The 5 Principles of Mastering Your Creative Power

There are five principles that allow you to direct your creative power, which if practiced over time will allow you to exercise greater and greater control over your life experience. They are:

Ø Paying Attention: to observe what you are thinking and what is going on internally with respect to the other 4 principles

Ø Sensing: to notice what you have just created, to sense if you are feeling good or bad

Ø Intending: to know what you want to create, your intentions for the next moment

Ø Choosing: to choose what you will create, taking responsibility for your state-of-mind, or not

Ø Creating: how you are being in the moment, your demeanor and attitude.

Our workshops are designed around experiential exercises that allow you to see your automatic reactions and redirect them so you are creating well-being instead of lack.

How the 5 Principles work in your life

These 5 principles allow everyone in every situation the opportunity to find their power and operate from a place of well-being, for example, you could be:

Ø Waiting in a long line

Ø Talking to a client who is not listening

Ø Revising a million dollar proposal

Ø Arguing with your spouse

Ø Looking for the pencil that rolled off the table

If you are not happy, if you are upset with the situation, if you are upset with yourself for being in the situation, then your are disempowered. Normally, you might be upset until the situation resolved itself. Other times you might be in situations like these where your upset carries over to the next situation and you ended up with a bad day or a bad week. And that is life.

But, it doesn’t have to be that way. Let’s take the first situation and apply the 5 principles of creative power. (By the way they aren’t necessarily always used in this order)

#1 Paying Attention:

You find yourself thinking “Why isn’t this line moving faster?” or “Why am I always in the longest, slowest line?” and then sort of wake up and notice what you are thinking and as you start paying attention you ask yourself “Why am I thinking this way?”

#2 Sensing:

Then you remember to check your feelings and your body and you notice you are tight and agitated. Your body is tense and you are shifting your weight from one foot to the other. Perhaps you are angry at the there being so many patrons or so few stations open. You are not feeling empowered. It’s more like you are a victim of the line.

#3 Intending:

Are these the feelings you want? Thinking back to this 3^rd principle you recall that you had set an intention of creating well-being for yourself. From the workshop exercises you had looked at areas where you felt you did not deserve happiness and well-being, and you had established your own self-worth.

#4 Choosing:

Then in a flash you realize that you had given your power away to a specific configuration of waiting in line. You know that your happiness is not really dependent on the number of people and how fast the line moved. You are the one who said how the line needed to look for you to be happy. Now you could change it, and be empowered now. (Or, you could knowingly say, “I will not be happy now, this line is too long for me to accept it.”)

#5 Creating:

You smile as you think about how you could be happy in a line 4 minutes long but not in a line 6 minutes long. You start to feel better about yourself and more open. You look around and notice some interesting prints on the wall you had not noticed before. You strike up a conversation with an interesting person behind you and share your new insights about waiting in line. Before you know it you are at the front of the line; you express compassion to the clerk and she shares with you it is her first week on the job. She thanks you for your understanding and her frown transforms into an ear-to-ear grin.

All our workshops and support materials guide you through situations where your can see your creative power at work. Creating either well-being or lack for yourself. You practice with each of the 5 principles so that you can see for yourself how they empower you to control and direct your creative power.