CREATIVE LIVING

Onnik Merdinyan • 7 June 2019
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CREATIVE LIVING

 

I just love the process of creation! It entails my relying on my own inner warmth and it unfolds like a “pregnant pause stage” until I give the birth to the new!

I’d like to describe the process of how I call forth creativity.

I will call this process here: DONE

Deal with the known first

 

Open to the unknown

 

Nurture

 

Execute, test in practice

 

Let’s look at these in detail:-

 

Deal with the known first - with the clarity I have in the moment.

Here I look for the facts first, do my research…then I look for the interrelationships and correspondences. For example, in this article I looked into the relationship of words and letters in order to convey the meaning of the creative movement that I am presenting.

 

The important thing for me, however, is NOT to jump first to a solution, but rather to look at what I do not doubt - that is, what I really know. Then I take the next step.

 

Open myself to the unknown: feeling is my guide here.

By feeling here I mean the inner innate ability of everyone to participate openly in all of life freely without the restrains imposed by logical assumption. In other words - I listen to my gut feel and let it guide me.

The feeling is also, by the way, an act of sober deduction, so there is a quality of guiding and containment in it. The important thing at this stage for me is to WAIT for the “aha” moment and not to rush or let my logical mind hi-jack the process!!

Nurture: - now I nurture what I conceived and dream about possibilities for it.

I am shaping the future for it and I let it grow within me. I just love this process. I rely on my warmth here. It is like a pregnant suspense stage until the birth of the new shaped idea finally is born! But it is an active "pregnant suspense: that can be also expressed like: watch, listen, learn.

 

Execute, test in practice:- now is the time to let it go and test it.

I rely on my strength here because I never know what will happen, but whatever happens this cannot get me down because I am actually developing real self-confidence by basically not letting myself be hooked to the approval of others.

It is a simple process, and yet, a most enriching one for me!