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Creativity in Crisis? 5 Gentle Ways to Get Your Creativity Flowing Again
All of us who create go through phases of feeling blocked, stuck or uninspired. If we don’t create for a while, whether it’s 10 hours or 10 years, it’s easy to soon get caught up in negative mental cycles and paralyse our creativity further.We’ve no doubt all experienced the paradox of knowing that the solution is just to create and yet creating is also the problem!Read more…How My Many Hats Fuel My Creativity
Margaret Lobenstine would call me a "Renaissance Soul". Chris King would refer to my "portfolio career".I usually just use the expression that I wear many different hats – throughout each day and throughout my life.Read more…Cultivate Your Creativity
Poet Robert Frost once commented, “The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and doesn’t stop until you get to the office.”He offered that comment several years ago.Read more…Enjoying the Creative Journey: Are Your Dreams Already Around You?
A significant part of coaching is about helping people identify and set goals that really matter to them, and that they’re motivated to achieve, and then supporting their progress towards these goals.Often though, we can have our sights so firmly set on the goals in the long term future that we overlook what we’re currently experiencing, and all the situations, opportunities and potential happiness that we’re actually right in the midst of.When our eyeline is blinkered like this and set so firmly on the distant horizon, we never pause to see and appreciate the view around us.Read more…Which is Your Type of Art Form
Art in Latin means "skill" or "craft" and it is generally accepted to be "the product or process of the effective application of a body of knowledge, most often using a set of skills, which from concept to creation adheres to the "creative impulse" of the maker." As centuries of art study reveal, art has taken many forms and has touched upon many disciplines. From the creation of a painting to the design of a video game, art is now a much more generic term used to describe many of today's human creations.Read more…Staying Open to Opportunities for Success, Creativity, Happiness & Wealth! Open Your Heart/Mind
In Coaching, we start with a process of envisioning what you truly want. Then I help my clients create a plan to move forward to get what the really want. So, if they’re starting a new business, we create a business plan.Read more…Cool Henna Design Tattoos
One of the coolest displays of art that I have seen was henna design - no, really. It was a really cool nature design and was utilized in the form of giving a tattoo. Tattooing is simply using what nature has to offer and using it as a form of expression on the human body.Read more…Increase Creativity With Simple Techniques: Positive Thought Blast
One of the most challenging aspects of maintaining a consistent creative output is to remain positive and to keep moving forward even in the face of creative resistance.This resistance comes in many guises, and most of it from within ourselves. When we let our negative thoughts go unchecked, what begin as seemingly fairly trivial and innocuous thoughts can so easily expand, multiply, and run riot in sabotaging our creativity and creative efforts.Read more…Increase Creativity With Simple Techniques: Creatively Stuck? Use the BoxBreaker!
Being “Creatively Stuck” is a common issue for many of my Creativity Coaching clients, that feeling that you’ve tried everything possible to move yourself forward and make progress but still you remain in the same place.The finer details of each person’s situation are different, but the overall issue, and the feelings of frustration and helplessness, are shared by all, and something each of us have experienced to some extent in our creative lives.Often the cause of being “stuck” is remedied by a simple and subtle change in perspective, just looking at the situation in a slightly different way, with new eyes and a fresh perspective.Read more…Asking The Questions To Kick-Start Young Writers
Children believe that when they grow up they will know and be able to do anything.It is a charming notion we all had once. I’m not keen to disillusion them, but this quick exercise gives them an insight into what it’s like being a grown up, and how they have far more control over their lives as children than they thought they had.Read more…Chicken Coop Thinking
In my thirties, the recurring theme in my dreams was the naked self.I was a STREAKER!There were many variations to these naked-self dreams.Read more…Awake and Dream Consciousness
Have a consciousPartnershipWith your dreamsAnd your dreams Will reward you HandsomelyMeditation is a simple process to be in an awake-dream state of being. In this awake-dream state we have access in a conscious way to many levels of activity in our being.There are very powerful forces within each one of us to which we pay little or no attention.Read more…Part II - Do Visualizations Really Work?
