💫 “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
— Maya Angelou
Creativity is using our imaginations to make entirely new things – like art, recipes, different routes to work ... It is seeing connections, being open to inspiration, and innovating in ways big and small.
Inspiration for nurturing creativity
💫 Keep toys in your workspace.
💫 Put yourself in unusual-for-you environments. If you’ve never been, go to the opera, a basketball game, a restaurant with unfamiliar cuisine … and create new neural pathways.
💫 Give yourself the mental space for new ideas to arise. The mostly silent Calm Light meditations are designed for this.
💫 Doodle! Free-drawing gives the focus circuits of the brain a rest while still keeping the brain “online,” increasing creativity.
💫 Use the Calm Non-Judgment guided meditation to quiet any creativity-quashing inner critic.
💫 Give yourself deadlines. This focuses the mind to find immediate inspiration.
💫 Follow artists and creative people on Instagram and fill your feed with visuals that spark your imagination.
Self-reflection
How do I express my creativity?
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