Creation Vs Consumption

 Creation Vs Consumption (Still In Process)

I'm currently experiencing a transition in my mind. Old paradigms are crashing down, new ones are rallying into the fray. Change is upon me. I'm learning new ideas and with the old dysfunctional ones passing away, the flood of new ones has taken center stage. In stock terms, my positive thoughts are going parabolic. They always seemed to be there, yet resided in the background on loop, biding their time for when they would become strong enough to make their case for the leading role. One of the ideas that has presented itself to me is creation and its relationship to consumption.

 Creation is when you do something like make your own food, watch a movie the whole way through without looking at a cell phone, reading a book from start to finish. It is something that adds to the wealth of consciousness and is a concentrated activity that requires the exertion of thought and will. You may ask how watching a movie counts as creation. It does if the right intention is behind it. If you become a vegetable as you watch and do it only to cure your mind with a distraction, then it is negative consumption. If you do it because you want to see something interesting and relax, then you are in the process of creating an experience that is positive, which is both consumption and creation in the positive direction. Consumption is necessary. Without it, Shakespeare would not have any readers and all great content would be a tottered weed of small worth held. In mind space, a thought is creation and thinking that thought is consumption, so each is beneficial to the other.

 I speak of these things not with physical reality in mind, since you become what you think of naturally. I am only talking about the base ideas of creation and consumption. The physical reality effects are a sub reality of the primary driver, which is mind. Mind is everything. However, I will also speak to the effects. I am learning that creation is the mental exertion of a will. For example, someone visualizes a garden. It takes mental effort (intent/willpower) to render the garden mentally and the trees and smells. This is creation. The consuming process happens when you feel happier and react to the thought in whatever way. You are enjoying the fruits of the mental labor. Notice how this can be achieved by sitting in a room and staring blankly at a wall. 

This is evolution in progress. In physical reality, the same process takes place. One person says something and another listens. One just created and another just consumed. In physical life, I found myself with too much consumption. I would browse YouTube videos just to distract myself with no real positive goal. If someone eats at fast food and never engages in their own cookery, they are in consumption. If you read and never write, you are a consumer. If you want to be a consumer only, mentally and physically you are doomed. Your thoughts will be random, and you will act out odd compulsions with no exertion of will and you will be at the mercy of stronger intents, good or bad. This is why consuming and creating need to be in harmony with each other. More on this later.

 

 I've also been noticing that as I take care of one area of life, other ones are growing on their own, sort of on autopilot. It's like when one stock goes up and then the other in the sector follow cause they are closely linked. If you benefit one area of the mind, like giving up fast food as a friend of mine has done, others follow suit that you did not even intend. Now, to consumption.