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The new year is a popular time for people to think about what they want to create next. In the early stages of a new visions, it's a great idea to protect what's emerging (visions, ideas, plans) for the first few weeks especially. That means not sharing it with anyone, or being incredibly selective with who you share it with. Most people are well meaning, and would want to support you, but may not fully understand what you are attempting to do.
Some many not know how to hold that space for you without trying to fill it up with their concerns, ideas, advice, of fears during that delicate stage. They may not see the path laid out from where you are to where you want to be, and fear that it's unrealistic. They may ask premature questions, like, "How are you going to make that happen?" before that has unfolded within you. Sometimes they'lll try to give advice based on what worked for them, which may or many not be the way it works for you. Or, sometimes it can trigger their own fears, and they inadvertently express that in their concerns. Sometimes they may get into an evaluation state, and find the reasons they think it won't work.
There are so many ways well-meaning supportive friends and family members, and others, could contribute to an uprooting of what's emerging before you feel solid enough in it. So pick your confidantes and advisors carefully in the beginning, or hold off sharing until you feel more rooted in what's emerging. Once you are more rooted, and feel strong in your commitment - with discernment and resilience - then sharing it can be extremely helpful. That's when other's input and ideas can expand and refine - and yes-and - what you are doing.
There's no one right way as to when to share it, what parts to share, and who to share it with, so use your best judgement. Trust your intuitive sense. Pay attention to your internal feedback. If talking with someone puts you into a defensive or flight, fight, or freeze mode, they may not be the best person, or it may not be the best time. Not everyone closest to you may know how to be with what you are bringing in before it's more tangible. But if talking about it with someone helps you feel more inspired, passionate, alive, and excited about it, then go for it.
It is important in the early stages of a new emergence that isn't yet fully formed to protect it as you learn more about it, shape it, and cultivate it out into the world. Then, after it has roots it can withstand most anything. With all of that said, the good news is that if it is yours to do, no matter what anyone else says or does, you can of course still do it. And sometimes adversity actually helps strengthen your resolve. Most of the time, it's just easier after you feel stronger in it within yourself.
Michelle James ©2023
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The new year can offer a pause point at the intersection of what was, what is, and what's emerging. It's a great time to reflect on what's working release what no longer serves, and start to generate - or at least be available for - something new. Life is like a play, and sometimes it feels disheveling to be in the in between space - the set change between scenes, when they are dismantling the old set, but the new one is not yet set up and we are in the dark. I call this emergence space because it is the fertile ripe space where the old no longer has hold, and the new one is about to emerge but it is still unclear.
In emergence space, we can align with what's calling to emerge by first acknowledging and accepting the things we can not change so they don't become a creative block. A creative block can show up in sneaky ways: recycling old stories or resentments, waiting for something or someone to be different, needing other's approval for validation, blaming others or outside forces, engaging irrelevant distractions, of focusing mainly on what's not working, among a host of other reasons to not follow what is most generative and alive. Then we are more free to move forward.
3 Ways to Move Forward with Choice in the New Year
1. Become aware of where to put your energy, and what to put it toward. That includes things like becoming conscious of the times you legitimately need others feedback and the times you don't; taking time to discover and follow the energy that really lights you up from within yourself; and releasing what no longer has energy for you. It is a waste of time to try to breathe life into a dead log. There is not enough space to create the new patterns, new visions and new stories if you are spinning old stories that were true at one time, but no longer are relevant or serve you. It is like preforming a scene over and over again instead of moving to the next scene in the play. What can you remove from the stage?
2. Start to create the vision of what forward looks like - what is in your new stage, set, and scene...in other words, What is most alive for you? What is the world you want to build? What calls to you? What do you want instead what was? Who are the characters you want to include? What does the setting look like? What scenes would feel good? You are worth the time and attention this takes. The more types of creativity you use to engage the process (writing, drawing, moving, acting it out, etc.), the more detailed and expansive the emerging vision becomes.
