Creativity

[Ruth2]

When it comes to creativity, what can't hypnosis do?

Ruth2 (who has found there are advantages to being height-challenged)

[skip]

Saving at the turnstiles eh?

Hi Ruth2,

Everybody is creative.

It is like we cant help it.

Sometimes we arent creative when we want to be.

And other times we have placed such limitations on past creativity that much of our creativeness never breaks thru to the conscious level.

And when those type of things happen, we tend to conclude that we arent creative.

Big mistake!!!!!

You are really a creativity machine.

What hypnosis does, or rather can do, is remove the false limitations we have consciously and unconsciously placed on our creativity, and help us go into that super creative state when ever we want to.

When we do that, the universe opens up.

And you can dream wantonly ...

skip

[Don]

what can't hypnosis do?

Windows :( :toast:



Ruth2 (who has found there are advantages to being height-challenged)

I seem to remember that Mickey Rooney said the same thing as he stood next to Jayne Mansfield.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoirp_jayne-mansfield-on-tv-with-mickey-r_shortfilms

[Poodle]

We are creative to the max. if we just allow it. It's just so awesomely amazing. A lot of it gets knocked out of us by teachers as kids -- comments like -- you are not musical -- you can't draw -- you can't write for beans -- you have a nice personality but... These comments go into the SC mind as they come from an authority figure -- the teacher or equivalent so we decide they are true. They are not true in the least. We can do all of those things really well when we access that wonderful SC mind that we all have.

Reminds me a little of NLP Trainer's Training and I know I've written this before. Skip wrote a nice piece on why he prefers Ericksonian hypnosis and it was excellent. I only read it once but it went straight "in". Okay, I'm supposed to give a talk on any subject and the people in my group were supposed to interrupt me or basically cause me grief -- how to deal with hecklers, etc. For some reason in my very, very trancey state I repeated probably word for word with examples of what Skip had written months before. Every ear was tuned to my voice and I had total and complete attention of everyone not even an eye blinked -- most of them didn't know much about hypnosis let alone getting into the finer points of it. I finished my so called speech and complained that no one interrupted me or caused me any grief. The comment was that it was fascinating. I was unhappy as that was not the point of the exercise so I went running off to find the head Trainer to complain and was solidly put in my place as he said: "You just held a whole group of people in total fascination with nothing but your voice and you want to complain?"

If I had to repeat what Skip had written out of trance I would be hard pressed to remember 1/10th of it but it was in there just waiting for an audience. Thanks Skip! You do great work and it does go IN even tho we may not always be aware of it.

Pood :)

[Connie]

You are a creative genius. I love doing this work with people :daze:, helping to unleash that!

[Ruth2]

Skip: It would be wonderful to be able to "jump in the river" any time I wanted! Sometimes I'm so far in the box that I can't even see the boundaries and I need to be out of the box... P.S -- What does "Saving at the turnstiles" mean??? P.S.S. -- I got that scene integrated into the story. Easiest scene of the story to write, btw.

Don: Are you sure?<g> It can do 'most anything else.... Mickey did have a good perspective there.... lol.

Poodle: Thanks! Awesome story-- I haven't read it.

Connie: Creative genius... but then we all are, if we can access it.

Thanks all.

Ruth2

[skip]

Ruth2 (who has found there are advantages to being height-challenged)

Saving at the turnstiles eh?


The assumption is that you are walking under them.

skip

[skip]

Ruth2,

I want you to try something for me.

Go one day without being creative.

Tell me how you do.

skip

[Ruth2]

Oh. Right. Gee, what an ice cream cone to the forehead moment....

Ruth2

[Ruth2]

Skip, you might as well ask me to stop breathing. Even if I could stop being creative consciously, when I closed my eyes my mind would dream. Only in the translating what I see into words do I sometimes have a problem. But the snippet I sent to you? It is as clear as any movie I've ever seen, and I have seen all the way to the end...

What you ask is almost impossible. Perhaps if you contacted my SC and instructed it to go a day w/o being creative would I even have a chance of doing so.

