The Creative Idea-to-Form Process

Carol Carnes believes we are involved in the creative process every moment of our lives. “Removing ourselves from the ever-becoming universe is impossible,” she writes in the April 2022 Science of Mind magazine. “The idea-to-form process is built into every human being. We cannot stop it or opt out of it.”

Consider every object in your line of sight. Each one, whether a piece of furniture or a plant or a painting, resulted from the creative process. “This physical world is the evidence of the ongoing activity of Intelligence producing form,” Carnes says.

If, as Meister Eckhart said, “God is forever begetting the only begotten,” then each creation is a new version of the original idea.

Carnes asks that we consider this: “Every choice you have ever made brought you to this moment and the conditions you are experiencing. … We have tremendous power over the content of our minds, but most of us exercise only a tiny portion of it.”

She suggests thinking from the whole to the part by turning away from limited conditions we want to change. Instead, she advises, "Let it go into the nothingness from whence it came. Focus on the new idea. See it, feel it and declare it to be active now as your inner guidance, your actualized experience. Stay tuned in.”

Seven Strategies to Unleash Creativity

Kelly Byrnes, a member of Forbes Coaching Council and president of Voyage Consulting Group, knows a fresh perspective fuels accomplishing new goals. She offers seven strategies to unleash your creativity.

1. Release phrases like “we’ve always done it that way” and “they’ll never let us change it.” Reflect deeper on how to step away from these “idea drainers.”
2. Check your ego and self-interest so you can open yourself to new ideas.
3. Disengage and be still.
4. Learn from the best.
5. Do what kids do: Go play outside, color outside the lines, organize a game.
6. Expand your circle of friends to expand your mind.
7. Follow a process that starts with a vision and invite others to support you.

Find more of Byrnes’ advice on creativity click here.

Declare It and Decree It

By Ernest Holmes

Each person can speak out of his own consciousness of God and heal the discord within the life of another. Have you more love than there is hate in him, more joy than there is grief, more beauty in your own soul than there is ugliness in his?

Is heaven more real to you than discord? Do you really love your fellow man and, in compassion, wish him freedom as great as your own?

Declare it and decree it — and as surely as the day follows night, it shall dawn on you through experience out of practice that there is a silent Power, actual and dynamic, that heals. Like the blind man Jesus healed, you too will know the person you prayed for has been befriended by the Infinite One, whose compassion he felt, whose Love overpowered and restored his vision of life. And you, too, will hear him say, “Whereas I was blind, now I see.”

—Excerpted from the April 2022 Science of Mind magazine, originally published as “Your Mind Is Creative” in the January 1965 Science of Mind magazine.