Creativity
“Let us realize our unavoidable responsability and our wonderful inspiring opportunity to re-create consciously ourselves and help to re-create the world”
How would you like to re-create yourself? What change would you like to see in yourself and/or in your (working) life?
To create means to make something. In creating something there is also an act of imagination. To re-create consciously ourselves implies we have an image of who we are and how we would like to ‘be-in-the-world’. I think we all have the possibility as human beings-in-the-world to re-create ourselves throughout our lives.
As children we continually imagine ourselves into new self-images. As a smaller child we might think when we run after the bigger children riding bicycles, ‘One day I’m going to be one of them, riding a bicycle’. The happiness is total the day we manage. A few years later we might get inspired of people we know of and admire, and get ideas about a profession we would like to have, ’One day I’m going to become a teacher, a writer or a pilot’. As a child I admired my adventurous aunt who sailed around the world and I thought ‘One day I’m going to travel around the world like she did’, and so I did.
From childhood to adult life we constantly re-create ourselves, growing our capacities and giving birth to new self-images. As an adult, though, we might drain our re-creative ability. Life becomes routine and automatic and there is no sense of renewal. We are stuck in old life patterns and strategies that don’t serve us any longer.
The root of the word creativity comes from the latin word ‘creare’ or ‘kere’, originally sanskrit, which is also the root of other words like Italian ‘crescere’, which means to grow. Creativity is to grow and continuously giving birth to new self-images, expanding our sense of who we are.
I think we all have images of ourselves, of who we truly are, as a multiple potential, hidden in the depths of our Being. Oftentimes our conditioned selves and our survival strategies get in the way, we might lose our connection to our deeper ground of Being. I see this often in my client practice, as a psychosynthesis therapist. The stress and anxiety it causes is, at the best, manageable. At worst it can cause burn-out.
The quote above is from the Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli. He was the founder of the psychological tradition I’m trained in, psychosynthesis, and mapped the way to self realization, through inner harmonization and a well integrated personality.
A well integrated personality, he meant, can hold and balance the tension between our inner polarities. We are responsible for doing our inner work, not to be victims of our inner demons. We all have the ‘wonderful, inspiring opportunity to constantly re-create ourselves’, and leave old stories and identifications behind. I agree with him. We have a choice. And as you all know - when we change, the world will change.
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If you are interested in inner work and how to re-create yourself you are most welcome to contact me. I am a psychosynthesis therapist and ICF certificated coach. I’ll meet you in my practice in Gothenburg or online. I speak Swedish or English, and some Italian. You’ll find more information about me on my website https://www.ekwing.se
Lena Ekwing