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Opposites and creativity

Posted on by philipdodson

I was inspired by a friend’s post talking about conflict and creativity.

Opposites are an interesting perspective and it made me think of a David Bowie quote ‘religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there’. The opposite to the dark creates the light.

You need to experience the opposite for it to be so, too. There is no light without dark, no happiness without unhappiness, nothing only exists because there is something.

So maybe you need conflict, the darkness of it, to experience the opposite, creativity or light.

When we are creative it is the light from within that we are sharing with the exterior world.

There has to be the Yin and the Yang in order for balance to exist. So there has to be the opposite to the source of creativity.

Getting an answer

Posted on by philipdodson

Any easy way to answer a question in your head about doing something or not.

Ask ‘what do you feel?’. Do not ask ‘what do you think?’. Ignore thoughts.

Feelings come from our wisdom, instinct, intuition that comes from the soul, from our inner essence. We instinctively know the answer.

The mind seeks validation for its ego, which is fragile, and needs reassurances from others. So we project forward with our thoughts as to what might happen if we do ‘x’ or ‘y’. That is the fantasy of the future and is always uncertainty as it does not exist. So we create a psychological fear inside us and that leads to more uncertainty, more fear and more need for validation from others.

If we allow our feeling to flow, created by the space that comes without thought, then we can use the mind to take that feeling and create the reality. If however, we think and ignore the feelings, the mind then has no space to create as it is fully occupied by uncertainty and projections.

Follow the feelings from the soul not fear from the mind.