Creativity and from where it springs.
If you want to be extraordinary, learn from your children.
In fact, that my parents were – for their generation – free thinkers determined a lucky start for me in comparison to many of my age. In other words, we’ve progressed, or have we?
Creativity more and more becomes a sort after skill for job seekers to pull out of their sleeves when giving their debut to their new employer. But the identity with creativities source seems far from established in the minds of the label generation.
Here’s what I got out of an early night’s playing session with my five-year-old daughter Alya.
After creatively (standing for freely interpreted game-rules) playing a few board-games, she turned to dance and demanded my cooperation. After performing twists and curls, summer salts and flying freestyle, she turned to spreading pillows on the floor hopping from one to the next, varying their distances to reach the cupboard first. All in full flight! Not a second wasted to think, just raging in pursuit to enjoy.
I was to win too, so she changed the rules in mid-action telling me that in light of turning old on this day (it was my 66th birthday) I should have shorter and fewer jumps. So I won, and she celebrated!
Later that night, she turned to me, lowering her voice to tell me about her forest – preschool mate Joline who at five years of age is still using a dummy.
I explained to her that Joline didn’t have it as smooth as she did saw a change of parents and was handed about experiencing quite some insecurity and emotional pain.
The serious look in her eyes and the understanding nod made her look like a grown-up, and I had no doubt she took it to heart and decided to give credit to Joline’s story with the intent of comforting her.
Where does all this depth come from, I asked and replied to myself that old souls bring wisdom to our world.
Yes, and if it indeed was for old souls in young bodies, where in fact is their origin, from where do they come?
I concluded that wherever they come from is the home of creativity at its best.
Our scientists call it the field, the quantum field, the field of infinite potential but whatever we call it that is our origin and our children access it as if it hasn’t been closed to them.
And here is where it gets exciting as we realise that it must have been the conditioning of our minds to the needs of society, or at least to what some leading figures determined to be societies needs, that led us to close to the field from which our conscious awareness derives.
Let us do our best to take influence for our children to stay open to what they are and let ourselves relax in the mids of modern-day action to rediscover the origin of creativity.