3. Stay in an ongoing dialogue with yourself as you go. As you do this, chances are you'll meet up with certain resistances: fears, energies, feelings, old (comfortable, familiar) habits and stories. These parts of ourselves tend to surface and get the loudest when we are about to break through into something new. Ask yourself questions like, "Do I have influence over this?" If yes, step into an inspired action - whatever you need to do. If no, ask yourself, "What am I being invited to let go of?" and go through what it takes to let it go. Just becoming aware of it may be enough. Or you may need to do a "release ritual" in the moment to let it go. Or, if deeply entrenched, you may need extra external support. This is nonlinear dance that includes stepping up and letting go at different times.
If we can't change something in that process, we can learn to accept it as a creative constraint, and choose to let go of it taking up our mental/emotional bandwidth. We then can use that bandwidth and energy to mobilize our internal and external resources toward what we actually would like to create. Creative empowerment is not about never feeling resistance (which is a natural part of the creative process) to be able to move forward, but acknowledging it, sending if off stage or making it a secondary characters with much less stage time, and moving forward anyway. It's giving your aliveness the lead role.
Claim the director role of your own life play in 2023 - and play with it. Let what is alive be the main character this coming year. Give the expansive emergence more stage time than you give the constraints, and let them slip into the background. We may not be able to choose everything that happens to us, but we can choose which part is given the lead role on your unique stage, no matter what's happening off stage.
The world needs what only you have to offer. Cheers to a peaceful, loving, and generative 2023! May you express more of your amazing uniqueness...and enjoy the journey.
Michelle James ©2023
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In the spirit of this week of Thanksgiving I would like to share three Giving-Thanks practices with you. I know this year has had challenges for most of us in some way or another. My hope it that no matter where you find yourself at this time doing these practices can help create a more aspirational and generative space within you. The first is for what already is. The second is for deepening into the meaning of it. The third is for what can be created.
Gratitude Practice 1: 100 Thanks
I learned this one over 15 years ago and still do it every year on Thanksgiving day. It's a great way to get into the appreciative space of what what feeds you positively in some way. It's very simple: just write down - preferably in one sitting - 100 things you are grateful for. Just list them off. It can be people, experiences, materials items, events, offerings, types of food, learnings, feelings, where you live, nature's gifts, podcasts, inspiring quotes, states of being, a grocery store, etc - anything that you are thankful for, no matter how large or small.
Doing it in one sitting helps us go underneath our everyday conscious thoughts and into finding the gifts "hidden in plain sight." At one point you may feel like you've exhausted your list and be tempted to stop, but if you commit to the full 100 chances are you'll connect with more gifts than you think about in your everyday living. It just requires presence. If you stick around to get to 100, you may find things - some even surprising - that you might not otherwise stop to think about as gifts.
Gratitude Practice 2: Grateful Because
Take 5-7 of the Gratitudes from the first list and list out the "why" for each one. It helps deepen into the feeling, the purpose, and your appreciation. it helps expand the Appreciative Field, which opens up more feelings of well-being and possibilities thinking - and extracting meaning from some things that were challenging. Finding meaning in something can be like finding the diamond in the rough. Here are a few prompts to play with. As always, make up your own versions.
• I am grateful for (a person) because_______
• I am grateful for (a positive experience) because it gave me_______
• I am grateful for (a challenging experience) because I learned_______
• I am grateful for (a thing) because_______
• I am grateful for (a situation) because it helped me_______
• I am grateful for (a book/podcast/class/talk/workshop) because I better understand_______
Gratitude Practice 3: Creative Future Gratitude
This one starts with doing something to get present and centered first. Whether that's breathing, dancing, meditating, or whatever it is for you, it works best if you find yourself undistracted and fully present. Once you are in a space where you won't be distracted, start imagining it is Thanksgiving week 2022, and you're writing down 3-5 things that happened in the past year (from today on) that that you are happily grateful for.
Rather than list them out from your head's habitual thinking (which is quicker and easier, but carries little creative "energetic weight" behind it), take time to immerse yourself in the full sensory, emotional, and energetic experience of each one of those - a luxurious indulging of your creative imagination, not a rushing through.
