30 March 2022 Thursday.

              WHY DO I WANT TO CREATE?
      Because I’m a child of Source. We are all creators.  Fiat Lux,  Let There Be Light!
      We want to create for the same truth that children want to play.
      In addition I believe we’re motivated by a built in   ‘Law of Attraction’   drive to
      join our being/Source selves with all others, creation communication helps us do that.

         ‘BECOME AS A CHILD’: THE WAY TO  MEET and PARTNER with my true self
      ‘A segment of intention’, is a good starting place. In   ‘a segment of intention’   (thank you
Abraham/Esther) I consciously state to the universe, Source, what I want from a portion of time.
Each change to a new activity is ‘a new portion of time’ called a segment of intention.
I intend to recall feelings of times I had fun in my childs play. I imagine myself feeling again
free abandon and thrill of playing. I believe children’s play is how to go beyond my adult preconceived standards.

            USING   ‘HABIT ENERGY’   TO MOVE BEYOND HABIT
      My work habit’s energies propel me through my average days. When I set a goal within my ordinary way of   ‘getting things done’   to   ‘accomplish a task’   motion forward happens. So, the task I want to complete is using   ‘creative pursuits’   as above described to meet then partner with Source.

      My goal of attuning to my high Source isn’t to make   ‘perfect’   things, but to get familiar with the feeling of alignment with Source.

            WHAT IS ‘CHILDLIKE PLAY’?
      Childlike play is FEELING my inner joy (from Source) without thinking about it. To displace
resistant automatic   ‘MIND THINK’,   I bring my focus to the page, pencil, pastel, brush in my
hand, or the camera in my hand or my fingers on the instrument or keyboard or my hand in the clay.

      From childhood on I’ve been inspired! by the art material’s brilliant colors and the exciting interest in my own imagined mental forms or consensus manifested scenes before me.

      It’s also energizing to realize I CAN! AND AM GOING TO create something   NEW   on the page or in the media. Focusing on body feelings and my tools helps keep me in PRESENT TIME OBSERVATION.
     As a child I have no calculated plans or preexisting philosophy. I only want to feel good having fun.

      Focusing on whatever I imagine for the page, in the view finder, in my sculptor’s mind’s eye, in my mathematician’s, inventor’s mind’s eye, in my writer’s mind’s eye and ear, in my composer’s ear etc. I think about and feel into the life of whatever I’m imagining. I start enjoying the fascination of adding, arranging and rearranging. The depths or heights I can reach with Source are unlimited.

      As a child I receive and am moved to do an impulsive   ‘unknown something’   with a humorous attitude of:  ‘let’s see what happens’,  ‘let’s see what it does’?   Looking only to be delighted at a surprising happening, without attachment to result.

            LETTING GO OF GROWN-UP-NESS
      I intuit best when I let go of   ‘grown-up-ness’   and relax into my,   ‘child mode’
demanding no   ‘best competitive product’   of myself, focused on play and feeling good, from a foundation of safety. Sometimes it’s not so easy to relax from ADULTNESS! As there can be lots of resistant ‘momentum’ against producing new and unfamiliar things, surfacing from early childhood experiences and trauma that locked me in ‘crisis mode’ which prevents me from wide ranging thought. Chronic hyper-vigilence of panic survival mode may need to be de-energized first, sometimes including professional assistance.

              STANDARDS
      Focusing on   END RESULTS of ART making   can take us away from the primary intention to meet and work with my higher inner being. The arrival of great joy and excitement signals my aligning with my inner being.
      As I start I may sometimes feel parental DEMAND preasure, experienced as must do ‘ART standards’.
      My ‘ART standards ‘ are the emergence of my unconscious adult ‘dictator’ memories, of all that I, expect or feel ‘art’ must refer to. These ‘dictator’ standards are part of the programming of my left brain scanning for anything unfamiliar, ‘NEW’ i.e. threatening and to avoid. All that thinking can and does divert me from the main goal of meeting and partnering with my Source self.

               PERFECTIONISM
      ‘PERFECTION’ is merely a false misleading assumed mental ‘standard’.
      My self expression through art doesn’t have to achieve perfection or other performance standard to impress myself or impress anyone. We’re making flat or digital images or three dimensional forms, for experiencing the process of contacting and connecting our manifested personality self to the communication and inspiration of our vibrational higher Source self.

              NEUTRALIZING ‘PERFECTION’ BLOCKAGE
      Decades ago I was confused by my ‘perfectionism’ blockage. I worked to analyze and understand the ‘perfectionism’ self demand. PERFECTION is an unobtainable fantasy category. A helpful idea that makes the perfection concept manageable is seeing the word is from Italian: per fare, to do, to make. i.e. simply able to get a job started or done, It’s a practical process concept. I had tended to confuse the ‘perfection’ concept with the beauty or attraction concept. I found I’m intrinsically motivated by ultimately MYSTERIOUS   ‘aesthetic hunger’   of making something BEAUTIFUL, that ‘feels sexy’ feels like satisfying hunger. Usually developed through trial and error. A mathematician would say creating an ‘elegant’ equation. Trial and error means going through as many additions to, changes of stages of liking or not liking this or that until the (MYSTERIOUS) feeling of: it’s done. For scientific or technologic invention, it can mean hundreds or thousands of trials to match a pictured end result.

             ‘ART’ MY DEFINITION
      Art is any sort of original advancing step by step unfolding of ‘high self’ inspired, love infused, service to others communication.  Even things not necessarily appearing lovely or ‘loving’ at first view. It exists in multiple form also. Art is always planting seeds for contemplation stimulating growth of consciousness of Source caused by recognizing and feeling living consciousness of Source in the art and by arousing’s pleasure or happiness in artist/creator/inventor/ photographer and ‘the public’. Art includes the creator’s individual viewpoint and frequency signature in marking something on a page or canvas, editing a digital image, building, cutting or assembling or accessing any effect visible, audible, touchable of ANY kind.    

             KNOWING WHEN I’VE MET MY HIGHER SELF
      Useful indicators of new contact with my true self have been combined feelings of thrilled, excited, elated plus a little ‘itchy’ discomfort or manageable confusion. Tastes of true expressive freedom create an appetite for more and more. 

       I hope there will be sharing of personal experiences about meeting our inner being  during intuitive art making.