Creativity and Love

Love & Creativity Research of
Sustainabiity and Wellness Initiatives
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Love & Creativity
Research for Dialogs Exchange by Hai Dai
“Love and Creativity” presentation is part of
the Human Biodiversity Framework; WOW BALI’S International
Recognized Initiative for Sustainability and Wellness development.
For full presentation, please visit www.WowBali.com.
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Preface
This presentation is part of WOW Bali’s R&Dfor a creative autonomous
exchange that can be utilized to connect the understanding of love via
creativity and visa versa.
We hope to go beyond the lump sum and understanding of what “love and
creativity” means from just the emotional context; especially due today’s
rapid deterrent disconnects of one’s emotional intelligence. Unless we can
develop one of the greatest emotions of our lives so that it can be
“energy for motion, it will only create emotional blockage within that
may detour one’s wellbeing and health.
Our goals are the define the alikeness and via its similarities and differences
to connect us at the human level. Our sustainable human development
processes via “Love and Creativity” defined these “twins” to be the
backbone of sustainable development for a more holistic participatory
approach; which is the KEY solution to today’s sustainability .
Hai Dai,
Co-Founder of WowBali & Creative Director
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Inspired Creativity
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PROFOUND EMOTION…
• When we are in LOVE we think differently!
• Love makes the mind to have “Global Processing” BIG
PICTURE THINKING!
• Sex promotes “Analytical Thinking” HERE AND NOW!
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Global Processing?
Big Picture Thinking
Promotes Creativity!
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Scientific American
• Love doesn’t just influence the way we think about people
we love and desire. It influence the way we think about
everything.
• Halo affect: Struggle to distinguish between the different
qualities of the beloved person .
• Take away lesson of love or anything that promotes a
distal perspective or global processing, can make us
more creative.
• Love is potent way to induce a sense of
transcendence.
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Love, lust & Creativity
• Love and creativity are intimately connected. Many lovers
have expressed their love and talent through creative
display, sometimes to embarrassing results.
Does lust drive someone to the
same heights of creativity?
• Love and sex are like “kissing cousins”; both are linked in
people’s mind and brain but love and lust lead to two
different ways of perceiving the world.
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LOVE VS. Lust
• Romantic love as having to do with dreamy wishes and
long term goals of attachment.
• Lust having to do more with the “here and now” and the
desire to engage in sexual activity.
• Love’s focus on the long-term would enhance holistic
thinking and creative thought.
• Lust focus on the present would engage on analytical
thought.
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Studies on love:
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What is Creativity?
• Creativity is the ability to generate new ideas and new
connections between ideas, and ways to solve
problems in any field or realm of our lives
• There’s a link between creativity and positive emotions
and, ultimately, happiness.
• Positive emotions and creativity make us feel
interested in the world around us.
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Creativity processes
• Creativity has to be
nurtured.
• Know your strengths.
• Capture new ideas.
• Challenge yourself.
• Broaden your knowledge.
• Choose what to pay
attention to.
• Redesign your work to use
your strengths more.
• Change your environment.
• Sleep on it.
• Collaborate.
• Go outside of the norm.
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Why need creativity?
• Problem solving things that could not be otherwise.
• Connections toward one’s highest intelligences.
• Enable an emotional practice and the exercise of
emotional intelligence.
• Constantly seeking for solutions and positive
outcomes; more beauty.
• Exercising relatedness of alike things and/or find fusion
of opposite dynamics.
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So what is love?
Five Theories on the Greatest Emotion of all:
"What is love" was the most searched phrase on
Google in 2013, according to the company.
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Physicist’s view
• Love is basic chemistry! Love is a powerful neurological condition like
hunger or thirst, only more permanent. We talk about love being blind or
unconditional, in a sense we have no control over it.
• Lust is a temporary passionate sexual desire; increased release of
chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen.
• Love, more attachment and bonding, the brain releases pheromone,
dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, and vasopressin.
• From evolutionary perspective, love can be viewed as a survival
tool; mechanism to promote long term relationship, mutual defense and
parental support of children and to promote feelings of safety and
security.
