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Fresh Thinking Challenges Rigid Mindsets by Linda Sechrist
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ilmmaker Barnet Bain’s credits include writer/ director of Milton’s
Secret, due out this fall, starring Donald Sutherland and Michelle Rodriguez and based on Eckhart Tolle’s book, producer of the Oscar- winning What Dreams May Come, executive producer of the Emmy- award nominee Homeless to Harvard and writer/producer of The Celestine Prophecy movie. Now, as author of The Book of Doing and Being: Rediscover- ing Creativity in Life, Love, and Work, he offers tools that everyone can use to develop a creativity practice designed to move us beyond our unconscious hand-me-down worldview, escape mental and emotional straightjackets and unlock great reservoirs of imagina- tion. In so doing, we discover we can create anything we like; from a work of art to a fulfilling relationship.
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Why is creativity so vital now? More than ever before, the nature of human consciousness today is making it apparent that we live inside stories and are pushing up against their edges. Strat- egies we’ve used to try to attain control, success or empowerment—structured ideas about how the world works, false assurances and guarantees about life— may not be working. As a result, we are mired in anxiety, stress and crises. It all offers us the opportunity to wake up to a larger truth that supersedes everything else: We must discover where our true safety resides, in building newly intelli- gent relationships within, as well as with
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others, using capacities beyond logic and reason.
Why do we need an internal sense of safety?
Safety found within shows up in our experiences of the world. As we become increasingly reliant on and confident in our creative
skills to survive and thrive, we give our- selves the gift of resilience in chaos. Humanity’s creativity must be
awakened in order to meet the chal- lenges of a changing world and effec- tively address problems that appear to have too few solutions. The same inner awareness and skill set that give birth to the creative process can be applied to all aspects of life. Only through creative acts can we rise above unworkable paradigms, group thinking and earlier conditioning to create new and more fluid stories that grow from revised thoughts, beliefs, choices and attitudes that mature from the inside out. Deep, compassionate understand-
ing of how we arrived at this point allows us to shed restrictions. It begins with facing the whys and wherefores of our most intimate consciousness.
How do male and female
energies play into this? Everyone possesses both masculine and feminine energies; neither is better or less valuable than the other. Do- ing and acting characterize masculine energy, which makes things. It builds, structures, orders and files. Being characterizes the feminine, womb-like
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