It's a delightful experience to kiss a baby and hear it coo when they're happy and content. We marvel at the beauty, purity and innocence of the child. Many Spiritualists believe that we choose the family that we are born into in order to learn the lessons needed to develop individually and collectively while we are on the earth plane. We are thrown into a familial repetition and our lives are irrevocably effected by the culture of our birth. Often, the families in which we are born have shut down emotionally and as children become adults they often become emotionally closed so as to be accepted and approved of by their family.
Spiritualists know that individuals choose to heal or remain stuck in a state of hopelessness.
The journey from fear to creativity begins with the will to consciously reopen ourselves emotionally. As we begin to open emotionally, we see that it has a ripple effect that is linked to our developmental potential and opens the channel to our intellectual, imaginational, psychomotor and sensual intelligences. A very intelligent woman came to my office about five years ago. When I asked her how I could help her, she answered that she had heard of my work in guiding people as they developed their creativity and since she supervised a large staff she wanted to learn specific techniques for this purpose. I explained to her that this was a process that involved individual personality development and that in order to learn about creativity, it would be necessary for her to learn where were the fears that blocked her own creativity.