When you write it down, feel the feelings, see the sights, and feel the energy within yourself associated with each one. For example, when you're imagining it, does it feel alive, open, exciting, fun, or expansive within you? If yes to any of those, chances are it carries positive creative potential for you. If it feel heavy or contractive, leave that one off your list for this exercise for now.
Stay in the divergent (yes-and, non-evaluative) space even if uncomfortable. During this exercise, if other voices come in saying, "Yeah, but how will I make that happen?" "Yeah, but that's not realistic" or any other "Yes, but" message, let it go. The "game" is a Future Gratitude Imagining for what already happened by Thanksgiving 2022, so just stay with the focus of what happened in this vision - not the how. Play this game with the rule of not following any of the Yes-Butting voices. :-)
For example, it might be something like, "I'm grateful that my _______ (course, book, workshop, product, idea, presentation, business, brand, offering, etc) was so successful/alive/worthwhile in that it________" ...then define what that means to YOU (helped others x, brought people together, created x, allowed me to x, allowed others to x , served the mission of x, made money, helped a cause, solved problems, generated conversations, cultivated creativity, etc).
Once you've done that, let it go. Don't worry in that moment about how to make it happen. Pretend it already has and all you are doing is writing out why you are grateful for it happening. When writing them, let yourself feel the real Gratitude energy you'd feel if it already happened. Then let it go. Your creative unconscious now has something to start working with.
Then come back to them at another time, and start imagining the how with what you currently know, and let the rest of the how emerge over time as you start engaging the process. If you start engaging with what you do know the next "how" emerges out of the process over time.
Happy Giving-Thanks!
Michelle James © 2021
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I uploaded some of my mandala art to Etsy! I will do an official launch in the fall, and still have more to frame and upload. I will eventually offer prints and paintings, but right now it has the original drawings on there.
www.etsy.com/shop/CreativeEmergenceArt
All of the mandalas on the site now are the originals. They are hand drawn with Prismacolor colored pencils and put onto round black wood frames. 10" wide, and 1/2" thick. They have both hooks and two-sided tape on back for easy hanging.
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It is hard to generate creative flow when you are in a contractive state. While contraction
is part of any creative birth process,
staying in that place too long becomes an energy block - it prevents the creative energy from flowing more freely. Divergence in creative process needs the open energy of expansion. When we are in expansion energy state, we think, act, perceive, respond, and create differently than when we are in a contractive (more closed) energy state.
So how do we get into a creative energy state when those around us may not be not there? There are infinite ways to engage our creativity, thankfully, but I’ll talk about a couple that involve the body. My next public online workshop is The Creative Body workshop, where we will explore many ways to engage the body creatively. We don’t need to wait for others to change our internal states - we can start anytime.
Creative Ways to Get the Creative Juices Flowing Using Your Body
Here are a couple of the many ways I play with moving energy based on my own ways of creating, and what I need that day. Try the ones that resonate for you. And definitely try modifying these in real time - as you are doing them - to get into Discovery to make your own. You may need tweaks to get them to resonate for you. We’re never limited to anyone else’s way of doing anything. :-)
Dancing the Creative Alive Energy in
Movement. Loosen up your body. Have fun in your body. Play with the non-habitual. When I start moving my body differently, my entire mood and energy shifts. I do this before every session I facilitate, and most days in some form. One way to do this is play upbeat songs you love and dance around the room as you breath our tension and old energy. I like to play songs that are silly and fun to uplift my mood, so I literally have a playlist list called “Goofy Playlist.” These are songs that help me not take myself or anything so seriously so they help me move to a different energy state. They are not necessarily songs I listen to on a daily basis - though sometimes I do that. I just know that that when I am having more fun in my body, I feel more alive, expansive, and it is easier for me to be present and creative.
Moving Non-habitually Break Patterns
I also like to move in non habitual ways - trying new moves every time I dance - to be in that “Improv” discovery state, which always feels move alive( not to mention scientists show that creating new moves creates new neural pathways in our brain). I literally do this every day. Whether I am dancing or just sitting at my desk, I play around with all kind of ways to move my body non-habitually (new for me), whih help me feel more alive, present, and awake (especially when on long Zoom days) The key is to play with it, judgement free - let it be off-the-wall and nonsensical to you. It’s abbot breaking patterns in your body movements to help break patterns in your thinking. Do what you can form where you are. If you have some physical limitations, just start small with whatever you can move. (I am not a medical practitioner so please don’t do anything against the advice of one).
