The Inner Journey
Getting Off the Roller Coaster

The energy I put into my music can be enormous, and very rarely will I write a song in a flash. Though the mechanics of putting pen to paper as the energy expresses itself seem to make the song appear in no time, the thoughts that are dwelling in me require a kind of "slow to moderate" temperature setting to be used. This cooking process of my musical creations is all very strange; sometimes my creative thoughts are working on a subject without me even realising it. An event in the past can be a trigger to a way of thinking so discreet, that another prompt from some other related part of the original event will make the creation gel and a song will then be born.

From this I now recognise that we have many types of experiences and we can learn from all of them. For a time, things happen inside us as we unconsciously consolidate events which have come our way. Afterwards, we then find we are able to explain our feelings so as to express them knowledgeably. It like our batteries are on charge or something is cooking. For myself, this process works in all areas of my life, and especially where I have an output that I want to be shared. Instinctively, I feel it will be the same for you.

FINDING YOUR TALENT:

To be able to find peace in yourself with regard to talent, you must understand what aspect of your nature you know is good, and then go about bringing this goodness to other people. To begin believing that you have talent and great creativity, will then liberate the state of mind to allow these jewels to be revealed. You will affirm your creativity just as you are affirming your goodness and Love. By calling on these qualities within, you then allow your creativity to come forth through your positive attitude.

CREATIONS OF THE EGO:

Since being creative requires effort, conditioned thinking through a fear of the necessary energy, can easily be seen as causing the death of countless wonderful ideas. When negative thinking is allowed to continue whenever creative thoughts are born, the ability to be expressive through the creative process is suppressed as the energies that were available to the development of ideas, become lost, or get redirected into other areas. When creative urges are withheld from evolving, a way of thinking is then formulated which sees oneself as being a non creative person.

Sometimes we say that "It is too hard!" and indeed, many times things are "Too hard", but even as we say these words, we let something very valuable go unnoticed. When we kill an idea by thinking like this, we have become a victim of Ego thinking. We never said it was impossible, we only said it was "Too Hard". We were unthinking in the words that formulated in our minds and allowed a fear to guide our wants, our energies, and our happiness. It was a fear of effort. It was subtle and quite nonchalant, but it was a fear. It was the Ego acting upon a situation by wanting to make things go easy for us. Remember once again... Ego will think for the situation of the moment and give us options to keep things uncomplicated for us. It does not consider future reward from effort. It has no patience, and it would be happy to let us sleep for the rest of our lives.

KNOWLEDGE WITHIN:

Through the ongoing process of learning and employing our acquired knowledge, we are able to bring into our lives the products of our thinking. By this understanding, we can now see that all actions are creations, since all creations originate as thoughts. The action of doing mirrors our thinking, so it is now open to us that we create our own life. Through our behaviour modeled on our thinking, we can, and do bring about the things that are a part of our life. Even fear based ways of thinking still have the ability to create, and it is through this that we are able to appreciate how we can create our own problems; negative situations; or even chaos. When we act from Love based thinking, our thoughts, and therefore our creations, bring good things into our lives as well as the lives of others. Since the fruits of our efforts originated through thoughts which centered from Love, we allow the creative outputs of other Love based thinking people to infiltrate and inspire our own Life even more.

When we act in Love in all things, our Love based way of thinking follows the direction of our True Self and we bring forth great changes and opportunities into our life. We are CREATING a new life for ourselves and others who will be a part of this new life. People will see good things come into our life and respond by wanting to know how it is that we have such things. Our Love will now open up doors for us that would otherwise have stayed closed. The reason they were closed is revealed by an understanding that we had nothing to offer those who were behind such doors before, and they in turn, had nothing to offer us. What we would've found while we were slaves of Ego thinking would not have interested us one bit.

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