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Originally Posted by Stu  So, I'm wondering, what does it for everyone else? What turns a thought or a goal in to real action? How do you go from A to B? |
Sorry to be really technical here but I want to make an important distinction.
Action always comes about by its own accord. Thought is generally just the mind's comments about what is happening (or not happening if the thoughts are about the past/future) or a reasoning to do something or not do something.
Typically I believe we use thoughts to insert a lot of delay into our own natural volition. In my experience of myself, I throw lots of delay into my own fiery creative process, and my mind will come up with a bunch of reasons why I can't do xyz right now. It's sort of like I don't want to face my choice of not acting upon my own inner movement, so I make up a story (with the mind) to make my self-stifling ok.
So, if the mind is not involved in making things happen for me, what is? How do I make things happen when 'what happens' come about by it's own accord? Hmmmmm. Think on that.
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I'm also perplexed, because for the life of me I can't identify what the trigger was, what the thing was that got me started. I would love to know what it is so I can use it again
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The trigger is not in the mind. It is deeper than the mind. You could say the mind only acts like a brake in most cases. The 'you' that chooses to write is not the mind-based-self (by that I mean the person you think you are as having a name, address, job, friends, etc.), but the beingness that you are.
It does the choosing, not the self that is created in the mind.
The mind wants to know the formula to get things going, when there is no process or formula. As far as the mind is concerned, things happen of their own accord. You are either writing or you are not. That's the reality. You can go with the flow, or resist that. The mind likes to resist when it 'thinks' something different should be happening.