Articles helping you increase your creativity
Creativity comes mostly from our dream state. Invention, ideas and artist images are seeded in our dreams. When you awake in the morning take time to reflect on your dreams and see if you can bring some of that world into this one. You will be amazed at how many wonderful ideas you will get while asleep and dreaming. It is great practice to keep a dream journal by your bed so that when you awake you can jot down what you remember. Many people complain that they do not remember their dreams. Well that is because it takes practice. Every time you awake concentrate on remembering. It may take a moment but you will come back to the dream state and remember bits and pieces or whole segments of your dream. Practice makes perfect. We are being taught lessons during our sleep so our lifestyle can improve. We are also getting warnings about what to do and what not to do in life. We are also being rejuvenated during our dreams to increase our creative flow. Many inventors have claimed that they “dreamed” their inventions. Einstein was a known day dreamer who could think of major inventions in a flash of thought. Salvidor Dali was known to paint images he saw in the dream state.
As a women’s life coach I meet many people who would like to be more creative. I’ve found the problem to be lack of creative freedom, not creative inability. Somewhere down the line they had their creative endeavors squelched by a harsh critique, a disapproving parent, a friend who was “just kidding”, or a superior who could never be pleased. Just one of those scenarios is enough to make anyone think twice about putting themselves out there creatively.
Everything has been cooking along nicely. You’re delivering projects to your clients, your next batch of work is cued up. You’ve worked very hard delivering everything required to create your masterpieces and grow your business. You’re a bit tired, but your enthusiasm is still mostly intact. But at the moment, you couldn’t put together a coherent thought in any medium; text, verbal, video, sketching, or pre-school finger painting, if your life depended on it.
You have a particular perspective of the world. From this perspective, you experience and view life in a unique way. Your viewpoint is so unique; it has been created by every single one of your experiences – painful and pleasurable, remembered and forgotten, fully or partially lived through. If you’re like most people, that perspective sees the world in mostly limited ways. It is inherent in the conditioning of us all.
