The Creative Self

“We grow to experience a richer and higher version of ourselves for ourselves”

In all of my explorations, I always come back to the same two questions: 1) What creates the new, and 2) what creates movement in systems; organizations and society?

When I understood that systems are driven and governed subconsciously, that we act according to motivations we are not aware of, it also became clear to me that we resist everything we have not accepted subconsciously. This still gave no answers to the two questions, though, but it put me on a useful track.

From this understanding, I was able to develop a process that removed resistance to change and created active participation throughout the organization in developing new solutions. The problem was that I could not explain what I had created! The first thing I observed was that it had nothing to do with knowledge. In all my previous business experience, I believed it was new knowledge and insight that drove changes, but I was wrong. Through conscious efforts, we can temporarily affect our subconscious mental programs and our behavior, but it does not create new permanent subconscious programs.

To understand this, I had to move beyond the world of knowledge into the world of the subconscious. There, through my own self-discovery, I experienced that our behavior, judgments, norms, and values are "stored" in the subconscious as energetic programs. Through our subconscious, we channel the energy that drives our behaviors. I spent a lot of time cleaning up my own subconscious programs. Letting go of what kept me back. That was interesting in itself, but it could not explain what creates the new.

I began to explore the connection between subconscious programs and the human values we get from them. My hypothesis was that we get the energy to create new subconscious programs from how it feels to experience higher human values not possible to achieve through our current programs. Even if this fits very well with the notion that our subconscious is goal driven, I kept feeling there was something else driving change.

It was when I removed myself from the business world and began to explore my inner voice, beyond my subconscious feelings and emotions, beyond my conscious thoughts and perceptions, I gained the acceptance of the Creative Self.

I see the Creative Self as an independent energetic consciousness with the ability to create change and growth in people, organizations, and society where behaviors, judgment, values, and norms already exists.

It is the pure potential of what each and every one of us can be. In that energy there is no judgement, no limitations. Just pure potential to be a better version of ourselves for the simple cause of experiencing more of what we can be.

It is through the development and acceptance of a higher energetic state; the Creative Self generates all the energy needed to build new behaviors. Making it our new permanent subconscious energetic state.

We do not change, we grow into a higher version of ourselves.

It is this insight that opens up for how we create movement in ourselves and in society.

Tom :)

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