The Nature of Creativity Is to Create

Writer Margaret Stortz posits that we are not always aware of the created actions we set into motion. “We may not notice why some things keep going wrong,” she writes, “because we can set ourselves up to fail. This is because the nature of creativity is to create, not to judge whether our energies are being used positively or negatively.”

In the July 2019 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine, Stortz offers five practical ways we can truly be more mindful.

1. Know ourselves. “We must remember,” she says, “that the nature of our minds is not to work selectively. The mind will take anything we give it to produce form.”
2. Try not to freak out. ”Some opportunities for great animation definitely allow our minds extension into every colorful corner of ourselves, and we can become quite artful. Deep worry, upset or fear, on the other hand, can excessively increase negative outcomes.”
3. Call a halt. We can simply say, “STOP!” “The simple use of a definitive word or phrase allows us to change direction in our minds,” Stortz says.
4. Move. Take a walk; go for a cup of coffee; do something that does not involve frantic action, thereby allowing your body to help change the scene.
5. Talk with someone who cares.

“The name of the game is to return once more to affirmative, creative thinking and harmonious living,” she writes. “As spiritual beings at work in the world, we owe it to ourselves and our surroundings to bring the best of ourselves into the fray each day.”

A Prayer: Free to Create

by Rev. Doug LeBow

As I recognize that I live, move and have my entire being within the universal body of God, I speak my word with absolute expectancy of Spirit’s power to create an ever-expanding experience of my good precisely as I envision it in the mold of my own individualized mind.

As I allow myself to sink deeper into the silence, I recognize and declare the power of Spirit’s infinite love, infinite compassion and infinite caring as It expresses through and as me. I am a vessel for divine creativity, knowing and believing that everything I need for the highest unfoldment of my life and the life of this world is present and at hand in this very moment, and I accept this blessing now. …

In love and thanksgiving, I release this word into that receptive law of mind, knowing that it is made manifest in divine right time and order. And so it is.

Creative Freedom Leads Us to

Discover Who We Are

Medical discoveries, technological inventions, reengineered systems — the power of the human mind amazes us every day. Yet we each have the creative freedom to discover new ways of being in the world, to discover who we are as individuals and as a people.

In the May 21, 2018, issue of The Nation, writer Armish Rizwan examines the nature of creative freedom. “Creative freedom is based on the idea of free thinking and adopting an approach that is outside the box,” he writes. “It involves the fertilization of a human mind by giving it freedom to go beyond the obvious and encounter ways into the unseen, unheard and unfelt.”

We have all been in situations where our creative freedom is restricted, sometimes in our schools or our jobs or our families. These shackles can bind us to ways of thinking that restrict our ability to find new solutions or innovative approaches.

Rizwan suggests, “Before we sink back into our collective mindsets and blend into the air of normalcy, we must think of whether we are born to live a life or merely breathe. We must think whether the creativity in us is just another idea or an ideology that needs our very own assistance. If we wish to make a mark, as we must to succeed, it is essential to know the worth of being creatively recognized. Otherwise the free riders living in each one of us will die a life even before it is lived.”

— The complete article can be found at https://nation.com.pk/21-May-2018/creative-freedom-an-idea-or-an-ideology.

Speak the Truth of God

by Ernest Holmes

Today I say to myself: I am one with the Truth of God. I speak this Truth and proclaim it to be the reality of my experience in what I call “little” and in what I call “big.” In the simplest and the most complex things I recognize the one Truth — changeless, permanent and eternally manifesting Itself.

Therefore, I know the Truth about myself. I know the Truth about everything I do. I know the Truth about everyone I meet. I know the Truth about every situation in which I find myself.

This Truth is not only perfection, it is also power. It is not only presence, it is also action. Therefore, the Truth and the Power and the Presence and the Action of the Living Spirit flow through everything I do, say and think. I do know the Truth, and the Truth I know frees me and keeps me free.

— Entry for July 8, 365: Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes