Meditation Will Make You Realize That You Are The Sacred Secret Ingredient That Will Save The World Through Creative Self Expression
The more you meditate the more you will realize your courage, motivation, and radical responsibility to creatively express yourself.
The more you creatively express yourself the brighter you will shine as a beacon for transformation. Inspiring others to creatively express themselves creating exponentially more beacons triggering a chain reaction of love + compassion across the planet.
In 2015 Redbull launched a project called “Hacking Creativity”, the largest meta-analysis of creativity ever conducted - including over 30k different studies, interviewing thousands of creatives.
It came to 2 major conclusions:
Creativity is the most important skill for thriving in the 21st Century.
We are terrible at training for it
This is because we keep trying to train a skill when what we actually want to train for is a state of consciousness. We can train for that state with meditation and stabilize it through habituation.
The creative flow state and the meditative state are nearly identical in nearly every way we know how to measure them. In terms of subjective experience, observed behaviour, active brain structures, neural networks, dominant brainwave frequencies, neurochemical profiles, these states match up pretty much across the board.
ALTERED STATES > ALTERED TRAITS
And we know from recent research studies that altered states lead to altered traits. Basically - the more a brief and transitory STATE is repeated the more the qualities of that state become stable and long-lasting TRAIT.
Most modern research categorizes the characteristics of this state into four categories; Selfless, Timeless, Effortless, Richness.
Selfless: meaning you stop over-thinking your association with your identity; the inner critic quiets and stops over analyzing every little detail, increase empathy, altruism, care for others.
Timeless: Time Dilation, time seems to speed up, slow down, or not exist at all. You’re not worrying that you just might have said something dumb or the thing you have to do in an hour. You’re more present, plunged into what researchers call “the deep now”.
Effortless: Things seem to flow more easily, there’s a seamless transition from one thing to the next, action + awareness merge.
Richness: Sensory perceptions are heightened, we’re able to take more information in, recognize what information is important, and process that information more efficiently. you’re experiencing reality in higher detail.
These characteristics are foundational in developing the trait of creative self-expression. Abilities like emotional recognition and regulation, the ability to identify important information, and the ability to develop the courage and skills to share that information creatively and effectively with more ease. Ultimately this will lead to a realization of cosmic unity = an interdependence of the whole = Seeing every moment as the most beautiful peace of art imaginable being co-created by all of us simultaneously = understanding that true attainment is through giving = motivated because all you want to do is share these beautiful and rewarding experiences with everyone else so they can experience it too.
In short, it will help you discover your passion and purpose and help you fortify them with habit, intention and intrinsic motivation.
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." -Picasso
The greatest gift you can give to others is to be your full-true-self.
Have a devotion to your own unique style, ignore traditional measures of success and failure, and shatter societal norms through joy + enthusiasm.
Because when you express yourself truly and vulnerably without fear you reach people in ways you could have never imagined. Becoming a beacon for transformation, dissolving the boundaries of ordinary expectation.
Causing a consciousness catalyzing chain reaction. Creating an exponential amount of more beacons of love + self expression in every direction spreading across the planet, feeding love energy back into itself, making the signal brighter and stronger, hitting a critical mass of awakened individuals, accelerating human consciousness and the restoration of our planet, turning the planet itself into a massive beacon generating a signal of pure love reaching out into the universe, hitting a critical mass of beacon-planets, accelerating planetary evolution, galactic evolution, and so on, throughout the universe, transcending space, time, and dimension!
That’s why you should meditate to support cosmic evolution through creative self expression.