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You Must Be an Artist
“...Meet this solemn question with a strong, simple ‘I must,’ then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse."-RilkeWe are, all of us, meant to create.Read more…Lucid Dreaming - The Lucid Dreaming Techniques
Reality testing and dream signsThe secret to lucid dreaming success is to get yourself into the habit of noticing when you are dreaming and when you are not. The way you do this is to train yourself to do reality checks during your waking hours. Reality checks are conscious, deliberate tests that will reveal whether you are awake or dreaming.Read more…Meditation and Relaxation to Increase Creativity
Why meditate?Much of the stress of being creative is actually created in our minds. Oh great!Read more…How Well are You Maintaining Your "Creative Home"?
Taking care of ourselves, doing all we can to maintain our creative environments and abilities, is often the key to greater creativity. This means enabling you to increase creativity in terms of quality as well quantity.Much like an old run-down house with poor central heating, rattling windows and a leaky roof, if you don’t take care of yourself creatively – and look after your Creative Home - then slowly and steadily your creative energy will be wasted and you’ll be frustrated and struggling to produce the kind of work you want to.Read more…Everything Has Been Done But Mine Is Better!
You’ve heard the expression: “Nothing is new under the sun,” haven’t you?I believe, for the most part, it’s true. There are very few things that are completely original, and so what?Read more…5 Ways to Unblock Your Creativity
Creativity requires us to journey into the unknown but it’s not a place we find particularly comfortable. Our ‘thinking” brain resists the uncertainty in all kinds of ways. We go blank.Read more…Awaken Your Creative Imagination
Our creative imaginations distinguish us as people with unique talents. Creativity allows us to connect the apparently unconnected and see uniqueness in events and situations that otherwise appear ordinary.Mary Lou Cook defined creativity as "inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun.Read more…Schindler's Way
There is more than one way to actively fight tyranny. The obvious way is to stage a massive demonstration, where the protestors are subjected to being maced, beaten, shot and hauled off to jail by government police. If the demonstrators go against a well established tyrannical government, it may take years of well organized protests, and the heartache and pain associated with them, to achieve the desired objective.Read more…How To Have Great Ideas
Want to have great ideas? You could try waiting to see if they pop into your head someday, and they honestly might. However, if you want a more systematic method you can use today, here it is in three simple steps:1. Get knowledge in the area in which you want the ideas.Read more…Boost Your Creativity and Make it Work for You
There are times when it can feel like you have simply run out of good ideas. This is the classical “writer’s block,” and you don’t have to be a writer to experience this phenomenon. No matter what you do for a living, your creativity can be one of your best resources.Read more…The Origin Of Vision
This article was designed to inspire readers to develop vision. To be able to compete in today’s world you must continually come up with new concepts. It may be published if the resource box is left intact.Read more…Creativity: A Field Trip for Your Brain
Before we begin, I want you to know that I heard you groaning when you read the title of this strategy; “Creativity. I’m not creative at all.”And that is the # 1 reason why creativity doesn’t play a larger part in your life.Read more…Use Guided Visualization to Expand Your Mental Powers
Over the centuries, human beings have developed many techniques to gain access to their inner wisdom and improve learning.One technique that many people have found very beneficial is to have an imaginary guide that they can call on for advice and insight.A modern variation of this technique has been developed by intelligence researcher Dr.Read more…You Can't Do That
In 1957 and '58, I was a soldier in the US Army serving in Germany as a peace keeping force. Without a war to focus our energy, we were left to our own devices to entertain ourselves. Two large buildings on the outskirts of town housed 250 soldiers apiece.Read more…Use Your Mind And Grow Rich!
We are not the largest physical living organisms in this world, yet we have power over the earth, and all things in it. The Universe has given us this control through our minds and our conscious ability to formulate ideas. Our capacity to form ideas gives us the ability to reason and think logically.Read more…Preparing For Performance
Stage fright can be an incredibly debilitating condition that can keep artists locked away in their own homes, carefully guarding their creative gifts.Then those gifts never see the light of day, and they're never seen by the world.And stage fright doesn't only inhibit performing artists.Read more…Everything Is Connected
When my mind gets to wanderin', I find it truly extraordinary to examine the seeming coincidences in my life and in the world at large.When I cleaned out a drawer in my office, I got a new contract.When I stopped worrying about the solution to a problem, a solution appeared that I NEVER would have thought of.Read more…Mindfulness and Tango: Passion and Possibilities
My husband and I went to see a production of "Forever Tango!" presented at the Angela Peralta Theater just two blocks from our home here in Mazatlan.After all, since we're moving to Argentina in July, we need to learn more about tango, which was born in Buenos Aires back in the late 1800s.Read more…Creativity and Flow
The experience of optimal functioning called flow enhances creativity, and can be nurtured in our own lives, says the psychologist who developed the concept.Author of "Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience" and a number of related books, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced me-high chick-sent-me-high) says we can facilitate the conditions for this experience, and that it may be found in a wide range of careers and activities.For his doctoral thesis on "how visual artists create art" he studied photos taken every three minutes as artists created a painting.Read more…The Search for Creativity
In the middle of the night I awaken with a sparkling idea that squeezes every ounce of sleep right out of me. For a few moments I lie unmoving, trying to convince myself that I’ll remember it in the morning if I drop off again now. The merciless wisdom of experience shakes me.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.