
You are going to do something creative. So how do you get ready? You are hoping for some new ideas some connections.
Well suppose you are going to bake a cake the first thing that you do is what?
You have to clear a space on your work surface or table to put you your baking bowl and you have to make sure the oven is empty
The very first thing you must do is to wash up in case the cake tin all the bowls you need all there being soaked and there’s no room for anything else so you wash up up.and put these things away and now you have a space in which you can set about creating the cake of your dreams
Supposing do you want to paint a picture or write a poem.
Our mind is full of ideas,of people we’ve just seen or a unfulfilled desires thoughts about food clothing who knows jealousy envy love
Well you can’t create when your mind is full like that.
That is what Marion Milner discovered that if she said
I am nothing I have nothing I want nothing
This freed her from the buzzing cloud of flies inside my head. And then thoughts and ideas from the deeper parts of the mind can come into the consciousness.
She calls this the gesture of
Inner Poverty.
By giving up for a time all the things that occupy our thoughts we create some space for new ideas.
I can’t guarantee that they will be any good but there’s a good chance of it if we follow up a little ideas with some hard work.
I think it might be rather like the desireless that is part of Buddhism.
Saying I am nothing is not self derogatory. Nobody is nothing o and if you believe in God you will believe that everybody has a soul equal two other people’s in the eyes and God regardless of your wealth or status. It’s it’s moving away from constant occupation with egocentric concerns which can impede perception.
Because these concerns are a barrier to our vision.
This is just one way of looking at perception and creativity
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