CREATIVE PROCESS, Rassouli

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing,

does the painter create good things.

EDGAR DEGAS

Art work by Deborah Robbs. Life is Fun and exciting, be one with the moment and sing, paint create.

CREATIVE ENERGY FLOWS, SPONTANEOUSLY AND intuitively prompting the subconscious to transcend the restrictions of rules, ideas, methods, and beliefs to invite new and fresh possibilities into expression. Creativity partners with imagination and experience to bring originality and uniqueness into what we do and how we live. It is the passion and divine spark that invites us to create. Creativity is a spiritual and psychological journey beyond mastering the technique of one art form or another. To create is to experience things in new ways and from a different perspective. Creativity is all about spontaneous expression.

Many people think of creativity as something artistic, lofty, intelligent, and unusual and beyond understanding, which only artists, writers, and performers are gifted with. In reality, creativity is a perception available to everyone, which helps us to see new solutions to problems and be innovative in our responses to life. It is said that we are created in the image of our creator, which implies that every one of us has the potential to create. The function and basic instinct of every organism is to reproduce itself, and to create what is needed for survival. The very first thing we do, as soon as we are born, is to breathe – inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. That breath helps in the growth and development of plant life. Trees create oxygen, provide shade, and some bear flowers and fruit. As human beings, we are gifted with the ability to create, even though we may be unaware of this in the beginning. We have the potential to become a part of the process that has created the earth, which is a self-sustaining and living organism. The question each one of us faces is how and what we can contribute to this process. The universe reflects the answer to this question wherever we look. We gaze at what has formed around us, and sense that we also need to reflect some expression of ourselves. We live and experience who we are as we grow and evolve, and we share that on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. We discover that our bodies, hearts, minds, souls, and spirits carry secrets and hidden messages about who we are. The wellspring of creativity is a source that exists deep within everyone. The act of creation unleashes an energy that is capable of setting everything in motion. As artists, we learn to tap into this source. There is a fluctuating wave of expansions and contractions that is continually making and eliminating to achieve a balance on Earth. There is a cosmic rhythm constantly making room for something new to happen, to be born, to manifest, or to come into form. When we become sensitive to these cycles and align with that energy, we are able to share in this creative process. We seek ways to remain open to the flow of this energy, and we surrender to its movement throughout the universe. When we trust this process and stay open to it, the creative energy does the work it was designed to do. That same potential exists within all life forms here on Earth. Sometimes we become afraid of what we don’t understand, and we close down and block the power from working in ways that we don’t even realize. Our perception varies according to where we live, what we believe, what our traditions are, and what our cultural values might be. Those mystics who have lived and experienced the mystery of life, believe that we have been separated from the original source from which all life has developed. Some set out on a pilgrimage or quest to connect with the creator of all life, awaken their cellular memory of the beginning of creation. This source is a living energy that has been set in motion. What activated the first heart to start beating? Was there a time of nothingness before life began? We live in the mystery of these questions.

Excert from Rassouli, Freydoon.

The Book of Creativity: Mastering your Creative Power .

Blue Angel Publishing. Kindle Edition.