part four

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I’m going ahead with my investigations related to spiritual mindfulness and brain health. However, creativity recently resurfaced for me when I blogged a post from Kimberly on the cycles of creativity. Kimberly had posted on an aspect that got me thinking. I want to do some with what she’s working on there too… so, its not only about one thing here with me. Living life by life’s conditions certainly allows us to venture to be authentic selves and the act of creating that self, I think, is essential and always requires holding in stillness the space for others or care giving… acceptance and tolerance, empathy, compassion; etc. I’ll do more with this here too.

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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Related:

The Cycle of Creativity: You Get what You Give
flow – let reality be reality 

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The Cycle of Creativity: You Get what You Give

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Kimberly at Soul Healing Art posted one on creativity today.

It got me thinking to write another post on the topic — then I decide… nah, I like what Kimberly wrote and I like what my study of Robert Fritz (Creating) got me and I can reblog this…

My Lesson from Fritz?
I see a revelation… its murky… it needs focus… I let it be and at the same time, I see someone else reading it (it isn’t even written yet). Then I read it in my mind… then I research (it still isn’t even written). Often, someone else already wrote what I want to write. Sometimes their writing is so good, I just blog what that person wrote and maybe add something.

I look at Youtube – always… I am so more aware of things visually than in text… that’s me.

I have a drafts folder of almost 60 entries… some are no more than a paragraph — some are “done” but they aren’t worth much yet so I just leave them be there for maybe forever… or maybe today I find the missing magic and I finish my article.

I write or blog for me… me first… then for someone that has similar interests. I imagine other people reading my work… Sometimes the ego wants attention — that’s okay, but we need a higher-mind so I wait until a higher-self stamps approval (usually). I ask myself, is this writing making clear who I am or what I stand for?

In general, I follow what I learned from Robert Fritz (Creating – I didn’t like his other more popular book as well – The Path of Least Resistance). See: robertfritz.com

His method requires an ability to withstand pressure and tension — I like that because it gets me outside myself while with myself and still in myself… like I am a trinity of selves. Fritz says: “Most people who are not consummate creators avoid tension. They want quick answers.”

To summarize Fritz, I have this to add from Fritz:
“When we create, we are doing two things that can seem opposite. We are actively focusing the creative process toward a particular aim, the full manifestation of the vision, while, at the same time, allowing ourselves to be aimless and non-directive. We are narrow and wide, active and passive at the very same time.”

“In music, there is a technique called circular breathing. You breathe in and out at the very same time.”

“Some people have created systems in which one is supposed to handle these two opposite gestures in sequence: first you are focused, and then you let go,and then you focus again. This type of system, while well intentioned, misses the non-sequential, multi-dimensional, and simultaneous co-existence of both active and passive. You need both control and lack of control to occur at once.”

“When we create, we can be both actively involved in the dynamic decision making process, with high levels of control, while at the very same time, be in a state of relaxation, passively receptive, relinquishing control, and able to let go of the vision we are so hotly pursuing.”

source:
http://www.oxfordleadership.com/journal/vol1_issue3/fritz.pdf
The Yin and Yang of Creating, Robert Fritz

I hope this along with Kim’s post is helpful.

Need help or want to collaborate with me?
Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com

~ Eric

Soul Healing Art

Let Me Give to You, What I Have

I think of creativity as a circle or infinity loop. Around and around the creative impulse circumnavigates.

And to keep this momentum – you need to give what you get.

I see too many “creative types” who think of creativity (or life in general) not as a circle but rather as an incline plane in which everything is supposed to flow towards them with ease.

Life does not work this way. If you ever feel out of momentum with your creativity- your blogging, your art, your idea, your career, or whatever- I suggest you do one thing: Look where you can give. Look where you can put something out there to support the work of another and push that circle around.

I think the blogging world is a perfect example of this. I have gained SO MUCH by the comments and “likes”…

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