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Creative energy.. We worry it is something only for some and not for others.. Yogi Bhajan reminds us that we all are creators and creatresses and unique expression of the creator. We are the vessels for the unstoppable force of the universal creative energy to flow through. One of the best ways, he says, to be a creative person, is to not attach to the outcome of your actions. Keep allowing the creative energy to flow through. In the lecture on elementary stress (Nov 8, 1989, Vitality and Stress Manual), he says, ‘We accept elementary stress: I don’t like today; I am not with you today. I don’t want to say anything, I want to go away. Rather than to send away our insecurity, our corruption, our negativity. No, we fundamentally want to go away.’
The CREATIVE ENERGY set is a beautiful way to break through and creatively undo our tendency to shrink and withdraw. It is a long set; like a massage that works one over this way and that. It is so long that you don’t want to spend a lot of time with warm up exercises. Except perhaps one; do 3 minutes of spinal flex accompanied by breath of fire to get ready for that second exercise which is shoulder stand.
Every good transformative set must loosen up the lower chakra triangle for the warming and limbering of our creative forces. The lower chakras are set and slow-moving and need some mobilisation. The first exercise, lying on your back, drumming your heel with the breath to your buttock, makes one smile. Why should we kick our own butts? So life doesn’t kick us..?! Second exercise, walking shoulder stand, walk your talk. Life nerve stretch. Then onto an arched back series of locust, king cobra and bow to lift the prana into opening the heart. Not one but two leg exercises, crows and frogs to work the energy through the main structural muscles so we can feel and ‘own’ this energy (though it doesn’t belong to us it is ours to use..). Ex13, moaning, groaning, shouting. So hard sometimes to liberate the voice and yet so necessary to express in an unedited flow. More and more, people in class understand this quite naturally (even polite, well adjusted, conservative South Africans.. Give the mad woman, the mad man in you 2 minutes time out then s/he is peaceful and well mannered the rest of the day. The next exercises 14 – 19 take the energy and beneficiate it to Udana Vayu, the resting of prana in the heart and head area. Especially ex 15 – thumbs in the arm pits stimulating the nervous system, fingers on the shoulders, raising and lowering the elbows – often brings little neural twitches in the face. These exercises also send the energy into your aura which is where we reconcile what we think with how we feel. Udana Vayu harmonises and makes aware the interface between conscious and subconscious and so gives us a new level-headed and heart-warmed sense of reality to think the thoughts and act from the heart… The very last exercise is sweet, sufi grind to ‘put the genie back in the bottle’, to dissipate and lock the prana into your being. A deep relaxation at the end is what you’ve been waiting for. (Currently, after teaching this level 2 course, I follow it with the magical meditation from the Vitality & Stress manual, POWER OF THE MIND OVER THE BODY. ) CREATIVE ENERGY liberates a sense of joyfulness, boldness, spirit of adventure, being able to flow with life. Not being too withholding or judgemental with regards to life. God’s flow can be chaotic whilst everything is unfolding in its own, often hidden sense of perfection. CREATIVE ENERGY allows us to present ourselves to life as life is.

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