Seven Steps to Activate Your Creativity
By Iyabo Asani
For adults, being creative can be a chore. We think it means to create a best seller novel or to create a master piece. That is not true! Creativity is your natural state. It is what makes you unique and different from the next person.
Here are seven ways you can awaken your creativity.
1. Stimulate your sense of awe and wonderment: try to retain a sense of discovery and newness to the mundane things you do everyday. On a walk one day, focus on leaves, the next day, focus on your incredible legs and how they propel you forward. Another day, fall in love with the bark of each tree on your walk. Maintain a childlike curiosity about the world. Take the time to question understandings that others consider obvious.
2. Pay attention to your motivation: as soon as a spark of interest arises in something, follow it. Express it. Write it down. Paint it. Play it. Keep a log of things that interest you, regardless of your qualifications. We are all lifelong learners. Everything you have an interest in is absolutely important.
3. Have intellectual courage: strive to think outside accepted principles and habitual perspectives such as we have always done it that way. One of the fun ways my sister and I do this is to experiment with the foods we traditionally eat by introducing new flavors and textures to our cooking.
5. Value Relaxation: take the time to daydream and ponder because that is often when the best ideas arise. Relaxation is not just sleep. Look for ways to relax and consciously put them into practice. Don't your best ideas come when you are in the shower or driving when you cannot get to pen and paper? Creativity does not prosper under pressure. When you create space for relaxation, your brain stretches itself and gives itself permission for new expression.
6. Engage in a variety of activities: Creative revelations come to most people when their minds are involved in an unrelated activity. That is because the brain continues to work on a problem once it has been supplied with the necessary raw materials.
7. Observe children: A wonderful thing about the American Educational System is that it actually allows children to be playful and creative. I recently spent time with my 8 year old niece and 6 year old nephew typing out the stories that they were creating in their imaginations. It was a humbling experience as I observed their little limitless minds. They absolutely have no rules about where their imagination goes! So the bad guys in my nephew's story grew icicles instead of hair on his head. I asked him why, and he said because the person was very cold. Wow! Such creative unlimitations!
As you focus on expressing your creativity, you are helping your brain be healthier, warding off disease and causing better blood flow in your body. It is an act of health and it is a signal to yourself that you respect yourself and enjoy yourself. In fact it is one of the greatest acts of love that you can serve yourself with.
Go ahead, I give you permission. No matter how silly or obscure, express your creativity. You are already creative.
Do you know your creative expression?
What is it?
How do you express your creativity?
Do you practice this regularly?
How do you feel when you express it?
Is it public or private?
Do you know that you have an Inner Genius that is amazing and wants to be awakened? As you tap into your Inner Genius, you will become more powerful and unstoppable as you live a purposeful, passionate and financially rewarding life.
If you would like to develop skills that keep you constantly in the flow of your value, preciousness and the incredible assets that lie within you as you create a wonderful and powerful life, visit me. To learn more about how your Inner Genius can bring you more happiness and financial abundance, join me on my blog and subscribe to my newsletter at http://www.AuthenticChangeCoach.com/signup As a thank you, you will receive my two part free gift to you, a written report and an audio recording on Powerful Questions to Awaken your Inner Genius.
To your greatness,
Iyabo Asani
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