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Is Creativity A Gift?

Posted Sep 10, 2011 08:48 AM
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Hello and welcome to the Creative Woman Café, a place where your creativity flows. Is creativity a gift only bestowed on a small number of people or is it something we all possess?

In my very unscientific study of children with boxes of crayons or lumps of clay–watching them dive in with joyful abandon, I concluded that everybody is creative! Some people have just forgotten!

Somehow along the path of growing up most of us just forget that we are creative. So many people tell me that they can hardly draw a stick man, but drawing and painting are just learned skills, like cooking or accounting and whether or not you can draw has no bearing on whether or not you are creative. Creativity is already in all of us, we may just need to reawaken it.

The process of creating is good for us because it connects us to our soul and brings the unconscious in to conscious. Many people compare art making to meditation and there are similarities in the sense of timelessness and predominance of alpha brainwaves. But for me painting is a lot more fun then meditation. Harvard psychologist, Ellen Langer, has discovered that mindfully creating anything can increase our mindfulness, which has the following benefits: we become more competent, healthy, happy, creative, charismatic, satisfied with our work and to top it off we also live longer. All fantastic benefits from doing something that we enjoy!

The bottom line is that no matter what you are creating, if you get lost in the process, it is good for you! So lets get out there and create something!

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yes creativity is god gifted, only thing which we can do is improvise, polish and brush up our skills. But no one can teach you creativity.
Excessive sweat
Dear Cathy ❤

I enjoy your message of creativity big time... as well as your art work! Thanks for creating this delightful community.

Creativity means so much to me. As a young child my mother would set up a still life and give me a box of chalk pastels and a paper. Hours would pass by without my even noticing. I would be so engrossed in drawing that vase and the flowers in the still life.

Over the years I became so "busy" in the act of "indirect foraging for food" commonly known as work , that my artistic creativity was put on hold unless I needed to make a card or gift. My world became competitive and focused on aggressive corporate strategies to get ahead.

Only recently am I aware of my return to creativity with the books I'm writing, the online courses, the videos, etc. This type of creativity involves passion!

Finally it dawned on me that creativity comes in many forms. We don't all need to be artists. It is a choice we make to create our optimal life, versus reacting with scarcity consciousness that leads to competitiveness. Check out Competition versus Creativity

Thank you again Cathy, for the wonderful reminders you give us to awaken our creative spirit!

Lღ√Ƹ Alison
founder of ✿The Longevity Garden ✿
a sanctuary that promotes taking responsibility for our well being
Garden of Miracles, what kind of garden are you? ♥ Rumi ✮ ¨*•.¸ . ❤
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