THE POWER OF RELEASING YOUR CREATIVE ENERGIES

I’ve already written about the power of creativity and the power of your core powers, now I’d like to write about the power of releasing the synthesis of both— the releasing of your creativity energies. There was a question which led to this: What happens in the process of unleashing potentials?

The answer is that it releases creative energy. That is, when individuals and societies (teams, groups, families, companies, etc.) actualize their highest meanings and best performances creative energies are released.

Are you ready for that? Are you ready to unleash new energies within yourself and for yourself and your world that you can then mobilize and put in service for your highest vision? Are you ready to have activated those energies and then implement them for bringing new creative solutions into existence?

1) Biological vitality. So what energies are released in actualizing your potentials? One of the first is the energy of your own biological vitality. You feel more alive, more present, more focused, and more intentional. You have more mental alertness and emotional vitality and these show up in your passion and excitement. At first this may seem paradoxical. The more you identify, activate, and mobilize those needs or drives clamoring within you, the more you feel energized. Yet this is exactly what happens. Even though it is effortful and requires expending thought, emotion, and action— the more you do this, the more you are energized. The more you seem to be more fully alive to your inner nature.

2) Fun and joy. This release of energy also shows up in the degree and quality of fun (joy, humor, playfulness, etc.) that you as you pursue your passionate vision with focused energy. But this not silly or superficial fun. It is not mere laughs. It is a much deeper fun. As you give yourself to making your dreams come true, you experience an engagement so deep that you get lost in it. And while others may look at you and think, “Boy, he or she is really working hard.” You are thoroughly enjoying what you are doing. Your vocation (work) has become your vacation (your fun). You love what you do and what you do, you love.

This is one of the things I’ve been experiencing for years and which I’ve been increasingly experiencing. In spite of the travel or the long trainings or the intense trainings (sometimes 12 and 14 hour days), I hardly ever notice. My energy lasts from morning to night and I don’t even think about it until someone asks me, “How do you maintain your energy for the long hours and the long extended trainings?” What I’ve realized recently is that the question doesn’t fit. That’s because it is not a matter of “maintaining” or

“protecting” or “keeping up” my energy. It is more a matter of loving what I do and can’t believe that I get paid for doing what I love doing! So the energy is there naturally.

3) Solving problems. After the biological and physical energy you will find the emergence of the energy for embracing problems and creating new solutions. Maslow talked about this as moving from the problems of self, the problems of learning what things are and how to cope, and from the pseudo-problems of self to the real problems of the world and to the real creativity that’s required to create a better and more humane world. This also begins to identify people who are truly self-actualizing. If a person is truly reaching his or her potentials, they are putting their gifts, talents, skills, and competencies to good use making a difference in the world. Having transcended self, they are now in the mode of giving back and contributing what they can— their highest meanings and best performances that enrich their families, communities, and companies.

4) Expressing your inner drives. When you are releasing the creative energies within yourself, you operate from a level of abundance as you are driven by one of the expressive needs. This contrasts with the deficiency needs (the lower needs) of our biology. You are now driven by the need to express your highest development as you add value in the unique way that only you can. The abundance that results from your own inner development now begins to spill over. And in spilling over, your expressions are contributions that make a difference in the world.

All of this describes the releasing process. And it lies at the heart of the self-actualizing life. Yet many people, probably most people, only experience it in brief moments of life, and not as their way-of-being- in-the-world. So, why not? What is stopping people from tapping into their highest and best? What is preventing people from seeking the peak of human experience?

What restrains, mitigates against, and stultifies the development and unleashing of one’s creative energies and potentials? Lots of things. At the head of the list are various limiting and even toxic beliefs and other frames of mind that undermine and destroy the energy. Expectations also will do it. If you have unrealistic expectations or too-high demanding expectations, that too can stop the releasing of your energies. Doubts, cynicism, and pessimism provide another trio of hindrances. So also various structures that you may be living within like various social limitations, taboos, the social control that keeps a person dependent upon approval.

Today Neuro-Semantics as the synergy of two critical variables for actualizing your highest and best— integrating your highest meanings into your best performances— has identified many of the unleashing processes so that you can experiencing more and more of the releasing of your creative energies. And this is perhaps one of the most important benefits of the Seeking the Peak trainings.