RE-DISCOVER YOUR DREAM
When I first began studying Tai-chi and Zookinesis, the 1960’s were in full bloom. The theme of the times was to try something new. The music, Eastern traditions such as Tai-chi, exploring space, love-ins and all of the social movements gave us hope that a new world was about to emerge. There was an energy among people, a concept that we could and should create our world rather than just complain about it.
It may seem that we are now back to the “grind” and the 1960’s is long dead. Yet there were hundreds of thousands of people who sought to retain that creative energy throughout their lives. I have met many people who, each in their own way, try to bring that peaceful, creative energy into their communities.
Yet there is no getting away from the fact that the theme of our times is survival. It feels as though time, money, energy and creativity are in short supply. Is it possible for people who lived through those times to bring back the excitement, the vigor of their youth?
According to Zookinesis principles, creativity is the most important factor in reviving our health and energy. When you are involved in the creative process, something you are excited about, energy somehow comes to you and you forget about all the aches and pains.
Your creative energy and your renewed enthusiasm for life then charges up people around you and ignites their creative energy. It doesn’t matter if you paint, write, do Tai-chi, play music, etc. Bringing a creative activity into your life, if even for a short amount of time per week, is very healing for yourself and your community.
More than fifteen years ago I wrote a novel about my experiences travelling in the jungles of Central America and never got around to writing the last chapter. So there it sat. I recently completed “The Doubting Snake”, re-doing some of the novel based on my last fifteen years of teaching experience. It has done wonders for my attitude and feeling of health.
Have you stopped doing something creative because you “didn’t have time” or because you think you lost your skill? Some people have the idea that if they cannot be great at what they do, they shouldn’t do it. They tie control over their lives to other peoples’ opinions (or the expectation of their opinions). We pay people to make music for us. We pay people to play sports for us. Music and sports were invented for everyone. They are not a contest but part of the enjoyment of life.
I believe that as a society, we have forgotten this. We have, to a large extent, become parts of a machine and not part of the energy of creativity that is the basis of life itself. We are, like the star trek “Borg”, part human and part machine. The question is, are we becoming more machine or more human. This is a choice each of us can make. We can make it every day and every week.
Dobby Gillis, in the “Dobby Gillis Show” (many years ago) once said, “Have a dream and live it.” Are you living your dream or have you forgotten what it even was?
“The Doubting Snake” is about the re-discovery of your dreams. I have found that just by remembering your dreams, you can bring new energy into your life.
Why not spend just a half hour a week doing something you would never have considered, something from your dreams long past, something positive and creative?
