How to Become a Free Channel for the Creative Energy
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Venice / Italy: Bridge over a Channel by Tamara K @ Dreamstime.com
Have you ever noticed that there is an underlying current of being depressed, worried, being lustful, angry or fearful constantly running through your mind and thoughts? Fearful that no one will like your art, depressed that too little art sales are happening or that you feel not good enough, perhaps worried about how to pay the next rent for your studio? These negative thoughts can surely ruin your day. It seems that only occasionally a few positive thoughts surface to disappear in a few moments again. Dealing with this kind of a mind set can be discouraging and stressful and for some even suicidal. Yet the underlying current can be transformed to one of being in a constant blissful mood. Being in a blissful mood for no reason. Your life will completely change around as bliss attracts all kinds of good things into your life. Truly like attracts like.
Interrelation Between Art and Meditation
The benefits of meditation are usually known as better health and experiencing relaxation. Apart from those side effects there are many more significant outcomes of practicing ancient techniques for well-Being of self and others:
- Experience higher levels of creativity and bliss; be a source of inspiration
- Self healing happens
- Raises awareness and individual and collective consciousness to a higher level
- Radiate enlightenment so others may also radiate it
- Brings peace to the world by transforming individuals
“Higher creativity… happens when you become a free channel for the creative energy of the Cosmos itself, allowing it to flow through you, and express itself as creativity in whatever you are doing! It is effortless creativity happening every moment through you.” – Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
Nithyananda goes on to say that this is the aim of all meditation techniques, and the mission of all the great enlightened Masters. Read Osho’s thoughts on art and meditation.
Use meditation as a bridge connecting your being to the flow of higher levels of creativity and bliss.
Artist Life Bliss Meditation
From the numerous meditation techniques that I have worked with over the years, I want to introduce you to the one meditation that has brought about a tremendous change in my mental set up. My underlying current has changed from a negative and depressed one to one of a blissful mood. Again, it is a bliss for no reason and I attract more favorable people and circumstances into my life. A lot of beautiful things have happened because of it, are happening and will happen.
The Life Bliss Meditation consists of five parts like chaotic breathing, humming, chakra energization, unclutching and gratitude. It cleanses our inner being, relaxes and rejuvenates on a subtle level and energizes. Once your samskaras or engraved memories are less through this meditation you become more and more a free channel for the creative energy to flow through you without any hindrance.
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A beautiful, encouraging and well-written blog that I’m glad to have clicked through from Good Life Zen blog.
I have practised zazen (Zen meditation) for the last 30 years or so and have noticed for some time a strong connection between stilling the mind to “no-thought” and creativity.
When I have been successful and managed to hold a still mind for a longer period of time than usualy, I have turned an Osho Zen Tarot card and been amazed at the reflection I have received, quite often triggering ideas for my Zen posts as if out of thin air. Of course, I believe this to be coming from the void that is available to all.
thanks, Derek, for your comment. i would love to hear about your experiences of creativity and higher levels of consciousness.
your zen blog has very interesting articles. thanks for sharing it!
Thank you!
Wow! Where do I start? Words are so inadequate when it comes to explaining higher states of consciousness and the way I experience creativity. It is probably something to do with the way I reach the space I call “not knowing”. It’s as if my mind goes completely blank without thought or consideration. I am usually aware of some muscular discomfort, but that doesn’t matter and sometimes there is no discomfort at all and that is truly blissful, but the moment I start to think, “I am blissful”, the chattering mind starts again.
Creativity seems to come from nowhere. For instance, I am aware perhaps that I want to post to my blog, but have doubts that I am going to have anything worthwhile to say and may even think that I won’t make any posts at all on that day. But something comes from nowhere and I have this idea for a post. I have to be quick, or I will lose it as fast as it came. This is the way I nearly always blog. If I try and force it, I end not posting anything. Then I realize in that in Zen nothing matters, and nothing (as in the void) is where my creative potential exists.
As a musician, sometimes I may feel an urge to go and play the piano, and it’s feels as if somebody else is playing the keys and my playing style, whilst it is my own, will feel different to what it normally does. Something new has been born into my style and I seem to ingrate it on a permanent basis.
I am convinced that this all comes from my practice over the years of zazen, where I look for nothing, yet everything I have been and will be is created from stilling the mind. I don’t think creativity is something that I do, or a skill that I possess, but more like an energy that I connect with. It is available to all who are willing to seek for it and somehow, drop judgment and the analytical mind. As energy doesn’t judge or analyse, it simply exists.
thanks, Derek, that is so beautiful! i will send you an email to discuss this further.