Creative visualization is a simple process where you invest your time, emotions and energy into seeing yourself achieving your heart’s desires. It is one of the greatest, easiest ways of connecting with the universe. There is a universal intelligence that is responsive to us.Read more…Thinking Outside of the Box
Did you ever get so tied up with habit that you were unable to see an object or circumstance that was clearly visible? You had trained your mind to work inside the box of your habit and anything that did not pertain to that habit was non-existent or invisible. You had become addicted to your habit.Read more…Overcoming Creative Resistance: The Lesson of the Dragon Slayer
Something all of us who are creative have in common is experiencing, at varying levels, some form of resistance to our creativity or creative flow.This can be from any number of external sources, but for now let’s focus on the internal resistance that originates from our own minds and thought patterns, and the subsequent behaviour they can produce.No doubt you’ll be familiar with your own personal variations on time-honoured creative self-doubts such as “I’m not good enough”, “I have nothing important or valuable to say” and “Who am I kidding, I don’t have the talent to be successful”.Read more…Learn the Power of Rapid Cognition
Do you have good instincts? Do you trust your judgment? We all have an inner compass, but not everyone knows how to use this.Read more…Spring Quest: An Adventure For The Imagination In Which Children Cannot Get It Wrong
I gave this list to a class of children who were struggling at school. They were easily distracted, their personal confidence level throughout the class was low and their self-belief hovered around zero.I also gave it to a class of high achieving children, who across the board were opposite to the first group.Read more…Part I - Do Visualizations Really Work?
Perhaps you've read about the power of visualization. Maybe you've tried it. Maybe not.Read more…Magick – Creating a New World
There are a great many magickal traditions practiced today and they all share several common elements. The primary element of a magickal tradition is the importance of spiritual growth and development. From that point all else follows and nothing can be achieved without it.Read more…Creative Support - How Supporting Others' Creativity Naturally Supports Our Own
All of us who are creative need support from time to time. Kind words of encouragement from a friend, a favourable review from a mentor, a motivating chat with a coach, or a letter from a stranger thanking us for the inspiring effect our creative work had had on them, all help us to feel we’re on the right track and can be proud of being the creative person we are.But what about those times when we feel less supported?Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Creativity category
- Creativity and Original Thinking: Act Like a Child - By: Lucretia Torva
When you feel you are not creative, remember what it was like to be a child. Tap into that fresh and creative point of view. - What is Creativity? - By: Lucretia Torva
Creativity is not mysterious. It can be learned and enhanced with some effort. - Creativity: The importance of Incubation. - By: Lucretia Torva
When do your best ideas appear? Is it when you least expect it? There's a reason for great ideas appearing at odd moments and it's just how our minds work. - Creativity and Original Thinking: Suggestions from Personal Experience. - By: Lucretia Torva
A successful visual artist shares tips and tricks to support creative and original thinking. Your great idea may be one simple step away from taking shape. - Access to the Creative Flow - By: Patrice Julien
Imagine what you call reality as being the images of a movie on a screen, the source being a "realistic" scenario inside the projector you are.Without this "SHIFT" we continue to be the slaves of an illusion of "reality" and the victims of our cultural overlays. To illustrate how those overlays shape the energy around us I will take the example of a very deep evidence we all share : the fact that we have to work to get money... - Lessons From The Subway - By: John Dir
In solving problems, I often recall a valuable lesson I learned while traveling the subway in Washington D.C. Some years back, a friend and I attended a large gathering of people from all over the country. - Perfect Gift Wrap Ideas - Master the Art of Wrapping Your Gifts Beautifully - By: Michael Douglas
Haven't there been times when you've received presents that have been wrapped so beautifully that you've let them remain unwrapped simply to admire their beautiful state? Now you too can wrap gifts to perfection and know that people will admire and remember them for a long time to come. Here's how... - You Can Fly! - By: Mark Hamer
Well, it depends on what you mean by ‘fly’ doesn’t it?Let me explain. If you want to fly in business, or in your social or creative life, to fly means to be able to fulfill your potential, to allow your creativity to flower, to exploit your own uniqueness as an individual, to enjoy the freedom of feeling fulfilled and successful. - How to Draw Fantasy Creatures - By: Will Kalif
Drawing fantasy creatures takes some skills that go beyond the normal realm of drawing because you can’t find a subject to pose for you – unless you live in an enchanted forest! So you are faced with not only the task of learning how to draw you are also faced with the challenge of tapping into your imagination and then putting this down on paper. Here are some solid tips that will help you imagine and draw better fantasy creatures. - Mindfulness and Painting: Playing Without Expectations - By: Maya Talisman Frost
Painting is my new passion. Who knew?A few days ago, I was talking to my mother on the phone.