Based Jim Al-khalili is a thoretical physicist and science writer.
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Psychotherapist’s view
• Love is not lump under “one word” but described as six
types and possibly unrealistic to expect to experience with
only one person. This is why family and community are
important.
Types Include:
Philia , Ludus , Pragma , Agape, Philautia and Eros
Based on Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist and author
• of Couch Fiction.
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Psychotherapist’s… TYPES
of love
• Philia – Deep but non-sexual intimacy between close friends and family member.
Deep bond forged by soldiers as they fought side by side.
• Ludus – More playful affection found in fooling around and flirting.
• Pragma – mature love that develops over a long period of time between long-term
couples and involved practicing good will, commitment, compromise and
understanding.
• Agape – more generalized love; not about exclusive but about love of all humanity.
• Philautia – is self love which isn’t as selfish as it sound. To care of others you must
case of self!
• Eros – sexual passion and desire; causes most trouble unless it morphs into philia
and/or pragma, eros will burn itself out.
Based on Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist and author of Couch Fiction.
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Philosopher’s View
• Love is not one thing; love for parents, partners, children,
country, neighbor, God and so on have different qualities.
• Love qualities has its variants – blind, one-sided, tragic,
steadfast, fickle, reciprocated, misguided, unconditional.
• At its best, all love is a kind of passionate commitment that we
nurture and develop; even though it usually arrives in our lives
unbidden. That’s why it is more than just a powerful feeling.
• Without the commitment, it is mere infatuation. Without
passion, it is dedication. Without nurturing, even the best can
wither and die.
Julian Baggini is a philosopher and writer.
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Novelist’s view
• Love is dependent on where you are in relationship to it.
Secure - mundane and necessary as air; exist within it,
almost unnoticing. Deprive – it can feel like an obsession;
all consuming, a physical pain.
• Love is a the drive for all great stories: not just romantic
love, but love of parent, child, family and country.
• It is the point before consummation of it that fascinates:
what separates you from love, the obstacles that stand in its
way. It is usually at those points that love is everything.
Jojo Moyes is a two time winner of the Romantic Novel of the year
award.
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A NUN’s view
• Love is more easily experienced than defines.
• As a theological virtue, where god is above all things and
our neighbor as ourselves for his sake, it seems remote
until we encounter it enfleshed, so to say, in the life of
another – in acts of kindness, generosity and self
sacrifice.
• Love’s the one thing that can never hurt anyone, although
it may cost dearly.
• The paradox of love is that it is supremely free yet
attaches us with bonds stronger than death. It cannot be
bought or sold; there is nothing it cannot face, love is life’s
greatest blessing.Love & Creativity Research of
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Osho’s view
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Bases of love:
• Love as ideals: multiple dimensions, infinite connections,
emotions and relatedness in meanings; probably why it is
never complete
• Love as active exchanges: conditional (sex and/or offering
in exchanges) and unconditional (all giving and
acceptances)
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Modern Love concepts
• Socialist’s View – Love as Passion
• Esoteric Spiritual’s View– Twin Soul/Flames
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Socialist’s View
“Love as communication mediums to
differentiate one from society.”
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Luhmann’s view
• Love is not a feeling but a medium of communication; at
least for the sociologists.
• Love functions like many other media, stabilizing
expectations and making selections possible in a context
where misunderstanding is a given and breakdown always a
possibility. Especially true for love, which carves out a
world of proximate experience quite unlike any other
social sphere.
• Love is the more so in modern society, where the sphere of
intimate life has become functionally differentiated from
other spheres: politics, economy, law, art science, to name a
few. Love, therefore, is different from other media.
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Luhmann’s continues…
• What love has to do, therefore, is stabilize a world of
expectations so that people can actually fall in love and then
make it last, even though the odds of this occurring are stacked
against it: a perfect example of what social systems do – make
the implausible possible.
• Society does this by privatizing love, shielding it from social
control or steering. Legal restrictions on the conduct of intimate
life progressively wane. People are now free to choose.
