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Discovering Your Personal Creativity and VisionPage 1 | Page 2
To rediscover our creativity is not difficult, other than requiring the courage of a warrior! Do you have that kind of courage? Visionaries have it, and if you have it as well, then you can be visionary too. It's what separates the visionary from the rest of us!
Four things will be required. The first is to understand that your life will remain unchanged if you continue down the path you're on. To alter this path, a shift in habit patterns must take place by becoming proactive in stimulating your natural creativity. You must also become dedicated to making the fundamental changes necessary within yourself. The next three steps involve shortcuts that will change you internally; which is where creativity and vision reside. Discipline Focus is the actual training that must be done regularly and determinedly. It involves no study or memorization, no lessons, no packing the already too full mind with more useless stuff; nothing like that. It involves something that you have never learned about in school; it involves unloading your mind! In order to unload his or her mind, a warrior must use diversionary tactics, because the mind, in the beginning, is more powerful than the warrior and keeps the warrior in a constant stupor of non creativity. The warrior uses diversionary tactics because the warrior doesn't know, exactly, how to unload his or her mind, and if you don't know how to unload your This is analogous to the writer with writer's block who goes into the forest for a few weeks and comes out refreshed and full of vision and new creative ideas. When the mind lets go of itself, a very strange thing happens - the mind slips into what we might call a visionary mode that reveals untapped wisdom, the third step, which is more powerful than all the wisdom of the world. It's an internet connection to unbounded creativity. This is true vision; this is authentic creativity, the AHAHs that the great men and women of history have triumphantly proclaimed when their particular visions came to fruition. To enter the stream of constant AHAHs however requires a warrior to empty his or her mind and give it a rest. The warrior begins the process by simply watching his or her thoughts. Thoughts are more powerful than the warrior at this stage as they continue to give the warrior's mind no breathing space at all. So the warrior must fight hard, and in order to fight hard, the warrior needs a few good weapons.
The first weapon is your discipline, which is to sit erect in a chair or on the floor, back straight, head level, in an alert, attentive posture. You will sit this way for 20 minutes every morning just when arising, and every evening just before retiring. The next weapon is your own breathing. You are going to watch your breathing instead of allowing your mind to pack itself with more insignificant, trivial thoughts, You are going to learn to focus. This is a battle between your thoughts and your focus. If you lose your focus and thoughts take over, they win and you remain a slave to them. Thoughts wipe out all creativity and vision. A visionary only uses thought after the vision, thought never uses a visionary. Page 1 | Page 2
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:E. Raymond Rock of Fort Myers, Florida is cofounder and principal teacher at the Southwest Florida Insight Center, www.SouthwestFloridaInsightCenter.com His twenty-nine years of meditation experience has taken him across four continents, including two stopovers in Thailand where he practiced in the remote northeast forests as an ordained Theravada Buddhist monk. His book, A Year to Enlightenment (Career Press/New Page Books) is now available at major bookstores and online retailers. Visit www.AYearToEnlightenment.com This document last modified Monday, 16-Feb-2009 09:12:18 CST | ||
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Discovering your personal creativity and 
is of the utmost importance. If you cannot discipline yourself, there is no point in taking this any further. Discipline determines your
success or failure in anything you attempt, especially moving from a facilitator to a creative visionary. Discipline in this venue means that you will do the prescribed exercises no matter what. No excuses. You must become a warrior in this pursuit of creativity and vision, anything less than a warrior will fail, and if you have already pegged this as just another motivational pep talk, then don't even begin. Your mind is too cynical and you will not succeed. Continue with your life as a facilitator. If however you have an open mind toward something revolutionary regarding your visionary potential, and some guts, then please continue.
mind, you will never get to know your mind. This is important because only when you get to know your mind will you have the courage to dismiss it. And only when you dismiss the mind, will the mind become empty, and eventually visionary.
