Creative Will and Healing

Developing a path of healing on all levels of spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical development is a process of understanding creative will (free will) as it relates to learning and practicing self care, well enough, to choose plans based on feelings and needs that will create experiences leading to joy and safety and the magic of creativity, moment by moment. This writing is an attempt to share my insights learned from my life experiences both educational and personal, sharing what I have learned from the mentors who guide me. My mentors include my family and ancestors, as well as gifted authors, educators and individuals I've been blessed to have crossed my path. Part One: create a list of what you think you need to be doing for yourself, which is what your gut or intuition is telling you, and you know you need to be doing, but you aren’t. Part Two: Create a list of what brings you calm, positive experiences that you know provide you safety, joy and calm. Addressing these lists with self care steps will guide and support your spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical development. Healing and development is a life long journey. Its a gift to yourself, your family and community and the world. It is your journey. Erik Erickson and his witing on stages of human development can be a helpful tool to grasp the principles of life long learning. https://www.simplypsychology.org/erik-erikson.html

 part Three: Insight Tools: At selftimeout.org we believe the "Five Step Self Time Out" tools support a reflective process of intentional mental, emotional and spiritual and physical development through the awareness and understanding of our free will or creative will to choose. Through reflection I can choose to intentionally become more aware of my feelings and needs, and the inner discomfort and contradictions stored in my body. When, through language, I am able to identify, label and process my feelings and needs, I am choosing to practice self care with intentional, gentle, tender, love. I can choose to notice and interrupt my inner contradictions and the discomforts I am feeling in my body. I can choose to stop worrying, or blaming or shaming myself and others.  The goal is to notice and interrupt the dual thinking, the discomfort of contradictions, and replace the discomfort with the practice of gently affirming myself with positive, kind, affirming thoughts and actions. When I practice affirming myself, I am building healthy internal boundaries. I am creating a conscious pathway to my development through my free will to build my creative life joyfully and compassionately.

The Third Way: Consistency of Creative Will. The management of choice. The balance of mind and heart and the free will to choose. When we practice self care tools over a period of time the process of managing the emotional self (our free will) will open up an awareness of the inner contradictions, i.e. the energy around feelings of irritation, anger, fear, hate, etc., and all of the negative "stuff" that keeps us stuck and leads us to impulsive reactions, decisions and behaviors. The practice of the "Five Step Self Time Out" tools naturally includes the process of noticing, interrupting and replacing the inner contradictions created by negative self talk. We can choose to notice these insights in our behaviors towards ourselves and others. The more we become conscious of our actions through our own "creative free will" the more pathways to health we will be creating. As I choose to notice, interrupt, and replace the discomfort I am feeling in my body with a plan based on choices of healthy gentle care of myself, I create a deeper calm, safe, and joyful place within. As I choose to create a deeper calm, safe, joyful place within, I am reducing the dual thinking of contradictions, while increasing a congruent consistency and management of my free will, my creative will. As I move closer to my true creative self, I move ever more closer to connecting to the wholeness and gifts of the "Creative Will of the Universe." Both Refection and Meditation are the foundation of my free will and tapping into the insights of the consciousness, my connection to my spirtual, emotional, mental and physical development.

"Some things are subject to the free will of man, such as justice, equity, tyranny and injustice, in other words, good and evil actions; it is evident and clear that these actions are, for the most part, left to the will of man. But there are certain things to which man is forced and compelled, such as sleep, death, sickness, decline of power, injuries and misfortunes; these are not subject to the will of man, and he is not responsible for them, for he is compelled to endure them. But in the choice of good and bad actions he is free, and he commits them according to his own will." From the Baha'i Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p 248