Keep Creativity Flowing

    • Swami Sukhabodhananda via Speaking Tree
    • Publish Date: Oct 2 2019 6:26PM
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    • Updated Date: Oct 2 2019 6:26PM
Keep Creativity Flowing

How does one invoke the brain to be in the creative mode?

■ When one increases consciousness or awareness, one will find that there are mental blocks due to the psychological laziness in which one is trapped. I will give my personal example. Traditionally I have studied Indian scriptures in an ashram. But when I came out to teach, I found that the language had to be changed in order to connect with the youth, keeping the soul of Indian culture alive. I was not lethargic and utilised my linguistic acumen. Instead of ignorance, I started using blind spots; instead of bondage, I started seeing mental traps. I started changing my style of presentation by using visual slides. This involved an inner wakefulness to get out of mental traps or blocks.

What are those mental blocks that prevent creativity? 
■ If the mind is caught in ‘this alone is the right answer’ isn’t it a mental trap? Religion has been a great influencer throughout history. Observe the impact of religion. Many religious people have been caught in the above trap that is ‘this alone is the right answer’, that their scripture alone represents the truth. 
Thereby dogma and religious fanaticism results, doesn’t it?

Hence, there have been religious wars too, haven’t there? Even in the same religion, there is the same trap and hence conflict. This virus has gone so deep that when such a mind — with deep religious conditioning — comes to the corporate world, this virus continues in a different form, in opinions and conclusions. If one comes out of that, then creative energy is unlocked.
 
The other trap is ‘don’t have ambiguity’.
If one is obsessed that one should not have ambiguity and everything must be clear, there is a hidden trap, even though it appears to be practical. In any field, one should have clarity, but every field is so vast that there will always be ambiguity; one should respect and be open to that. In that opening, something new will emerge. If I have to give a talk, I will prepare a rough outline, but on the spot something opens up. Be it a doctor or a surgeon, this is true for any speaker. If one can say it is okay to have ambiguity, then the mind is free from the predicament of rigid clarity.

■ ‘Be practical’ is another trap.
 
In the name of being practical we stop the brain from imagining and what was considered impossible in the past becomes true. Sometimes, our mindset of being practical is nothing but inner ‘stuckness’. I have seen physically challenged people who have climbed Mount Everest. When I was young, my friends discouraged me from joining the ashram, especially under my Guru, for it was not only learning but also a teaching ashram. They had told me that we are all not good speakers etc. ‘Be practical’ was what I was told. Now I am considered as one of the best speakers. I had never imagined myself as an author, and now I have authored 113 books in different languages. 
 

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