Hey team,
If there’s one thing in life that I believe most likely leads to happiness, it’s creativity. Without creativity, what are we even? Just a bunch of humans bobbing around doing exactly as instructed? PASS.
With creativity, our individuality shines through and we feel all the good things – hope, joy, love, etc.
The bummer is that sometimes creativity can be challenging to access. For me at least, I can get stuck in my analytical, left-brained mindset, assessing and rationalizing everything around me… which is great, when it serves me. But when my creative mind is begging to come out and my logical mind is insisting on having control, my left-brain goes from being useful and reliable to causing me stress and actually being counter-productive.
It’s like my left brain doesn’t trust that my right brain will spend its time usefully. My left brain goes into panic doer mode while my creative mind cries in a corner begging if they can have a turn. Dramatic, sure, but hopefully you get the point…
Recently, I’ve been trying to actively make an effort to serve my creative mind. For me, this looks like setting aside un-scheduled time every day to just let my mind wander and do whatever it wants to. It’s shocking to me how much a half-hour walk with no agenda can work wonders for the creative side of me. I feel fresher and energized afterward and usually a lot less hard on myself.
Since I’m still in the experimental stage of finding what environment/time of day/circumstances best serve my creativity, I’m curious to hear what works for you guys. When do you feel most creative? What does creativity feel like for you? What areas of life are you most creative in?
Looking forward to your thoughts,
JM
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Develop the ability to observe For me so it helps me to be creative, then as one is more relaxed and is more propitious, write or paint.for last I think I must relate creativity with what is very inside of us and that comes when we usually do what in Truth we like.and not do them simply by commitment or because it is the general rule.
Well I think it normally earns the right brain but a bit of walking and fresh air in a pleasant environment I think it helps our creative side to come out, at least to me it works.
I have just got back into painting and writing. It feels so exciting to be able to let my creativity be more free. I think it’s a great idea to give ourselves time to just be so our creativity doesn’t get cramped. I think we let insecurity discourage our attempts at creativity too much though. I can’t wait to read more posts.
My brain floats around like a baloon on a string but I don’t do anything creative. I loved to write and draw but that was years back. Now, nothing. Which is kind of surprising to me because Bipolar people are normally very creative.
Alone, after dark. A constant stream of thought and focus without awareness of time and space. Stories. I make up stories for myself. Occasionally, I consider how to address current political events because I look back on the last couple decades and think that if I had arrayed all the options on a table my cat could have chosen better by random chance.
Sorry Michelle, today I don’t feel creative to write :v
best of luck for your future creativity!
Sorry, I should not have written all these nonsense I will not comment more on your post.
In fact this comment was also a joke
drawing and walking. woo!
Sorry i mean the songs not That far away and homeless heart are catching i sead taken but Saïd iT wrong sorry i love the songs and also the rest of ur songs
Apologize for my exaggerated sarcasm.
this makes a lot of sense. thanks!
“In fact, at science and engineering, left side should take the lead.”
What a discovery! “Einstein”
left brain-Capacity for analysis, ability to make logical reasoning, abstractions, solve numerical problems, learn theoretical information, make deductions…
science- scientific method- It consists of observation, problem-solving, data collection, hypothesis formulation, experimentation, analysis of results and dissemination.
I thought it was the left hemisphere of the finger on the right foot, should take the lead in science :v
I think you explained it well, she understood it and anyone else will understand your comment. I think the same as you, only that at that moment I was in sarcastic god mode, sorry.
very insightful!
(cough* not me cough*) I hope you heal from that cough :v
Ahh, thanks. *cough cough*
I like this comment.
love the musters reference. i hope you find more productive mornings help you to feel more creative, even while at work and in other less-creatively-conducive environments.
christmas village sounds amazing!
Cool. I always dreamed of this. Cool videos, thank you.