[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflection #14

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From: L. Michael Hall

2008 Meta Reflections #14

March 31, 2008



THE ULTIMATE CREATIVITY





There's creativity and then there is self-actualization creativity. The first is what we all inherit as human beings-our ability to create things. In this, everybody is creative. And the reason for this is our lack of instincts. We are born with a knowledge gap about how to be human-we do not naturally, intuitively, instinctively know that. That is the gap within us that we have to fill- and fill it we do. And this explains the tremendous range of how to be human and how to create human cultures that there are.

Without instinctive knowledge hard-wired into our DNA, the knowledge gap of the content of how to be the species that we are is wide-open for us to invent all kinds of ways. And invent them we do. This is the foundation of creativity. It begins as we create our thoughts, our ideas, our hopes, dreams, fears, dreads, terrors, etc. Thinking itself is an act of creativity. We cannot not escape from the demand of creativity. Even when we try to give up all individuality, all uniqueness, all personality, personal responsibility and try to conform perfectly to what other's want, say, require, demand, etc. -even that is an act of creativity!

As we cannot escape being creative, we cannot turn off the creativity. In fact, even when we close our eyes and rest in the comfort of sleep we are creative! Our nature as creative beings is seen in our sleep-in the wild and crazy ways that we dream. Released from the constraints of daytime reality, we are free to wildly create in our night-time reality. This reveals our creative nature. It's within us. Creativity is what we are in our very nature!

In the field of Creativity, the problem to solve is not how to become creative, how to think creatively, how to invent new ideas about things- the problem to explain is the opposite.

"How do some people seem so uncreative? What kills their creativity? What are the leashes that imprison some people to fail to tap into their God-given, innate creativity? Why and how do some people escape creativity into bland and stale conformity? What is so fearful for them to be what they are-creative human beings?"

This is the problem. In the new Training Manual, Creativity and Innovation, I begin the Executive summary with the following:

The ultimate creativity is the self-actualization process-self-actualizing as a human being. This refers to how we create our self and our sense of reality. Regarding this, Maslow wrote the following as his opening statement in Toward a Psychology of Being (Chapter 4, The Creative Attitude, 1963).

"My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self-actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing." (1971, p. 55) 

So self-actualization creativity is using your innate creativity to create your highest visions and values and then to actualize those in real life as your contribution. Self-actualization creativity gives a more specific focus for creativity-it focuses on creating yourself. Traditionally, we refer to this as maturing, growing up, developing, becoming an authentic and responsible human being. Using the new Self-Actualization Psychology of Neuro-Semantics, we frame all of that as using and being the creativity built within us. We frame that as self-actualization psychology.

Commenting on all of this, Colin Wilson, one of the biographers of Maslow wrote the following in New Pathways in Psychology:

"Maslow's observation [is] that all self-actualizers are creative-sometimes artistically or scientifically, sometimes in more down-to-earth ways; but always creative." (p. 169)

To self-actualize is to discover, enjoy, and fully experience your own unique creativity. So, using that as a gauge, how much of a self-actualizing life are you now living? How much more of a self-actualizing life is possible for you? How much have you unleashed that to this date? What do you need to be unleashed from so that you can fully experience your innate creativity? What would you like to invent and innovate into the world?

C How creative are you as a parent?

C How creative are you in exercising and staying fit and healthy?

C How creative are you in your relationships?

C How creative are you in enjoying the small pleasures of life?

C How creative are you in cooking a meal? In designing your career?

C How create are you in your wealth creation and financial independence? 

The final stage of creativity is innovation. In innovation we take our creativity to market. Whether it is creative ideas, products, information, or services, we are creative enough to successful translate the great ideas into something that adds value and creates wealth for ourselves and others.

I write all of this reflecting on how creative a field NLP ought to be and how yet uncreative and non-creative it has been and is today. NLP ought to be the most creative of fields! As a meta-discipline about the structure of subjectivity, running our own brains, managing our own states -why you would think that NLP people would be among the most creative. Well, then again, maybe they are. Perhaps they do have lots of creative ideas. Yet even if that's the case, what they are not-they are not creative innovators. They are not translating those creative ideas into actual processes and taking them to market. So NLP continues to be a small niche that most people on the planet don't know about and most of the wonder and magic of NLP is not available to most people.

And all of this also explains why we are now launching the Second Module of the Self-Actualization Workshops- Creativity and Innovation: Unleashing Your Creative Potentials. The design of this is, obviously, to facilitate more creativity among us and more ability to innovate. 



** Creativity and Innovation -- Unleashing Your Creativity

May 30-31, June 1 - Australia

                Gold Coast, Australia. This is the second Self-Actualization Workshop.

                Sponsored by AINS- Australia Institute of Neuro-Semantics

Contact persons: Martin Urban; Don Powers, Steve Hodgson, Rosie Davoli

martin at InspiredFocus.com 

Website: www.InspiredFocus.com 

Telephone: 617 5530 6652

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Pretoria, South Africa. 

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 Cell : 083 267 1412 Tel: 012 362 6542 Fax : 088 012 362 6641

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Website: www.meta-coaching.org 




L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
P.O. Box 8
Clifton, Colorado, 81520 USA
www.neurosemantics.com 
www.meta-coaching.org
www.self-actualizing.org 

Email: meta @onlinecol.com @acsol.net @mindfocus.co.za
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