Ways To Ignite Your Creativity
What if a piece of wood discovers that it is a violin,
that blinded by fear, does not listen to its inner music?
Doesn’t he deserve the effort to be carved,
and thus find his own happiness?
Or must he spend his life stacked on a pylon,
waiting with his companions to be burned,
by the fire of time?
Isn’t life an illusion? Isn’t life an opportunity? “
If you know this poem by Arthur Rimbaud, surely more than once you will have read in the “between the lines” of your own being, of your own identity. Am I perhaps that wasted tree, who has not known how to set the right course for his life?
It is clear that we cannot all be a violin. Each of us will tune a different music, what’s more, your wood may be used to sharpen a pencil, with which to create a thousand stories, with which to raise buildings with a plan or where to reflect your own reality through art.
Creativity is a wild animal that we know how to encourage and master. You need your own space to be invited to come out and enjoy your own identity, the path you have chosen to take. There are many people who at a given moment aroused a certain type of creativity. Maybe a few years ago you yourself were passionate about music or art, but in the end you had to leave it because of those things that happen in life and that end up taking us down other paths: the obligation of a job, a family, or simply lack of time.
It is also possible that a part of you is frustrated because you have not reawakened that side that brought so much satisfaction. Because remember, creativity is a form of freedom. A wonderful endless ocean where we can set our own course with the sails wide open… there where we can enjoy ourselves.
1. Say no to conventions
We are sure that within you there is that creative plane that is always waiting to be “connected”. But sometimes we don’t have time, we don’t have space. The daily reality is sometimes suffocating and we cannot have those moments to look back at ourselves and discover ourselves. One way to achieve this is to run away from precisely what is scheduled. Look up from time to time to those different nuances of your everyday life.
Do something different every day, even if only for half an hour: walk back from work, rest in that little cafeteria that always catches your eye, buy a book, go into a museum, talk to a stranger. Flee every day from the conventions even if only for a moment. All this will give you new ideas, different sensations …
2. Encourage your curiosity
Our life is full of exotic nuances to discover. Always keep an open mind, a mind willing to observe each and every one of the existing possibilities without closing only on the same option. Maintain a critical, passionate spirit and eager to learn new things every day. Observe, feel, enjoy, ask yourself questions, do not stay with a single answer.
3. Rest, sleep, disconnect … the idea will come up by itself
Sometimes we do our best to find that perfect idea. That inspiration. But the muses never come by force. The brain works at a very low level when we put it under tension and stress, hence it is always convenient to take a break, and even sleep.
It is often said that the best ideas arise when we are in bed, about to wake up. It is a moment of absolute relaxation where our mind, calm and calm, gives us the best ideas. At other times, a simple walk is enough.
4. Develop visual thinking
It is a great stimulant. To develop visual thinking we have to surround ourselves with a great variety of images; But do not think, for example, that you have to fill your house or your room with a thousand paintings, clippings or photographs. Sometimes it is a good stimulant, no doubt. But images are also found in everyday life, in those everyday scenes that we find ourselves walking down the street, in the bus window, in the sky that expands overhead.
Visual thinking also feeds on travel, memories … visual clippings where to inspire us, where to sink the imagination and ignite your creativity. The brain rests on these images while feeling “nourished”…. Open the windows of your house and your mind to surround yourself with everything that surrounds you .