Ironically, the idea of love as passion underlines the
compulsive nature of this freedom. But it is not centrally
directed. There is no panopticon, to cite Foucault, busy discipline
amorous citizens. At the same time the organic basis of social life
is drawn into play. Sex become allied to love in a way it never
did before, helping to secure the medium. Sexuality
individualizes love and make it exclusive.
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Luhmann’s continues…
• Love, therefore, is not a constant, but changes over
time as society itself changes. Luhmann studies the
changes in love's semantics, in order to understand both
how love works in modern society and how modern society
works.
• In pre-modern love was political or religious,
coterminous with society, for which erotic love was
seen as disruptive. Now love is defined as passion and
differentiated from society, which means it can no
longer operate as a steering mechanism for society as
a whole. It is lucky if it can operate thus for intimate
relationships.
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Academic on Luhman
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Twin soul/flames View
New Age / Esoteric View
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Esoteric/new age
• A Twin Flame is a spiritual concept describing a special soul
connection between two souls. The Twin Flames are thought to
be a template for an ancient/eternal type of relationship between
lovers. The fundamental thought behind this concept is that
the dawning new era in human spiritual evolution will be a
time when relationships foster enhanced spiritual growth
between lovers, whereas in previous times and still early in the
21st century couples stayed together for purposes of physical
survival and economical safety more than anything else.
According to the mythology of Twin Flames, in the beginning of
time we were created from one source, that was split into smaller
and smaller units down to two souls (and on rare occasions,
halves of one soul) that would journey to Earth to learn an
experience duality. They would reincarnate over lifetimes with this
longing for each other, often meeting until, they would reunite and
then leave this physical plane as one.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_flame
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TWIN FLAMES DYNAMICS
• Twin Flame relationships come into your life to help mold
you and to embody the vibrations of unconditional love.
• … both twins integrate fully into the third energy of
unconditional love in a way that influences others
towards their own heart opening.
• …. at this stage, the surrendered twin's emotional, mental
and spiritual bodies arrive at full maturity. New creativity
and healing abilities arise, which are put in service to
assist others.
Excepts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aIV5okbDZQ#t=209
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Modern love wants us…
• Break away from the traditional norm of societal love
(pre-modern love).
• Migrate LOVE towards an expressive medium/
communication.
• Nurture LOVE from a knowing/connected space to
benefit self and then others.
• Express a higher self LOVE.
• Creative imaginative connections to our highest
divinity.
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Love & Creativity
What do they have
in common?
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• Both are beautiful perceptions in the infinite possibilities.
• Both share the same processes of seeing, creating and
nurturing beauty.
• They both have an unique and array of solutions,
processes and outcomes; yet the end goal of
connections, relatedness and holistic endeavors with
SELF and others are the same.
• Both share the same active deliverables of offering and
acceptance of self and others.
• In the highest of its devotion is the ultimate freedom.
• The processes of one can influence affectively of the
other.
Love & Creativity
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Love’s attachments
• Love is direct to our emotional intelligences therefore has
deeper attachment to ownership rather than deliverables of
creativity.
• Love is inclusive of all intelligences (inspiring) all
modalities of our aesthetics and perceptual therefore
requires high creative intelligences to find alternative and/or
release; but possible with high creative processes.
• If Love is creatively channeled can produced the most
energetic exchange; possibly the greatest provocateur for
actions.
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CREATIVITY DISCONNECTS
• The wrong intent for creativity may disrupt our emotional
intelligence and may create dissonant with our emotional well
being.
• The attachments to creative deliverables and/or rigid
conditioning may limits our emotional intelligence and
expansive creative curiosity which is the backbone of the
interconnectedness of creativity and love.
• Non collaborative affect and/or lack of inter-disciplinary
processes of one’s medium can limits the creative potential
and interconnectedness of emotional intelligence which may
hinder real connections.
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Holistic participation
• For more information on our “creativity and
love” framework and/or how to participate in our
“Celebration Programs,” please contact Hai Dai at
wow@wowbali.com.
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/daihai
• Skype: Wow.Bali
Creative Exchanges/ Economics model; No Money Necessary.
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