At Creative School for Integration we recognize Infinity Containers as a direct connect to the quantum (aka pure potential) and also as a space holder of anything we are witnessing, reconciling and/or transmuting.

Infinity Containers take us out of the rectangular screen shape of our televisions, computers, tablets and phones. Of course, screens are important at this time in human history for communication and our work. I wrote this via a computer screen. You are looking at a screen right now. But rectangular screens are not the only lens to shape our point of view (POV) or from which to birth our work. At Creative School for Integration we are passionate about offering tools to help participants create outside of predetermined language, construct and bias. It's all about trusting moment to moment collaboration with creativity.

Compositionally, the Infinity Container may or may not govern the creative  marks and/or resulting form — that is between the maker and creativity itself. The undulating Infinity Container, within one's inner vision, within the body, around the body and on the page, is an accessible creative journey that deeply touches the Creative HEART Space. 

Did you know you can hop on the National Institute of Health website right now and read about how we have approximately 40,000 neurons in our heart – many scientists acknowledging that the heart has its own brain. The neurons in the heart can learn, remember, and make decisions independently of the head's brain, influencing emotions, attention, and memory.

The heart sends more signals to the brain than it receives, approximately  80% of its communication is through the vagus nerve, the longest cranial nerve, running from the base of the brain through the neck, heart, chest, and down to the abdomen. 

Additionally, the heart's electromagnetic field is roughly 5,000 times stronger than the brain's and provides a synchronization for the entire body – much like how the Hindu Anahata, the unconditional loving heart chakra located in the center of the chest convenes the meeting place of our human potential and divine spirit. 

When we hold dichotomies, creative tensions or opposites such as our human-self and our spirit-self in our Creative HEART Space we consciously engage our whole self which is refreshing. This helps us to move from polarity, to paradox to pure potential.  

Holding the Creative Tension of the Opposites has a rich history: 

∞ A 51,200-year-old cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is  currently the oldest documented narrative art. It depicts anthropomorphic figures interacting with a wild pig – suggesting early human awareness of complementary forces. 

∞ Chinese Yin/Yang philosophy dates back as far as 700 B.C.E. — and addresses the dynamic balance of opposites.

∞ The Yoga Sutras, Middle Eastern Indian Classical Yoga texts date back to 200 B.C.E and note the holding of the opposites.

∞ The Buddhist Middle Way encourages holding the creative tension between things that appear real and what appears mystical. 

∞ Judaism's Kabbalistic Tree of Life contains polarities that are balanced by the central wooden axis of the tree. 

∞ Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded the school of analytical psychology centered his work on the tension of opposites arguing that the conflict between conscious and unconscious forces is essential for psychological growth, integration and creative function.

∞ Jung's student, Marion Woodman (1928 – 2018) mythopoeic author & dream psychologist expanded the term Holding Both by heavily emphasizing the split between the psyche (mind/soul) and the soma (body). Woodman challenged the ego's demand for absolute, rigid choices. Instead, she advocated for a thinking heart that can handle paradox — for example, trusting life while accepting death. Woodman referred to Both/And instead of Either/Or and advocated that when one truly holds the tension without running away, a third emerges — a new perspective, or a new way of being, that brings the two opposites together. For Woodman, this is not just an intellectual exercise but a physical experience aka body-soul integration. She said the body must be strong enough to contain this high-voltage energy without breaking. Much like how the physical heart has a central pulmonary artery that integrates the left and right chambers so it can all function together.

At Creative School for Integration we are passionate about creativity that emerges from the integration of the human-self and spirit-self. You are invited to come explore with us. No matter how we try to put all this into words you really need to experience it for yourself!