When my son came home from playing golf, I asked him how he played? He said, "Not well, I play best when I don't think." I had to smile to myself, because I knew exactly what he meant. However, it took me much longer to learn this about myself than it has taken him.
I have the same experience of this when I'm drawing, painting or writing. It doesn't happen right away, but moves in over time. In the process of creating, I release my mind and something outside me takes over. I'm no longer thinking and this is where my best work is created. Creativity flows through me, but it doesn't come from thinking. It comes from being "out of my mind." It is what I call "bliss." I suppose it is much like what an athlete feels when he or she is "in the zone", or when a writer or musician hits their stride.
It brings to mind the movie, "Billy Elliot". Billy goes to London to audition for the ballet and someone from the panel asks him, "How do you feel when you dance?" His first response is "I don't know", but then his facial expression changes and he stops thinking; he begins to feel what he feels while dancing and you can see that something else has taken over. He stumbles to articulate it and then says. "it doesn't happen right away, but eventually, it feels like electricity running through me." He expresses it beautifully. It is something that cannot come from the mind, it is something outside of thinking that takes over and comes through you.
Eckhart Tolle says, that all creation happens outside of the mind. It is my experience that anything of true value and substance happens when I am out of my mind. Miracles happen and God takes over when my mind gets out of the way and surrenders to endless possibilities and my highest potential. I love the experience of being out of my mind.
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