The Power of Engagement Part 9 — Use the Hyperdrive of Collective Consciousness
The clearer you are about the vision, the easier it will be for you to detect who else shares the vision with you.
It is possible to move your creative abilities into ‘warp factor 10’ by working with the “Collective Consciousness” of others. In other words, as you work to bring your creative energies in alignment with each other you will begin to attract other people to your efforts. Why? Because everyone loves a winner and you’re treating yourself as a winner. Success breeds success. This begins to give a whole new meaning to the term “like-minded” people. You will be attracting people with like-minds. The challenge at first is to distinguish between those of like-mind and those that have simply shown up around you because they’ve been attracted to the results you’ve been producing.
The Power of Shared Vision: Once you are clear about the overall vision or purpose you are here to create on Earth, you can use this vision as a way to separate the wheat from the chaff. You don’t need to worry about trying to convince someone to your way of thinking or your vision because you will be attracting people who already share that vision. The clearer you are about the vision, the easier it will be for you to detect who else shares the vision with you. Then everyone who is sharing in the vision is able to use the power of Congruent Creativity to bring that vision into reality.
Pulling it All Together: Although it may sound like the steps to Congruent Creativity are linear they do not need to be. In fact, the most powerful way to create is to bring alignment of your thoughts/feelings, words, and actions simultaneously by “acting as though” what you’re thinking, feeling and saying is already so. Many times people feel they need to wait for something before they can be in action. They wait until they have enough confidence or until they’ve learned enough to be sure to succeed. This waiting game often leads to procrastination and greatly slows down the process. But with Congruent Creativity you gain the confidence and learn what you need to know as you bring your three spheres of creativity into alignment with each other.
Let me make one final observation for now. While it may appear at first blush that Congruent Creating is diametrically opposed to what I wrote about earlier in the section on “The Power of ‘C’”, I suggest to you to consider this instead to be one of the Purposeful Paradoxes I wrote about in Life On Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life. Remember this quote from Gregg Levoy in his book, Callings: Finland and Following an Authentic Life:
Heroism can be redefined for our age as the ability to tolerate paradox, to embrace seemingly opposing forces without rejecting one or the other just for the sheer relief of it, and to understand that life is the game played between two paradoxical goal posts: Winning is good and so is losing; freedom is good and so is authority; having and giving; action and passivity; sex and celibacy; income and outgo; courage and fear. One doesn’t cancel out the other. Both are true.
So, perhaps one of the most powerful places to stand in where you have access to the “Power of ‘C’” and the power of Congruent Creating. After all, the more coaching distinctions we have and use, the more powerful and effective we can be in our lives.
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W. Bradford Swift has enjoyed a combo career as a writer and life coach for over thirty years and now coaches aspiring authors to write that someday, one day book TODAY. http://wbradfordswift.com/writing-coach/