Letting the Energy Move your Body - Following and Inhabiting the Energy
The mind is an amazing resource. Even if we don’t feel something at a given time, we can shift our state by putting attention on it and calling it in. Intention leads to attention. Energy follows attention. So if we intend to feel an energy, we can call it in an engage with it, we can actually start to feel it move through us. This one may takes a few times to get used to because, like with meditation, it takes time sometimes to feel the energy, and woks best when we are not distracted. Some people can access this immediately, others practice to get the energies flowing. But if you do practice it, you will be able to state-change by calling in an energy.
For example, if you intend to feel more aliveness energy, you can call it in, and start bringing your sense to it. Ask, “What does aliveness look like? (You can draw it in the abstract or just imagine it) What does it sound like? What does feel like? What does it move like? And start moving form it. As you do it, you may hear the inner voices of judgement (about yourself or about the activity itself), but keep going. Let them be there, but keep bringing your attention to the energy and the full-on experience of it as best you can. Sometimes it takes a few times before you feel anything - other times you feel it right away. The invitation is to try it…to play with it until you feel it and embody the state change.
Create a Judgment-free Zone
Remember to suspend all judgement as you play with these. Be kind to the part of you that forgot what is was like to move and play freely in your body. And to go beyond my descriptions into discovering your own “yes-ands” to this as you go. When we allow our bodies to explore without judging them, they can take us to creative places and more vibrancy. Feel free to email me and let me know what you discover.
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We’ll do a deeper dive into these and many other ways of engaging your body to bringing in more creativity, aliveness, presence, and flow in my next Creative Body Workshop on September 9. There we'll do a deeper exploratory dive into Somatic Intelligence and it's connection creative thinking, being, and moving...and using your body as a creative resource. If you are interested to learn more, click here or contact me directly.
Michelle James ©2021
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Synchro-tunity is where synchronicity (unpredictable events that are somehow seemingly connected) meets opportunity (new possibilities opening up.) This inflection point is a place from which we can create what’s next. When we pay attention to what’s emerging, and we’ve prepared ourselves for the current moment, then we can recognize and step into new possibilities that were previously unavailable for us.
It's about setting intention, preparing ourselves, paying attention to signals from a variety of places and sources,and taking ripe (timely) actions on those. #applieddiscovery
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When we stay present In the moment, time
expands. When we fill the moment by talking only about what we already know, or about what others have said, we bury the dynamic, creative aliveness of the moment with history. We have been socialized to fill the moment with history (what we've learned, what others have said said, what are accepted assumptions) - going out of time - instead of staying in time, where creativity emerges and flourishes.
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I am delighted to have been interviewed by Michelle Holliday of Thrivable World - and author of The Age of Thrivabilty - about creative practice and emergence. It's the first of 4 conversations with various practitioners in her series on Creative Practice. Interview here:
https://thrivableworld.mn.co/posts/interview-with-michelle-james-the-center-for-creative-emergence
We are so much more than human thinkers; we’re human be-ers, create-ers, and engage-ers.
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"If you give your gifts, people will be envious. The ones who are envious are the ones who are not giving their own gifts." ~ Micheal Meade
This theme just came up in a coaching session with a client last Friday (who has a family member having a hard time with her emergence) and is one of the things that can happen when you cultivate your creative source and start to bring your unique soul's gifts into the world, so it is worth mentioning here. The truth is some people in your life may be envious of your creative process unfolding as you begin to create and produce what's yours to do. That's only because they not in touch with, or fully expressing, their own unique gifts and path. Or, they may be used to relating to you in one way, and now are unsure how to connect with the more "vibrant" energized you. It's really not personal, even though it can feel that way.