Ruth2

[skip]

Good on ya!

I was just checkig. ;)

skip

[Ruth2]

I knew that, I knew that..... :)

Ruth2

[Poodle]

Dr. Richard Bandler has "creativity" seminars for lack of better words on my part. People go and he does the trancework and the rest of the week is spent playing music, composing music, creative writing or all the wonderful things we can do that we only believe we can't. Belief systems are powerful but when they are broken, look out world -- here comes a whole new person, a powerful person with resources aligned.

Pood :)

[Ruth2]

Hallo Pood!

That would be a lot of fun!

Right now Creativity is a horse with a bit in its mouth; I'm hanging on for dear life and the creature's running where I don't want him to go. I ought to say to h*** with it and let him go where him wants to flow but my prude of an editor (the one in my head) keeps throwing "shouldn'ts" at me. <sigh>

Ruth2

[Ruth2]

Okay, so hypnosis can augment what's already there. Can it create what isn't there? Or is it all there for everyone and some just need to have the spigot turned on?

On a slightly different note, for me what I create tells me more about myself than I want to know. And that can put a damper on things. Both are scary.

Ruth2

[Poodle]

the key word being "should" or "should not". In NLP we call them Modal Operators of Necessity or Impossibility so according to the "book", I'm supposed to ask you:

What would happen if you could?
What would it be like if you could?
or lastly
What's stopping you lady?

With you, Ruth, I'd definitely go with the last one and set that horse free and shut that editor up in your mind. Sometimes I really believe that editor talks too much and needs to be quieted down so you have all the creative freedom you desire and even more to create as you desire to create because you really are a creative genius.

Now back to "saving at the turnstyles" as I was at Menard's yesterday which I think is the only store that has one. One would have to be shorter than a 4 year old to not pass through the turnstyles and just walk under them. Their purpose? I don't know. It cannot be customer count as there are other entrances to the store without them. Or at the risk of sounding like Houston, my Grandma used to say she should sue the city for building the sidewalks too close to her feet. She always had a super kewl attitude about everything.


Pood ;)

[skip]

"On a slightly different note, for me what I create tells me more about myself than I want to know. And that can put a damper on things. Both are scary."


Yes knowing more than you wanted to know can be scarey.

Especially when some of the things you learn violate your culture and or values as you understand them.

But also understand that when you came into this world you didnt have most of those beliefs and values.

And that isnt to say that the beliefs and values arent good ones to have.

Just to say that they are an overlay...

And when you amp up your creativity and you lower the filters that used to screen stuff out, you get a lot more, consciously ...

And many people find that there is a more primal 'me' to themselves than they thought, one that had been here to fore repressed.

And that can be shocking even scarey until they realize that 'me' is also how you respond and use and express those things, not just those things in and of themselves.

I always think it is neat to discover what overlays are operating 'within me' and to notice how they work and whether or not they seem useful to me or not.

cheers,

skip

[Ruth2]

Hey Pood, your grandma sounds like a hoot!

I agree-- I need to ignore the editor. Easier to say than do. Probably ought to go to a great hypnotist and say, shut this editor up, take the bridle off the horse and lemme go! (not to mix metaphors or anything but....)

Ruth2

[Ruth2]

Hey skip! You got it. What I write tells me who I am, and I am not comfortable with everything it tells me. To make it worse, the stuff that's really good (in my POV) is the stuff that really exposes me. I'm on one side of the screen, doing my best to write prim and proper (heh heh) and my two characters are on the other side, going "Come on, come on, let go, you know you want to, come on, let go, let us go, come on..." I've got a story to tell, though and I don't want it to devolve into a run of the mill D/s mindf***.

Ruth2

[skip]

My sister who is a successful writer says although it is harder to write it is invarably better the 'closer to the bone' it is.

[Ruth2]

Just 'open a vein'. ;)

IMO, creating is more intimate than sex. With writing, for me, I've got to be all there, fully there, completely in the moment...

Ruth2