Get Creative! How to Find and Develop Your Inner Creativity

Allowing yourself to invite more of your creative spirit into your life is a powerful act of self-love. Creative thinking adds spark to your life, along with purpose, and new direction. You feel “alive” when you look inside and discover new ways of breaking out of old habits. You feel renewed passion for living returning as you explore your creative potential for manifesting desired outcomes.

Your creative spirit is your infinite capacity to search for, and find, imaginative solutions for your challenges and your life. Instead of going about things in the same tried and true ways, creative thinking gets you into considering fresh solutions and new ways of doing things. When you tap into your creative intelligence, you tap into your unlimited potential. Now, rather than things seeming black or white, right or wrong, you generate many possible solutions to a problem or challenge.

Even if you have not been accustomed to listening to your creative spirit, or acting in creative ways, you have this amazing power! Here’s why creativity matters – and how to bring more of it back into your everyday world.

Pay Attention

Creative insight is your higher perspective and guidance. Since it is an aspect of you, it holds your best interests for creating a fulfilling and meaningful life. Make the decision to allow your creative spirit to get involved in your life. Then pay attention to the many different ways your creative mind communicates with you. You may hear actual words, see a clear image, or have a deep inner knowingness. Your creative thoughts may communicate with you in the form of hunches, insights, Aha! moments, a feeling, a sixth sense, or various types of body sensations. You may also experience creative insight by noticing synchronicities.

Embrace Quietness
Creative inspiration is initially often a quiet, gentle nudge. It generally does not shout loud enough to be heard over your stress, upset, frustration, anger, or judgment. Spending some quiet contemplative time each day is good way to strengthen your creative ability. Simply sit in a quiet place every day for about 1 to 20 minutes. Take a deep breath, and ask, “What is it I need to know about this situation?” or, “What will move me one step closer to a more fulfilling and meaningful life.” Then be open to receiving the quiet guidance of your own creative spirit.

Sit With Your Problem

Try this experiment. When something is troubling you, just sit with it. Don’t do anything to logically fix or solve the problem. Instead, just sit, place your intention on allowing the best possible outcome, and breathe. See if you can step away from the negative thoughts circling with frenzy within your head. Allow your creative self to offer new insights and potential solutions to your situation. Your job is to stop fretting and stressing with the problem, and instead place your focus on being open to amazing new possibilities.

Ask Searching Questions

What can I do? How can I do it? What will I need to do it? One of the best ways to get your creative juices flowing is by asking these types of searching questions. Ask questions that lead you forward into positive solutions. Ask clearly formed questions that allow clear answers. For example, instead of asking, “Why me? What have I done wrong to deserve this?” you might ask, “What is the next step I could take that would bring a positive outcome to this situation?”

Be Open to New Ideas

Creativity is by its very definition inventive and full of new possibilities. It can bring you down paths you hadn’t considered before. This means that you won’t know ahead of time if a creative solution will work. Be aware that your logical self won’t want to experiment with new ideas because logic desires safety and assurance of success. Your creative self is different because it is willing to risk failure to gain knowledge and wisdom through direct experience.

Follow Your Creative Insights

Once you get a creative idea, decide to take action. It doesn’t have to be a huge life changing action, but you can take one small, comfortable step in the direction of your creative guidance. On a day-to-day basis, allow your creative self to play a bigger role in your life. If you have a sense to take a left turn instead of a right turn, follow through and go left. If you are grocery shopping and the broccoli somehow calls to you instead of the carrots you had intended to purchase, buy the broccoli. You don’t need to logically question “why” you turned left or bought broccoli. Your goal is to create a bond of trust between your logical self and your creative self.

Strengthen Your Creative Spirit

When you fail to follow your creative ideas, hunches and gut feelings, talk to your creative side. Tell it that it did a fine job of providing useful information. Let it know that yes, it would have been wise to follow through with the creative suggestions or actions, but this time you choose not to. However, let your creative self know that you still want the input even though you might not always listen.

Creativity is your urge to play with life, to see what is possible, to create your most fulfilling and meaningful life, and all that is good and beautiful. Utilize these seven suggestions to sharpen your awaken your creative spirit and you will be surprised at how often it will give you a short cut to the life and outcomes you want.

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