When someone is not using their own gifts, they may criticize, belittle, or otherwise negate yours to try to bring you down, even pull away from you, or just feel bad around you without knowing why. At some point in every emergence process, someone you know will be uncomfortable when you follow your aliveness, and how they act depends on who they are and how their own inner feeling of disconnection or fear is related to why they're not cultivating and using their own gifts.
This may bring up feelings in you of sadness, anger, guilt or some way of contracting to try to make them feel better - some people even block their own creative process. The best thing you can do for that person - and yourself - is to bring forth your gifts anyway, no matter what, because most people you know won't feel bad or envious...they'll be inspired! Seeing you create and produce something new in the world often inspires them to bring out their own gifts. So don't focus on the the nay-sayers (which creates contraction energy), but instead focus on those you serve or desire to serve (which generates expansion energy) - those who will benefit - by you bringing out your creatively unique gifts into the world.
And if you ever find yourself feeling envious of anyone else, take some time to delve into why. Listen underneath the uncomfortable feelings for the real longing of your inner creative voice. The cure for that discomfort is to find and cultivate what is uniquely yours to give and offer in your unique way. In that, there can never be a comparison, and therefore no reason to feel envious. Your creative source contains what's unique to you. It needs you to not focus on the other person, and just focus inward into yourself. You can turn any feelings of envy, doubt, or fear into a creative invitation to focus on your own aliveness.
It's never too late to bring your magic into the world. People need that more than ever. And people you don't even know yet will come out of the woodwork and will be grateful for what you have to offer. There is no short cut, but you are worth the time, space, and attention for the journey of your creative self and creative soul.
Michelle James ©2020
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In times of huge unknowns, with much we have no control over, one of the things that lightens the intensity is creatively focusing on the things we CAN control...like getting out in nature, creative arts and crafts, drawing, painting, moving our bodies to music we like, watching funny videos or comedy specials, meditating, journaling, cooking, playing games, online improv, designing business offerings, or anything we like doing that we're able to do that lightens us up. That will be different for everyone, but we do have agency and at least some things we can choose into and control in the midst of uncertainty.
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Someone sent me this interview Massage
magazine did with me in 2016 on How to
Think Creatively. I hadn't posted it before
since it used only be available to
subscribers of their magazine, but is now public.
The full article is here: https://bit.ly/3o1yX7w
Main Ideas:
“We’re all born creative—it’s at the very core of who we are,” said Michelle James, CEO of the The Center for Creative Emergence. “We have been socialized and educated out of our natural creativity, so we tend to forget that.”
James, who serves as a creativity coach and catalyst for her clients, believes it is crucial for people to reconnect with their innate creative source, in order to live with greater balance and joy.
“The more access we have to our creativity, the more connections we make, the more opportunities we have,” she said. “At every level, working with creativity leads to a happier, more productive, thriving life.”
According to creativity coach Marianne Mullen, one of the main blocks to living the creative life is a belief that only people with certain skills or special talents can be creative. Usually, this belief stems from a narrow definition of what it means to be creative.
“When you hear people say, ‘I’m not creative,’ they have been conditioned to limit their idea of creativity to something in the visual arts, such as painting or sculpting,” Mullen said. “Creativity and its expression are deeply personal—you need to define it for yourself.”
Beyond Polarities
Getting to know your existing mental landscape should help determine new directions for your thoughts, as you begin to cultivate creative thinking. Consider this process an inner exploration, where there is no right or wrong, only curiosity, observation and discovery.
“Part of not thinking creatively is the need for certainty, the need for certain outcomes,” James said. “To think habitually is to not explore, to not take any risks.
“To think creatively means you try on new ways of thinking and you modify as you go,” she continued. “It means you’re an explorer.”
Remember to maintain that mindset of discovery, and avoid any pull you might feel to label unfamiliar thoughts as incorrect or unacceptable, simply because they’re new and different. The tendency to judge what we think as either right or wrong can cease creative thinking all too quickly.
“One of the blocks to creativity is what I call binary thinking—right and wrong, good and bad, pass and fail, black and white,” James said. “Most creative thinkers are comfortable thinking in shades of gray, which allows more to exist within them, even those thoughts that may seem contradictory.”
