CAN WE STOP MAKING VISIONS?

CAN WE STOP MAKING VISIONS?

As I put the finishing touches on my son's swingset, he asked me...

"Dad, when you're done putting the trampoline together, can we stop making visions for one week?"

"What do you mean, buddy?"

"I mean can we just like enjooooooy the playground and trampoline and just play together on them before we make more visions?"

What struck me first about this is how much I loved the fact that his orientation in life is simply that we create a vision and then we make it happen.

Since before he could talk, he's lived in a house where images of dreams and possibilities scroll on our living room television. When we were living in Santa Monica, CA, for a year or more, he saw photos of Hawaii, beaches, farm lands, animals, fruit trees...and then that became his life. Last year, we created a new vision including a mobile chicken coop, a playground for him and many other things. Recently, he's seen those things come into form too.

I admired my work as a father setting an example of how life can be like this. How life can be such that you dream it and you make it happen, dream it and make it happen, repeat ad infinitum.

And then, when the dust of my self-admiration settled, I saw the other side. 

I saw the dark-side of making visions. 

In the same way a muscle worked and not-rested will not just plateau, but likely be injured, the constancy of 'making' can not only kill a man, but more importantly, obstruct the joy he intends for and with his son.

"Yes, we can do that. Let's take a break from 'making visions' and just play," I replied.

In the way I use the word, this is still Creating.

Making visions is Creating and not making visions is also Creating.

When I'm not making visions, I may not be working towards realizing something I envision - in fact I may not be 'making' anything happen at all - but I will be experiencing the world. And this experience is absolutely and always created.

Often in Creator’s Circle we need to remind clients of this same thing that my son had just reminded me.

Creating is not Making. 

Making is of the world. It's material. It's form. It's from here to there. It can be something we do and something we don't do.

Creating on the other hand, just is. As long as we exist, we are doing it because we are Being it. In fact, even when we die, we are still Creating. 

And so to show up for Creator’s Circle without something to 'make happen' is not only welcome, but encouraged. 

The more we can experience ourselves in creation when we are not 'making stuff happen', the more in-touch we are with Creating not as something to do, but our essential nature.

We Are Creating.

If you'd like to experience the depth at which you ARE Creating - of which 'making visions' can often be an expression - then I would love to support you, alongside Darren Farfan , in our upcoming Creator’s Circle 10.

Go here to apply now.

Or simply reply to this post expressing your interest and I will receive it personally and then get in touch with you.

Speak with you soon!

Loving you, JP