How can meditation help you unlock your creative potential? Sadhguru explains 3 more ways below:
Relief from Anxiety and Stress
Sadhguru: “The moment you create anxiety, there is chaos in the mind. If you go to a library with a million books piled up in one heap, can you find what you want? But if everything is catalogued and kept in the organized way that it should be kept, you can probably go blindfolded and find the book that you want. This organization is needed for your mind. Chaos has come to your mind only because of anxiety. You are anxious and you cannot help it because right now, your happiness is dependent upon what will happen in your life today. If you are happy, if you are a joyous person, there is no anxiety for you because you know that no matter what happens today, you are still going to be the same within yourself. Then, it is only your concern for the external which makes you do work. You are not trying to make your life through that.
So if anxiety has to go, first of all you need to learn how to be a peaceful and joyful human being by your own nature and not because of something outside of you. When you are like this, your mind is a beautiful instrument; it is a great friend of yours.”
Freedom from Fear
Sadhguru: “You must decide whether you have come here to experience life or to avoid life. If you have come to experience life, one thing that is needed is intensity. If you do not have intensity you will experience a meager life. The moment you use fear as a tool to protect yourself, your intensity will go down. Once it goes down, your ability to experience life is gone. You become a psychological case. What happens in your mind is all there will be. You will never experience anything fantastic and ecstatic because when you are fearful, you will not have a sense of abandon. You can’t sing, you can’t dance, you can’t laugh, you can’t cry, you can’t do anything that is life. You can only sit here and grieve about life and all the risks of life.”
Involvement with Life
Sadhguru: “If you don’t make any distinction as to what is important and not important or what you like and don’t like, you see everything just the way it is. But the moment you decide what is mine and not mine and what is important and not important, how will you get involved with that which you think is not yours? Where there is no involvement, nothing functions well. When you are deeply involved with everything that you are in touch with right now, only then do you see everything clearly, the way it needs to be seen. When you see things like this, it is very easy to create anything because it is just a question of what material you have in your hands and how to put it together.
Creativity need not necessarily mean that you invent something fantastic. Someone can be creative about how they sweep the floor. If you develop the means to truly observe what is happening within you on all levels of who you are, then you would be enormously creative. But even if you just observe what is happening around you constantly, you will see there is always a way to do the same thing in a more innovative way.”
Cate Montana, a writer for the noted documentary What the Bleep Do We Know?, explains how Inner Engineering helped her find more creativity:
“I found that Inner Engineering, made my creative endeavor so much more consistent and the level of creativity in my life just skyrocketed.”
I”m a writer and I worked for 16 years in network TV and around the US and in Europe and Canada and then I became a professional journalist for 12 years and then I pursued my passion after I started working in marketing with the filmmakers of “What the bleep do we know,” I wanted to have a more creative outlook and orientation so I started writing screenplays and working with one of the filmmakers. I found that Inner Engineering, made my creative endeavor so much more consistent and the level of creativity in my life just skyrocketed.
I’ve always had a very good capacity for focused mental work being a writer but in the last year my work has gone in to a highly creative level, much more creative level than ever before and it’s becoming more and more effortless. I don’t even feel like I write, it almost like I’m being written… and so that’s just plain fun.
I’m doing a lot of work 8,10,12, sometimes 14 hours a day and I’m never tired. It just flows so I found a really amazing steadiness in my energy. There’s no longer that 3 o’clock fatigue where you just want to sink into a latte, there’s none of that, there’s just a steady stream of energy that’s totally supportive all the time.
In regards to relationships; I’m much less emotionally reactive than I used to be and I have found that in my interaction with people, I’m much more present, I’m much more capable of truly listening. As a writer, communication and the ability to listen and truly grasp is essential and I found again, like much of my life, that it is becoming much more simple to absorb information at a more profound level and being able to engage other people to a more profound level, it’s like tunneling in and making connections on a whole different level.”
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