James calls this “paradoxical thinking” and she considers it central to the process of creative thought. Being able to hold the tension of two opposites—instead of dismissing one because it appears to conflict with the other—can allow for a third, more encompassing option.
“On one level, you might be holding two pieces of information that seem opposed to each other; for example, you need to make a living and you want to be creative,” James said. “Instead of thinking I have to choose X or Y, money or creative expression, acknowledge that it’s important to you to have both, and then assume that it’s possible.
“Creative thinking assumes there’s a third option that will allow both X and Y to exist—you just don’t know about it yet,” she continued. “Instead of choosing one or the other, look at how you might integrate the two, and allow yourself to explore that.”
As you go through the discovery process, nurturing new and creative thoughts, Mullen warns to watch out for your own inner resistance, which may stem from old thought patterns you’re looking to release.
“This would include feelings based on comparisons with others, judgments and that little voice telling you negative messages,” she said. “In order to break out from negative thinking patterns that do not support your creativity, you need to be conscious of what you say to yourself.”
On guard against any unnecessary resistance and equipped with a growing awareness of your own thoughts, you can begin to build and flex your creative muscles on a regular basis.
It may seem like one of those paradoxes, but developing a more creative mental landscape actually calls for a certain amount of structure and discipline, especially at the start. If you are committed to opening your mind to more creative ways of thinking, then consider setting aside time for creative practice.
“When you’re first beginning to cultivate your creativity, it needs time and space,” James said. “Schedule it in, and do it in a way that works for you—think of it as your creative practice time.”
For example, you might decide to devote 10 minutes each day to a different form of creative expression, from writing in a journal or drawing a picture to telling a story out loud or moving while you think.
“Make this a time when you explore creative ideas, feelings and beliefs,” Mullen said. “The point is, you are mindfully choosing to give your creativity time and space to play, explore, develop, grow and unfold.”
One powerful activity you can bring to this creative practice time is consciously questioning your own assumptions. Using various methods of creative expression, such as dance, writing, acting or painting, explore the beliefs that define your life.
“Assumptions run the gamut, from what success means and what my relationship is supposed to look like to what’s expected of me in the world and what it means to be happy,” James said. “Often, you find that something you accepted as a given actually came from someone else, whether it was parents, teachers or society—you discover it was learned, and once you discover that, you’re more free to shift your perspective.
“You can choose to keep the beliefs that resonate with you, and let go of the ones that are no longer working,” she added. “Then, you can bring in new beliefs that are more alive for you.”
Another assignment to try during the time you set aside for creative expression is called pattern breaking. By doing tasks in ways you’ve never done them before, you may find that more creative thoughts begin to emerge.
“One way to do this is very simple: Write on unlined paper and use colors, because the right brain thinks in colors and images,” James said. “You’re even breaking patterns with the paper you’re writing on—with all my clients, we’re always writing on unlined paper.”
This creative act of pattern breaking can take place in so many ways. Turn on music you might not normally listen to and allow your body to move and dance freely, breaking your well-worn patterns of movement. Grab a sheet of paper and draw out, rather than dwell on, an issue that’s been bothering you.
“When you engage the brain in different ways, you have a chance at different insights,” James said. “When you begin to break patterns, you create new neural pathways and increase the connections in your brain.
“New connections allow more ideas, more aha moments, to emerge,” she added. “Again, when you begin to break patterns and think differently and non-habitually, remember to get comfortable with shades of gray, and let go of right or wrong.”
The goal of your creative practice time should be to try on as many different forms of creative expression as possible, using each method of expression to explore your own thoughts, assumptions, beliefs and patterns, as well as any pressing issue. If you stick to it, you should discover which kinds of creativity work best for you, or how you define creativity.
“Eventually, you’ll begin to find what feels really alive for you,” James said. “Don’t be limited by anyone else’s definition of creativity—what’s really alive for one person might not be for another.”
Article by Brandi Schlossberg, full-time journalist and part-time writer for MASSAGE Magazine
Posted by Michelle on October 16, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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