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Creativity and the Inner Child
Getting in touch with the inner child is a process. There are both terrible and wonderful things that the child needs to tell us about childhood feelings. Much of what the child needs to tell us is buried in the unconscious.Read more…Creatively Stuck? Try Sitting With The Silence
Getting stuck, or being blocked in some way is something that all of us who are creative come up against from time to time in our creative efforts.Whatever you wish to call it, there are many different variations of feeling we’re unable to create what we wish to create, and these manifest themselves in a variety of ways.What we’re focusing on for the purpose of this article is being stuck with a particular creative project, having reached a certain point, or a critical stage, and feeling like we just don’t know where to go next with it.Read more…Creatively Run Down or Unwell? Call Your Creativity Doctor!
Most of use when we feel unwell or out of sorts in some way, will seek some kind of medical help, traditionally from our local doctor or General Practitioner.But who do we turn to when our creativity feels sick or unwell? Whether we feel just a bit off our best or that the illness is terminal and the decline of our creativity inevitable, what can we do?Read more…The Secrets Behind Inventions That Sell Millions Of Units
What is so special about those products that sell millions of units? It is rather obvious that if one is able to figure out what makes a product invention a winner, then chances are higher that they will be able to come up with one of their very own winner.There are a number of key factors that you will tend to find in most hot selling inventions.Read more…The Quickest Way To Turn Your Invention Into Cash
The world is full of inventors whose products will never make it to the marketplace. That would make them just dreamers because a person needs an invention in order to be called an inventor.So what is it that hinders most dreamers from moving on to qualify to be called inventors?Read more…How One Invention Idea Can Change Your Life Forever
Most famous inventors have done it with a single invention or a single idea. Actually that is all it takes - just one really good idea - to change your life forever!It is important to note here that people do not just stumble onto ideas all the time.Read more…Do You Do Manic?
The headline in Science Daily read, How Manic Thinking Makes us Happy, Energized and Self-Confident. Does that arouse your curiosity and even make you smile as you think – weird? Are they suggesting we reinforce a new style of craziness?Read more…Busting The Myths Surrounding Business Creativity
Myth #1 Creativity Comes From Creative Types The fact is, nearly all the research in this field shows that anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some creative work. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells. Intrinsic motivation -- people who are turned on by their work often work creatively -- is especially critical.Read more…You've Got Power, Use It!
It’s time to live your dream. We do that by using what we already have—that special thing God has given us. It all starts with knowing the meaning of goods and power.Read more…Getting Clear
Do you have a crystal clear vision of what you want from life or do you have a vague ache to be doing something different?In many years of working with people on their personal and professional development, in a variety of capacities, I frequently asked the question 'What do you want from life?' and, almost without fail, the answer I got was 'I don't know.Read more…I Know - I Think
I was seven years old.The teacher began to get cross.‘Robert, write down what’s on the board or go to the back of the class and stay there until you have.Read more…Best-Selling Author Asks: Is The Creative Process Universal?
Last night I attended a performance of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and as is the custom, there is a discussion before the performance begins with the guest artist or composer or an expert commentator, sometimes a professor from USC or UCLA.This time, the Austrian born, jazzed trained composer, Wolfgang, spoke, and when the time came for questions, many of them inquired into his creative process.I asked, “Do you dream music, or dream up solutions to musical problems?Read more…How To Get And Create Brilliant Invention Ideas
Where do you get your ideas? That is one question that successful inventors get asked a lot. And it is really not an easy one to answer.Read more…The Truth About Writing And Art
Everyone is hit by self doubt. Even those people who are at the very top of their field. Sometimes they are the most vulnerable to these thoughts.Read more…Creative Immersion Sessions - The Joy of a Long Hot Soak
Picture the scene: After a difficult and seemingly endless day at work, you battle your way home through the rush hour traffic, stagger through your front door looking like you’ve mentally gone 10 rounds with a heavyweight boxer, kick off your shoes, and slump on the sofa.Your head is pounding, you barely have the energy to keep your eyes open and the mere thought of even standing up again takes more effort than you’re able to muster.What greater luxury is there in these occasions than a long soak in a hot bath, up to your ears in soft fragrant bubbles, a chilled glass of your favourite wine and soothing music playing in the background?Read more…Creative Thinking Activity - Aerobics For The Brain
Creative thinking activity depends on a brain that is energized. This article will show you how to enliven the brain using the five senses.Aerobic exercises get life-sustaining oxygen into parts of the body often starved.Read more…Human Mind Bandwidth
How powerful is the human mind? How much can it hold? What is the mind’s bandwidth?Read more…Creativity Crunch; Do Not Wimp Out Now!
One problem many people have is when they are pressed to be creative or they find themselves forced to think on a certain timetable and this can be hard to deal with at times. Call it the Creativity Crunch if you will, but whatever you do; Do Not Wimp Out Now!So often, we find super creative people unable to cope when set on a deadline or put under too much stress and in such a creative crunch we expect them to do their best work.Read more…Gaining Your Creative Edge
Are you a creative person but feel you go thru spurts of creativity? One day you are fully on it and another you are just not getting anywhere? Kind of like a writer’s block and you cannot seem to perform, worse off you are on a deadline and getting a little stressed too.Read more…Rewarding Your Creativity
Are you a creative person? Do you get paid to create? Do friends simply look at you in awe sometimes and wonder how on Earth you are able to do it?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.