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Guest Post: Spirituality, creativity, imagination, and your potential

Ryan Seslow is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in New York. Follow him on Twitter.

Could this be the activating formula that we have been waiting for?

What is Spirituality?
Spirituality is NOT just an association with any one type of religion or philosophy. One must understand this. Spirituality manifests itself through many variations of life. Spirituality is an understanding that life expands from a certain inwardness. Upon the awareness of this inwardness, one knows there exists something from which we came and will one day return to. This understanding makes our heart beat, it makes winter change effortlessly into spring. It is far move evolved than the limitations of our five physical senses. Spirituality is a personal relationship with ones self in relationship to its perceived creator. Spirituality is an ongoing journey and learning experience from the inside out.

What is Creativity?
Creativity is the action and ability to give tangible form to an idea, impulse or intuition. It can be a brand new idea, or it can be an extension of something that already exists. Creativity can change the context of something in a new and innovating way. Please understand that all creativity begins inside of us. It starts out as all things do, as an energy, a thought, it starts out as a non- physical thing. This non physical energy is spiritual. It comes to us from the infinite source of supply. Some call this God, some call it the divine, some call it the universe, some simply call it universal omnipotence. Creativity’s desire is your desire and need of physical expression. Creativity can be expressed infinitely, it should not be limited to any one discipline of expression.

What is the Imagination?
The Imagination is one’s ability to perceive, intuitively sense, form ideas, create mental images and sensations of potential things and or events. These experiences could be directly related to ones own life and or the lives of others. The imagination is infinite, it is the storehouse of all potential perceptions that can be become reality. Everything tangible begins in ones imagination.

What is ones Creative Human Potential?
It is the certainty and capacity for ones creative and imaginative intentions coming into physical being. There is an inner likeliness of the expected mental image and feeling associated to it to become and be.

It is my pleasure and goal to take concepts of creativity, imagination, spirituality and the overall human potential, to make them accessible and understandably applicable for everyone. These concepts play a role in the shaping of our reality as we know it. Our thoughts affect our bodies just as they affect our physical world.

How are you currently creating your experiences?

Spiritual Awareness + Imagination = Creativity.

Creativity is the Desire of Self Expression.

Self Expression + Your Creative Potential = An Innovative Injunction

( The experience and all of the content involved to make it happen ).

I am asking you to consider using the meanings of these terms for your personal growth. By researching more information on your own, you will be led to find the content that you resonate with. We are here to co-create our physical reality, this makes us responsible for creating the manuals for our lives!

Good Creative Energy to All.

This post originally appeared on The Official Blog of the Art of Ryan Seslow. Ryan Seslow is a professor of fine arts, teaching studio art courses simultaneously between four colleges in the NY area.
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