Creating Genuine Change

To analyze a process to find out how it works, to break it down into its parts, to find its “flaws” in an attempt to make it more efficient or productive; these are earmarks of the scientific (analytical) method.

But I submit that it is the creative process that has, and always will be, the force behind genuine change.  The analytical process really comes into play after something has been created. That is when we pick it apart trying to figure out how it happened.  Analysis falls short of being able to comprehend the dynamics involved in the creative process. 

Let’s take our planet as an example.  Many have, and continue to attempt, to figure out what/how it was created.  Does this in any way feed a creative solution to the alleged issues facing planet earth? No, it simply tags and labels the issues which are then dealt with through laws or government “intervention”. 

So, how does the creative process present a better solution? 

****WE GET WHAT WE CREATIVELY -IN GRATITUDE- FOCUS ON****

People love the lovely, the beautiful.  We forget to appreciate the sun, the moon, the smell after it rains and the colors in a sunset.  We will always find a way to “create” a way to protect what we truly have gratitude for.  Here the poets and the artists have the advantage over the analyticals.  When was the last time you were truly moved by a reported scientific study?  Now, have you ever been moved by a landscape painting or a poem or a song or a gifted speaker of vision?  Most people have. In fact, many have these “depictions of beauty and creation” hanging on the walls of their homes, recorded on their IPods and saved on their computer desktops.  Creative arts bring out the gratitude we feel toward what we treasure.  This engages a part of us that simple logic/analysis cannot.

So, what is all of that leading to?  

We must focus on what we do want, not what is wrong.  
Not “how” can we , but simply 

“what does it look, smell and taste like” ? 

What does a population that cares and sustains the planet it lives on look like?  

How does a generation with true gratitude think and behave?