Quality
Mental Laziness has nothing to do with hard work, but is the result of a slack attitude of not being sure of where you are wanting to go. Once you’ve set a course and your mind on a certain direction enthusiasm will come easy and you won’t be lazy anymore.
Enthusiasm is about something a strong feeling of active interest in something that you like or enjoy.
Awaken Your Creative Response:
We are all born as infinitely creative beings. As children, we freely used our rich imaginations to create entire worlds, whether we were building sand castles at the beach, playing “house” with a collection of dolls, or pretending to be our favorite superhero.
By learning to reawaken your creativity, you will recapture the natural enthusiasm, energy, and wonder of youth. As the ancient Vedic sages of India observed, “The secret of immortality is infinite flexibility and creativity.”
What Is Creativity?
The question naturally arises, what is creativity? Creativity is a process of transforming the raw energy, information, and material of the universe into something that has never before existed.
The following seven steps for awakening the creative response invaluable. You can use this process to healing, relationships, business, the arts, and any challenge you are facing.
1. Clarify Your Intended Outcome: The first step of the creative response is to develop a clear vision of what you want. State your intended outcome in positive language rather than in terms of what you don’t want.
2. Information Gathering: The second step is to learn everything you can about the challenge or subject at hand, using as many sources as possible. Become an expert on the topic you are researching.
3. Information Reshuffling: As you cull information from various sources, your mind will reshuffle the data on both conscious and subconscious levels, formatting it in whatever ways are most useful to you. Your mind will automatically look for patterns to help you gain a new understanding of the issue.
4. Incubation and Meditation: Now that you have formed your intentions and gathered and reshuffled your information, the next step is to let go and allow something entirely new to arise in your awareness. In the incubation stage, you use meditation to go beyond the rational mind and access an expanded state of consciousness.
5. Insight: The fifth step in the creative process is insight. You will experience insight when the conditions are right. Your perception and interpretations completely shift and you have a new inner vision of whatever issue you are considering. Insight is the creative leap and is the essence of the creative response.
6. Inspiration: With insight comes the spontaneous generation of inspiration. When you see things in a new light, your entire mind-body becomes energized and you experience passion, exhilaration, excitement, joy, and enthusiasm. You know in your mind that your insight is true and you feel in your body that the insight is right.
7. Implementation, Integration, and Incarnation: The final step is to translate your insight into action . . . to implement whatever idea or change has come to you through the previous steps in the creative process. As you integrate the insight into your thinking and behavior, you incarnate the change in your body and as a result, you are transformed.
Quality of Pen: Be Enthusiastic
