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Creativity- It’s for Everyone

May 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Creativity is not limited just to children or artists. What do you think of when you think about a highly creative person? If visions of musicians, artists and poets come to mind, this is true but it’s not the full picture.

Creativity is not limited to just those who greatly excel in artistic areas and it’s not limited to the young or children only. Each and every one of us has the ability to be creative. We are born with creativity- it’s for everyone!

The challenge is not to lose your creativity over the years, as you grow older and as stress and daily pressures wear you down. Creativity is still there deep inside of you; the challenge is to bring it to the surface.

Creativity takes all shapes and forms. Here are some examples:

• An internet entrepreneur with companies in many different topics
• The stay at home mother that cares for and entertains her children all day
• The preschool teacher who keeps her children entertained and focused on her lessons
• The high school geography teacher who tries to make math fun
• A local gardener who makes magic out of boring and ordinary lawns
• The mechanic highly skilled at repairing all types of automobiles
• The grandfather who whittles wood in his porch rocker

These are all examples of people who show creativity in their every day lives. Each day that you wake up in the morning, you will be faced with opportunities to be creative. You have to choose if you want to expand and be as creative as you can be or if you want to be held back by preconceived notions that only certain people can be consider creative.

Creativity is a right to everyone and you can harness your own inner creativity and mold it and strengthen it with time and practice. You can learn to become a more creative person and also learn the many ways in which creativity can help you in your daily routine. It could help you at home, at the office or in your free time. It can help you with your peace of mind, help you beat stress and just feel happier as a person.

The first step is to choose to acknowledge your creativity. Know that you are creative and choose to create. It’s your right to do so. It will help you form unique and useful habits that you will keep for the rest of your life.

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Exercises to Encourage Creativity

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There are many different ways to encourage creativity. Many people don’t realize that exercise can encourage creativity. There are many great exercises that will help you get in your creative frame of mind. Before you can begin to understand this, you need to understand the definition of creativity.

Creativity is a complex term that doesn’t quite do justice to the grandness of what creativity really is. Creativity has a lot to do with original and flexible thinking. Highly creative people tend to have a motivation to overcome obstacles in their lives or to find new and better ways of doing things.

There are many benefits to creativity. It can make you more motivated and productive as a person. It can help children and young adults become more successful in their adult lives. It can help you make a personal goal or dream a reality. Creativity can also help with boredom, stress and other psychological conditions.

Exercise has been proven to help with creativity. If you are in a slump or need a boost, even just getting some physical activity throughout the day will help. Fresh air and getting your blood pumping is a great way to boost your creativity. Here are some other activities and exercises that can be performed to help encourage creativity.

Image streaming is an exercise that can be done individually or in pairs so it’s great for a multiple activity. In this exercise, you ask yourself a question. Then you will describe your mental visual imagery either out loud to someone else or to a tape recorder if you’re doing the exercise alone. Describing the images should come in a streaming manner which is why it is referred to as image streaming. Your goal would be to make the listener vividly aware of what you see. You want to describe it in such a sense that they can feel like they are there as well. This exercise can be done on a regular basis and over time will help improve creativity and boost intelligence.

Consider music- in this exercise, you will play a piece of music you don’t know or have someone play it for you. Now dim the lights and listen closely to the music. Focus on it for a bit and let the music tell you a story. What story is it telling you? Can you see this story in your mind? Can you draw this story out on paper? What is the music telling you? Now stop the music and write down everything the music is telling and showing you.

The next exercise is to challenge traditional thinking. This can be a great way to boost your creative thinking. You can do this by forcing your mind to take alternate routes. Give yourself a scenario and then look at the most obvious approach to resolve the problem. Now allow yourself the freedom to think of other ways to resolve it. Do this as many times as you want with as many situations as you can think of and you will see your creativity expand.

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How to Spark Creative Ideas

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Have you ever wanted to do something creative but felt stuck for ideas? Have you ever needed to do a project for school, work or some other purpose and you couldn’t get your creative flow going enough to know what to do? This is a common problem among even the most creative of us and when it happens to you, it’s important to know how to spark creative ideas.

One of the first and most important things that you need to learn is that you are a creative being. All humans are born creative beings; we just have to learn to tap into that creativity. You need to be fully convinced that you are in fact, a creative being and then you can begin to tap into the true potential that lies inside of you.

To get into this thought process, you can develop ideas from things around you. You can get inspired with ideas from magazines, your competition, other artists or creators, and even from inside yourself. Take some time to sit down and brainstorm for ideas. Many people find this more effective if they can write out what they are thinking.

You can use lists, clusters and charts to help you brainstorm for new and creative ideas. Ask questions to get the creative mind going in the right direction. Always focus on the positive. The negatives of a situation will dampen your creativity. Positive thinking helps spark creative ideas.

As children, we were all creative beings once. As we grow older, our thoughts and the things we are taught by others, teach us to turn off those creative parts of us. Sometimes all it takes is a way to tap into that inner child to spark your creative ideas. Think about your situation the way a child would. Not all of your ideas will be plausible but they get your juices flowing so you are more likely to get an idea that does work.

Don’t allow others to restrict your creativity by telling you what you can and cannot do. Be open minded, particularly when it comes to the way things should be. When you maintain and open mind about the situation, you are inviting the muse to shed some light on your own personal creativity.

Take the focus off what you’re trying to do and just have fun. Sometimes when trying to spark creative ideas, we are guilty of trying too hard. Sometimes all that is required is to step back, relax and have a bit of fun.

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