Creating is something that it ordinarily seems like we choose to do every now and then.  You can choose what you desire but the act itself, as in the verb, is not something chosen.

What does this mean?

You could say you chose to create a dress or a meal or a painting or a song or a story. So, first there was just you and then sometime later the song existed in physical reality. I want you to broaden your awareness and first of all see that the process described above used faculties and tools that you did not choose.

By that I mean you did not choose or develop the ability to think, visualize or plan. These qualities are there by default available for you. You used these abilities to achieve what you set out to. The ability was not attributable to something you chose, but the resultant creation is. These are quite subtle differences and are ordinarily not noticed as you go about your day doing supposedly important stuff.

The reason it is ‘important’ is when you realize you are able to design, plan and live the life you choose then it will seem as if the whole world has changed. To know who you are and to experience self love and wonder you need to begin watching mindfully just how things happen for you.

You need to watch and observe impartially the truth of you. That which is sitting on the chair reading this is more than enough to keep you entertained, in love and interested with life. You are like a Swiss Army Knife, Transformer and Rubik’s cube all rolled into one.

Inside Out or Outside In?

Many people, in fact the majority of the world, look outwards and have their attention on the physical reality external to them. They mistakenly think that is where life happens. The life that happens out there is the physically created version of the life in there.

What you believe and think will be projected out there for you to observe and perceive. Some people, including myself at times, forget this and get caught up in the happenings out there and say ‘it shouldn’t be like that’. We look for some way of manipulating those external events into a different set of circumstances.

Then, I not only remember, but stop and notice in awe at just what is happening as life. What is it within my desires, choices, ideas or denials is manifesting this moment as I know it? If I experience somebody as having a negative quality I look within to my own actions and ideas of who I am so that I love that same quality.

When this is done I feel an energy change in my chest and I know that I won’t experience that same negative emotion ever again. For example I experienced somebody recently as not interested in what others want. As I witnessed this I felt myself wanting to speak up and say to this person ‘you shouldn’t be like that’.

However, once the situation passed and I was alone, I looked within and owned that same quality by recalling two memories of my life when I did exactly the same thing.

I let it be OK that I too did this. I felt the shift. From that moment on I was creating a different world for me to experience.

So do you see how much power you really do have over your life experience? The other type of creating is to choose what you wish to bring into physical reality.

By getting clear in your mind what you want and then adjusting your actions and attitudes you will be carried along to create that which you chose, or at least what is right for your authentic, spiritual self.

An analogy might be a bus. You know the bus will take you to your destination; you don’t have to worry about the bus you just plan where you wish to go. You simply let the bus take you. The infinite intelligence, divine, God, call it what you will, is the process whereby you create. In this analogy the bus is your co-creator.

The creation process happens outside of your responsibility. This means you can let go and concentrate on your part in the creation by having intention and surrendering. You don’t even need to think ‘how’, just think ‘what’ and let the how show up.