Of Fragments & Epiphanies

I hope you\’re all travelling nicely. Lots of cool things happening behind the scenes here at meditation towers which hopefully we\’ll be able to update you on next month. Up until yesterday I had a complete blank about what I was going to write about this month. Usually I\’m filled with an abundance of ideas but the three website upgrades we\’re doing and the 90,000 words I recently discovered I am required to write for them is diverting my creative resources somewhat!

And then it occurred to me that perhaps it would be a rather grand idea to talk through the process of ideation itself.

We are all of us full of thoughts and full of ideas, some good, some bad, some indifferent, but where do they come from? Ideation – the process of generating ideas and thoughts, is very much a product of the condition of our mind, body and nervous system. They eminate from deep within our sub-conscious and the quality of the ideas being generated will usually be determined by; how coherent our brain functioning is; how stimulated our amygdala is; and how activated our sympathetic nervous system is.

If our brain is full of incoherent, independently functioning regions of activity as most people tend to experience, then all this cerebral static will cause the mind to pick up on fragments of ideas here and there and they will only be partially formed before the excitable wild horses of the mind gallop off with it this way and that. And often, these neurological nuggets will be coloured by the context of the interpretative values assigned by our internal filters.

One of these filters, the sympathetic branch of the nervous system is the storehouse of all our woes, and as a consequence, whenever it is overstimulated (which is most of the time when we lead a busy, city life), it filters all of our thoughts and feelings through the lens of negativity. It is the source of our half glass empty perspectives, and as such the context of the idea formation is very much one \’there\’s no point trying, it won\’t work anyway\’.

The other filter, the amygdala, is a region of the brain which mediates our sense of fear and anxiety, and again, it is overactive in us all, and in many cases it is in overdrive, constantly spewing out neurotransmitters of fear. As a result, the majority of our thoughts, feelings and perspectives are filtered through the lens of a slight sense of fear and anxiety of the unknown. It is the seat of our \’what if something goes wrong\’ sense of nervousness.

And the body\’s role in all this? Well, if the body is humbled with toxicity, imbalanced systems, malignant cellular structures, and damaged organs and tissues, then it is going to be sending signals of discontent through the central nervous system activating either or both of the above filters and potentially agitating us into a sense of dis-ease. Thus many of our good ideas get sabotaged by these overactive filters.

Beeja meditation works at all levels to ensure that the body is cleansed and rebalanced, the nervous system is calmed and the amygdala is not so hyperactive. Thus we open up a clear channel for inspired frequencies to filter through. And the brain develops such globalised coherence that it is able to assimilate all the information flowing in and through us and cogitate it into something well-formed, super creative and full of manifest potential. The Beeja worldview would further note that the genesis of all ideation actually comes from the underlying field of consciousness which permeates all things, even space. Therefore, the more de-excited our mind and nervous system, the more our internal quiescence and coherence allows us to become ever more finely tuned to the impulses of the wider field of being. The ether if you will.

And as we evolve, so we are able to pluck more and more nuggets of wisdom and creativity from this abundant, and some would say, infinite source of creativity.